366 Question Meme for 2020 - 8th March
Mar. 8th, 2020 04:03 pm8. It's International Women's Day. Who is a woman you greatly admire and why do you admire her?
Irena Sendler.
I can't imagine the nerve it took to do what she did. She knew what she was risking, she was imprisoned, tortured, and scheduled for execution. She was rescued, and lived in Poland for the rest of her life. She died in 2008.
Irena Sendler.
I can't imagine the nerve it took to do what she did. She knew what she was risking, she was imprisoned, tortured, and scheduled for execution. She was rescued, and lived in Poland for the rest of her life. She died in 2008.
6. Who is your favorite celebrity chef? Why do you like them?
Pass. I think I know 3 famous chefs in total.
7. What is the worst medical procedure you've ever had?
The nerve reflex check. They literally stick long pins in you and send small volts of electric along the nerve to see how well the nerve reacts.
Rodney McKay isn't far wrong when he calls doctors voodoo practitioners.
Pass. I think I know 3 famous chefs in total.
7. What is the worst medical procedure you've ever had?
The nerve reflex check. They literally stick long pins in you and send small volts of electric along the nerve to see how well the nerve reacts.
Rodney McKay isn't far wrong when he calls doctors voodoo practitioners.
Upstairs, Downstairs - annoying episode
Mar. 6th, 2020 05:07 pmI've just watched one of the most annoying episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs, a British TV series from the 1970s.
I wrote about the first season here. It has pictures too!
Basically, the series was the Downton Abbey of its day, and was about the Bellamy family, their servants, and their lives from 1903-1930.
This episode, The Key of the Door, centred around Elizabeth Bellamy, the only daughter of the family. Basically, Elizabeth is an absolute pain in the arse.
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I wrote about the first season here. It has pictures too!
Basically, the series was the Downton Abbey of its day, and was about the Bellamy family, their servants, and their lives from 1903-1930.
This episode, The Key of the Door, centred around Elizabeth Bellamy, the only daughter of the family. Basically, Elizabeth is an absolute pain in the arse.
( Read more... )
366 Question Meme for 2020 - March so far
Mar. 5th, 2020 04:16 pmWow, I'm rather behind! That's what comes of feeling so ill for over a week.
2. What's your favorite candy bar?
Hmmm. My favourite chocolate is Cadbury's but the actual bar? Maybe a Star Bar. I am becoming very partial to Hotel Chocolat's Eton Mess. It's light white chocolate with meringue and strawberry.
3. What city or other location were you born in?
Blackpool - a seaside resort in Lancashire. It's famous for its Tower.
4. What's the most ridiculous way you've ever been injured?
I was shot in the knee by an arrow.
5. It's Learn What Your Name Means Day. So, what does your name mean? Do you think it fits you?
Sarah means Princess and it doesn't fit me at all.
2. What's your favorite candy bar?
Hmmm. My favourite chocolate is Cadbury's but the actual bar? Maybe a Star Bar. I am becoming very partial to Hotel Chocolat's Eton Mess. It's light white chocolate with meringue and strawberry.
3. What city or other location were you born in?
Blackpool - a seaside resort in Lancashire. It's famous for its Tower.
4. What's the most ridiculous way you've ever been injured?
I was shot in the knee by an arrow.
5. It's Learn What Your Name Means Day. So, what does your name mean? Do you think it fits you?
Sarah means Princess and it doesn't fit me at all.
Title: Echoes of Mercy, Whispers of Love
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen, history, WW2 fic
Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley
Word Count: 1,208 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warning: References to the Holocaust.
Author's notes: I don't approach this subject lightly. I like to think Crowley would object to the Holocaust.
Title taken from:
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
On AO3.
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen, history, WW2 fic
Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley
Word Count: 1,208 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warning: References to the Holocaust.
Author's notes: I don't approach this subject lightly. I like to think Crowley would object to the Holocaust.
Title taken from:
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
On AO3.
26. What's a belief that you hold that most people probably disagree with?
That there's some truth to Astrology birth charts as regards personality.
We are mostly water. In the womb, we're surrounded by water. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find the gravitational forces of the sun, moon, and other planets had an effect upon our mental development.
27. Winter is soup time. What's your favorite kind of soup?
Good old mushroom soup!
That there's some truth to Astrology birth charts as regards personality.
We are mostly water. In the womb, we're surrounded by water. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find the gravitational forces of the sun, moon, and other planets had an effect upon our mental development.
27. Winter is soup time. What's your favorite kind of soup?
Good old mushroom soup!
Title: It's a Beautiful Day
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen, background het, off-screen death, missing scene
Characters: Warlock Dowling, Harriet Dowling, and Thaddeus J. Dowling
Word Count: 943 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: The US Embassy in London, sometime after midnight after the end of the world.
When last seen, Warlock and his parents were meeting Hastur on the Fields of Megiddo.
On AO3.
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen, background het, off-screen death, missing scene
Characters: Warlock Dowling, Harriet Dowling, and Thaddeus J. Dowling
Word Count: 943 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: The US Embassy in London, sometime after midnight after the end of the world.
When last seen, Warlock and his parents were meeting Hastur on the Fields of Megiddo.
On AO3.
Stamps are going up again!
Feb. 21st, 2020 01:59 pmMetro UK.
From March 23, the cost of a first class stamp will be increased by 6p to 76p. A second class stamp will see a price rise of 4p to 65p.
No wonder people don't send letters much!
From March 23, the cost of a first class stamp will be increased by 6p to 76p. A second class stamp will see a price rise of 4p to 65p.
No wonder people don't send letters much!
