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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
8:57 pm	It's that bloody fish again  Hope to see some freindly and/or familiar faces at Novacon on Friday. Can I take this opportunity to wish Steve Green and his committee all the best and to ask that if any dear readers present are able to offer gopher support when needed it will be greatly appreciated as Novacon cannot function without your help. Current Music: wonderpets (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
2:24 pm	Last Night's Dr Who The end of last night's episode was filmed at Bel Vue Park in Newport for anyone planning a Location Grande Tour. Looks like I completely failed to recognise That Actress, although maybe I saw a stand-in, used for reaction shots like they have on big Hollywood productions. It's just as well. I'd only have blabbed. The most Buffy-like episode to date, and not for the obvious reasons..... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
5:49 pm	Leroy Richard Arthur Kettle Has just been awarded an OBE. Well done him. Dave says they should make him an Earl next time, so he'll be an Earlobe. (I think he "borrowed" that joke) Current Mood: impressed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
12:11 pm	Our light entertainment correspondent writes; One of the exciting factors of living in South Wales these days is that you never know when you are going to accidently stumble across a film crew working on the new series of Doctor Who, which is what happened to me last week! I was taking the baby for spin in a nearby park and found that my way was blocked by about ten huge OB lorries, some of which were humming ominously (probably generators) and a production crew with hip looking walkie talkies, and make-up artists and actors, one of whom was the actor playing the new Doctor. I didn't see Billie Piper but there was another actress. I stood around gawping for a while until I felt compelled to move along as they kept glancing nervously at the babe, thinking she was going to start yammering I suppose. The new Doctors clothes and hair looked sort of Peter Davison-ish. Oh dear.... Current Mood: tired (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 8th, 2004
8:23 pm	Novacon - an account I've just returned from a very enjoyable Novacon; I fear it may well be detailed in the annals of fandom as "Fluffycon" due to the excessive pile of the brand new carpet in the bar. The Grate Babe was suitable impressed and exhausted by the proceedings, consequently I've had the most sleep I've had in eleven weeks. I missed nearly all of the programme, which is a shame because it was cracking good this year(in fact it usually is these days) I feel I've eaten and eaten well as H. Simpson would say, The baguettes are fantastic value, and perfect for a young mother on the go. I feel very lucky to have spent the last few days in the company of such interesting, contented and agreeable people and look forward to seeing them again next year. I hear sobbing from downstairs. (probably grytpype thynne) Time to go! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 28th, 2004
5:15 pm	A funny thing happened during the stay on the maternity ward .....there were not that many funny moments, but I recall this.... They put security tags on the babies' ankles to prevent people from snatching them. Unfortuately, baby feet and baby ankles are about the same size, so the tags keep falling off. A midwife retrieved mine from a discarded romper suit and put it back on the baby. I made a jocular remark to the effect that I hoped they'd put the right tag back on the right baby. The midwife gave me a funny look and said "Don't even go there today" *Chews cheek thoughtfully* (Not that I'm doubting the origins of my own offspring) Current Mood: awake Current Music: Wah (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
4:54 pm	We 'eve bebe It's now that time in the future when it's all over. I've had a lot of drugs, and I've got a lovely baby but, fucking hell fire. Current Mood: numb Current Music: foetal heart monitor, (machine that goes ping) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 19th, 2004
1:03 pm	OK, scratch that last entry 4.00am Thursday - things "started to happen", including contractions! Could it be that I was in a state of first-stage labour after all this time and had got there on my own??? Well, no not quite, but after a visit to hospital and some teeth gnashing over my raised blood pressure, they've let me come home to see if I can progress in the comfort of my own squallor er, house, in the next twenty hours so I'm now going in tomorrow instead. Grytpype thynne got a parking ticket for his trouble, poor boy. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Damn Beeb olympic theme - catchy or what? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
9:22 pm	Going to hospital tomorrow I'm now about ten months pregnant which is probably not even possible, so yay!! (although any passing obstetrician could put me right on that one, I'm guessing) So I'm being induced at 8.00am Thursday, with an eta of not any time Real Soon Now, as the outcome following these sorts of procedures is patchy at best. I think it's better to just take as read the full gory horror, pain and trauma of the situation and reflect on a time in the future when it'll all be over.... We live five minutes walk from the hospital so I'm wondering if I'll be tempted to run away; they intend to strap me to the machine that goes *ping* from "Monty python's Meaning of Life", so that should impede my progress especially as the journey home is uphill. My reading material of choice for the quiet bits will be various works by Ian Watson, Novacon 34's GoH. (If you're going, don't forget to book those bedrooms!!) Current Mood: productive Current Music: BBC's Olympic coverage theme, very catchy (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 7th, 2004
11:06 pm	"Have you had it yet?" No. Current Mood: uncomfortable Current Music: loan sharks jingles on cable. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 10th, 2004
7:44 pm	Crap pregnancy joke What do you call a box of frozen crispy pancakes being held up above someone's head? Current Mood: hormonal (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
7:30 pm	The cat is now out of the bag about the bun in the oven For anyone who doesn't yet know, or was not at Ploktacon, or was at Ploktacon but just thought I was looking a bit fat; myself and grytpype_thynne are expecting a baby on or around August 7th. This was a largish factor in the afore mentioned's decision not to run for TAFF after all. In case anyone was wondering. Current Mood: full (20 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 3rd, 2003
9:12 pm	does this thing still work? Well? (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 5th, 2003
9:09 pm	Test Live Journal's gone funny. Can't cope. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, August 8th, 2003
7:53 pm	I'm going to meet Jon Courtenay Grimwood tomorrow... ... along with other Birmingham based fannish folk. With a bit of luck I should get through the evening without Jon thinking the Novacon Committee are a bunch of hapless drunks. Last weekend Tony Berry had a barbeque. I attended, drank to excess, fell off a flimsy garden chair and suffered a bruised arse. As long as the restaurant has solid furniture, there should be no repetition on my part. Can't answer for Alice Lawson though. Current Mood: sore (Comment on this)
Monday, July 14th, 2003
9:15 pm	*gasp* IswearIswearIswearooo..I swear.. I'll never take the internet for granted again! huge panic when it wouldn't let me on for THREE hours! No email either argh. Dr Dave says our computer may need replacing er, soon. Current Mood: relieved (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 23rd, 2003
7:41 pm	Harry Potter Has Jumped the Shark Well that's twelve quid and eighteen hours of my life I won't get back... Current Mood: blah (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
8:03 pm	Heard at work "Attention all staff, those wishing to go on the (Work's social) Mystery Trip, please hand in your completed forms by tomorrow. That's the Mystery Trip to Alton Towers..." (Comment on this)
Monday, June 9th, 2003
9:02 pm	New hobby -snail throwing. It's a dilemma for me, because slug pellets are all well and good, but for the first time in seven years we have sparrows - small birds of any description - as regular visitors to the garden, and poisoning them straight off would be darned un-neighbourly. So to prevent my petunias being nibbled to a stalk overnight a quick fix was needed. I think I've lobbed about sixty or seventy down the bottom of the garden so far,and I've got the knack of prising them off the wall so they don't leave "bits" of themselves behind. I'm assuming they are surviving the landing. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 8th, 2003
8:51 pm	heh. well, a big hello and thank you kindly to the offer to the lovely akirlu but plans are afoot! Also a big hellooo to the lovely mrhedgehog who sounds familiar... Also huge and respectful thanks to the lovely hawkida without whom I wouldn't be *here* today. (3 Comments |Comment on this)