I'm hoarse and have a headache and the kids are jumping all over the flat screaming Bombarda Maxima and Protego at the top of their little lungs, bless them.

I've finally started reading Harry Potter to them.
OMG, the kids are big enough that I now can read Harry Potter to them!!!Conclusions so far ( Read more... )

Um - hi ( Read more... )

Omg, Crumpet is ill and lies in bed with a fever (nothing serious, don't worry), and since the bed in question shares a room with my desk, I have to listen to his endless stream-of-consciousness-style-babble (he's the chatty sort of sick person, contrary to his brother who just boils up a fever of 41.0 degrees and then sleeps. In blessed silence ( Read more... )

Today I had a nice crafting session in my kitchen. With my sons.  Precious wanted to learn how to sew. *boggles*

Kill Billy - Lebst du noch, oder war’s das schon?
(Originaltitel: HERE IS HAROLD)

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So, there was an ask for recs for Narcissa Malfoy. Last week. I thought "well, this is practically screaming for Lust over Pendle by A.J.Hall. (Turned out, it wasn't as the story didn't fit what was required. But that's another story.) Where was the fic located, again?" Then I looked it up ( Read more... )

Is there an equivalent for this saying amongst english speaking rowers? Anyway, it basically means: no matter that it's raining cats and dogs when you're on your way to training, you still go on, because then you can congregate on the raft, look up into the skies and decide that, if everybody brought a rain jacket, you can start with tentatively ( Read more... )

Finally edible apples don't need to be flown in anymore from New Zealand or Chile - so it's switching to apples from cucumbers as staple food for school breakfast boxes ( Read more... )

Since this is a post mocking trends in German re-titeling of movies it makes next to no sense doing it in English, doesn't it? :)

Vor Ewigkeiten postete liz_mo über deutsche Übersetzungen von Filmtiteln (omg, das ist über ein Jahr her...) - ich hab seitdem ein paar von den Mails gesammelt, in denen eine unglückliche PR-Agentur kommunizieren muss, wie ( Read more... )

I just got the whole Cabin Pressure as a birthday pressure - jippieh! And thanks so much!
Even though it looks like a bit of fishy timing to receive a series about demented flight personel just now... but that's coincidence for you. I just say: Cabin Pressure! All mine!