Anteros

Oh my goodness, where did the last five months go?! I can't believe the last time I posted here was February! Huge apologies for the radio silence and tank you so much to everyone who posted birthday wishes even though I wasn't here. You're all so very kind :)

All's well here, but I've been very tied up with work. I'm still working in Edinburgh so I've got a long commute twice a week and most of my other evenings are tied up ferrying daughter to and from her sports clubs. She's ten now, and almost as tall as me already. How on earth did that happen?!

Even though I haven't been here, I haven't forsaken our beloved navyboys! Not by a long shot. I'm involved in running a naval history research committee and am also helping to organise a conference on maritime masculinities in December. Both of which are very rewarding but take up a lot of time. And of course nodbear and I have been putting the finishing touches to our book which will be published in September. More about that in a separate post later hopefully. I've also been gathering bits and pieces of things which I've been meaning to post here for ages so hopefully I'll have a chance to post them soon. I'm on holiday for the next fortnight for the first time since Christmas so I'm looking forward to having a good break.

I hope you're all well and life is being kind to you and your loved ones. L x


My kitties are very grown up now too as you can see :)

I have to confess I have also been moonlighting as SnK trash on tumblr and seem to have written a stupid amount of Eruri fic, but the less said about that the better :}

Happy Birthday my dear friend katriona_s!



I hope you have a splendid day my dear, filled with fun and friendship and snuggles with Mr Uma :)

Btw, in case you're wondering why I'm sending you a pirate flag for your birthday, please be aware that this is not just any old pirate flag. Oh no. This is a very special, official pirate flag flown by the National Library of Scotland to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday last November. Note RLS's characteristic moustache :} There are actually very strict rules about what flags can be flown from national public institutions in the UK so how the National Library got away with this I have no idea! It brought a smile to a lot of faces all over Edinburgh that day :) Even the librarians were excitedly tweeting pictures of it!

( Couple more pictures under the cut )

Hello. I haven't quite fallen off the face of the internet, though I may have been temporarily seduced by an anime fandom on tumblr. Ahem. Moving swiftly on. Anyway, look at this! I so want to see this film. Beautiful boats and beautiful animation. What more could I ask for?!

Doesn't it look gorgeous? :)

Every year, when daughter was small, she would leave out a glass of milk and something sweet for Santa on Christmas Eve. (Along with a carrot for Rudolph of course.) Last year she decided Santa deserved a glass of wine instead of milk. Hallelujah! This year however Santa is getting a glass of cranberry juice because, as toots pointed out, he shouldn't drink wine while driving the sleigh. I tentatively suggested that the reindeer could probably drive themselves, but she was having none of it :}

Meanwhile, Niko has been stealing Christmas presents and opening them. Little thief!



Caught red pawed
Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas when it comes :)

...I was in Paris.

Originally posted by wellinghall at A Sentence Chain meme!
From eglantine_br

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ, and wonder if Oscar Wilde could possibly have written this. (Now with added Oscar! - Anteros_lmc)

They also talk of our being guilty of injustice, and their being the victims of an unjustifiable war. Brandy, and Tom got increasingly close-mouthed and sour. Although a certain sense of tripartite society survived down to Christian times, the three classes described in the Eddic poem "Rigdthula" bear little resemblance to Dumezil's three. It is often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad men, and prohibiting what only such men would wish to practice.

At its nearest point the wall was little more than one league from the City, and that was south-eastward. When he saw Jack Hare jump towards the fire, and the Practical Man brandishing the toasting-fork, Sir Isaac grabbed the strings of gravitational force that bound Jack to his destiny and PULLED--- That's a seventy-four gun privateer, besides. To honour a group of British nobles, treacherously slain at a conference by Hengist's guards, Aurelius decides to erect a great monument near Amesbury. That being so, he did not chortle when he went upstairs. Let stand. This ensures that when the garbage collector runs, it has complete access to the memory in the heap and can perform its tasks safely without the threat of being preempted by another thread. And then you may begin to laugh. The data are stored in Column 1 and renamed "Age."

Pull your hand back. I don't remember that any secrets were revealed to me, nor do I remember any avid curiosity on my part to learn something I wasn't supposed to--perhaps I was too young to know what to listen for. You don't remember how awful it is being normal. Highlight the desired state tax table and press Enter. Abraham had now reached a ripe old age, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. The third lieutenant started, then said a little weakly, "Huzzah for Captain Riley."

"Oh," said Pooh. In fact White had carelessly placed the team in Nip without realising it.

Henry, the eldest son from Thomas's second marriage (his first marriage was childless), became the 2nd Earl of Rutland.

Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by mail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta: and with its comfort brings industrial power. Occasional redundant words had to be removed and some necessary conjunctions supplied, but in no case has the sense of the original been varied.


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Not AoS, but I love this photograph from The National WWII Museum, New Orleans.



I think the cataloguer was rather fond of it too...

146. Photograph. “File No: SAC-R-7-205343. January 18, 1944. Carrier ‘concert’—Romance and thoughts of home intermingle in the minds of crewmen listening to a musical shipmate’s selections (on an accordion) on the forward turret of a five inch gun aboard the USS Saratoga – en route to battle.” 18 January 1944

I wonder how many of them returned from battle?

Hello. Remember me? I haven't quite fallen off the edge of the internet :}

Work has been all encompassing for the last few months; I'm currently working on four different contacts so evenings and weekends have kinda gone to the wall. Hopefully I'll be able to off load some of the work soon though.

Anyway, enough of that, those of you who follow nodbear might have seen that our big news is that finally, after three years and many interruptions, our book on the midshipmen of HMS Indefatigable is finally finished. nodbear came up to Glasgow last week so we could finish off the manuscript and on Sunday we sent it off to the publishers. Hurray! I can't believe we finally did it. It'll be next year before the book sees the light of day, but we'll keep you posted and let you know how things progress. Thank you all for your interest and support over the years, it wouldn't have been half as much fun without you :)



Huzzah!

When we got back from holiday we discovered that our neighbours have got a new puppy. *Awwww* And guess what he's called? Archie :D He's an adorable (of course) black spaniel (of course) with velvet ears and puppy dog eyes that would melt the heart of even the most repressed and angst ridden junior officer. Sadly I don't have a picture of Archie the puppy, so you'll have to make do with this Archie instead ;)