Things, Of Late

[juliet]

• Finlay likes eating snow, apparently. It is about the most excited I have seen him be about anything outside since that squirrel he chased in St James' Park. (Well. I say 'excited'. What I really mean is 'focussed'. He's not what you'd call an excitable dog, in general.) Unfortunately he seems to have some belief that snow is a sensible alternative to actually eating his dinner, but hopefully getting Xmas leftovers will help with that.


• Stomach bugs really, really suck. Particular highlights: throwing up so hard my sinuses hurt; the stage at which moving from upstairs to downstairs required a five-minute lie down on the landing in the middle. Feeling a bit better now but still wobbly.


• Saw Nine Lessons & Carols For Godless People last week, which was fun. Some good, some less good, but the good was well worth attending for, & if they ran it again next year I'd go.


• Will the Xmas knitting be done in time? Who knows! Current bets say: maybe, just about.


• I am sure other things have happened, but I can't remember any of them. Trafalgar Square clearup, LARC solstice party, snow snow snow. My ongoing attempt to get rid of more stuff (have just started to go through the CDs. Anyone know of somewhere that will take piles of CDs in exchange for cash? Only worth it if they will just take the lot, so the MVE is no good.)

Comments

[kerrypolka]

Oh, no! ♥ I'm glad you're having a good time at things that don't involve throwing up. Good luck getting better.

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Oh hon, hope you are feeling better now! Maybe this means it's all out of the way for holiday fun :(

aww Finlay is such a scamp! Hooray for doggies!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Did you get poor old Johnny Ball exhibiting his confusion?

[juliet]

Yargh. Happily not on the subject of climate change (which he made one tiny reference to & then stayed off altogether), but he was a bit weird. Lots of crap music-hall type slightly risque jokes, then a couple of minutes of science that was the stuff I loved seeing him talk about when I was a kid, & which he is still good at. Then another couple of crap music-hall jokes. Dude, stick with the being-excited-about-science!

Brian Cox was awesome (well: he had pictures of the Hubble Deep Field & also the LHC, so I was always going to be impressed). Ben Goldacre & Simon Singh also both good, as was Robin Ince compering.

[juliet]

That is my hope, yes!

Xmas with Dog! V exciting :)

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

MVE in Greenwich seem to take most stuff, they just won't give you loads for it.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yeah, i thought MVE traditionally Turned Nothing Away, just they'd only give you actually 1p for it...

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

Which night did you go? Me and Jo went on the Sunday and Johnny Ball fell pretty flat there (not sure about his points about Newton either), everything else was brilliant though.

[kauket.livejournal.com]

After attending this show as well (on Sunday), I have a huge crush on Brian Cox. I also loved Dara O'Briain :)

[juliet]

I went the Thursday night. Overall it was definitely all good fun!

[juliet]

Aha, that is useful to know! I just CBA taking a big stack of CDs somewhere if I then have to take most of them home again, basically; happy to just get a small quantity of cash. (As a rule I'd just use Freecycle & sod the cash altogether, but, hm. We'll see.)

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

By the way, Robin Ince and Brian Cox have a radio 4 show called The Infinite Monkey Cage that's on at the moment.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Let me know which CDs and I can check if anyone I know wants any?

I <3 Greenwich MVE!

[xxxlibris.livejournal.com]

Argle, the music hall jokes - I had to leave to go to the bathroom then so missed the other stuff, but my tolerance for car-crash stuff like that is very low.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're feeling better! Was a bit worried by your absence from Twitter after what sounded rather nasty...

[juliet]

I was *deeply* unimpressed by Dara O'Briain. Initially for the 'hello all white people here' aspect of the joke he made about Islam; and then for the really irritating tone of his banging on about 'mothers' and ha ha these funny women ekt ekt.

But yeah, I did like Brian Cox :)