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Unexpected!lemon curd just made my breakfast much more exciting, and last night, I successfully made ingredient free cake*

May all your Sundays be full of joy, citrus or no citrus.

*No dairy, caffeine or nuts. And I don't have any non-dairy margarine. And the cake tastes pretty good!

I can see LJ again! *clings* Woot!

Of course, my brief forced absence has reminded me that I have a Dreamwidth account and that I kind of want to use it from time to time.

But for the meantime, Thank You, LJ-guard dogs, for letting me back in.

Of course, I'm out all day and have no chance of catching up on anything but it's the thought that counts, right?

This is Saving Furry Friends. As most of you won't know, one of my friends is a trustee of the charity and is working her socks off getting dogs out of kill shelters and either looking after them until they can be adopted or looking after them for the rest of their lives. She's pretty amazing, which is why I'm doing this when I normally wouldn't.

This is Billy:



From Becky's description:

"Billy's a 6 month old GSD Mix. He weighs about 30 pounds. He's neutered, up to date on his vaccinations, good with kids, cats, and other dogs. He's smart as hell, housebroken and crate trained. He is NOT good on a leash, because he was tied out for so long (most of his early life) but we're working on it. He's jut an all around awesome doggy dog.

If anyone out there is interested in adopting Billy, there is *no adoption fee* and we will still cover his neuter and arrange transport. Seriously, it's that desperate. [...] I'll happily provide an awesome, vetted, dog for you. You just provide him a home/foster home."

I've followed Billy's story from when Becky first adopted him, and he's breaking my heart. This is a smart, lively, loving dog who needs a home just for him. Transport can be arranged all up the East coast, from North Carolina to NY for anyone who wants a bright, lively, loving dog. Please drop me a line and I'll put you in touch. He'd make a wonderful member of any family, so please scan through your contact list to see if there's anyone who could love him, or if there's anyone who knows anyone who could love him.

I keep forgetting to post over here, but the journal isn't dead, just dormant. Crossposting is not my strong point, apparently.

Anyway, the following contain Torchwood: Children of Earth spoilers.

My semi-coherent reaction post at torchwood_meta.

And fic under the cut. 700ish words, Jack and John Hart. Gen. More or less. Honking great spoilers for 'Children of Earth'. Posted to the_hub.

( Because plot holes bug me )

I should preface this by saying that in the last couple of years, I haven't done a whole lot of reading, for various reasons. Hopefully this is a better sign of things to come. I also need to say, sorry all of you who recommended The Dresden Files and told me I'd love them. For whatever reason, they don't work for me (I finished 1 but couldn't get through 2) and I'm not going to be trying the rest of the series. I realise that this is heresy in some corners of my flist, but it's just how it is.

Anyway, moving swifly on, I've tried to make these as spoiler-free as possible, although obviously that may change if anyone comments ;)

Things I have read recently:

( The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss )

( Capote in Kansas by Kim Edwards )

( Scipio by Ross Leckie )

( Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen )

#1. Without even thinking about it, I end up doing 10 minutes of research for comment-fic. Comment fic! Honestly.

#2. I can move through my hundreds of open tabs by hovering over the tab bar and using the mouse scroll wheel. Cool.

#3. If my next netbook can't play the BBC iPlayer it's going right on back to the shop. I think I have an addiction. Even on a day when "I can't find anything I want to watch", I have about 25 tabs open.

I finished something *shocked expression*

For taffimai: Five people who have put Jack Harkness to bed.

( 670ish words, Gen, no pairings, no current Torchwood team. )

I kind of want to make this post one long string of videos, because it's hard to do these guys justice with just words. But we'll have a go anyway.

Out of the Blue are an all-male a cappella group, started in 2000 and drawing members from Oxford University and (now) Oxford Brookes University. They've won competitions in the UK and Europe, and this year, were second in the world. Considering American Universities have a much longer and better-established history at this kind of singing, that's pretty good going.

I'd heard Out of the Blue singing on Cornmarket, promoting their concerts and was pretty blown away. So when we could actually get tickets to hear them live, we were both pretty excited. As was everyone else in the audience, if the noise level was anything to go by!

Nope, it's no good. I can't describe the performance to you. All the recordings I can find are pretty lousy, but they'll have to do. You've got to see it: ( It's under here )

IT IS A COMPULSION

IT IS NOT MY FAULT

Apparently I should not be allowed in libraries on my own. I just dropped in to pick up a Cole Porter music book and a novel for the other half (both of which I got). So why did I also come away with:

The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (naye forgive me, I can't get the accents on my keyboard :S)
Little Black Book of Stories by A S Byatt
The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gattiss

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Anybody?

This is not going to end well, I can just tell. Remind me to remind myself to renew them...

It's my turn to post links to writers_lair this week. With great difficulty, I managed to post a fairly short (for me) list, which can be found here.

There are more lurking in my Delicious account, but they'll have to wait until I have a smaller pile of papers on my desk...