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Todays nail art effort, on my own nails, albeit one hand so far.

( Picture behind the cut )

OMG, Tim Loughton is being so obtuse. However Michael Bartlet from the Quakers is being awesome in the face of obtuseness.

Derek McAuley from the Unitarians is so nervous but is still being awesome.

(On a trivial note Jim Shannon is a ringer for Michael Fish)

I may be in Merthyr with Doug about to go and see The Hobbit. (I should mention the last film [not counting Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists at the tiny Booth Books Cinema] I saw in a proper cinema was the Star Trek Reboot.)

I fully expect to fall back into Tolkein fandom again.

Firstly, thank you so much! No matter what you write, the fact that you have written me fic in one of these fandoms? Means that I will love it no matter what.

Generally I'm good with most things and even things that I say that I don't like I have a couple of stories of that ilk that I absolutely love.

I love crossovers, women being awesome (and anything that rebalances the fact that the stories are always about the men), crack, humour, angst, gen, slash, het, femslash, threesomes, polyfic, behind the scenes, teams as family and common people fic.

I don't like rape and dub con, (although I'm up for clearly negotiated consent play) and I'm iffy on incest. I don't like unremitting doom although I quite like apocalyptic fic, which is probably not that helpful to you. ;-) And please no character bashing especially of female characters.

Anyway onto my fandoms.

Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

I'm fairly confident you won't be familiar with this fandom, but do have a look at it because there is so much room to play here.

Spider is an iPhone/iPod/iPad game by Tiger Aspect where no one really knows what the plot is except the developers, and they have stated clearly that they're not going to tell us one way or the other. The best we can do it piece together the clues and make our own stories. All we know is it was terribly sad. The walkthrough here - Gamezebo Walkthrough should give you everything you need to know.

I love how detached the Spider is from the human drama, does she understand any of it? Maybe it's all meaningless to her, or maybe she understands all too well. Maybe she's seen it all before, or she saw something that we missed. Did BY go with CK on his collecting trips? Did they understand what was happening between their sons? How did L Stewart know the Bryces? Why did she marry R? (Did she marry R?) Did she love N? Who was she apart from another bone of contention between the brothers? Where was she by the time the spider started filling the house with cobwebs? I'm not wedded to any particular interpretation of the clues, so feel free to run wild.

Great British Bake Off RPF

I worship Mary. I adore Sue and Mel, and I want a Cathryn for my very own. Give me the GBBO team saving the world through baking or maybe crossover a fandom with the GBBO lot. (Please no fusions, it's the people and the set up I love)

Of this years competitors, I really didn't like Victoria or James, but I really loved Brendan, Ryan, John, Sarah Jane and Danny. (I love Danny, nearly as much as I love Cathryn) I love the way Mary and Paul work together, balancing and countering each other. But I think it's the way Sue and Mel bolster and encourage the competitors that make it for me. You can believe that everyone has become friends, and Sue and Mel really, really want everyone to do well.

"I can't serve Mary Berry green carpet!"


Snow White and the Huntsman

I want to know how Snow survived the years in the tower, I want to know how she survived the years after her coronation. I want to know more about Ravenna, when was the girl she was irrevocably corrupted? How did her power grow? SO MANY THINGS I WANT TO KNOW.

I'm happy with gen fic or shippy fic (Snow White/Huntsman or Snow White/Huntsman/William, so long as Snow is front and centre of the fic and interacts with other women)

Tell me any story you want I will be happy.


Olympic Opening Ceremony (2012)

I loved the opening ceremonies, so so much. I love their Britishness, the sly in-jokes that you really had to have lived through to get. (Poor Michael Fish, that fucking hurricane is going to be on his headstone)

I loved the shock of the change from the pastoral to the industrial, and the drama of the drummers. The Queen rules all. And lost phone girl and boy were totally adorable)

Meta, humour, crack whatever you want to go with, so long it celebrates the joy you're golden.

I don't really have anything else to add to my optional details, Britishness, eccentricity, joy and 100 foot Voldermorts being driven off be a squadron of Mary Poppins and the welfare state. All of these, none of these - have at it!

I've just had this reply from GoDaddy

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I suspect the sheer number of complaints that I suspect have flooded in over the last hours might have something to do with the promptness of the reply I received. (Fifteen minutes from sending my email)

As with everyone else I will be watching how this unfolds.

Sometimes we take our aprons off and eat at a table like a customer. Sometimes we eat on a step in the kitchen so we can carry on chatting to the others whilst they work. Today I'm listening to the river whilst I eat.

( The River Ennig )

We've just started selling locally made Ice Creams in the Café, and they're so gorgeous.

We had our second order in yesterday - double our first one - and it's now taking up two shelves in the freezer. I was just finishing putting them away whe Fi came up.

Fi: You know, it would probably be a good idea to put the flavours in alphabetical order.
Me: They are in alphabetical order.
Fi: You scare me sometimes.

Another photo I ran through the Autopainter app. There are three decommissioned red phone boxes in Talgarth. One of them, my friend bought from BT for £1, restored it, and it's now a Tourist Information Booth. (It's not the Phone Box in the photo, that's a another one)

I went for a short walk with thelovelystick yesterday, where we both tried out our new walking poles. (They're the same poles, after thelovelystick showed the downside to one click ordering on the iPad when I was showing her the new poles I'd bought, and the cancel order button refused to work)

They certainly seem effective for distributing the work more evenly through your body, and hopefully they'll be helpful in the event of another descent down the Hay Bluff, when I had my feet slip out from under me twice, and ended up having to walk through Hay covered in mud.

I'm heading off to work shortly, as my boss phoned me at about 9 o clock last night, asking if I can come in today. Three days paid work instead of two? Of course I can. ;-) (Plus we're currently using the Bazillian Blend coffee instead of the Formula Six, and I've found I like it even more than the Formula Six which I didn't think was possible. So free coffee!)

Wales Millennium Centre turns down Frankie Bolye Booking

"A spokeswoman said: “Wales Millennium Centre prides itself on its accessibility policies and is home to the Touch Trust, a charity which provides arts activities to people of all ages with the most profound disabilities.

“In the light of this, and after careful consideration, the centre made a programming decision not to take this booking at that particular time."

He is a vile, vile man.