things

Hello birds, hello sky! Hello livejournal! I have had a v. busy weekend and then been ill, making me go into extreme lurker mode. (Apologies for all the days-late comments I have been/will be leaving, btw.) But now I am back and with a wallpaper to share, since one of the things I did at the weekend was schlep all the way to Patchway and back (three hour round trip by bus and shank's pony! Very occasionally I wish I knew how to drive) and pick up my new laptop. Anyway, wallpaper!

( widescreen companiony header )

Possibly not of interest to anyone but me, what with it being widescreen and featuring only my favourite companions, but I'm quite proud of it, so I thought I'd share. (also, if anyone fancies a version in a different size/colour/with different companions, give me a shout and I will have a go. Help me alleviate my guilt about all the companions I had to leave out!)

Other things I did at the weekend: saw Indiana Jones! I loved it quite a bit. ( spoilers and relentless positivity )

And on the way to the cinema I stumbled into a second-hand bookshop and emerged clutching four Dr Who books, because I don't have enough of them already *sigh*.

And then there was a Eurovision party, at my parents' house since they are in France, with school friends and UNEXPECTED SISTER, which is always nice. The songs were much fun, the voting not so much. Bosnia-Herzogovina's knitted grannies were a highlight, as were the Latvian pirates and whichever one it was that started off with all the men in a box (Armenia?). But I don't think Russia deserved to win - their song wasn't bad, just a bit blah, though it did have ice skating man who looked a bit like Owen Wilson. I had Georgia and Germany in the sweetstake, so I knew before the voting began that there would be no sweets for me, again, neither song was that bad, though Germany were out of tune, or key, or something, and given how little ear I have for music if I can tell that there's something amiss, then it must be pretty wrong. But neither were particularly memorable either. I didn't think that we (the UK) deserved to be last either, it was quite a good song, especially compared to some of the things we've fielded in previous years. Anyway, never mind, there was chocolate and pringles and wine and a good time was had by all.

Apologies if I am making even less sense than usual. My brain is still a bit fuzzy from my cold and there are approximately 8694067 people in the library all of whom want things. And my coding kept going wrong. :(

things

Hello birds, hello sky! Hello livejournal! I have had a v. busy weekend and then been ill, making me go into extreme lurker mode. (Apologies for all the days-late comments I have been/will be leaving, btw.) But now I am back and with a wallpaper to share, since one of the things I did at the weekend was schlep all the way to Patchway and back (three hour round trip by bus and shank's pony! Very occasionally I wish I knew how to drive) and pick up my new laptop. Anyway, wallpaper!

( widescreen companiony header )

Possibly not of interest to anyone but me, what with it being widescreen and featuring only my favourite companions, but I'm quite proud of it, so I thought I'd share. (also, if anyone fancies a version in a different size/colour/with different companions, give me a shout and I will have a go. Help me alleviate my guilt about all the companions I had to leave out!)

Other things I did at the weekend: saw Indiana Jones! I loved it quite a bit. ( spoilers and relentless positivity )

And on the way to the cinema I stumbled into a second-hand bookshop and emerged clutching four Dr Who books, because I don't have enough of them already *sigh*.

And then there was a Eurovision party, at my parents' house since they are in France, with school friends and UNEXPECTED SISTER, which is always nice. The songs were much fun, the voting not so much. Bosnia-Herzogovina's knitted grannies were a highlight, as were the Latvian pirates and whichever one it was that started off with all the men in a box (Armenia?). But I don't think Russia deserved to win - their song wasn't bad, just a bit blah, though it did have ice skating man who looked a bit like Owen Wilson. I had Georgia and Germany in the sweetstake, so I knew before the voting began that there would be no sweets for me, again, neither song was that bad, though Germany were out of tune, or key, or something, and given how little ear I have for music if I can tell that there's something amiss, then it must be pretty wrong. But neither were particularly memorable either. I didn't think that we (the UK) deserved to be last either, it was quite a good song, especially compared to some of the things we've fielded in previous years. Anyway, never mind, there was chocolate and pringles and wine and a good time was had by all.

Apologies if I am making even less sense than usual. My brain is still a bit fuzzy from my cold and there are approximately 8694067 people in the library all of whom want things. And my coding kept going wrong. :(