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Week in review: Week to 9 May

2026-05-10T05:55:05Z

. On the family walk, we saw a kangaroo. One of my siblings thought it had a joey, but I didn't get a good enough look to form an opinion on that point.

. At the board game meet, I played Kadath and Love Letter. Kadath is a two-player game where players take turns to place tiles, trying to end up with a decisive number of tiles with their colour face-up. Each tile, when placed, affects the colours of some of its neighbours. Each turn, the player gets a choice of three tiles, and can see (and somewhat affect) the three tiles their opponent will have on the next turn. I played two games with the person who brought the game in, and we won one each.

. When I wasn't working or rehearsing, or playing board games or going to family gatherings, I was mostly re-reading.

. The newest local supermarket has the kind of arrangement where there are multiple checkouts but only one queue leading to the checkout area, lined with snacks and novelty items that you might be inspired to add to your basket while you wait. I was stuck in the queue for a while recently, but the time went lightly thanks to the family in front of me, which consisted of a small energetic child who never stopped talking and an unruffled parent giving laconic responses.

Topics of conversation included "Look how long I can balance on one leg", "Look at that!" (a novelty stapler shaped like a panda) ("Do polar bears look like that?" "That's a panda" "Do pandas look like that?" "They're usually larger") and, of course, multiple iterations of "Can I get that?" "No".

At one point, the queue passed a display of single-serve Coke bottles: "Can I get a Coke?" - "No." - "Why not?" - parent indicates the enormous bottle of Coke already present in the shopping basket - "Oh. Are you going to share that with me?"

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Book Chain, etc, Week 19

2026-05-10T05:30:01Z

#20: A book whose title has more letters than the title of the previous book
May: Make/Making

Second attempt: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford. An account of the life and legacy of Genghis Khan. I'm only a chapter or so in, because I kept getting distracted by other books coming out this week.

Miscellaneous

Re-read all of Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries series, and then read the new one that came out this week.

Started re-reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and Desdemona series in preparation for reading the new collection that came out this week.

(By the time that's done, the new Kim Newman will also be out, although it appears to be sufficiently standalone that no specific re-reading will be called for.)

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Week in review: Week to 2 May

2026-05-02T23:37:18Z

. No board games this week: the regular meeting was cancelled because the venue had been hired out for a special event, and the person who usually hosts the weekend sessions had gone away for the long weekend. One of the people from the board game club did host a barbecue, which I went to and had a good time.

. We had another good rehearsal where we got the harmonies to sound like they're supposed to.

. I came across a demo for a new computer game called Vampire Crawlers, which several people I know have said good things about. That's "crawl" as in "dungeon crawl"; you go into a spooky location and fight vampires and zombies and assorted other monsters (all of whom, so far, have moved in an upright posture). I'm not sure what I think of it yet, but I'm at least interested enough to keep playing a bit longer.

. Sequel to last week's link, where someone watched the music video of "The Wombling Song" with zero context: she was curious enough that she's now started reacting to the Wombles TV show.

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Book Chain, etc, Week 18

2026-05-02T23:13:44Z

#17: A book with a lower average rating than the previous book

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. In a world where being a practitioner of the magical Craft is sometimes remarkably like being a corporate lawyer (it's the loopholes that get you), the high-powered firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao is hired to sort out a problem for the Church of Kos the Everburning: God is dead. (Well, mostly dead.) And it looks increasingly like it might have been murder.

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#18: A book with a similar cover to the previous book

The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne. Inspector Anders, on the verge of retirement, is assigned a rubber-stamp investigation of a murder that everybody knows and nobody will say was a mafia hit, and finds himself faced with a choice between keeping his head down and playing out his assigned role or making a possibly doomed stand.

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#19: A book that was added to your TBR before the previous book

Now, I don't have an exact record of when I got The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders -- but it can't have been any earlier than 1999, when it was first published, and I know I have books that have been waiting longer than that...

St Vincent de Paul by M.V. Woodgate. An account for children of the life of Vincent de Paul, 17th-century saint and philanthropist.

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#20: A book whose title has more letters than the title of the previous book

First attempt: The Dog Sitter Detective by Antony Johnston. Struggling actress Gwinny Tuffnell's best friend is falsely accused of murder and needs someone to look after her dogs and also to find the real culprit.

