One of the things that always annoys me is when I come across mention of a 'British accent', almost always from American writers because, of course, there is no such thing. There are Welsh accents and Scottish accents and Northern Irish accents and lots and lots of English accents from RP to Estuary to Geordie ( Read more... )

Answer me this: why do so many people who didn't like 'The Empty Hearse' (and you can count me among them) blame Moffat? There were several people on LJ yesterday, and I have just noticed a posting on Tumblr with a couple of hundred notes where only two people take the poster to task for blaming Moffat when Gatiss (co-creator) wrote that episode.

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Apart from a writer's block, the last two weeks involved, among other things ( Read more... )

From Tumblr, by Inksploch, one of the very, very best pieces of writing on Susan Pevensie (and very much a 'fuck you, C.S. Lewis) that I have seen.

Have a linkhttp://lil-shepherd.tumblr.com/post/69679228299/tessellation29-ink-splotch

Walked the dogs this morning and planned to nip down to Tesco's, pick up some stuff we failed to get at Sainsburys, have a tag engraved for Bren's see-in-the-dark collar and pick up my pills (prescription picked up yesterday when coming back from Sainsburys). After that I could write and watch the racing on the telly, while Ina intended to prep ( Read more... )

This morning was mayhem again ( Read more... )

This morning, we were expecting the electrician ("I'll ring you when I've finished my first call" and therefore spent a couple of hours in frantic cleaning so the house was a bit less awful than usual. He hadn't rung at half ten, so we took the dogs for a walk in the local wood ( Read more... )

Bodie was always my favourite, and now Lewis Collins, who played him with such humour and enthusiasm, is gone at 67 ( Read more... )

(And occasionally glancing at Ina, who has gone to sleep. I expected that. Nothing bores her more than big machines hitting each other ( Read more... )