Going to try to do something more than my usual numbered list!

So, bullet points instead ;)

( Spoilers, rambling ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/29707.html.

Series 2 on asap, please. 

( Episode 10 ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/29598.html.

( Episode 8 )

( Episode 9 ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/29425.html.

Apr 18th - 22nd

Parents' swish new Auris
Peanut butter cookies
Marbles
Lesley's Dad's 90th birthday cake (mmmm, cake)
Street in Steyning with mostly Tudor buildings

( April 18th - 22nd )
Rec: am currently watching a repeat of Silent Witness, but it is a rather good one, if a bit silly (Harry goes off to Hungary and his gf gets killed, which is the start of Harry's Epic Sadness about not having a family, and then a bunch of exciting running and shooting etc happens). So if you're bored you could watch that. 

And here's the short ramble I got into before I realised it was a repeat, lol:

1. “What is it, have you shagged everyone in London?” “Not quite.”
2. Well, this is already more enjoyable than last week’s.
3. “Simon’s my hairdresser, he’ll take ten years off you.”
4. HAAAAAAAANG ON. This is a repeat, right?
5. Well that explains why it’s better
6. OH, HARRY CUNNINGHAM
7. Oh gosh he’s so charming.
8. I presume I rambled about this last year so I'll stop now.
9. OH GOSH HARRY (ok, really stopping NOW)

Apr 23rd - 27th 

Formula 1 car suspended in Woking shopping centre
New buildings near the Tate (Holland St, I think)
Three cats staring. They were watching another cat, lol. 
View up in the centre of a building (I think I was in a kind of courtyard). I could find it again but clearly failed to note the address, sigh. 
Some weird kind of decoration on a wall. Or in, I suppose. 

( April 23rd - 27th ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/29142.html.

 
Apr 8th - 12th 

Pudding (older niece) on a swing
And in a pretty dress
View from the flat
Some very, very creepy statue things (I don't care if it's art, they freak me out)
Underground roundel from the back (one of our meeting venues is above Holborn tube station)

( April 8th to 12th )

Rec: Seven Bowie Songs by feverbeats, a short Luther fic that manages to get it so so right in very few words. 

http://feverbeats.dreamwidth.org/163619.html 

Apr 13th - 17th

Grass and flowers outside my building, when it was all bright and nice
The roof of the British Museum (from, you guessed it, Centrepoint)
Pansies
An interestingly decorated house (I say decorated, it's sort of been sacrificed to plants from the look of it)
Sweets! Which OMG I wish I had right now, but I've eaten them all. 
( April 13th - 17th ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/28913.html.

Mar 29th - Apr 2nd


Top of the Shard
Egg Hunt egg from Selfridges (more of those at http://metropolithan.blogspot.com/ and more to come)
Sound sculpture in front of Canada Tower (called Aeolus - it's been travelling round the UK and was actually in Cornwall when Crishna and I went last year :D :D) - http://www.lukejerram.com/aeolus
Biscuit thing (I've forgotten what it was called, aaaaargh, was a lot like a florentine) that a colleague brought back from Turkey. Yes, those are petals. I'm weird and I like flower-flavoured things.
Dinner. Sometimes I just really like the food I cook. This was one of those times.

( March 29th - April 2nd )

Rec: new music! BIGKids (latest thing from Mr Hudson)





http://soundcloud.com/bigkidsmusic 

Apr 3rd - 7th

Tiny graffiti in the toilets at Centrepoint
A little alley by Snow Hill Court
Selfridges at night
Massive elephant thing set piece from the Les Mis film (at Greenwich)
Pumpkin (youngest niece)

( April 3rd - 7th )

This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/28538.html.

Mar 18th - 22nd

View inside Alt St Alban, Cologne
View of the lake at Bruhl
View of the Rhein at Dusseldorf
Roman stone from the Praetorium
A new ring (sadly can't remember if this was from Germany or not - Crishna???) 

( Mar 18th - 22nd )

Rec: Series 4 of Horrible Histories

This is probably something everyone knows about already, but the new series is on iPlayer at the moment (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h9bk6/Horrible_Histories_Series_4_Episode_8/ and you can work through the rest), and it is as funny as ever. Also includes some guest stars (the League of Gentlemen, Chris Addison) and excellent songs.

The Horrible Histories Henry the Eighth is the best.



March 24th - 28th

No picture for March 23rd because I accidentally gave myself food poisoning on the 22nd and spent the 23rd feeling like death.

A fricking big bee at my parents' (next to a metal decorative elephant thing)
Ching Court near Covent Garden (found by accident one afternoon)
Admiralty Arch
Salt and pepper squid (YUM)
Monument. I have never been up Monument, something which gets more ridiculous every time I walk past it. Must go when the weather improves and the skies are clear. 

( Mar 24th - 28th )



This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/28379.html.

March 8th - 12th

Restaurant dessert (it was yum)
View from Centrepoint down into the Crossrail site
The name stamp that is now on allll my cards
Gates at Green Park in the evening
Buildings on Holborn Viaduct

( Mar 8th - 12th )
Book rec: Alison Hewitt is Trapped, by Madeline Roux. A zombie novel in the format of blog entries, which is an idea so good I'm sick I didn't think of it (don't be surprised if I end up doing it in a fanfic one day).

It's a really engaging book - Alison herself is an easily relatable character, resourceful without being unrealistically badass, The blog format works surprisingly well, and allows for a few other voices besides the main characters without letting them get tiresome. I really enjoyed everything about it, basically. 