( Read more... )

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Notes on a music collection, part 9

2026-05-02T11:18:20Z

( Baby something something Back )

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Fiction log - April 2026

2026-05-01T01:28:29Z

Fiction books
Peter S Beagle. The Last Unicorn (e)
Marshall Browne. The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
William Gibson. Neuromancer
Max Gladstone. Three Parts Dead (e)
James McGee. Wolf's Lair
Caroline Stevermer. A College of Magics (re-read)

In progress
Antony Johnston. The Dog Sitter Detective

Abandoned
James P Blaylock. The Last Coin (e)
Olaf Stapledon. Last and First Men

Non-fiction books
Erik Larson. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
MV Woodgate. St Vincent de Paul

In progress
John Green. The Anthropocene Reviewed (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Jack Weatherford. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (e)

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Week in review: Week to 25 April

2026-04-26T05:50:14Z

. We had a weekend gaming session. We were missing one of the players for Ticket to Ride: Legacy, so instead we played Unfair and Pandemic: The Cure. ( Read more... )

. I gave the regular weekly game session a miss, as I was feeling a bit unwell and I had paperwork to do. With all the running about I've been doing lately, it was nice to have a quiet evening to myself, even if part of it did have to be spent doing the prep work for this month's committee meeting.

. On Anzac Day, I happened to be awake in time to go to the dawn service, which I've never done before here; I usually wake up later and go to one of the mid-morning services. ( Read more... )

. I've started listening to a new podcast, The Pod's the Thing. ( Read more... )

. Randomly recommended by Youtube: someone who reacts to music videos of UK chart hits (and is not from the UK, judging by the accent) watches the music video for "The Wombling Song" with zero context.

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Book Chain, etc, Week 17

2026-04-26T04:19:52Z

#16: A book where the author's name on the cover is the same colour as on the previous book's cover

April: Ordinal Numbers

The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle.

When I started reading, I was sure I'd read this before; by the time I was finished, I was equally sure I hadn't. I've seen the movie, and I've read about it, and I guess I just forgot I hadn't actually read the whole thing. I'm glad I did, however belatedly.

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Notes on a music collection, part 8

2026-04-22T12:28:56Z

( At last, a farewell to A )

Progress: 151 / 2542, 8:43 / 143:39

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Week in review: Week to 18 April

2026-04-20T12:01:02Z

. One of the great things about AO3's subscription feature is that you can be promptly notified when an author adds a new chapter to a fic you really liked that last got a new chapter nearly twelve years ago. ( Read more... )

. Quite some time ago, I took my car in for a check-up and was notified, among other things, that at least one of the tyres needed to be replaced. I said I would get right on that, and then proceeded not to, because I'd never dealt with a tyre shop before and I'm very bad at inserting myself into unfamiliar situations even when the situation should just involve saying "Hello, I would like to pay you to do the thing that you advertise that you do." ( You can probably guess where this is going... )

. We had a weekend gaming session in which we played a couple of games of Raptor and then a couple of games of Ticket to Ride: Legacy. We've unlocked the entire map now, and should be finished with the whole campaign in one more session.

. At the usual weekly gaming session, we played Feed the Kraken. ( Read more... )

. I went to the doctor for a check-up, ( Read more... )

. Another set of out-of-town relatives visited, which was nice.

. It occurs to me, as I adjust the height of the monitor, that I don't think I got around to mentioning it when I bought one of those spring-loaded monitor arms that allow you to move the screen to any height and angle and it will stay there. I originally decided to get it to simplify repositioning the monitor when I had friends over and we wanted to watch a show from the sofa (I don't have a TV, and watch all my shows via DVD or online streaming), but it's also so good for the basic task of setting the screen to a comfortable height that it's become one of those bits of technology that, now I have it, I wonder how I ever managed without.

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Book Chain, Week 16

2026-04-19T04:21:44Z

#14: A book with a higher average rating than the previous book

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. A "narrative non-fiction" account of the final voyage of the trans-Atlantic passenger liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 with massive loss of life.

