I'm going to look at some mummies and other dead things in the British Museum today - yay ( Read more... )

I am at home with a cold and was reading The Diddakoi today, because I found it at the Oxfam bookshop next to British Museum and I came across the most lovely moment in it - in which Joe, her horse dies and she asks where he has gone, and the Admiral says, 'We don't know, nobody knows, but I think we'll find out some day' - or something along those ( Read more... )

I am feeling a bit obsessed with London right now, despite being stuck in the flat with my laptop and ALOT of taped conversations to glean through. I'm really getting into the swing of interviews though, and of the tube and bus system - more importantly ( Read more... )

And as unable as I have ever been to navigate bloody bus system. How I hate buses! I can see how they should be convenient and easy but they aren't! So pfffft to them. (I am about to look up the routes and commit them to memory). I'd forgotten how crap my sense of direction was until I found myself turning towards Trafalgar Square about five times ( Read more... )

I have the flu. The full no-holds-barred version, with throwing up and fever and chills and general misery. I haven't had it in years, so I got the special. It may even be Swinal Tap, who knows. It is not the ideal thing to get less than a week before flying to London though. Especially as I had all sorts of plans to finish, you know, my work, ( Read more... )

Ho ho just reread my post on the evil ojo. I must throw more salt over left shoulder ( Read more... )

I'm moving to the UK to live for three months next Saturday. How strange. After thirteen years of not living in the country of my birth and childhood I shall be back as a super grown up person. I don't know if I am old enough or young enough to go back! Should I visit my old house again? I'm afraid it has been desecrated (I suspect is has as I know ( Read more... )

Article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jul/09/fantastic-diana-wynne-jones says that DWJ has been diagnosed with lung cancer :(

God I miss Sth America! It was the most fun holiday I have ever had - the most fulfilling, the most exciting, the most amazing ... every MOST I could have - including most number of stomach aches.

was fabbity fab but rather marred by having to spend a year at the doctors, where they were running behind. I got in though and now have antibiotics for my ears - not very lovely. God, how I hate it when they stick things in your ears, it's one of my argh-factor items. Along with that test where they blow on your eyeballs (not they - a machine) - ( Read more... )