My IMDb ep summaries
(completed)
Arthur of the Britons
Sky
Star Maidens
The Starlost
Space Rangers
The Sentinel (part: seasons 2 and 3)
Swamp Thing (part: season 3)
Gravedale High
Transformers: Armada
Transformers: Energon
Transformers: Cybertron (part)
Misfits of Science (four eps)
Zoo Gang
Zodiac
Jupiter Moon
Transformers: Beast Wars (part: seasons 2 and 3)
Transformers: Beast Machines (part)
Vampire Princess Miyu
Starhyke
Nathan Barley
No Heroics
Undermind (3 eps)
Will Shakespeare (Tim Curry version)
Nightwalker
12 Kingdoms
Trigun (ep 8)
Rayearth
Hyperdrive (season 2 ep 3)
The Café
For later:
Missing Earthian ep
Missing Haibane Renme eps)
(And possibly Marine Boy...)
"Autumnal - nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges
of the day...
Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside
edge of the
senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth - reflecting on itself and through itself,
filtering the light. At
such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere..."
(Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead Act
2: Tom Stoppard)
Autumn...
I love this time of year. I love the colours, the sharp slant of sunlight on the trees, mosaics of acid-yellow and harts-
blood, velvet and
darkness and a haze of mist-grey over the hills. I love its immanence, its mellowness, the tang of frost just around the
corner of the
year...
Watching the little birds in the goat-willow in my garden, I realised something more.
I love this land with a fierce, possessive love, deep-rooted in two thousand years of history. From the frosted beaches
and cloud-brushing peaks of the north to the wind-haunted meanderings of the rivers of the east, from the sensuous
rolling patchworked hills of
the south to the demanding dark moors of the west, this land seeps into bone and blood and synapse, mother of
motley nobility,
culture, individual freedoms. It can be known. It can be understood. It can be felt deep inside.
I love its effortless eccentricities, its vigour and vibrancy, its flawed perfections, its silent strength and tenacious
resilience, its hard-won tolerances and intense and variable beauty, the profound energy in its sacred mythical
landscape.
Home and more-than-home, the forces that shape and protect and bind, in me, as I am in the land. Love returning love
in the stillness
for those who'll only take the time to listen...
(Joules, Autumn 2004)
All photographs taken by Joules unless otherwise specified. All photographs © Joules A Taylor or other
specified
individual.
In Memoriam
17.03.09 - Argent
25.07.08 - Raptor
18.12.07 - Quyn
02.12.06 - Ryme
Currently enjoying:
Muse
Transformers - IDW, Prime, Animated, Rescue Bots.
Currently reading:
Various Transformers books and graphic novels.
Currently working on:
Haadri
Currently chuffed with:
My garden
Currently miffed at:
Nestlé, Nonpres Tinyhands Fart, Toadface Farage
Currently maintaining:
BCHS
BCW
Blog Pics
I've gathered some of my pages of photos together: the page of links is here. I'll be adding more as time goes
by!
 Evil Squid
A Little Glossary of Taylorspeke
(in no particular order)
plit popints - n. Typo for 'plot points' typed on a keyboard with more than half the characters worn off...
[PING] (alt [ping]) - n. A brainwave. The text equivalent of a lightbulb going on blindingly over someone's head. Usually mine. And usually at the most inconvenient of times. [sigh]
TPTB - The Powers That Be.
wulmet - n. A person of little or no talent who somehow inveigles himself into a position where he is in power over other, far more talented people and uses his position to downplay them in order to try to make himself feel superior.
biteable - referring to an anatomical part vb, tasty.
Flatterfed - vb. 27.02.08: my typo for flattered, but since it's so cutely apt I thought it would fit nicely
here. Lutra defined it as "the lovely warm feeling of satisfaction resulting from enthusiastic reviews..." (which I've been
getting for my MB fics).
Composted - vb, 'compos mentis', mentally capable of working. Contrast with
uncomposted or non-
composted, not 'compos mentis', not capable of working, hungover...
Cumbles - n, cucumbers.
Kewp - how Ken says 'thank you'. We rather like Lutra's 'nanx', too...
Musekick - noun, music, without which I cannot work.
'feinne - noun, caffeine, essential for correct mental functioning, especially first thing in the morning. I
prefer mine in the
form of SodaStream Diet Coke. And on that subject...
