Hi-diddley dee, a pirate’s life for me… It’s Talk Like a Pirate day on Sunday 19th September – we’d love to celebrate here on Speak Its Name. Why not post links to pictures of you (or your pets) in pirate garb (or other nautical gear)? Post Pirate slashy drabbles (not fanfic, please), pirate limericks and…
This has to be very short as I have just sliced through the top of my finger on one of those vegetable guillotine thingies, trying to make home-made crisps. Fortunately I got my 1000 words in for the day first, but I’ve got to say I don’t advise typing with your finger swathed in elastoplast. …
http://bearing-witness.dreamwidth.org/6988.html Rev. Chuck Currie on why he established the Facebook group “People of Faith Opposed to the Burning of the Qur’an” – Currie is a United Church of Christ Minister in Northwest USA. And in related news: Currie’s access to Facebook was halted for approx. 24 hours, then reinstated. Facebook has apparently refused to explain…
This is getting a little tedious. Still coughing like I’m trying to turn myself inside out. I thought my lungs were making a sound like popping candy, so I went to the doctor, who was unimpressed and said “no, they’re not, that’s just your throat.” This apparently makes it tantamount to being a whiny hypochondriac,…
I have discovered a forgotten birthday present from my parents-in-law, which is a voucher for downloads from Amazon.co.uk. Hurray! Also, I’m going off to an internet-free, bookshop-free long weekend spent in a field, and after driving to and from France last week I’ve read all the books on my ebook reader. These are two things…
like a fiddler’s elbow, that’s me this week. Wednesday was our 20th wedding anniversary, which I forgot about. Fortunately, Andrew forgot about it too, so there were no hard feelings on his side, and nothing but relief on mine. We went up North to see my Dad instead of celebrating, which made for a long…
And finally (nearly) caught up on my 300 odd emails, my unpacking, washing and putting everything away, and my two days of being poleaxed by diet induced migraine, which still hasn’t entirely gone away. (Have started the Harcombe diet, as after 3 weeks of calorie counting I was utterly fed up of being hungry. But…
I’m off on holiday tomorrow. We’re going to go somewhere just outside St. Malo for a week. This will give me ample opportunity to look around St. Malo, where a couple of chapters of Shining in the Sun take place. I got my description of the place from guidebooks and Google street view, so I’m…
OK so you probably have to be born in the USA to understand the legal shilly-shallying about Prop 8 and gay marriage in California, and what, if anything, it implies for the rest of the country. First marriage was OK, then it wasn’t, now it is again but not until next week, and the anti-marriage…
Oh no! I suffer from all of these! Fortunately (or not) I know I’m not alone. In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I’m going to quote it whole: Imprecision: When writers just miss the target ground with their word using they on occasion elicit…
