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Birthday squee!

Jul. 16th, 2008 | 09:09 pm
location: Withnell
mood: lethargic lethargic

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUNA_61!

Have a gorgeous, glorious, RAINBOW-scented day my love.



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Is anyone else watching Bonekickers?

Jul. 15th, 2008 | 09:51 pm
location: In front of t' telly with a glass of Cuban rum
mood: giddy giddy
music: Gunfire! (lol)

I don't think I've laughed so hard in years.

Dear God, it's terrible.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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Most Wanted

Jul. 11th, 2008 | 06:32 pm
location: Drying off with a glass of wine
mood: relaxed relaxed
music: Rain!

is now on the website. 229mb. It's a biggie - must be full of ads and trailers (sorry).

Only Pennies from Heaven and The Real Deal left to go, now. O:!
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I've removed rather a lot of people from my flist

Jul. 8th, 2008 | 01:10 pm
location: watching the rain
mood: depressed depressed

None of it's personal; just a little house-cleaning. I'm just not spending as much time on Lj as I used to. If you're gone and didn't want to be, just leave a message - I'll happily reinstate you.

XXX

ETA: If you're still on now, then you haven't been spliced from my mainbrace - you don't need to ask to stay!
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So. Goodbye Rusty

Jul. 5th, 2008 | 07:44 pm
location: Watching Confidential, god help me.
mood: grumpy grumpy

And good riddance.

It's been a long time since a show made me that angry. A pity, I was really enjoying it till the last 15 minutes. What a load of big, hairy, pendulous bollocks.

ETA. And on watching it some more via Confidential... They have destroyed everything I loved about the show. This is what happens when they let soap writers loose on the precious things of the shop. The way I feel right now; Gods, I think I'll never watch this show again. I really am that angry.

ETA2: And Who-folk are pretty much to a woman and a man agreeing with me. Thank all the Gods for that; I was starting to feel really lonely there for a bit.

Ah...  Fuck. I'm off to watch Genesis of the Daleks, I need some quality - some real - Who to take the nasty taste of Rusty's crappy, lazy writing away. Gods. How can a bloody TV show make me so angry! ::is cross with self. Tells self to get a life and shut it. Self ignores advice and continues to boil with an unquenchable rage::

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The Sun's coming out!

Jul. 5th, 2008 | 12:33 pm
location: On the sofa, listening to the Now Show
mood: annoyed annoyed
music: Punt and Dennis

No no no no no no no!

Go away!

ETA: S'alright, it's raining again... No, it's sunny... nope, more rain... and etc. *g*
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I'm shattered.

Jul. 5th, 2008 | 10:10 am
location: On the sofa
mood: exanimate exanimate
music: Jonathan Ross on Radio 2

Yesterday's gardening blitz was deeply satisfying and I got so much done but it's nothing like finished (not even close)and today has dawned, as predicted (thanks beeb) wet. The rain's hammering down out there. Nothing more is going to get done this visit.

yay!

For verily, I am broken in several places; shagged, buggered, knackered - almost (if not quite) killed. I have painful weeping blisters on my right hand and said hand seems to have seized in a strange way, like its skin has shrunk.  It's a day for drinking tea, eating crumpets, reading books and writing fic, I think.

I hope everyone had a happy July Fourth. I had a rather enjoyable evening myself, drinking a very pleasant Chilean white (£2.22 from Lidl! Brilliant!) and watching Oz and James' Big Gay Californian Wine Adventure and the Top Gear African special (Oliver!!!) on the DVD.

Happy Weekend Flist! Doctor Who tonght.... I don't know whether to meep! or squee. *g*

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Four Point Shot

Jul. 4th, 2008 | 03:48 pm
location: On the sofa with a buttered crumpet and a mug of tea.
mood: creative creative

Is now on m'website. 209mb, wmv.

Only three left to go. (o:

Just taking a break from the garden. It's like armageddon out there right now. I've cut my finger and I'm blistered all over. There may be pictures later...

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So, it's Friday and I really should be in the garden trying to clear the MESS

Jul. 4th, 2008 | 10:50 am
location: Withnell
mood: busy busy
music: The most-holy espresso machine

Man, you should see the state of things out there. And the sun be beating down but even so, it's awfully, awfully damp and manky and the gathering clouds threaten imminent Weather - but all forecasts say tomorrow's going to be worse so... No getting out of it that way. ::sigh::

But not even going to think about it til I've had some more coffee.


HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAYS to FRAYEN and JUSTMEJ. I hope your days sparkled with sugar-coated loveliness. Sorry I wasn't here for you but there it is, I expect you coped.

So there, that's me. The weekend beckons with its promise of olives and wine, the Who finale (squeak!) and more rain.
I hope you're all chilled and ready like a lightly-oaked Chardonnay and filled with the Friday-Night spirit of squee my lovelies. May it sparkle for you like Liberace after a good rub with a chamois and a liberal dousing of Windolene.

