It's spam, spam I tell you! And what's worse, it's all random rubbish.

But I had to share this: the 2006 Calendario Romano is on sale ( Read more... )

I'm afraid there was no catharsis in my earlier rant ( Read more... )

Escape while you still have the chance.

Few things can disturb my hard-won tranquillity online these days (extreme good and bad fic -- and canon yes, that means you, JKR -- aside). Having indulged myself in various fandom dramas in the past, my current state of nirvana is maintained by a sophisticated combination of shrugging and back-button- ( Read more... )

The Job From Hell is now over and I have got my life back. Sort of. I've only managed to check lj very occasionally in the past couple of weeks. The thought of skipping=50000000 is just too daunting and I've probably missed lots of good stuff including stories which I hope to catch up with at some time in the next decade or so ( Read more... )

Nothing much to say; but that's what lj's all about, so I'm not guilty ( Read more... )

Why does George Bush always look as though he's laughing at absolutely everyone except 'his constituency'? And why does he always look as though he's going to go straight back and share a big private joke at the other saps, with all the assorted shady characters to whom he's given tax breaks ( Read more... )

Oh, fun meme! About books. I haven't done it; thanks to pippins_babies for the chance.

( Q&A under here )

From maeglinyedi

The RulesFirst, write down the names of 12 characters. Then read and answer the questions ( Read more... )

Busy week. So much fun.

I saw my favourite political cartoonist at the Book Festival on Saturday; my old tutor also at the Book Festival on Monday, talking about history and being her usual brilliant self.

Then Joss!! at the Film Festival on Tuesday night. He was everything I'd been expecting: clever, witty, entertaining, with a smidgen of ( Read more... )

I was so sorry to hear that Mo Mowlam has diedAlong with Robin Cook, who died two weeks ago, you got the sense that she was someone who, though she might have to make compromises in power, would never lose sight of the ideals that had driven her there in the first place, nor of what she was actually there for ( Read more... )