Weather

This country is *weird*. You know why the British are apparently obsessed by weather? It's because ours is totally unpredictable, it's constantly changing from year to year, and there's a lot of rain. Because we have three different basic pressure front/weather fronts/sea bits on all corners, which makes for the unpredictability. And a large stream of warm water from the Caribbean goes past the west coast which means we're lots warmer than we should be for our latitude.

Snow at Easter, gales that aren't quite hurricanes that you can't predict a time of year for, boiling weather in May and monsoons for a week in August. And for the last few years, flooding at 'any time of the year you choose'. Though I do find it amusing that all that flood damage in Cornwall on Monday happened on the fiftieth anniversary to the day of the last major village-half-swept-away in Cornwall-Devon area.

:sigh: This post is mostly brought to you by me pouting about not being able to put the washing out to dry.

To do today :

Finish Data Entry. Kill Shell data compilers.
Cut out Feegle top, sew skirt and top.
Ironing.
Coninue with laundry.
Book hotel room for Legend.

Squeee!

Have interview on wednesday! Yayness! Bloody finally! Course, does not mean job, but still, interview!

:squeaks:

Oh, and destina has links that go to a load of vividcon songvids, and the one that makes me go 'guh' and have pit of stomach reactions is mpoetess' s The Others video. This is deeply, deeply haunted. There's also permetaform's Ring vid, but that's nowhere near as spooky. As usual, sisabet does nicely slick Angel vids. Oh,and I can't remember who did the Equilibrium vid, but worship at their feet. NOW.

:snerrrrrk:

Going through the King Arthur communities, the icon one at the moment. The one thing I love about this fandom? We've got the so-called serious take on it that we're fangirling and drooling over, and dissecting historically - for those of you not on the discussion and fic ones of this, it's frightening how much historical research gets done for this period. It's like we're trying to make up for the director and screenwriter's utter *lack* of it. [:mutters: 42 years difference], and yet on the other hand? Every other cut tag on the icons journal is a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I think the movie just got ingrained on us all. Everything from 'Brave Sir Robin' to 'Help, I'm being repressed!' Really, it's like trying to get through a latin / bible / Romans discussion without Life of Brian being quoted....

Argh. At this rate I'm really going to have to make an icon with 'Your grandmother is a Christmas pudding' on it.

Plus, it is a constant in fandom that certain communities that serve almost exactly the same purpose will get taken up or not. the_roundtable and meta_arthur serve exactly the same purpose, being discussion communities, yet meta_arthur is the one with regular postage. :muses: possibly because meta_arthur got pimped on knightgasm, the main fic community for the fandom.