Lutra's pond.

Forgot to mention that Soulsis also gave me some lovely roses from her garden (which she rescued from a horse) and a book on Elizabethan poe...

Happy Birthday, Joules! Found this at The Meece's Hole . Yes, GoodTwin, I'm very familiar with this model, too... And continuing on...

My friend Jackie died almost a decade ago. It was her birthday yesterday, and I dreamt about her last night. She was going on holidays for a...

Hm... Broadband. New technology. I shall have to poke it with a stick until I'm comfortable with it. : ) This walking stuff appears to b...

Nicked from Onna's blog: Hmm... Otaku Level 3 What Stage of Anime Fandom That I Went Through Are You At? brought to you by Quizilla Th...

I think The Bill's jumped the shark a bit. I'm only watching now from habit, not from any enjoyment or actual empathy for any of th...

Ooops ... The cubs' father has a naginata demonstration today. He washed his - white - gi last night and hung it up to dry on the clot...

Lessons I have learnt #9 : If you're patient, sooner or later all that you desire will be marked down... : ) To whit ( to whoo !) I foun...

I'm as twitchy as a cat... there's a ginormous huntsman lurking in the kitchen. It keeps disappearing... Oh good, it looks like my ...

Still reading 'Two Towers' . The word gangrel was used by Faramir (who is far more noble and courteous in the book than the movie)...

You know I'd almost managed to forget Valentine's Day. It's not that I have issues with this opportunity to ' show someone y...

"Holy Bonking Bishies, Batman!" <smirk> I've stumbled across a tasty little online comic called Sublunary . Anime influe...

This came from Onna's blog: Think about what cities or towns you've lived in (not just visited) in your life, and post them in yo...

... there's really not a lot of intelligence in a piggle's eyes, is there? Having said that it's kind of scary the way my piggl...

<blinkblink> ... I think this is a joke. I got it from a 'We Hate Mary-Sues' site. There's only 3 questions... My eyes ...

It's wet again. Not cold and windy as well, this time, just wet. If I didn't know better I'd say we'd hit Autumn early. But ...

Meep! Oh pooh - both volume 2 of Wolf's Rain and volume 3 of Last Exile are in the shop. Plus the cubs are making chibi eyes at me a...

All this walking might be doing my cardio-vascular fitness a power of good but it's grinding my ankles to dust. Whinge, moan, complain ....

Why can't people take responsibility for their own rubbish? It appals me how much litter there is left to blow around the streets - bus ...

Oh dear, we've had our first injury of the year. During sports this afternoon one of my cubs stood a bit too close behind the batter and...