Skoosh - verb, noun. To skoosh - to add CO2 to a sodastream bottle filled with water to make it
fizzy, prior to adding
Diet Coke syrup (or just drinking as sparkling water). A skoosh - a bottle of water that has been skooshed. Skooshy
- something that
has been skooshed, water, or that whipped cream that comes in tins you have to shake then upend and press the
nozzle...
Shoogle - verb. To shake gently, for example, of roast potatoes in a roasting tin to ensure they're
covered with oil. I
have vague memories of this being a real Scottish colloquialism...
Stegasaurus - n, spider of the genus tegenaria. Why? No idea. I just find it easier, that's
all...
Edit 08.09.07: Lutra thinks that Brian is a good name for a mini-stegasaurus. From now on, any 'Brian's in the posts
may be assumed to be a tegenaria. Except where otherwise specified.
Viterals - noun, vitamins + minerals. Also a pun on victuals.
Splish - verb. A combination of slosh and splash.
Parrots - noun, paracetemol (from the old joke "Why are there no aspirin tablets in the jungle?
Because the parrots eat
'em all...")
Maggles - noun, magpies. As opposed to non-magical people.
Flamewings - noun. Swifts. So called because the first time we became aware of them was an early
summer evening
when they were flying high, the light from the setting sun seemingly turning their wings to flames. Lovely little birds. We
always know
summer's arrived when we hear their high-pitched squeeing.
Murfs - noun, moths.
Peasant cut - noun, roughly cut up into big chunks, e.g. vegetables chopped in a hurry for a
hearty stew or
soup. By extension, anything prepared in a hurry - haircut, material, even a first draft of a story...
Giraffe - noun, a carafe (of wine, coffee or water, for example).
Shrumps - noun, mushrooms.
Splings - noun, Kai's spelling homework: by extension, any spelling.
Tyops - noun, typos. var toyps, typso, psyto, psoyt, etc. Usual result of a dose of the
fingerials (see next
entry).
Fingerials - (pr. fin GEEE ree yalls) noun, fingers that will not type what you want
them to.
Haddock - noun, time, of which I never have enough. (Origin of this term here.)
Sleep - noun? vb? a.k.a. sheeeeeeeeep.... I used to know what this word
meant...
The Updates
Blog
The place to stay notified of WaveWrights' Fiction updates: Zone, Darkside, DarkRealm, Matrix, Vault, Safehouse
13...
Butch, my computer gremlin. Click the pic for larger version, and read his
adventures here...
A gift for me! Butch by the very talented Sylverthorne. Click pic
for larger image.
This is MY haddock. It was caught
exclusively for me by Talon. No, you can't have any. I need
all the haddock I can get!!
 .
A'lestrel - a gift for me from
Valkyrie...
Another gorgeous Valkyrie gift for me - Benten the Albino
Alsatian! Click
thumbnail for larger image.
Oekai by Bakayaro Onna - Radittsu at his sexiest...
The Zone Plant from
OrganicHTML (which alas no longer seems to exist...)
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| [::..My Regular Reads..::] |
| :: Astronomical Pic of the Day
[>] |
| :: What is Space... [>] |
| :: Dark Roasted Blend [>] |
| :: BLDG [>] |
| :: Watchismo Times [>] |
| [::..Fun Places..::] |
::HubbleSite
Stunning... |
::PALEOMAP Project
Absolutely fascinating. |
:: Skymap
Check out the night sky where you are! |
| [::..Useful Sites..::] |
:: GreenNet
First stop for environmental matters |
:: The Forest of Avon
Our local community forest and places to visit |
:: The Guardian
Online Guardian Newspaper. |
:: Symbols
Exactly what it says |
:: World Timeserver
For checking the current time around this world |
:: Universal Currency Converter
Actually it's just a terran-global currency
converter, not universal,
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So what is it with the
haddock? Am I some kind of fish freak?
I'll leave that to
others to decide.
The tale (or tail if you prefer) harks back
to October 2000, when my GoodTwin and I, ably assisted by Sue,
ran the first UK Professionals convention...
It's common
knowledge that I never have enough time, and I was determined
not to bewail the fact that weekend: hence I promised not to use the
'T' word...
Of course, that didn't really work (if nothing else I
had to let the trainees know what times things were supposed to be
happening!) so we decided a substitute word would be employed
instead. There were several suggestions. Banana came very close to
being chosen. However, I eventually decided that 'haddock' fitted
the bill nicely. Ever since, haddock=time. Hence the title of my forthcoming
autobiography,
My Half-Life in the Haddock
Space Continuum....
Normally I wouldn't, but these
were just irresistible...
