Beowulf on Channel 4

Icelandic descendants of Vikings singing a hymn in a German train station. They totally need to be on the next Thor soundtrack. brokenponycutiemark Deactivated Oh man oh man oh man. 6 guys, and it FILLS THE SPACE. Luck of the architecture – and they know how to pull it off. Nothing is easy making vocal music…

Hee!  I have tickets to see the Morris movie (aka “Morris, a life with bells on”) tomorrow!  Andrew’s side, Coton Morris Men, have been asked to dance outside the cinema before the film is shown, and I’m a tiny bit piqued that Elriot wasn’t asked to come and dance too.  However, we will be there…

There’s an interesting new project being started up here GLBT Bookshelf by Mel Keegan. It’s a wiki for everyone involved in the production of GBLT books, where you can add yourself and all your books with buy links and reviews, and the aim is to become a one stop (or at least a first stop)…

I never quite saw the point of marking the passing of the year – after all, it’s only meaningless numbers on an arbitrary calendar, which could quite easily end or begin somewhere else. It’s not a real thing in the way that a solstice is a real thing – measurable and with observable consequences. Now,…

The big news in the village is that we have decided to resurrect the local morris side. DH and I went to the very first meeting of interested parties last night and discovered that of the 20 people who said they were coming, 14 had begged off because it was Burns Night. However, six is…