Well should have posted this ages ago but never mind, better late than never. I've finally completed my first Solo LibriVox recording! Woo go me!! Its been March Madness at LV, with the aim to get as many cataloged as possible. I think the current total is 66, and theres a few more books that are supposed to be going through the cataloging process ( Read more... )

Heh I just read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6470095.stm and found it very amusing, its talking about does having an English accent give you the advantage in the states. And well here's a few quotes that I love:

"Another Brit currently feted in the ( Read more... )

Ok someone posted the link to this on the LibriVox forums, and... well I just thought I'd share... its rather crazy, a little bit cheesy and very WTF? Enjoy!!

So Thursday last week (I think it was Thursday at any rate) I was at my local shopping centre and spied a sigh outside of HMV saying that they were taking pre-orders for PS3's, and that they had 10 left. Now at this time it was about 3.30PM.. and they still had 10 left? I was a little surprised at that, I know many people who dislike the PS3 but ( Read more... )

So according to the beeb London is going (or is having) highs of 18C today, now 18C is indeed a good temp, its warm but not too hot, I like it when its around this sort of temperature. What I find disturbing however is that its March. This is weather we should have maybe end of April/May. Not mid March. *sigh*

Well I made a second attempt at baking chocolate cake yesterday, and also did the flapjacks again and had much more success! My friend Tara popped over a bit before the party started and tried to help me save the failures from yesterday. Kinda realised that they just hadn't risen properly which was probably due to me not really creaming the ( Read more... )

Whoo.. lets see I've done the laundry, popped to the shops to grab bread, cheese and chocolate, I've baked a cake (2 in fact cause I'm going to sandwich them together although I'll do that tomorrow), I've washed up twice, I've made flapjacks (which are currently in the oven and I suspect I shall have to make some more (meaning I'll need more butter ( Read more... )

Ok if you haven't heard read (And yes I know I'm a little late with this..) here

and see these YouTube vids -

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(heh I kinda feel like I'm 'spamming' LJ here but what they hey..)
Anyway so I posted the other week here in fact about reading 52 books in a year.. so here's my updated list, mostly so I can keep track!

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I suddenly realised that I could probably post more stuff in her than I currently do, so here goes, I'm sure I've posted in here about LibriVox before but anyway it suddenly occurred to me that I could perhaps TALK about what I was recoding. (Talk about stuff in a blog who'd have thought it ( Read more... )