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#15: A book whose cover is the next colour in the rainbow (or a complementary colour if the previous book's cover isn't a rainbow colour)

Neuromancer by William Gibson. The iconic cyberpunk novel; a washed-up cyberspace cowboy is recruited to an eccentric group of criminals who have been gathered to perform a mysterious heist.

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Week in review: Week to 11 April

2026-04-13T14:44:40Z

. It's been a social whirlwind by my usual standards. On the long weekend, all the family members who live in the vicinity had lunch together and watched The Princess Bride. Later in the week, another family member came to visit and we all got together again for a breakfast in the park, where we admired the varieties of waterfowl, which included several kinds of duck (including a striking one with a black head and a brown front that I think from subsequent research was probably a chestnut-breasted shelduck) and some large white ones with red faces that might have been some kind of goose. I also went to a concert (the kind that exists largely as an excuse for a social event, and on that basis I'm inclined to be charitable about the quality of the music), and toward the end of the week one of my friends from the board game club had a dinner party.

. As usual there was also the weekly board game club meet, where we played Betrayal at House on the Hill, Guillotine, Forbidden Desert, and Uno: All Wild. In Betrayal, we successfully fought a giant snake. In Forbidden Desert, we wound up being buried by sand a couple of turns before we would have made good our escape. It was the first time I've played Uno: All Wild, which despite the name is significantly duller than the usual version of the game.

. Later in the week, I went for an early morning walk and saw a lot of birds that I wouldn't normally see about the place later in the day.

. Rehearsals of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown are continuing. At our most recent rehearsal, we got as far as fitting together the various harmony parts on one of the songs, and it sounded really nice.

. The way I've chosen to shelve my library, with all the unread books together on one bookcase, means I have a visual indicator of how large the to-read collection is. Over the past couple of years I've been focusing on reading books I've already got rather than acquiring new books (and also trying to get better at looking at a book I've been holding onto for years and deciding I'm never going to actually read it), and as of this week I've cleared an entire shelf's worth. The shelf is now being used for part of my DVD collection. We will, for the moment, overlook the fact that many of the books that were on the shelf are still in the room, in a big pile on the floor composed of books I've decided to get rid of but not yet decided how.

. Due to time zones, I had to choose between going to Parkrun or staying put to watch the Artemis II splashdown. I decided to assume that everything would go uneventfully, and went to Parkrun.

. On the weekend, there was a busy bee at our old and increasingly ramshackle community theatre to deal with a number of maintenance issues. I got to wield a hedge trimmer and took a hand at helping to re-paint a ceiling. I did not entirely get the hang of removing excess paint off the brush before lifting it above my head, and wound up with a large white deposit dripping down my temple that made it look rather as if we had giant pigeons to deal with on top of everything else.

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Book Chain, Week 15

2026-04-13T06:49:19Z

#13: A book with a page count within 100 pages of the previous book

Second attempt: Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon. An account of the future history of mankind over the coming millennia, written in the 1930s and famous for its ambition and imaginative scope -- although not, of course, for the predictive accuracy of the opening chapters, which fail to foresee the Third Reich, the Chinese Communist Revolution, and the splitting of the atom, among other things.

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Third attempt: Wolf's Lair by James McGee. An ex-soldier turned smuggler is hired to join an expedition seeking the final resting place of a German U-boat that disappeared at the end of the War carrying a cargo of gold bullion and a dangerous macguffin.

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#14: A book with a higher average rating than the previous book

I didn't have anything particular in mind, so I decided to hit the local library and see what I came away with. What I came away with was Dead Wake, Erik Larson's account of the final voyage of the RMS Lusitania. I had only the vaguest memory of what the Lusitania died of; it turns out that this is, in part, another German U-boat story.

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Bingo

2026-04-06T23:46:20Z

A while back, on a whim, I signed up for a fic prompt bingo card at genprompt_bingo. It turned out that this kind of prompt is not one my brain finds particularly useful, so it took me a while to complete a line: almost exactly ten years, in fact. But I did it!

( Bingo card )

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Week in review: Week to 4 April

2026-04-05T04:13:05Z

. I had the whole week off, and spent a lot of it either enjoying having nothing particular to do or feeling crumby due to the well-known phenomenon whereby as soon as I was on holiday and the show wrapped I came down with the mild lurgy I had been steadfastly refusing to entertain because I had things to do.

