Apparently the cat likes salami. It might just be because it was my salami.

Greymalkin, the cat who lives with us, is quite a hunter, regardless of her small size. Tonight, however, she brought down her most impressive prey: a baby possum ( Read more... )

With new shelves up, shuffling of books and DVDs continues apace. To whit, exhibits 4-9:
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New bookshelves are now fully packed. Old bookshelves look denuded, but that won't last as we un-double-stack some of the others.

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http://brasschecktv.com/page/211.html

I ran a feast.

For those of you who are unaware, I've started a branch of the Ancient Arts Fellowship in Brisbane. Mostly students so far, but we're gradually building up numbers. They're all total nubies, so they're learning everything from scratch.

Had a yule feast on Sunday (solstice). Romano-Celtic recipes, a big lump of cow, and Bambi and ( Read more... )

When I was a kid our teacher started reading us a book. She stopped when she realised the content. This makes me think it was an author who'd written a kid's book, but also adult novels. It concerned a town of people who never aged (or not quickly). When the rich and powerful found out they harvested the blood of those villagers and used it ( Read more... )

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Wiring up of the house is done, with network cables in walls and extra power points in useful places. Only catch: the network doesn't work. I've wired up my network ports wrong (because they're not really network ports, they're 8 pin phone ports, and didn't come with useful instructions). There's a couple of ways to fix it, but not this weekend.

Barbara, if you've got time, you'll like this.

Strange Horizons spec-fic magazine has posted a list of stories they don't want to see again. Reading it, I wonder why so many primary school children are submitting.

http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction-common.shtml

1. Person is (metaphorically) at point A, wants to be at point B. Looks at ( Read more... )