There's a second book in the series - Sadie Walker is Stranded - that has just come out. I'm looking forward to it!

March 13th - 17th 

Lion drinking fountain (no longer in use) 
A very very cold Coke Zero can (people keep mucking with the temperature control in our work fridge)
A charity dog model thing in One New Change (part of the SANE Black Dog campaign -  http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/black_dog/) 
Chairs and tables in Covent Garden in the morning 
Posts outside Brussels Midi (on the way to Germany)

( Mar 13th - 17th ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/28022.html.

 Sorry in advance for the spamming of your flists. I've got loads to go through so I'll do ten per post instead of five and I'll try to rec at least one thing in each post...

Feb 27th - March 2nd

Fountain in Trafalgar Square in the evening
One of my Cow Parade cows :) (used as header for  http://metropolithan.blogspot.co.uk/ )
Red velvet cookies
Tower of St Martin-in-the-Fields, near Charing Cross
A very foggy morning outside my flat

( Feb 27 - Mar 2 )

Rec: two Hunger Games AUs (the second is a remix of the first)

NB: I've not actually read the Hunger Games yet, but I have seen the movie (and I know most of the plot points), and I really liked what these fics did with the story.

Life After Survival (the original)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/374035 
That Certain Look a Victor Has (the remix)
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/remixmadness2012/works/389372  

Mar 3rd - 7th

Tower Bridge at night
New owl ring!
Graffiti in dusty windows (this was somewhere near work but can't remember exactly where)
Annoyingly blurred picture of a sign 
A wooden table outside which has seen better days...
( Mar 3rd - 7th ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/27788.html.

Not keen on this, I must admit.

( rambling ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/27412.html.

Not one of my favourites, but this is last night's episode so it might all pull together when I watch the second half...


( Spoilers, rambling ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/27292.html.

This week's episodes can mostly be summed up as: AAAAARGH LEO DAMN IT.

Also comes with the usual comments about Harry.

( Sunday's ep (spoilers) )


( Monday's ep (spoilers) ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/26940.html.

s15 ep4
( Spoilers ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/26870.html.

Today has been rather good. I intended to work on uploading cards to my shop, which I did. I now have 65 items (a couple are group packs of Christmas cards) here:

en.dawanda.com/shop/hanlondon 

So if you fancy having a look or passing on the link to anyone who might be interested I’d be very pleased :). At the moment I’ve just listed as selling in the UK and the cards are between €2-3 each (it’s a European site).

(NB I will probably do a separate post with some pics when I’ve uploaded some more as I have 200+ cards – planning on uploading more this week)

In between that I managed to watch my outstanding episodes of Better Off Ted (which turned out to be 8 of them!) and lo, it was hilarious. I’m planning on doing a show/rec post soon as everyone needs to see this show.

I also watched a couple of episodes of Sarah Jane Adventures that it turned out I hadn’t seen (The Eternity Trap), so that was ace.

And I watched last Monday’s Scott and Bailey which was just guh, oh my goodness, AMAZING. I hope it gets recommissioned forever and ever.

(incidentally, if anyone is watching Scott and Bailey and enjoying Lesley Sharp being amazing, try Afterlife, it was excellent)

And then I finally got round to watching Attack The Block, which I had from Lovefilm, and it was as good as everyone had said. And I loved what they did with the aliens – definitely something different. Very much recommended.

Also, I have just watched Silent Witness: 

( Silent Witness ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/26383.html.

Current Will Young video, linked because it’s always worth watching a Will Young video:



Turn Me On by Nicki Minaj and David Guetta



Ok, look, I need to talk about this video. I understand that David Guetta is a creepy dude building artificial women and it’s all a bit steampunk, but I have feelings about the rest of it. And yes, I know I'm overanalysing a music video but clearly some thought went into this. Just not enough.  

1. How does Nicki’s skin stop being shiny?
2. Why is she the only steampunk robot mannequin who looks like an actual person? If it’s because she’s the pinnacle of his efforts why does he make another one? (possibly because she runs away)
3. Why is the complete storyline of the video not simply ‘David Guetta created Nicki Minaj but she’s an evil steampunk robot so she comes back for revenge WITH AN AXE’? Whyyyy?
4. Why does the creepy new mannequin (also quite human looking but not as good as Nicki) get down on her knees and kiss Metal David Guetta’s hand?
5. WHY ON EARTH DOES DAVID GUETTA TURN INTO METAL?
6. Have the naked mannequins at the end realised that Nicki is a better bet than Creepy Metal David Guetta, and is that why they’re running after her?
7. Why couldn’t they make this video MAKE SENSE? It’s so close to brilliant.

Ah well.

This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/26218.html.

I have finally got almost all of my Germany pictures up (the ones I haven't done yet are empty street pictures - I want to do the London ones first), so if you fancy a look they are over here: http://metropolithan.blogspot.co.uk//search/label/Germany











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Apparently s13/14 are out on DVD. I need to check if I own them yet. At my parents' again so less detail than I'd like. Plenty of Harry-related flailing though!

( spoilers ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/25784.html.

Shorter than usual as I am at the parents' and was watching with Lesley and Dear.

( Spoilers ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/25407.html.

S15, ep2

( Spoilers ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/25188.html.

This is series 15 or something ludicrous like that.


( Spoilerish ) This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/25085.html.