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[tamaranth]

Off The Page: Dorothy Dunnett discussing life, Lymond and Niccolo (22 mins: made ~1990?)
this was actually linked by a friend of mine who wasn't born -- and was most interested in hearing about -- when I skived off werk to hear Dunnett give a talk at the ICA. Late 1980s, I think, considering the job I was skiving from. She talked disparagingly about fanfiction, but didn't call it that; was talking about people 'trying to finish the series for me and getting it wrong'. This may have been one root of my early prejudice against fanfic.

Springnote: online wikiesque 'notebook'. Using this for werk as well as personal stuff: it's slightly glitchy but an excellent way of organising and selectively sharing information. (I'm not using it in quite the same way as I use Evernote, which is much more 'random stuff I thought of')

via la_marquise_de_, A. L. Kennedy on how much difference a trustworthy reader can make to a writer's work

Iron Age telecoms: standing around on draughty hills trying to light torches

In other news, it seems to be the season for young lads to fart up and down R____ Rd on underpowered motorbikes. When is open season, eh?

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Ah, it must be spring. The white sock brigade are blossoming (the marquis' name for young gits on mopeds and other kinds of phut-phut).

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the scooter brigade on their little bikes, apparently powered by a jam-jar of angry wasps with a megaphone and apparently only having two speeds - full throttle and idle.
WEEEEEEEEE...phut phut phut... WEEEEEEEEEE... phut phut... and so on.
They keep trying to pop wheelies off the 'traffic calming measures' just up the road, and failing, and generally acting like accident statistics to be.