Hi there. If you've found your way here by friendsfriends browsing or because we've had a conversation elsewhere or for whatever other reason, you might be wondering where all the content is. That would be because this journal is mostly friends-only (for the LJ definition of "friends", anyway). Any unlocked content is likely to be either ranting ( Read more... )

Sung to the tune of Twelve Days of Christmas and possibly only of interest to those that walk along the Kelvin walkway regularly....

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Have just returned from dropping himself off at the airport. You'll all be glad to hear that he doesn't seem to have forgotten anything (detailed lists were written and marked off as we packed) and the missing toiletries were found (behind the mop bucket, bizarrely). Check in closed at 11.30 and we had a chilled morning doing the Guardian quiz ( Read more... )

f4f3 has just posted the details of our London adventures, such as they are, here!

For those of you in the vicinity, f4f3 and I will be in London the weekend of July 18th so that we can put himself on a pedestal (details here). It'll be fun! It'll also be my birthday, so there are plans for a birthday dinner type thing once he climbs back down at 8pm ( Read more... )

I finished my two-at-a-time, magic loopy Twilight socks while I was in Ireland. Behold:


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f4f3 and I went to Crarae Gardens to make the best of the sunshine and see how the rhododendrons are doing today. And I played with my macro lens. A lot. Ummm...you'll have to wait for f4f3 to post the non-close ups.


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My friend Karina just linked to this from her blog, and I thought I'd share:

This is not a riot: an effective, nonviolent response to attacks by riot police

Especially the clips and the addendum about the birth of the tactic are fascinating.

(Post unlocked, because political posts ought to be)

Clicking on the Absinthe Fairy will take you to the full set. :)


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