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[elisi]

Firstly for those of you in the UK. Please go and Sign Jamie Oliver's petition for better school dinners. I'm sure you know why!

Secondly, I've been looking around for this crossover fic that I read ages ago, and remembered as being very good, and finally I found it. It's BtVS/Firefly, with Spike and River. A wonderful little gem of a fic: Given Name. Please go read! :)

And lastly, because this post is turning out decidedly random, I thought I'd post this meme I gacked from avrelia a good few weeks ago.




You are 'Gregg shorthand'. Originally designed to
enable people to write faster, it is also very
useful for writing things which one does not
want other people to read, inasmuch as almost
no one knows shorthand any more.

You know how important it is to do things
efficiently and on time. You also value your
privacy, and (unlike some people) you do not
pretend to be friends with just everyone; that
would be ridiculous. When you do make friends,
you take them seriously, and faithfully keep
what they confide in you to yourself.
Unfortunately, the work which you do (which is
very important, of course) sometimes keeps you
away from social activities, and you are often
lonely. Your problem is that Gregg shorthand
has been obsolete for a long time.


What obsolete skill are you?
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This is worryingly accurate...

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have been and signed. Daughter-dear's school (secondary) have chips available only one day a week, which sounds pretty good. Mind she says that she will often have them on that day just because she can, whereas she managed to not have chips for lunch for more than a year whilst they were available every day! (We can actually check if we want - school can provide a print-out of everything any individual child has eaten for the last six months, because everything is done on a smart-card system!)

The problem at her school is that if you are on prefect duty or late lunch or whatever, the healthiest stuff has often gone - the kitchen can only cope with producing so much salad, so many baked potatoes and so on every day apparently, and make up the required number of portions (about 1000+) with burgers etc. They do have a good range of sandwiches, many on wholemeal bread as well, or so I'm told. Although she does complain that the curries can be rather boring and bland, and so can the pasta!

[elisi]

Can I just say how much I love your icon?

Your daughter's school sounds very good. I'm not sure about the situation at my oldest primary, but she's never been remotely interested in having dinners and so has always had a packed lunch. And we always have a proper dinner in the evening, so it works out rather well.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I found the icon one day when I was basically googling for Discworld stuff - there it was ready made by Angua123 - I can't remember quite where it just was - but you can always pinch it from me!

[elisi]

I'm not into Discworld at all sadly - it's one of those things I always meant to check out, but so far I've never had enough time!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

This is the other Disc World icon I acquired from the same source! They are brilliant books - but I think he improved as they went on - so The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic may not be the best place to start. But neither would somewhere like The Truth or The Fifth Elephant as they are a bit too far into the sequence.

We started reading them to Daughter-dear at Equal Rites, as the heroine is a smallish girl - The Wee Free Men would have been a good place to start reading them to her if she'd been younger as it also stars a little girl, but it wasn't around then!

[elisi]

Well, whenever I do get around to reading the series, I'll just start at one end and work my way through... I'm very pedantic when it comes to things like that. I even read The Silmarillion so I'd better understand The Lord of the Rings!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

There are two or three threads which run seperately, just occassionally touching. Although I meant it more as a warning - if you don't think a lot of the first couple, keep on in there because they just keep on improving.

[elisi]

There are two or three threads which run separately, just occasionally touching.
Aaaah - thank you!

they just keep on improving.
Good to know! And I think that's often the case - no-one will say that S1 of Buffy is especially brilliant (compared to the rest of the series, not to regular tv), but it's certainly worth sticking with! :)