Chocolate and Vodkanow permanently moved to chocolateandvodka.comWeirdipedia- August 20, 2007 This morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream that my Wikipedia page was up for deletion, and that I was making the case for keeping it by saying that 83 pages had linked to it and that it's bad form to wilfully rot links. I woke up somewhat bemused by my dream, but couldn't resist checking to see if my Wikipedia page is still there. It is, but only just - it's been marked for deletion, you see. (And it only has about six pages linking to it. I just had to check that, too.) I don't see..http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/20/3171181.html Stories from beyond the veil- August 17, 2007 I wasn't very sure whether I should blog this publicly or not, because I fear it might actually be quite boring unless you're really into making wedding veils. But it has been pointed out to me that you are the best judges of what you find interesting, not me. So I'm bunging it up, and if it's not up your street, you can always skip it. But I must warn you, there'll be yet more wedding blogging over the next few days... So, a few weeks ago, I bought three metres of tulle in order to make my..http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/17/3164095.html Stationery problem solved- August 16, 2007 So, a couple of weeks ago, I realised that the burgundy card I had bought to make the invitations with was, well, the wrong colour. This was particularly painful, given that I thought I'd finally cracked it, just a few days before. Honestly, I felt like I'd been round every art supply shop in London, and had got samples from all of them. I really couldn't face searching out yet more art supplies shops to try and find yet more burgundy card, so I gathered together my samples and reconsidered..http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/16/3162917.html Unexpected excitedness- August 13, 2007 I just booked the register office (apparently, it's not registry, as I always thought it was) for our wedding in February, and had a sudden and unexpected burst of nerves and overwhelming excitement as I did so. Squeee!! Now that I'm starting to get tangible evidence of impending nuptials, I'm starting to get much more excited than I have been since Kevin first proposed in January. We have the stuff for the invitations, bunches of lavender and rosemary drying, the 'trial veil' (which I'll...http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/13/3156609.html World's Sexiest Writer 2007- August 12, 2007 Vince and some of his pals at Crimespace have set up a poll to find the World's Sexiest Writer 2007. The nice thing about it is that you can add people to the list, not just be forced to vote for one of the existing entrants. Of course, I entirely deny that I added any names to that list at all, and I most strenuously repudiate the implication that I voted for person whose name I most definitely didn't add. Equally, I would never, upon my life, ever suggest that you pop over there and vote for.http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/12/3154292.html Maybe the lavender harvest hasn't been a total bust- August 10, 2007 The thing about weddings is that the majority of the work is in getting the detail right. Luckily, I like detail. One such detail is how to do the place settings at the wedding breakfast. Everyone will have a specific place to sit, but how to we indicate who is sitting where I don't like traditional place settings - they're boring. So I struck on the idea that we could use a little posy of dried lavender, with a name tag attached to it with lace or ribbon. Mum and Dad have a lavender bush in...http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/10/3151849.html Flood- August 5, 2007 I've had an interest in extreme weather events for as long as I can remember. Indeed, I very nearly did a meteorology degree at Southampton University, but had decided that it was just too close to home - only half an hour across the New Forest from where my parents lived. As it was, I opted for a joint geologychemistry honours degree at Aberystwyth instead, only to find myself transferred to the geology department of the University of Wales, College of Cardiff when Aber's geology department...http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/5/3141144.html Waily! Waily! The wrong burgundy!- August 4, 2007 Dammit. I don't believe this. Not only is the mulberry paper I bought the wrong one, but the burgundy card I got isn't actually the right burgundy, even though it looked like it was in the shop. Waily! Waily! Waily!http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/4/3138845.html Mornington Crescent on Twitter- August 3, 2007 I blame Lloyd for this morning's game of Mornington Crescent on Twitter. I don't think that everyone could see every player - Lloyd has some people that I didn't see, and I know I had some that he couldn't see, and there were some players that I tried to follow but Twitter wouldn't show me their tweets... so all a bit of a mess, really. But still the best 20 minutes of the day, frankly. LloydDavis omg bowbrick that gives me an idea - Mornington Crescent on Twitter LloydDavis So I'll start...http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/3/3137599.html The Seeker: The Dreck is Still Rising- August 2, 2007 Walden Media have changed the name of their abominable adaptation of The Dark Is Rising to "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising", and have reposted a new version of the trailer to YouTube. Conveniently, this gets rid of all the comments from the old one, so I suggest that if you're as unhappy about this movie as I am, go rate it low and leave a comment expressing your feelings.http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/2/3136247.html |