These
Too-Kawaii Kitties
were adopted from
Ghost's Anime
Page (which appears to have disappeared, alas...)
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[::..Anime/Manga..::]
Useful sites:
Yamato -
Fabulous anime figures
Anime Lyrics
A huge selection... evil popups
Anime still needed to complete series' I'm collecting...
Many thanks to everyone who has helped me acquire the collection!
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Ai no Kusabi
Owned:
DVD
Dj: June Special
CD: Ambivalence
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Cyber City Oedo 808
Owned:
DVD
All 3 eps on Video, dubbed
Dj: Cyberage 1-3
Illustrated Book 2 (Benten's) in Japanese
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From Eroica with Love
Owned:
Manga Vols 1, 9, 11
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Mirage of Blaze
Owned:
DVD Vol 1 (eps 1-4)
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R.G. Veda
Owned:
English Manga: Vol 1
Japanese Manga: Vol 1-7 complete
Tarot Pack
R.G.Veda video
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Twelve Kingdoms
Owned:
Anime Vol 1-12: complete
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Under the Glass Moon
Owned:
Manga Vol 1, 2
Vol 3 needed
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Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust
Owned:
DVD
Vampire Hunter D Book 1
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New Vampire Miyu
Owned:
(Studio Ironcat) Manga Vols 1 -5 (complete)
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Yami no Matsuei
Owned:
Viz Manga: English translation, Vols 1 - 11 (complete: I believe vol 12 is only available online)
Japanese 3-DVD set
Central Park Media: Descendants of Darkness Vol. 1, English/Japanese subbed.
Sketchbook
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[::..Joules SPfied..::]
... this is Terra? How the hell'd I end up here...?
(Thanks, Lutra, for the quote!)
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Friday, November 30, 2012
So what happened today...?
Well, more next!Poppy has been written and I know where this is going now, so should be able to finish and post it tomorrow. Got a bit of shopping. Watched Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (picked it up dirt cheap at a charity shop) - well, when I say watched, I dozed off. But I can watch it any time and it completes the collection to date.
And am now role-playing over on tumblr (which is quite addictive, on the quiet) when I should be writing, but eh, sometimes a break is good. Labels: films, The Poppy Tales, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:57 pm
Thursday, November 29, 2012
So, into town to buy coach tickets. K&K are off down to Devon for a day, then Ken and a fellow BCAP member are off to Taunton to scour the records office, and I've been invited to a yuletide client lunch in London by our agent - that'll be interesting!
Picked up some shopping while I was there - actually managed to find something for Ken for Yule! - and carried too much back, so shoulders are aching. Pretender Starscream arrived (that was quick and ye gods he's an ugly bugger!) so now just waiting for SqwerlScream.
Lurgy still lurking...
Labels: shopping, Starscream
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:54 pm
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
[headdeskheaddesk] So after the deluge, now we have freezing temps and black ice (or worse in areas that are still flooded) forecast for overnight. Oh joy.
The last 20 hours were insane. Or maybe it's just me. I checked e-bay before closing down last night - and found a Starscream I didn't have, Pretender SS (the little jet fits inside the humanoid shell. Don't ask, it's a long story). It's easy enough to find just the shell, but the one I found last night was complete (except for the helmet, which I had to buy separately, but it was cheap. "Crowns, helmets, what next? Tiaras?" said Ken... Starscream in a tiara... yerrsssss) at the excellent price of £9.99.
So at 5.30 this morning after three hours sleep I was online ordering him. Along with Flying Squirrel SS (I gave in...)
Of course, I've now found that the Beast Machine continuity had a version of SS too, and the only one I can find on ebay is extremely expensive. So I've put him on my search list and will see if another, cheaper one comes up...
Snatched a cycle's nap from 8.30 am because my eyes were so sore it hurt to read, but it didn't do much for the tiredness and now I've gone almost completely glaikit. Sorry folks, next!Poppy is going to be delayed yet again. Labels: Starscream, The Poppy Tales, weather
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 7:09 pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
[grump] So the bloody lurgy decides it's just going to sit there, not really doing anything very drastic, just being a snuffly achey pain in the aft...
I even took it out for a trip up to Iceland at Broadwalk earlier, to pick up party pack provisions for Boxing Day and Old Year's Night (the usual sorts of goodies - see previous entries for details), and then down to Sainsbug's to get normal shopping, but no, it's still refusing to shift one way or the other. Bum. Shall take it to bed in a bit and see if I can knock it unconscious while I sleep.