::blowing the Friday kisses::


Oh, and glancing at the little calendar-widget on my lappy, I see tis a HOLIDAY for my precious American Flist. I hope you're all having a super-shiny time. Eat... whatever strange things you lovely people eat on such occasions. Be happy. Stay drunk till Monday. Whatever floats your mysterious boat. XXX

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returning from the dark places where there is no LJ

Jul. 1st, 2008 | 09:32 am
location: Sunny Yorkshire
mood: exanimate exanimate
music: the Zanussi workig on some bedding

To hope [info]ringbarkand [info]arrow00 had perfect birthdays yesterday. I hope you both had delightful days filled with delicious loveliness. 
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So. Doctor Who

Jun. 29th, 2008 | 10:46 am
location: enjoying the sun
mood: thoughtful thoughtful

I wasn't going to post a reaction till I'd seen it again cause there was rather a lot to think about, wasn't there? You've gotta hand it to Rusty, he certainly packed a lot in...

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Dead Certain...

Jun. 28th, 2008 | 03:25 pm
location: Yorkshire
mood: stressed stressed
music: still raining

Is up at the website. wmv. file, 209mb. 
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Three Unique things

Jun. 28th, 2008 | 01:24 pm
location: on the terrace, smelling the lillies, watching the rain
mood: listless listless
music: rain (again)

Blaired from [info]ringbark

* Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody on your friends list has done.
* See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."
* Have your friends cut & paste this onto their page to see what unique things they've done in their life.

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So, they're really going to do this?

Jun. 27th, 2008 | 10:20 am
location: supposedly working
mood: tired tired
music: The blessed sound of the most holy espresso machine

NBC are making a US version of Top Gear.

The main question on my lips is why? That and, which one's supposed to be James May, is he amusingly sexually ambiguous and does he have immaculate spanners?

I suppose it might be alright for those who think Top Gear's a show about cars but - WHY does American TV persist in doing this? If there's a great US show then a British TV company will buy it and show it in all its American glory.  We  rarely  feel the need to remake said show in our own image (resulting in major FAIL). It seems no one listens to Jay Leno anymore.

I wait with baited breath for the eppy when they drive wrecks around Chipping Norton with... ??? painted on their...???

- and here my pre-coffee imagination is defeated. I'm trying to come up with slogans as offensive to middle-English sensibilities as 'Man Love Rules' apparently was in Alabama and failing. Maybe the Flist can help?
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Lawks a lawdy! I find myself quite liking Lawrence Miles - again.

Jun. 25th, 2008 | 12:54 pm
location: Still in bed
mood: sick sick

I find myself agreeing with him - again (mostly, on the whole, because some of his conclusions are somewhat - stretched? Certainly dubious logic but on the whole, the lad's making sound points). I suppose the sense is to be found in that, for once, he's not griping on about the Great Conspiracy to keep him from writing for NuWho.

Whatever your views, he makes you think, his blog this week is well worth a read (if you have the time and the energy because he does tend to go on a tad).

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The Who Quote meme

Jun. 25th, 2008 | 10:31 am
location: Bed
mood: sick sick
music: Rain

Ah, why not...?

I assumed everyone would have this one, but haven't clocked it yet so for me, it's;

'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.'
- the Seventh Doctor.

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OMG. Doctor Who...

Jun. 21st, 2008 | 07:34 pm
location: Watching confidential
mood: ecstatic ecstatic
music: Rusty's burbling

And the best part of having quit all the Who-comms is not having to over-analyse. Very nice indeed.

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It's raining again.

Jun. 21st, 2008 | 01:39 pm
location: Looking out at the rain, the wet n rainy rain. sigh
mood: working working
music: Water rolling off the rooftops

Really hard now, and I'm sitting here in my sweats... I've had a work out, was all up for a run; my legs were all ready for that run but it's  pissing down. I suppose if I were uber dedicated I'd go out anyway but I'm going to get drenched and the mud will be so slippy up on the moors and I'll probably end up crippling myself for life.

Excuses. Excuses. ::sigh::

So, trapped in the house as I am, I thought I'd have a crack at re-starting the long-neglected Academy  fic. I can't say the Muse is biting, cause she's not, but it does no harm to try. Maybe if I make myself write something I can get  the lazy cow off her fat arse and doing her job. Trouble is, it's been so long (the last time I posted an update was Jan 22nd! Shriek out!) I'm going to have to sit and read the whole darn thing through to remind myself what was happening, to whom and why and...

I really can't remember a lot of this. Did I really write it? Gosh golly gosh.

Anyway. Giving it a go. Here we go. Right. This is it. I'm doing it. I am... After I've had another cup of coffee. Then I will. Honest. promise. ::nods:: I can make a start by dragging the icon out of mothballs. Wheee! there he is. He's so pretty. *g*

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because I'm bored, it's raining and I haven't done one for a while

Jun. 21st, 2008 | 10:31 am
location: Watching the rain
mood: bored bored
music: Jonathan Ross on Radio 2

That fashion meme thing everyone seems to be doing (should we ask ourselves why?) (o:

Cut because... who cares, really? (o: )

Oh, that's a surprise....
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I was listening to Nick Pope...

Jun. 20th, 2008 | 06:50 pm
location: on the sofa with a glass of chilled wine
mood: amused amused
music: Look North West

On PM tonight, talking about the UFO that apparently attacked a police helicopter over Cardiff.

Heh heh heh.

Ah...  it made me giggle as I tossed m'salad.

It's the weekend everyone. Got a rather nice Chardonnay and some spanking olives. Doctor Who tomorrow, a new series of Top Gear (hear me squee!!!) starting on Sunday. Have a lovely one, everyone. ::blowing them kisses::
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