Posted against LJ's occaisional urges toward destruction:

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.” - Steinbeck

I know someone who wants to read every book in the world.

I think that's a noble aspiration. I mean, to want to know everything, that sounds brilliant, but ..in reality, I suspect it's not all that brilliant really.

You could read every book that's ever been written in the world..but..what about the unwritten ones, then It's like this. We have ( Read more... )

Of this entirely auspicious event (It's Saturday) I now proclaim this day to be ( Read more... )

Why are all the strawberry pips on the outside?

The baby's a bit better. Mabel says that it was a near thing, and we were lucky I was able to come, as Craine's Quotidian Fever takes such an awful lot of nursing. Daddy looks just awful frankly. He needs to shave more often, and long hair really does *not* suit him. Well, not nearly as much as he thinks it does ( Read more... )

It's really hard to drink yoghurt fast, isn't it? You run out of breath and have to stop but the yoghurt has built up momentum like a glacier and it's sliding toward you so you keep gulping and hope that none of it runs into your ear.

I never knew breakfast could be so *perilous*.

( Owl to Alan Lovegood )

Teachers ( Read more... )

I think that someone's cut into our journals and Says the girl with the bugs in her haiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrr it might be safer If you toddle off back to the Moon where you belong if we all started to To two too, call in the owls, I've got a letter for you you you lock our journals maybe? What's the matter little girl, can't make up your mind? Oh, yes, ( Read more... )

What I would like to know is..
We apparate at or as close to the conjunction of two ley lines as we possibly can get.

Why can't we just travel along them?

Or right through them? I mean, they're lines of force yes, but they're still *lines*, right? So presumeably you could use the power of the leyline to alter leylines. Make them connect in new ( Read more... )