Week in review: Week to 9 August
10 August 2025 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
. I fell behind on Natural Six back in November, when my long service leave ended and my week was suddenly much less well supplied with opportunities to watch three-hour-long episodes, and what with one thing and another the backlog got significantly larger before I started actively trying to catch up, so I've been trailing behind ever since. ( Read more... )
. Another thing I'm all caught up with is Sesska's Doctor Who reactions - just in time for her to go on a break and not be posting any more for a while.
. I read A Room with a View by E.M. Forster for the Buzzword reading challenge (this month's prompt was "with"). It took me a while to get into it, but by the halfway mark I really wanted to see how things turned out. (I've repeated often enough the saying that no novel can survive the words "I don't care what happens to these people"; the thing that kept me going through this novel is that, once I got to know her, I did care what happened to Lucy.) ( Read more... )
. I had brunch in a cafe on Saturday morning, and was hit by not one but two surcharges. One was the usual surcharge when a business chooses to pass on the fee for paying electronically, but the other - which is new since last time I ate at that cafe - was a surcharge for It's Saturday. ( Read more... )
. One of the saints' days mentioned in The Hidden Almanac this week was the feast of Saint Caliper, the patron of those who travel the dreadful roads between ebook formats.
. Several times in the past few weeks, when I've popped into the local shop to get bread or whatever, my eye has been caught by a display of large varicolored marshmallows, imported from the US. This week I succumbed to temptation and bought a bag. They tasted terrible.