There's (yet another) cheapie shop opened up at Broadwalk, and I found a Cyberverse Bayverse Megatron there for £3.99 instead of £6.99, so I bought him. Now I have Bayverse and Prime (Cyberverse) versions of Megs, OP, Ratchet, Bee and Starscream: I could have them fight themselves!
They also had a magnificent Bayverse Voyager class Shockwave - who is very close in appearance to Prime Shockwave - at half price (£12.99) and I was so tempted... I resisted though. Might be regretting that now...
Other than that, not done a lot.
Oh, hang on - my Alternity Carscream arrived! He's in a most amazing snazzy almost completely clear plastic display box and the car itself looks gorgeous, but I can't have him til Yule, so there won't be pics til then. (Yes, Lutra, he's actually being wrapped!)
Heading bedwards soon... Labels: medical matters, shopping, Starscream, Transformers, Transformers: Prime
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:42 pm
Monday, November 26, 2012
[singing off-key] tell me why I don't like Mondays tell me why I don't like Mondays... Labels: nowt really
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:35 pm
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Gah. I hate it when lurgies lurk menacingly at the back of your sinuses and the top of your throat, leaving you not knowing if they're going to come to anything or just fizzle out, cackling cruelly...
On the way back from the usual Sunday shop we saw this:
It's Wheeljack disguised as a Fiat!
(Which is ironic if you think about it.)
[frowns suspiciously] I'm beginning to wonder about that road. First a Defender, then an MG, and now Wheeljack-in-disguise... What next? (If next time I go shopping I find a blue and red Peterbilt semi there I shall know it's 1) all true or 2) a conspiracy. Or something.)
It might be getting close to bedtime...
Labels: medical matters, shopping, Transformers: Prime
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:58 pm
Saturday, November 24, 2012
We ran out of Sodastream gas, so I volunteered to tank over to The Range to get replacement cylinders. Took this on the way.
Twice as high as normal and it wasn't even high tide. 'Course, this would work better if I had a pic of the usual view to compare it to. Alas, I don't...
Kai has brought some sort of lurgy home from college: we're both aching all over, snuffly and cotton-woolly. Just hoping it's a cold not the flu. Labels: medical matters, weather
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:05 pm
Friday, November 23, 2012
It isn't raining! Oh day worthy of being marked with a gold star!
So we did a little garden tending - Ken emptied the small compost bin and dug it into what was the maize bed this year (and piled some on the asparagus island) while I pruned the medlar. Still masses to do - pruning the cherry, bay, greengages and buddleia, sorting out the mess up in the square (well, I say mess but it's actually not too bad. Won't take that long to tidy), weeding the grass out of the strawberry bed, using the deep root killer on the stray brambles, ivy, comfrey and teazels (need a dry windless day and no cat to get that done, the stuff is lethal) and I still haven't finished tidying the greenhouse. Clones, I need clones. Or Muncher. Though he's probably a bit big to fit in the greenhouse...
Poppy tonight! Labels: gardening, The Poppy Tales, weather
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 4:02 pm
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Just a bit tired of rain... Labels: weather
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 9:17 pm
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Again. Maybe I should try growing fish and rice next year...
But my Transformers: Prime season 2 is in the post! Labels: nowt really, Transformers: Prime, weather
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:46 pm
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
[sigh] And Tuesday became the new Monday. Haven't been able to get a thing done today. Miserable weather hasn't helped.
Ken had a hospital appointment this afternoon - it's been several years since his last course of Hep C meds and a new version has been developed in the meantime. It has a high success rate and since the previous one worked well (knocking the virus down to a minimum even though it didn't quite get rid of it) we're keeping fingers tightly crossed that this time it will do the trick. (It's the third course. Not that we're superstitious or anything.) There's more info here. There are two new 'ingredients': the one they're recommending is telaprevir. Look at the side-effects and wince...
He's also lost quite a bit of weight: we found out recently that in people under 12 stone the previous course of treatment was almost 100% successful, so to give himself the best chance possible he's been dieting (though five months at a job he absolutely hated helped, as like me he loses weight when severely stressed).
The earliest he may be able to get on the course is January, so at least we can have a reasonable Yule. The course itself is 48 weeks, but apparently they check at the 24th week and if everything is going well that period may be reduced. More as it happens. Labels: medical matters
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:23 pm
Monday, November 19, 2012
Nothing much. Posting off Yule parcels (early to try to beat any potential rush and have them stand a better chance of not being lost), a little shopping, a little writing... Labels: nowt really
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 8:25 pm
Sunday, November 18, 2012
It's been a strange and busy day and I don't feel like writing much (have just ordered a new Starscream on ebay. He's not a jet. He's a car.... Yeah, that's what I said). So here's something brain bending instead. (Vivienne sent it me. It borked mai brian...)
