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Talk like a pirate on SIN

Kicking off Talk like a Pirate Day by linking to the special pirate/age of
sail post over at SPEAK ITS NAME



Once you catch an eyeball of that you'll be right up for chatting on
, if only to purge the horror!

offended by rank OBJECTIFICATION of writers

http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/1127991128/offended-by-rank-objectification-of-writers

LOL!  This is all completely true.  My poor husband!

19th Sept – party like a pirate on Speak Its Name

Hi-diddley dee, a pirate's life for me…

It's Talk Like a Pirate day on Sunday 19th September – we'd love to

celebrate
other nautical gear)? Post Pirate slashy drabbles (not fanfic, please),

pirate limericks and piratical excerpts. There will be prizes, although

whether the awarding of same will follow the pirate code, who knows?

Erastes will help celebrate the day by listing piratey books on the

Ely Con, very short report

This has to be very short as I have just sliced through the top of my finger on one of those vegetable guillotine thingies, trying to make home-made crisps.  Fortunately I got my 1000 words in for the day first, but I've got to say I don't advise typing with your finger swathed in elastoplast.  At least it seems to have stopped bleeding.

So this will be a short report – Ely con was slightly smaller than we expected.  We had about 25 people express an interest in coming, but only 12 turned...

Reposted from Bearing Witness

http://bearing-witness.dreamwidth.org/6988.html

Rev. Chuck Currie on why he established the Facebook group "People of Faith Opposed to the Burning of the Qur'an" – Currie is a United Church of Christ Minister in Northwest USA.

And in related news: Currie's access to Facebook was halted for approx. 24 hours, then reinstated. Facebook has apparently refused to explain why.

If you're wondering if there's anything you can do to demonstrate your belief that the days of holy war were a huge mistake w...

Still ill

This is getting a little tedious.  Still coughing like I'm trying to turn myself inside out.  I thought my lungs were making a sound like popping candy, so I went to the doctor, who was unimpressed and said "no, they're not, that's just your throat."  This apparently makes it tantamount to being a whiny hypochondriac, turning up at her door after 5 days of not sleeping because I can't lie down and breathe at the same time.  Shame on me!

I've got to be better by Sunday because the Ely meet-up i...

Recommendations please?

I have discovered a forgotten birthday present from my parents-in-law, which is a voucher for downloads from Amazon.co.uk.  Hurray!  Also, I'm going off to an internet-free, bookshop-free long weekend spent in a field, and after driving to and from France last week I've read all the books on my ebook reader.

These are two things that were made to be together   So I need recommendations of books to read.  Preferably ones from Amazon.co.uk and preferably ones which I can download immediately...

In and out

like a fiddler's elbow, that's me this week.  Wednesday was our 20th wedding anniversary, which I forgot about.  Fortunately, Andrew forgot about it too, so there were no hard feelings on his side, and nothing but relief on mine.  We went up North to see my Dad instead of celebrating, which made for a long day of driving through torrential rain, but we've chalked up a mental note of "we are permitted to buy ourselves something nice at some point, to celebrate" which is always a nice thought t...

Back from France.

And finally (nearly) caught up on my 300 odd emails, my unpacking, washing and putting everything away, and my two days of being poleaxed by diet induced migraine, which still hasn't entirely gone away.  (Have started the Harcombe diet, as after 3 weeks of calorie counting I was utterly fed up of being hungry.  But I've paid for it with three days of sugar withdrawal headache.)

I had a great time in France, despite the fact that yes, half of the week was practically underwater.  We trekked to ...

Shining in the Rain?

I'm off on holiday tomorrow.  We're going to go somewhere just outside St. Malo for a week.  This will give me ample opportunity to look around St. Malo, where a couple of chapters of Shining in the Sun take place.  I got my description of the place from guidebooks and Google street view, so I'm really interested to find out how accurate I've managed to be.  I really should have done the holiday before writing, rather than after!

I don't think there will be internet, so I'll be out of reach...