At a couple of points, I attempted to do some things I'd been putting off on the excuse that they involved getting things done during office hours, only to find (as I frequently have on previous occasions when I've counted on getting things done when I was on holiday) that the businesses I needed to interact with were also off for the holidays.

. On the weekend, we had a long gaming session where we played Mansions of Madness. The scenario we played was an interesting variation on the usual: ( Read more... )

. At the weekly game meet, we played Cockroach Soup, Flip 7 With a Vengeance, and Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre. ( Read more... )

. Rehearsals for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown have begun, and are going well.

. I watched the NASA live stream of the Artemis II launch, and have been following its progress.

. I went to Parkrun this week, despite a bit of rain being forecast; I already had a cold, and I didn't have anything I needed to do later in the day, so I figured it wouldn't hurt. In the event, there was only a brief light sprinkling of rain. I got a couple of nice comments from people who had been to see the play.

. My relationship with hot cross buns since I parted ways with the Holy Mother Church has been erratic. Some years, I make a point of eating one on the wrong day, to prove that the Church can no longer tell me what to do; other years, I make a point of only eating them on Good Friday, on the principle that if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing correctly (because I might be a lapsed Catholic but I'm still a practising pedant). This year, the entire question escaped my mind until it was already Good Friday and all the shops where I knew they were on sale were shut for the public holiday, so I bought some at a discount on Saturday morning and had them for morning tea.

. Until recently, I had managed to avoid getting any spam comments on my AO3 fics, but a couple of the fics I wrote for the most recent Three Sentence Ficathon have apparently stuck out enough to become targets for the kind of spam comment that pretends to be a real review before trying to get you to a secondary location. The one I received this week asserted that "i wasn’t expecting much at first but this actually turned out to be a pretty decent read", which is particularly transparent in the context of a fic that's only 37 words long.

. I was pleased to see the announcement that Farah Mendlesohn has been selected as the GUFF delegate to Swancon 50, then spent several minutes trying to remember where I actually know them from. I eventually managed to narrow it down from "overlapping online fannish space of some kind" to "mostly Diana Wynne Jones fandom, when I was still actively interacting with Diana Wynne Jones fandom". (Skimming the list of GUFF voters, I recognised a name from the old DWJ fan group, followed by another name whose owner was not yet born then, let alone old enough to vote; my, how the time etc.)

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Book Chain, etc, Week 14

2026-04-05T03:27:28Z

#11: A book from a series with the same number of instalments as the previous book

I found myself on ambiguous ground again: although 1066 and All That is usually regarded as a standalone work, its authors followed it up with And Now All This, written in similar style but not precisely a sequel. I opted for a book where the answer to "how many other books in the same series" is also "probably none"; it shares a setting with another of the author's novels, but takes place centuries earlier and has no plot ties. (It was also on the shortlist for the "Keyboard Keys" challenge prompt, but I wasn't in the mood for it at the time.)

When the King Comes Home by Caroline Stevermer. An apprentice artist stumbles onto a plot to bring a legendary king back from the dead as a puppet for an overthrow of the current regime.

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#12: A book told from a different kind of POV from the previous book

After that, it seemed obvious that it was time for another re-read of:

A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer. As the nineteenth century is giving way to the twentieth, the heir to a duchy is sent to a magical boarding school and finds herself entrusted with a task on which the fate of the world depends.

This is undoubtedly my favourite of Stevermer's solo novels (if we allow collaborations, it has competition from Sorcery and Cecelia). One of the key reasons, as I was reminded almost immediately on starting to re-read it, is its sense of humour. It's constantly amusing and full of banter, without undermining the seriousness of the adventure.

#13: A book with a page count within 100 pages of previous book
April: Ordinal Numbers

First attempt: The Last Coin by James P Blaylock. A man is trying to track down and acquire the thirty silver coins with which Judas Iscariot was paid, to use for sinister occult purposes. At some point, presumably, one of the other characters is going to figure out what he's up to and stop him.