Labels: Starscream, strangeness and charm, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:55 pm
Quickie...
Found another band to love - Broken Iris...
Utilize surrendering, when silence falls, to you it sings,
Sterilize our mentality, compromise your reality,
Restful mind and peaceful eyes,
When sound is gone, then you will find,
It's all the same for The Dreamers, it's all the same... for us...
Float on to the painted sky where dreams will be unified as I slip inside
Where butterflies never die...
Beautiful. Really liked the other two tracks I checked out too.
We watched MiB 3 on Filmflex this evening - it's great! We were a bit wary after the disappointment of the second film, but 3 is terrific. Really well done. One to buy when the price comes down a bit.
Now I've watched all the way through the entire Tf: Unicron Trilogy I'm a bit lost. I tried Tf: Beast Machines but it left me cold. I watched the Megatron and his rubber duckie section of Tf: Beast Wars but it did nothing for me either. I suppose I'll have to wait for Tf: Prime season 3 or Rescue Bots season 2...
Labels: films, musekicks, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 12:00 am
Saturday, November 17, 2012
The Poppy Tales
Twenty fifth part of New World - Obsessions - now posted over at The Poppy Tales (link above).
Enjoy!
... I am very tired... Labels: The Poppy Tales, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 3:00 am
Friday, November 16, 2012
And Thursday vanished...
Mind you, yesterday was manically busy with client stuff, and afterwards I decided to watch the last seven eps of Tf: Cybertron...
In the main I've thoroughly enjoyed it. It's bright, cheerful, and doesn't take itself too seriously. The human kids are bearable, the CGI is attractive - and Starscream is wonderful, really dark and dangerous, a credible threat for once, and his final battle with Galvatron (Megatron) is epic.
But if nothing else, having now watched all of them, I can see how nepotistic - if not positively incestuous - the continuities are, and how much of Tf: C appears in Tf: Prime. The Omega Lock, the cyber keys, Megatron's jagged blazing purple sword, they all come from Tf: C. Heh. Nothing new under any sun...
I am puzzled, however. The first Cybertron Starscream I bought, the maroon and silver one, simply doesn't appear in Tf: C. Unless I dropped off at some point and missed him...
But on the subject, have a photo (it's a link to a page with a BIG pic - 2000px wide - and a key to which one is which for those who don't share my obsession. Which I have decided is my preferred collective noun - an obsession of Starscreams. Works on several levels...).
Labels: busyness, client sites, Starscream
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 5:52 pm
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
My big Starscream arrived.
He's... big...
Larger pic here.
[beg]
That's Tf: Prime Optimus Prime and Megatron down on the left. Just in case you didn't know.
Labels: Starscream
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 1:44 pm
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Another day of client stuff, and discussing his university choices with Kai this evening. Maths with everything! Labels: client sites, futures..., Kai
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:25 pm
Monday, November 12, 2012
Heh. Remember my plan to buy another Cybertron Starscream and redeco him in his original colours because I wasn't keen on the big (15 inch) toy that was available? I've since found out, by watching the series, that he does in fact become enormous (and exceptionally powerful) through taking the Omega Lock and its four keys for himself (I should also note that the toy's colours are actually correct). [sigh] So of course I have to have one...
Aaaaand as luck would have it, there was an affordable one on ebay - crown and all. He is now on his way to me.
Ken is now hoping I don't find any other Starscreams I don't have...
Part of yesterday was spent wrapping Yule presents ready to go off in the post (or be collected. GoodTwin and Sue, do you have any plans to come over before Yule? Just so's I know for posting!) The Gressingham duck we're having is already in the freezer, and yesterday we picked up steamed puddings (traditional for Ken, chocolate for Kai and syrup for me). Slowly getting there...
And I gave Feather her first baby rat this evening (well, actually, Ken was tempting her with it when she took it as I'd been trying for 15 mins and my back was aching, so he took over for me while I unkinked it). She swallowed it down in about a minute and a half, then retreated to her hide (which sits above the heat mat) to digest. Pleased about that - and I think she could manage slightly larger ones next time I have to replenish the stock. Labels: Feather, Starscream, Transformers, Yule
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:41 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The Poppy Tales
Twenty fourth part of New World - In which Many Things Happen, not all of them bad... - now posted over at The Poppy Tales (link above).
