*waves and runs*

[jadesfire]

Hello there! I'm currently too scared to open my flist (any bets on how many skips I'll have to do to catch up? Anyone? ETA: 280, which isn't too bad for you guys. I have 30 tabs open, although most of those are "catch up on this whole journal" so I'm still going to be here a while...) so just a note to say I'm back, sort of, although probably not around much today since I have ambitions to excavate my desk. I know it's under here somewhere...

Hope everyone's alright - did you have a good weekend? Full moving report including how to move furniture you can't lift, the perils of rivers and worrying technology to follow.

*waves madly* It's good to be back!

ETA also: I heard a trailer for this on R4 this morning and thought some of you would be interested. You should be able to listen to it on the R4 website, even if you can't DL it:
From the Ban to the Booker
Best-selling author Val McDermid examines the development of the lesbian novel and its transition from the margins to the mainstream.

She looks at the furore surrounding Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, the subject of an obscenity trial in 1928 and banned because of its lesbian content. Virginia Woolf's Orlando was published in the same year but escaped the censor. The programme includes a rare BBC recording of Vita Sackville-West, the inspiration behind Woolf's modernist masterpiece.

Contributors include Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters and Ali Smith.

Comments

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

You survived! Well done!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Hi there, not gone insane without the net, I see ^^

[itsarift-thing.livejournal.com]

*waves hard*
Glad you're 'home'?

how to move furniture you can't lift
In our house that is a very venerable piano that looks scruffy and plays beautifully (I don't play well enough to notice but my brother does).

I missed it. I was here in the house and I missed it! *headsdesk* I had meant to listen too. Oh well, I'll just have to Listen Again later.

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'm catching up after essentially not having internet for maybe a month so I have the greatest of sympathy for your flist perils. And now for a noob question: how did you get your flist to go so far back? Mine would only load skip=180 (and I'm fairly certain that there are more entries beyond that which I have not yet read)?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I just keep clicking "previous 20 entries" and it does it for me. I once got back to skip=500, so I know it goes back that far.

You could always try the more direct route, and just type "skip=200" into the address bar and see what happens. Otherwise, I tend just to open the comm/page itself and scroll back until I come across an entry I haven't seen before! Much easier than loading up my friendspage.

Good luck!

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

I tried that, it didn't work :( My best guess right now is that it's because you have a paid account and I don't. And completely unrelatedly, I'm saving your Big Bang fic till I get a bit more caught up on the short fics that I missed when I was lacking internet, so that I can savour it. Somehow it's much easier to wait now that it's actually posted. I guess it's the fact that I could sneak a peak if I wanted... But I shall not! I will be strong and with willpower! And I shan't ruin my dinner by snacking early!

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

You survived! Well done!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Hi there, not gone insane without the net, I see ^^

[itsarift-thing.livejournal.com]

*waves hard*
Glad you're 'home'?

how to move furniture you can't lift
In our house that is a very venerable piano that looks scruffy and plays beautifully (I don't play well enough to notice but my brother does).

I missed it. I was here in the house and I missed it! *headsdesk* I had meant to listen too. Oh well, I'll just have to Listen Again later.

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'm catching up after essentially not having internet for maybe a month so I have the greatest of sympathy for your flist perils. And now for a noob question: how did you get your flist to go so far back? Mine would only load skip=180 (and I'm fairly certain that there are more entries beyond that which I have not yet read)?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I just keep clicking "previous 20 entries" and it does it for me. I once got back to skip=500, so I know it goes back that far.

You could always try the more direct route, and just type "skip=200" into the address bar and see what happens. Otherwise, I tend just to open the comm/page itself and scroll back until I come across an entry I haven't seen before! Much easier than loading up my friendspage.

Good luck!

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

I tried that, it didn't work :( My best guess right now is that it's because you have a paid account and I don't. And completely unrelatedly, I'm saving your Big Bang fic till I get a bit more caught up on the short fics that I missed when I was lacking internet, so that I can savour it. Somehow it's much easier to wait now that it's actually posted. I guess it's the fact that I could sneak a peak if I wanted... But I shall not! I will be strong and with willpower! And I shan't ruin my dinner by snacking early!