Experimental Mondays week 5 (and other things)

Er, OK, so experimental Monday got shifted to Saturday but the reason will become apparent.
I made aubergine, shallot and sun-dried tomato calzone. This involved making pizza dough from scratch and, as this is a yeast dough, it required prooving. There was no way that I could get home from work and have pizza on the [...]

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Catching up on many things

Knitting

I’m making good progress on Brighton Take Too, the cardigan for my sister. I love the pattern, I adore the yarn (Rowan Cashsoft DK) and the combination of the two makes for a really great knitting experience. I did encounter a small technical hitch yesterday…
I was knitting merrily on the left front. Mum and I [...]

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Fall TV and so on

It’s September, that must mean that it’s time for regular TV shows to start again. Woo!
This year, I’m handling it better than last year. ER and CSI never got watched because I missed their premiers and didn’t know until we were four episodes in that either one had started. CSI:NY only got watched for the [...]

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Interesting post on big fannish events

This post is fascinating to read: http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/111170.html
The stuff in the comments is even better. I warn you, there are spoilers in the comments for every TV series, film and book published in the last 100 years. Not kidding.
Although they are being remarkably disciplined with Torchwood, for which I am thankful. A TW marathon shall be [...]

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Star Trek thoughts (probably spoilerish)

I’m cutting with a Read More tag so that those who haven’t seen the movie and follow this blog don’t get inadvertantly spoiled

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The audience cheered (Star Trek review)

Just got back from Star Trek. I haven’t quite come down from the high.
Squeeeeeee!
Perhaps a review will help me to calm enough for sleep?
My plan for the afternoon worked and I got to the cinema at 6.30pm after a leisurely coffee and supper. Yum. I’m very glad that I arrived when I did: there were [...]

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Amazing women of fandom

This isn’t a meme yet, but I suspect that it’s turning into one and I couldn’t resist. This was posted in fandomsecrets over the weekend and triggered a huge discussion of female characters in SF. misscam’s response here was brilliant and I’ve now seen a few people list their amazing, strong female characters so I [...]

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Doctor Who: Plant of the Dead reviewed

I am calmer now, and I’ve slept, so I can be a little more coherent in my reaction than I would have been last night
Therefore I have put the actual review behind a cut just in case anyone stumbles across this by accident and doesn’t want to know because they haven’t watched it [...]

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OK, I admit defeat (Robin Hood spoilers included)

Whatever has gone wrong with my shoulder obviously needs looking at by a doctor, I admit it. The dratted thing went out again yesterday morning at around 10.45am (I know because that’s when I left for church and it went from fine to ouch in the space of ten seconds) and it’s still very painful [...]

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Holby City, Girl Guide cookies and sock woes

Oh, Holby City, you are cruel. You give me characters that I hate and would be happy to see killed in a horrible manner and then you give me an episode filled with tension and pathos and humanity that persuades me not to hate those characters. How are you so awesome one week and so [...]

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