Done, read, finished. Quite a tour de force, 500+ pages of Potter without Hogwarts classes or Quidditch - bit like gulash without its main ingredient, paprika. And I guess JKR couldn´t be bothered to answer any one of the gazillion questions readers have been wondering about since the first book (frustrated, me? :p ( Read more... )

A most Happy Birthday to you, Ozfille!! May health, happiness and strength accompany you every day, and may you hopefully outlive us all!
Okay, Potter Seven ordered to arrive Monday and Gran will read it first anyway (I´m thrilled she lived to read the end of the story!), so I´m going offline as of right now and not even picking up the phone or ( Read more... )

A very Happy Birthday, diane_c!!

Thank you for your incredibly oakum gifts to all the Aubreyad fandom, you talented, superbly writing lady, and here´s to many more, we hope! *which is not as who should say a palpable hint!*PS, OOT: haven´t seen OoP, alas much, and doubt I´ll get to it in time before it´s out of theatres again :( Ordered book seven, but ( Read more... )

Which I have in my hands the most wonderful book - a book I didn´t know existed but always dreamed of reading one day if it ever was written before I was all wrinkly, because it´s the kind of book the Spanish *should* have compiled very long ago but never did, either out of shame or sheer laziness ( Read more... )

Folks, thanks for your encouraging words, I´m trying my best to cope and you´re probably laughing off your heads at the wee bat being completely led by the nose by a three-month whelp :p ( Read more... )

I´m back home! Thank you all, very much, for your quite useful tips (ice packs and ice cream - oh yeah).

*hugs esteven especially for her lovely phone message ( Read more... )

Salve, swiv et natalis laetus XXVI felicissimusque tibi!!

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." --- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

*magicks giant Kaiserschmarrn sweet dish with plum stew topping*
*fires all four carronades*
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I love it that today´s article of the day in Wikipedia/English is devoted to atheism. And that today´s article in Wikipedia/German is devoted to Desmodus rotundus - the common bat.

Which I think I´m going to play the Euromillions lottery :p
Have a pleasant weekend, folks!

Happy Birthday, my favourite Very Green Serpent on and off Cyberia, known by Muggles, clams, and neolibs as izmeina!!

*howls at waning moon*
*conjures pumpkin-and-liquorice cake*
*lights spiral-shaped candles*
*uncorks Château d´If vintage absinth*

(Source: BBC News and El Mundo)

Hop over to London and be at Christie´s on July 3rd if you´re a collector of personalia of Napoleon (fancy bidding up to £50,000 for this love letter to Joséphine?), Gandhi (a letter he wrote 19 days before he was murdered - up to £12,000), Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley *steals*, Dickens, Elizabeth I, Giorgio ( Read more... )