Well done everyone who posted every day, or nearly every day, or some of the days. Thanks for providing stuff for me to read this month, it's been very nice.

I had a wordpress blog that wasn't getting used for much, so I started to use it to write about the things I think about on the train:

Sidings

Just been reading on Tumblr how many people are apparently very upset at the presence of full stops in text messages.

It's probably time I went to bed, isn't it?

Sometimes a lot of things seem to be happening in the brain and the world and it's hard to separate out the bits. You know?

Anyway. I just came across this article by Robert Mcfarlane, from earlier this year. It's about the eeriness of the English landscape, and so far it's mentioned MR James, Susan Cooper, Helen Macdonald, Derek Jarman, Alan ( Read more... )

I would like to congratulate everyone doing post every day month, even if they haven't managed every day. I'd like to do it too, but sadly there is nothing in my brain except sawdust.

So this is attempt to post one of the days month although it seems kind of pointless bearing in mind the result that lies before you.

The sea
Hawks
Thyme
Time
Swans
Mallow
Fennel
Blackthorn
Beer
Coffee
Brick
Tides
Lace
Wool
Rope
Bronze
Iron
Bread
Apples

Because nothing can rouse a person to journal like a British Meme ( Read more... )

I found these when I was looking for something else. They are all taken from newspapers in my area, collected by local historian Pip Wright.

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I've been watching The Good Wife more or less back to back for for last however-many weeks/months. I am now up to Season 5, episode 16. Anyone still here who can talk to me about this? Any lonely TV-watching rats or silverfish roaming the corridors of journal-land?

*echoes*

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About ten and a half years ago I wrote a very short comment-fic about Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, in which very little happened - I actually wrote it in kohaku1977's journal, if memory (and LJ Memory) serves. In due course it got uploaded, along with all my other old stories, to AO3. I tagged it as Brokeback Mountain RPF and backdated it. After that it ( Read more... )