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This may be the best advert ever to extoll the virtues of topiary.

I seriously hope that what the Pope actually said is a lot less bad than this article makes it sound.

So, I virtually never post on LJ but have suddenly acquired a mental passenger. Since I'm pretty sure I didn't put it there on purpose, and since it keeps going round and round and round until I start muttering to myself I'm going to try and pin it down on a server somewhere to get the damn thing out of my head.

I have no voice to speak, yet my ( Read more... )

So, according to matgb I don't post enough. With this in mind I thought I'd start getting all the usual LJ topics out of the way. I thought I'd start with a little light "Read my fic!!", following up with an whiny emo post about how LJ purges kill the words forever, leaving me dead inside.

Anyway, first off, we have a piece of fiction written the year draxar ( Read more... )

I know this is seriously breaking with my tradition of posting nothing whatsoever apart from absolute bollocks on extremely rare occassions, but I felt I had to share the sad news with you all.

I've only just picked it out of a newsfeed today but a couple of days ago the author, Lloyd Alexander, died. It's likely that many of you wouldn't ( Read more... )

Funny, how thoughts come back to you...

( An unpolished piece of poetry, while I remember )

I didn't actually get round to watching the film again last night so I've only written this today. The problem is, I can't actually review the movie in print, since I'm not sure how to type the sound of a brain shutting down in self defence, so I'll do something better, I'll give you an overview of the whole film!

( Robo Vampire, the film that talent forgot )

My brother and I have just watched a strange movie or, more accurately, two strange movies sharing a title. For the moment I shall sum it up with the following thoughts ( Read more... )

I would post about all the things that have happened to me since I last posted but, well, why bother? I didn't get round to posting it at the time and most of the people that would really, really want to know almost certainly do by now ( Read more... )

Today, in a complete change to my normal, entirely nocturnal, regime, I went for a pleasant afternoon walk. This is such a rare occurence for me that I felt the need to write something about it. My parents and I had taken a short trip into town to run a couple of errands, including collecting a grant application form, since I've been recommended ( Read more... )