There can be a tricky balance, starting out a story like this. If you don't explain enough up front, you risk the reader getting lost. If you explain more, you risk the reader deciding that he knows enough about what's going on that he's in no suspense about how it's going to end, and that he doesn't care enough about any of the characters to stick it out for the sake of learning the details. And either way, you risk the reader finding that it's not as funny as the author thought it was.

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Notes on a music collection, part 7

2026-04-04T07:57:26Z

( Any, As long as... )

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Fiction log - March 2026

2026-04-01T01:19:11Z

Fiction books
Richard Adams. Watership Down (e)
Charles Dickens. Bleak House (e)
Clark M Gesner, Michael Mayer. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
EW Hornung. The Amateur Cracksman (e)
WC Sellar, RJ Yeatman. 1066 and All That (re-read)
Caroline Stevermer. When the King Comes Home (e)
Jodi Taylor. Just One Damned Thing After Another (e)

In progress
Caroline Stevermer. A College of Magics (re-read)

Abandoned
Stephen Fry. Mythos (e)

Non-fiction books
Simon Lamb. Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes (e)
Keri Smith. Wreck This Journal Everywhere

In progress
John Green. The Anthropocene Reviewed (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
James P Blaylock. The Last Coin (e)

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Notes on a music collection, part 6

2026-03-31T04:12:58Z

( Angels (but no Architecture, because Graceland is another album I never got around to reacquiring) and Anothers )

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Week in review: Week to 28 March

2026-03-30T03:04:26Z

. At the board game meet, we played Lovecraft Letter, Flip 7 with a Vengeance, and Concept. ( Read more... )

. I blew off Parkrun this week because there was a forecast of rain. Another time I'd probably have gone anyway, and likely been fine (the rain didn't start really coming down until after Parkrun had concluded), but it was closing night of the short play season that evening and I decided I owed it to the audience to stay dry and warm and not catch the flu or lose my voice.

. The short play season went very well, with good audiences for a short play season, especially on closing night. The cast and crew all got on well, too, which is always nice. We start rehearsals for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown tomorrow.

. I've been intrigued for a while by the no_true_pair fic challenge, in which you choose a set of characters and are given fic prompts for each pair of characters in the list, but the sticking point has always been that I can't make up my mind what characters to do it with. I waffled about joining the latest four-character round for ages, and eventually signed on literally five minutes before the posting phase was opened with a set of characters picked more or less at random. So far, I've written a vignette for one prompt and started on another, and it's been an interesting exercise in thinking about what the paired characters have in common, but I'm not sure it's going to result in anything I actually consider publishable.

. I've completed the jigsaw puzzle I've been working on. In the end, I liked it a lot more than the previous one I tried from the same manufacturer, although I still think the engineering of the pieces could stand to be a bit tighter.

. The latest addition to my daily puzzle routine is Glyph, a Wordle-like game in which you have four guesses to identify a word with the assistance of an image showing the letters of the word stacked on top of each other. I'm enjoying it, and doing pretty well; the only time I've needed all four guesses was the first time I tried it, and that was partly because I'd got the explanation of the letter-order hints back to front.

. I'm not sure what it says that I've been only vaguely aware of NASA's Artemis II mission -- which plans to send a human crew on an observation pass around the Moon, closer than any humans have been in fifty years -- and it was only by chance that I saw a notice that lift-off is scheduled to take place this week (early Thursday morning, Australian time).

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Book Chain, etc, Week 13

2026-03-29T10:02:30Z

#9: A book with more pages than the previous book
February: Keyboard Keys

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

I enjoyed it. There are some very emotional parts. I have some quibbles about the way interspecies communication is depicted, but they're quibbles. The Tolkienesque asides about language and translation are fun. Actually, the whole vibe is kind of Tolkienesque, in that it's about a big adventure being had by small creatures who live in holes in the ground and are very English in their manners and speech despite having no concept of what an "England" is. I found myself occasionally wondering if the various strange rabbit communities our heroes encounter -- the decadent artist rabbits, the totalitarian dictatorship rabbits -- are meant to be read as commentary on human communities; the only one I'm confident about is the bit where one of the folk tales about the mythical rabbit hero El-ahrairah takes a moment to have El-ahrairah express his disdain for Kits These Days That Don't Respect Their Elders Who Fought For Their Freedom In The War.

