I had been wanting to see Silent Night, the most recent film featuring Keira Lovely Knightley.(Though she also has a several-second cameo in Greed if anyone needs a quick fix.) I'd hoped to see it in the cinema but it didn't come to Edinburgh, so when I found out it was online rental, I chose it for Triv Group Film Night. Initially we'd planned to ( Read more... )

How many books did you read this year?

I read 201 books. I was sitting at around 180 in mid December when I counted up, and thereafter made a concerted effort to get to the entirely meaningless round number milestone of 200. And then didn't realise I had and overshot.

180 of these books were by women, of whom 16 were writers of colour; 21 books by ( Read more... )

Will Mellor just got stood up TWICE in the thing I am watching.

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I ended up taking this week off at very short notice after a helpful conversation with my manager. I was going to call the GP today to get a phone triage to ask advice about burnout (kind of hoping to be told to take more time off) but you have to be up at 8.30 to ring, and I woke at 11am after staying up til 1am finishing off my work to be able to ( Read more... )

antisoppist mentioned the game Alchemy where you discover elements. Well. She's basically ruined my life. I have been researching things like "how do you make aluminium" to try and get further (still couldn't work it out, watched a video to get given aluminium and broaden my horizons). I just had to google Ghost Rider to work out what on earth one ( Read more... )

Thank you VERY much for your tenuous celebrity connections. I enjoyed them all immensely.
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I am not sure if these sorts of posts work nowadays, but I would like people to tell me about their tenuous connections to fame. Not actual connections, it's important that there is no direct contact between you and a celebrity ( Read more... )

I am getting up earlier than my parents at the moment. This morning I realised that I could be kind and spin the washing and then hang it out. My mum came downstairs during the spin and before the hanging-out, and it turns out that she likes hanging washing out as part of her morning routine, so I got all of the credit for helping while expending ( Read more... )

I bought a tin of duck meat. It looks a bit like a small tin of tuna, or maybe cat food (it's definitely not cat food)? Like the smallest tin of baked beans you get. It says steamed duck for ingredients with some garlic and onion. I'm assuming that the food labelling regulations here aren't as strict so the long list of preservatives are just not ( Read more... )

How many books did you read this year?

I read 171 books, of which 64 were by Agatha Christie. Only 11 books were by authors of colour, that I know of. 25 books were by men.

Did you reread anything? What?I reread 7 books ( Read more... )