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The week, the weekend
Jul. 5th, 2015 04:44 pmIt was a very full-on week, followed by a surprisingly quiet weekend, which had the great benefit that I could at last find time to begin to think about the Narnia Fic Exchange. And there was some little struggle involved,wrestling with the form, but finally I can say that
I've managed to sign up for the NFE 2015!
and am feeling tentatively hopeful about the prospect. The freeform tags alone looked like there was a lot of fun to be had. :)
(If anyone's reading this and wondering if they'd like to play, I assure you it's a most exhilarating way to leap into the Narnia fanfic game! Here's how!)
Does anyone remember, by the way, that in last year's NFE I wrote about Tirian remembering being taken as a child to "float in darkness where waters lapped and glow-stars spread across the cavern-roofs..."
That was based on my remembering a visit ages ago to these caves in beautiful New Zealand - truly, almost magically beautiful.
This is the week designated to celebrate indigenous peoples and culture in Australia, called for historical reasons NAIDOC Week; this year's theme is "We all stand on sacred ground: learn, respect and celebrate". (Yes!)
Of course there's an absolute plethora of things in Australian media I could be linking to, but this is something from the Guardian - about an Aboriginal activist I'd never even heard of, but whose story I won't be forgetting.
(The business about the search for a photograph puzzled me - surely if you're arrested, there's going to be a photograph somewhere? and then I remembered the Blitz...)
This weekend also is Greece's referendum on its future, and today, fittingly, the psalm-of-the-day was 123, ending: "... we have had more than enough of contempt, too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, and of the derision of the proud." Yes, for sure - feeling for you, Greece!
Oh, and here's Joseph Stiglitz on that situation.
and... this weekend's not quite finished, so I still have time to tackle the Great Mango Glut. For the first time in my life: fruit leather! Wish me luck! :)
I've managed to sign up for the NFE 2015!
and am feeling tentatively hopeful about the prospect. The freeform tags alone looked like there was a lot of fun to be had. :)
(If anyone's reading this and wondering if they'd like to play, I assure you it's a most exhilarating way to leap into the Narnia fanfic game! Here's how!)
Does anyone remember, by the way, that in last year's NFE I wrote about Tirian remembering being taken as a child to "float in darkness where waters lapped and glow-stars spread across the cavern-roofs..."
That was based on my remembering a visit ages ago to these caves in beautiful New Zealand - truly, almost magically beautiful.
This is the week designated to celebrate indigenous peoples and culture in Australia, called for historical reasons NAIDOC Week; this year's theme is "We all stand on sacred ground: learn, respect and celebrate". (Yes!)
Of course there's an absolute plethora of things in Australian media I could be linking to, but this is something from the Guardian - about an Aboriginal activist I'd never even heard of, but whose story I won't be forgetting.
(The business about the search for a photograph puzzled me - surely if you're arrested, there's going to be a photograph somewhere? and then I remembered the Blitz...)
This weekend also is Greece's referendum on its future, and today, fittingly, the psalm-of-the-day was 123, ending: "... we have had more than enough of contempt, too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, and of the derision of the proud." Yes, for sure - feeling for you, Greece!
Oh, and here's Joseph Stiglitz on that situation.
and... this weekend's not quite finished, so I still have time to tackle the Great Mango Glut. For the first time in my life: fruit leather! Wish me luck! :)
