I was crazy busy all last week but things seem to have calmed down a bit now, but for the last couple of days all computers seem to hate me. At least LJ and Delicious seem to be back to normal *crosses fingers* I might actually manage to reply to comments and comment on all the posts I missed.

Yesterday, as I was walking to work, my skirt (denim, straight, knee-length) managed to rotate approximately 300° around my waist. If my journey had been five minutes longer it would have gone the full 360°.

Damian Wins Through by thankyouturtle
(DCU/The Chalet School. Damian Wayne, Len Maynard, Emerence Hope, Jo Scott. Gen. G.)
When you say "Damian goes to school", what I hear is "Damian goes to a Swiss boarding school in the 1950's disguised as a girl", and I apologise for that.
This is the best crack crossover ever! I've been wanting a Damian goes undercover in a school for ages but this surpassed all my wildest imaginings. For the Chalet fans among you, Damian is the Robin in my icon and I am very fond of him.

I completely screwed up my sleeping patterns over the weekend. At least having to get up for work means that it should resolve itself fairly rapidly but I am so tired at the moment.


Have the meme that everyone was doing last week.

Name a fandom (or two) with which I am familiar and I will tell you:

My M/F OTP:
My M/M OTP:
My F/F OTP:
My endgame OTP:
My original OTP:
My crack OTP:
My guilty pleasure OTP:
My anti-OTP:

Wasn't Doctor Who fantastic! I still can't think of anything coherent to say about it. ( spoilers for 5.13 Big BangCollapse )

I managed to dig out all my old Biggles books at the weekend - quite literally because half of them were scattered through the chest with all my cuddly toys and the rest were in a box underneath six other boxes in our junk room. I thought that I was only searching for three books - Biggles & Co., Hits the Trail and Delivers the Goods but when my first discovery only found the first two plus a copy of The Black Peril, I started to look again. Eventually I found five books that I had completely forgotten that I'd read before, let alone owned - including four duplicates of books I've bought in the last few weeks *facepalm*. Luckily most of them were in anthologies, so it wasn't completely wasted money.

If that wasn't enough, there were four Biggles hardbacks in the Oxfam bookshop - for the first time ever. I only bought Biggles - Air Dectective, because I already had the rest. I was even happier to find a copy of Lorna Hill's Vicki in Venice. One of the Saddlers' Wells books that wasn't reprinted in the 80's when I bought my copies. I also found a copy of The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy, that I'd been meaning to reread.

I headed into town to buy some much needed shorts and walking socks and stopped by the second hand bookshop in St Nick's Market. To my astonishment, they had a copy of Chudleigh Hold by Elinor M. Brent Dyer. Dad was rather horrified at how much I was happy to pay for it, but the bookseller pointed out that it was a good investment and that there were worse things to spend money on. I also bought Biggles in the Orient, which I read on the train home and loved. ( spoilersCollapse )

Also - Worrals and Frecks are amazing. I've now read two books and a short story and I want more. Sadly the copy of Worrals Flies Again that I ordered hasn't turned up yet. Frustration!

I went to a lovely wedding at the weekend. You may remember my dress dilemma. At the last minute I discovered that they had run out my size in one of the previous choices and the second choice was almost the same colour as the bridesmaids dress. Luckily I found a larger Monsoon and found this gypsy dress, which I adore. I was enormously tempted by this Lela Rose Prom Dress. Isn't it gorgeous? But I was good and didn't buy it.

To my amusement, the bride managed to convince her husband to visit Pertisau am Achensee in Austria as part of the honeymoon. Chalet School fans out there will recognise this as the real-life counterpart of the fictional Briesau am Tiernsee, which was the original location of the Chalet School. I am very jealous but she has promised photos of the dripping rock and possibly climbing mountains and leaping over streams.

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I have a Dreamwidth. For the moment I'm probably just going to use it for commenting on Dreamwidth only entries and as something to read when lj isn't working. But come and say hi if you are there.

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Someone (possibly me) need to write a crossover with Oz from Buffy meeting George from Being Human. Excitability and flailing meets stoic calmness in  werewolf form.   I may have already started to try to write this but I'm a bit nervous about it. 

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Only two more episodes of Supernatural left of this season! I've always found that the last episodes of a season in Supernatural are my least favourite as I am very much fan of scary-thing-of-the-week episodes. But this one has the potential to be interesting. I will have a very different experience watching them because I have always been so far behind that I watched the first episode of the next season immediately afterwards and didn't have to deal with the cliffhangers.

I am very behind on Smallville. I have had trouble getting hold of working copies of the episodes and I am only halfway through Stiletto. I adored Hex and it reinforced the fact that I am definitely watching "the Lois Lane show". I am becoming less and less interested in Davis.

The Middleman and Leverage are now my default "I need something fun to watch" shows instead of Smallville. But I'm sure I will get back to it.