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Skinny idiot! Decorative vegetable! The back of our head! Brainy specs! Two minutes to Belgium!

Has anyone else noticed that the transition bits between series and specials, and now this, seem to involve David Tennant repeatedly going "What?!" He has about four different inflections, too.

My watch keeps stopping. It's very annoying.

Last night Naomi and I went to see Stardust, which was fun, and tonight some of her friends came around and we watched Pride and Prejudice and at brownies with ice-cream. Mmmm.

I have just discovered that there is a word for the infinity symbol, &infin : lemniscate

Note to self: Do not carry charged batteries in the same pocket as loose change. Owies.


The book!Lexicon issue is grinding merrily on. I'm reading praetorianguard's posts on it at the minute. The stupid, it burns like my battery/coin circuit. Please to stop before you get JKR and Warner Bros so annoyed they say 'Right! No more fandom!' See legionseagle tearing their arguments to tiny shreds in her journal.

Okay, I expect that I'm really behind the fair on this, but is anyone else vastly amused that Kylie's releasing a song called 'Two Hearts' just before she appears on Doctor Who?

Last night Naomi hadn't any assignments to do for the near future, so she made brownies and we watched Pride and Prejudice, which is the only DVD we have up here. It was fun.

I have just cleaned the kitchen, hoovered the house except for other people's bedroom, mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors, and ironed my grey jacket, and consequently am in a glow of conscious virtue.

I thought that I would do the meme about ten pieces of personal Doctor Who canon, but I'm too tired to think of them and anyway everyone else has probably thought of all the good ones already.

I have no objection to giving £10 to breast cancer, but I do object to being forced to pay it as a forfeit if I don't wear pink tomorrow. When I give £10 to charity, I'll gift aid it, you idiots, and guess what, the charity will end up with £12 instead.

And also, thanks for telling us the day before, when a) my pink tshirt is at my parents' house and b) Marks and Spencer have stopped selling the 47 varieties of pink tshirt that they were selling whenever I wanted a blue one.

One of the pleasures of the Marlow novels for a lot of people seems to be finding that they share the characters' tastes in reading. There's only one book that I can remember that I read because I'd seen it mentioned—Brat Farrar, and I can see exactly why it's Ginty's sort of book; the situation is one she might romance about, and then there are the horses.

But when I first read the series, I was pleased to see that not only did Nicola read Hornblower and Lord Peter Wimsey, and dislike Dickens, all of which I also did, but that she and Lawrie had read The Flight of the Heron. I'd never met anyone, fictional or otherwise, who had also read it, apart from my mother and sister, and I was amazed (I still haven't met anyone else who's heard of it). Has anyone else had the same experience?