Enjoy! Labels: The Poppy Tales, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 1:59 am
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sheer Self Indulgence
And then I discovered that his arm-mounted guns and hip wings are removable - and the latter become weapons...
[happy sigh] He's gorgeous...
Labels: Starscream, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 4:32 pm
Friday, November 09, 2012
And yet more client stuff... Still aiming to take the weeekend off though.
Back to Poppy. Labels: client sites, The Poppy Tales
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 9:35 pm
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Pretty much the same as yesterday, mostly... Labels: nowt really, well if they're going to give me labels I'm damn well going to use them...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 9:54 pm
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Client stuff. All day... Labels: client sites
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:51 pm
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
I'm not fond of Guy Fawkes these days. Partly because the smell of smoke and gunpowder fills my nose and I can't smell anything else until it all dissipates.
This is another reason. ->
The remains of a three foot rocket embedded several inches into my heuchera bed. I found three of these in the garden yesterday. I fear for my greenhouse...
On a lighter note, this is the 'new' bedding. Gert lush, innit?
Beautiful colour and design...
In other news - recent Lovefilm/Filmflex watches have been Up (recommended by Lutra, enjoyed by us), The Cabin in the Woods (interesting idea!) and Dark Shadows (which was better than we expected but still not a patch on the original...)
The holes dug in the garden are being made by a quite magnificent fox who appears fairly regularly around 3 am - I've seen him twice now, once sauntering down the middle of the road (before turning and leaping over our wall) and once on the high wall at the back between us and the PDSA (their PIR security light came on and there he was in all his glory). He's large and perky and well-fed, and unfortunately there's no way I can take a photo of him...
Back to Tf: Cybertron. I'm up to ep 34 now. Labels: domesticity, festivals, Transformers, wildlife
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:52 pm
Monday, November 05, 2012
The Poppy Tales
Twenty third part of New World - Birthday - now posted over at The Poppy Tales (link above).
Enjoy! Labels: The Poppy Tales, Transformers
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 3:31 am
Sunday, November 04, 2012
... Darkest Hour... it can't end like that. It CAN'T... Labels: Transformers: Prime
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 12:10 am
Saturday, November 03, 2012
...And then I discovered his wings extend...
So now, when I lower my gaze, this is what I see.
(Pic is link to large version) This makes me happy.
This doesn't, though. I was a part of the Vulcan to the Sky campaign, so this is sad (but not entirely unexpected) news.
Ken wanted to check out the art show at Bath Guildhall, so we all bussed over for the afternoon...
<- Interesting spiral staircase!
This was my favourite picture - Kai and I passed along here on our canal walk. If I'd had £95 to spare I'd have been tempted. ->
Chapel and art centre next to a little pedestrian square. Interesting windows.
The little monument.
And this was another art gallery - more experimental than mainstream, this one. All in all we checked out four galleries and saw some very attractive artwork.
It was a fun day. Unfortunately I seem to be going down with some sort of lurgy, have painful throat and snuffly sinuses. Keeping fingers crossed it doesn't come to anything much - I hate throat ailments.
I forgot to say: the creature that has been digging in the garden is a quite magnificent fox - saw him at 3 am the other night. No wonder Tyjer is frantically spraying all over the garden to prove it's his territory!
Right - off to watch the last episode of Transformers: Prime, Darkest Hour (not Death, as was originally rumoured). I shall be sad to see it end, but season three is rumoured to start showing next spring, so hopefully not too long to wait... Labels: Art, days out, Starscream, Transformers: Prime
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 6:24 pm
Friday, November 02, 2012
And all went as planned, and Hearts of Steel Starscream is superb.
Find the page of pics here.
And the Primefest was wonderful. Kai watched them all with me (Orion Pax 1 - Triangulation but missing the ep Loose Cannons because Cartoon Network...) and thoroughly enjoyed them!
And now I'm knackered again...
Labels: Starscream, Transformers, Transformers: Prime
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 7:24 pm
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Lovely day with Wendy! Thanks - it was great!
Earlyish night planned - notification dropped through the door today that HoS SS has arrived and they're holding him to ransom for £19.09 (why the 9 pence? No idea...) and the sorting office opens at 7 a.m. so if I leave here around 6.30 a.m. I'll have time to get there, collect him, and get back ready to watch/record tomorrow's Primefest. (And we lubs run-on sentences.) Assuming all goes well there will be pics... Labels: friends, Starscream, visits
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 10:02 pm
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