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Too cute for words
silentkimbly is a wonderful haven for cuteness and bad puns. Check it out, all ye people.
Word on the grapevine says Dame Eleanor Hull is new to the medievalist blogsophere and can tell you all sorts of things about making quills. I tip my hat to Jennifer Lyn Jordan of Per Omni Saecula for this information. (Although, this is Monday! Where's my Medieval Animal, woman?)
ursulav devotes time and attention to orc grandmothers. awesome.
Adventures in the land of Summer
* I have no job. I have to look for one. I have made desultory motions in this direction so far.
* I picked Joel up from school today, and we had Adventures In Libraries. I came out with two of the booksgoblinpaladin would most like to see me reading: Charles De Lindt's Dreams Underfoot and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.1 Read the introduction to the latter this evening and it reads to me like a challenge. There will be no half-hearted attempt at reading this book. Expect sporadic progress updates.
* I have decided to re-learn to swim. Well, to learn to swim more than ten metres at a time. It's a matter of stamina, which I lack utterly. As a result, after two fifteen-minute attempts at this, I am tired and sore.
* I am driving. Petrol is stupidly expensive. I want a new bicycle, not that this would do me any good as everything is an hour's drive from here anyway.
Cooking
Is fun. Whilegoblinpaladin is discovering the joy of cheese-and-egg on toast, I have had an Encounter With Pastry. Said encounter can be considered a draw- the pastry defeated me and covered me in flour and was generally a bastard to work with, but I did manage to get it into the quiche pans and cook quiche in it. Well, more of a flan really. And I discovered that egg and oregano isn't the optimum choice. Chives and coriander, we will try next time.
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1. The other two on his List are Paradise Lost and Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. I'm trying to get hold of the latter and read it before the movie comes out, but the Newcastle Regional Library is stupidly lacking in this regard.
Too cute for words
silentkimbly is a wonderful haven for cuteness and bad puns. Check it out, all ye people.Word on the grapevine says Dame Eleanor Hull is new to the medievalist blogsophere and can tell you all sorts of things about making quills. I tip my hat to Jennifer Lyn Jordan of Per Omni Saecula for this information. (Although, this is Monday! Where's my Medieval Animal, woman?)
ursulav devotes time and attention to orc grandmothers. awesome.Adventures in the land of Summer
* I have no job. I have to look for one. I have made desultory motions in this direction so far.
* I picked Joel up from school today, and we had Adventures In Libraries. I came out with two of the books
goblinpaladin would most like to see me reading: Charles De Lindt's Dreams Underfoot and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.1 Read the introduction to the latter this evening and it reads to me like a challenge. There will be no half-hearted attempt at reading this book. Expect sporadic progress updates.* I have decided to re-learn to swim. Well, to learn to swim more than ten metres at a time. It's a matter of stamina, which I lack utterly. As a result, after two fifteen-minute attempts at this, I am tired and sore.
* I am driving. Petrol is stupidly expensive. I want a new bicycle, not that this would do me any good as everything is an hour's drive from here anyway.
Cooking
Is fun. While
goblinpaladin is discovering the joy of cheese-and-egg on toast, I have had an Encounter With Pastry. Said encounter can be considered a draw- the pastry defeated me and covered me in flour and was generally a bastard to work with, but I did manage to get it into the quiche pans and cook quiche in it. Well, more of a flan really. And I discovered that egg and oregano isn't the optimum choice. Chives and coriander, we will try next time.~ ~ ~
1. The other two on his List are Paradise Lost and Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. I'm trying to get hold of the latter and read it before the movie comes out, but the Newcastle Regional Library is stupidly lacking in this regard.
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Date: 2007-11-19 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-19 12:46 pm (UTC)you're just trying to avoid your self-appointed responsibilities :P
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Date: 2007-11-20 08:44 am (UTC)I have been making EPIC juices! They mostly involve piles of peaches and nectarines with apples. Last year I did ones with grapes and stuff, they were awesome. Also I have been rotting my teeth with the following: ice cream with mangoes and strawberry syrup (really strawberry jam that my Dad tried to make in the microwave and stuffed up). DELICIOUS.
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Date: 2007-11-20 09:11 am (UTC)