From Twitter: evidence from the horse's mouth that they DO love each other.

@richardosman “@JordanRitchie12: Banter on #pointless is horrible today. Major cringe!” Agreed. Horrible, though pretty homo-erotic as usual.

I'm so, so hopeless at visual arts. I don't even LIKE drawing. I do like knitting, which would count, except that I'm knitting something quite same-y at the mo. Guess I could post the few rows of stocking stitch I complete each day, but that would get dull quite quickly for the onlookers ( Read more... )

My Sunday is already fabulous due to having read 'All This Nonsense' by nostalgia_lj. It's a DW/Discworld crossover, and... well, words fail me as to just how perfectly written it is. It involves the Doctor and Amy and Nanny Ogg (who is my favourite Discworld character), some alcohol, and for those of you of a sensitive nature, you should be aware there are ( Read more... )

I'm trying to play less solitaire on the laptop. I think I'm properly addicted and it's becoming a problem. Over the last 3 days I've made a real effort to stay off it, and as a result have read most of The Fry Chronicles. This should tell me something.

Some Things: when I was in London seeing Much Ado with emmzzi (which I loved, although I'm starting ( Read more... )

Have Richard and Alexander had a tiff?

As usual, I took a whole pile of books away with me, but this time I read only 3. Mainly because I kept putting the first one down and had to force myself to finish it. I want to write reviews as I'm getting lazy and if I'm ever going to do a PhD, I need to keep my end up.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
( cut for general rantiness )

Tomorrow pootlus lands and on Saturday I'm heading to London to see Tennant & Tate in Much Ado, with emmzzi. Spending Saturday & Sunday nights in Canterbury with my godson's family (who moved down there from St Helens last summer), and then on Monday to Gatwick and thence to Toronto for 10 days. Hurrah! There will be beer and wine and knitting and Doctor Who ( Read more... )

Went out to the cinema last night. My oldest schoolfriend lives in Durham and we've been rekindling our friendship (which hasn't ever really gone away completely, after three and a half decades that would be difficult to kill!) - last night we went to see X Men: First Class, while her husband stayed in with their three young daughters. It was great ( Read more... )

Have been knitting for my friends in Australia. It's N's 5th birthday in a couple of weeks so I knitted him a jumper, which I'm really pleased with:

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Loved this: Songs from the Storm Cage by minerva_fan. A set of drabbles from River's POV as she waits out her sentence. Lovely.