Bits and pieces

The Cold That Wouldn't Leave (TM) is still here, hanging around in my sinuses, making things smell/taste funny and giving me headaches. Also, my gums ache (my wonky wisdom tooth is doing something weird again). I am a slave to hot Vimto, headache pills, Bonjella and the humble Vicks Stick at the moment.

I had four (count 'em!) reviews for latest chapter of Rollercoaster this morning! All from different people! Plus I had two yesterday evening. Jenna is obviously angrying up the blood of m'readers. Rollercoaster is threatening to be one of those fics with a trillion reviews. I've never had one of those before! Yes, it's epic, yes it's a romance involving one of the favourite characters and yes it's a bigger fandom than my others, but still, I'm very proud!

I like the new LJ header for Halloween.

I want to watch Dead Set, but it's on E4 and our freeview is so rubbish it can only get a handful of BBC channels if we're lucky :(

Am hopefully seeing fellow Pingist i_just_hide today since she's coming down to sunny Canters to poke around the Cathedral archives this week. Should be fun. I'm wondering where to take her. A tea shop, I think. Canterbury is not lacking in tea shops.

I could has cake.

Yay! In the end, i_just_hide and me did go to a tea shop after all - Ferns, which is above the tourist office, overlooking the Christ Church gate. We sat in a window seat with pots of tea and cake (purchased by Claire - I began protesting that we go Dutch, but had to withdraw when I realised I had about 30p in my purse... I think that means I'm obliged to sleep with her now), watching the Scary Jesus, the buskers (who appeared to be on some sort of shift rotation) and the hoards of Bloody Tourists. I thought that such levels of tweeness were pretty typical of The Canterbury Experience. We swapped tales of Attended Weddings From Hell. Hers (dog mauls toddler, child almost loses eye, dog has to be put down) beat mine (horses bolt while carring bride to reception, leaving sad, smashed carriage remains on hard shoulder). Both had animals going crazy, but hers involved facial injuries and was therefore worse.

I then showed her the Wonky Shop, at her request. Not that there was anything about it bar its wonkiness since it's empty these days, but there you go.

It was very pleasant to get a mummy-break, since Hubs is off work this week and so had a daddy-daughter afternoon with Milady.