#10: A book published in a different decade than the previous book
March: "This" and "That"

1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman.

A re-read, because I was feeling like something light and none of the other options I was seeing for the March prompt were appealing to me.

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Notes on a music collection, part 5

2026-03-23T15:16:41Z

( Alma, America, And... )

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Week in review: Week to 21 March

2026-03-22T02:26:00Z

. Our season of short plays opened this week, to successful audiences. There was apparently a positive write-up in the local paper, but I didn't hear about it until it was too late to get hold of a copy. The play I'm in is a collection of skits on Shakespearean topics, with premises such as "What if Julius Caesar had asked the soothsayer for clarification?" and "What if Lady Macbeth had had a really good lawyer?" and "What if Richard III had been taken at his word on the 'my kingdom for a horse' thing?"

. I didn't make it to any board game meets this week because they all clashed with dress rehearsals.

. Further experimentation with the cat-head ice trays has established that using orange juice instead of water makes the ice irregular enough that it doesn't cling to the mould. It also established that I don't really have a regular use for blocks of frozen orange juice shaped like cat heads, so I'm probably just going to stop using the ice tray.

. I didn't get around to watching the National Theatre Importance of Being Earnest during the week it was available free to watch on Youtube. This was partly because I was busy, and partly because, despite the stacked cast, I've never been particularly enthusiastic about this production. My least favourite kind of production of a classic comedy is the kind that seems to think that it won't be funny without a whole bunch of new gags slathered over it, and if this production isn't one of those then the trailers I've seen are doing a bad job of representing it.

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Book Chain, etc, Week 12

2026-03-22T01:51:01Z

#9: A book with more pages than the previous book
February: Keyboard Keys

Watership Down by Richard Adams. I'm about halfway through, and enjoying it a lot.

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Week in review: Week to 14 March

2026-03-15T10:42:17Z

. At the weekly boardgame meet, we played Cockroach Soup (which is like Cockroach Salad but with more slurping, although one player refused to slurp and just said "slurp" instead), Flip 7 With A Vengeance (which is like Flip 7 only more so), Lovecraft Letter (which is like Love Letter with the option to unlock forbidden techniques that are more powerful but increase the chance that you'll go mad and get disqualified), The Mind, and Cheating Moth.

. Further experimentation with the cat-head ice cube tray has established that if I leave it out of the freezer for about fifteen minutes, the ice blocks will melt enough to relent their grip while otherwise retaining their shape. I will probably continue to use the dog tray more often, as I'm not the kind of person to know fifteen minutes in advance that I'll be wanting a cold drink. I have made a mental note to try with fruit juice and see if that affects the grippiness.

. I've played through all the prequel missions in the XCOM 2 "Tactical Legacy" DLC. There's a state I get into sometimes when I'm reading a book that I'm not really enjoying, where I'm still interested in seeing what happens next but what I'm really looking forward to is getting to the point where I've seen what happens next and can move on to something else; that's how I felt when I was doing the last few missions. One thing I can say for them is that they've given me a new appreciation of how the main game works as an ongoing story with a cast of familiar characters who grow and develop over time, with the player getting involved in guiding their development, and isn't just a bunch of arbitrary missions featuring an arbitrary bunch of people with random skill sets.

. Auditions have begun for our next production, which will be the Peanuts-inspired musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I remember auditioning for something years ago (it seems likely it was Putnam County, though it might not have been) with Charlie Brown's kite song from this musical, but I haven't been able to find where I stored the music for it. (I was undecided about whether I would actually audition with it this time, since usually I make a point of not auditioning with a piece from the musical I'm auditioning for, but it would have been nice to find it again regardless.)

. The BBC has announced the recovery of two more missing episodes from early Doctor Who, both from near the beginning of "The Daleks' Master Plan". This means we now have substantially more than we previously had of Adrienne Hill's run as a Doctor Who companion, and of Nicholas Courtney's first appearance on the series.

Coincidentally, the day after the announcement, I was poking around in my digital archive looking for the kite song, when I found a mysterious folder containing a single file with the informative name of "scan0003.jpg", which turned out to be a newspaper clipping from the last time an episode of "The Daleks' Master Plan" was recovered.

. The family walk continues.

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