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Feb. 24th, 2014 02:44 pmIt got warm enough the other day for Carolina to wake up. Then the temperatures dipped again and she went straight back to her little hut. |
Look! A non-scheduled post!!!!
Jul. 12th, 2013 10:37 am Let me tell you a story, a story about how one can go from totally loving a book to disliking it in about 50 pages. Before last night I didn't really have an opinion on Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett, I was just reading it along because I generally like most Discworld books. Then last night I hit the part where Magrat, a character I generally don't care much about, finally finds a role model she can look up and prepares to take names and kick ass. This morning I finished the book and I am generally very upset with Pratchett because last night I believed that Magrat would finally be the strong female character I always look for in Discworld books, the one that kicks ass till the end and never lets others influence her… but like with Polly in Monstrous Regiment we were close but never quite got there. In the end, Magrat might have stood up the Queen of Elves but it's still the other two witches who were portrayed as the big heroes! I wanted Magrat to finally stand up to those two but she never did. For me that would have been the ultimate thing for her, the rare times she did do something that went against the older witches was when they weren't present… and that's a start but she should have been able to stand up them head on. By the end of the book it's clear that she will never be a "proper" witch, and therefore she'll never be on the same level as the two older witches because it's been made known since the start of the series that witches are above pretty much all others on the Discworld. And that bit really upset me. I also disliked the whole bit about the queen Magrat took for a role model being a "fake" and her being portrayed as a bit of a joke (her armour being made of pans and a bathtub). Of course one could argue that it was rather feminist of that king who asked for the portrait to be painted and for the armour to be made - he wanted a female others could look up to, but the way Pratchett wrote it, I read it as it being a kind of joke on the king's part. Once again I let a book get under my skin. I should know better by now, I really should, but why can't we get proper strong female characters in the Discworld books that aren't old annoying witches or dressed as dudes and talking about how it's the fake socks in their trousers that give them the extra courage to kick ass? |
Slowly building back up.
Jul. 12th, 2012 07:52 am Seen here and there... it's hot, there are bunnies and turtles and it's always good to cheer for a friendly Norwegian face during the Tour de France! Oh and I think they are having 14th of July fireworks at Borély. I hope it's that because I have no other explanation for the mess they've made of the park, had to modify my running route and all that. Terrible people, not taking into account my wishes and needs, I guess I'm still not ruler of the universe *sigh*  |
The other side.
Dec. 11th, 2011 03:01 pm| And here are some of my shots from the film I sent over during the Photoswap! Taken with the Chinon probably in June or July. |
 (Chinon CX. Some kind of iso200, most likely Kodak but I don't remember) ( +8 - garden, thimbles, sunshine! ) |
Funkeeeehhh...
Oct. 19th, 2011 07:02 pmWell, that's the Halloween week-end sorted out then. And till then... have some funky ridiculously old phone photos of daily life back where it was warm and not rainy and windy all the time.  ( + 3x4 - of shirts and turtles ) |
The wild beasts.
Aug. 23rd, 2011 06:08 pmWhile they suffer from heat at the Vuelta, some go wade into their little pool. ( +2 - and Linda sneaks in to eat house plants ) |
Spot the little one.
Nov. 12th, 2010 06:24 pmLet's play a game, it's called "spot Carolina".  If you don't know who Carolina is, you can see a tad more of her here. We're preparing her for the winter, sometimes she still wakes up... damn the changing temperatures around here, it was 20C this afternoon but yesterday we barely ever went up past 10C. First it's the leaves to keep her company, soon she'll move into a thicker house. My parents didn't know anything about turtles when they got her, she's now been on the veranda for a while and she's survived a few winters, so probably they're not doing things too badly. So, did you spot her? |
Because they're all awesome!
Oct. 2nd, 2010 05:33 pmJust so that she doesn't feel left out, here's some Carolina for you. |
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Bunny in f1.7
Sep. 22nd, 2010 07:09 pmWhen you're done testing the new lens on every possible object in the house, what do you do? Annoy the pets by following them and telling them to sit still... which is the one thing Linda the bunny sucks at, sitting still. Carolina on the other hand is good at sitting still. Honestly she moves only for about an hour per day. |
 ( 1x2 ) |
In other news, it seems that Karolina is back to being her turtle self and eating some stuff. She still has to go for proper baths again... maybe she landed in her pool by mistake last time? |
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In other other news, the feeling of "blah" continues. I guess I really need a change of scenery a bit... or ice cream. I'll go for proper ice cream tomorrow. |
( 4x2 more photos - the house, the food, the amusement ) |
Poll time because I'll be travelling a bit from now on...
As you have noticed, I've been posting a bit of pictures these past few entries and what I usually do is take a bunch of pictures, upload them about five weeks after having taken them and then upload one by one because I'm lazy like that. So... I thought that maybe I'll give the 365 days project one more time. So it's poll time!!!!
[Poll #1405773]
