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incandescensI suppose that logically it does make it a very British Diamond Jubilee to have had it raining throughout.
(No, I should really not find it that amusing.)
I did see bits on the television - that is, bits of the big procession down the river thing - but was mostly running the sewing machine at the time, so I just heard the commentator spouting off during the moments when I was handling the fabric out of the machine. I am glad that it went well and that people enjoyed it. I just don't really plan to do anything specific to celebrate it.
Well, unless they start selling post-Jubilee chocolates or strawberries at a reduced price over the next couple of days. You never know.
(It possibly also doesn't help that I'm just reading the new book from Mira Grant, Blackout, and imagining spontaneous zombie breakouts among the crowds and on the boats in the procession down the river. It would be messy.)
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“I don’t know why dogs always go for postmen, I’m sure,” continued our guide.
“It’s a matter of reasoning,” said Poirot. “The dog, he argues from reason. He is intelligent; he makes his deductions according to his point of view. There are people who may enter a house and there are people who may not — that a dog soon learns. Eh bien, who is the person who most persistently tries to gain admission, rattling on the door twice or three times a day — and who is never by any chance admitted? The postman. Clearly, then, an undesirable guest from the point of view of the master of the house. He is always sent about his business, but he persistently returns and tries again. Then a dog’s duty is clear, to aid in driving this undesirable man away, and to bite him if possible. A most reasonable proceeding.”
-- Dumb Witness, Agatha Christie
(No, I should really not find it that amusing.)
I did see bits on the television - that is, bits of the big procession down the river thing - but was mostly running the sewing machine at the time, so I just heard the commentator spouting off during the moments when I was handling the fabric out of the machine. I am glad that it went well and that people enjoyed it. I just don't really plan to do anything specific to celebrate it.
Well, unless they start selling post-Jubilee chocolates or strawberries at a reduced price over the next couple of days. You never know.
(It possibly also doesn't help that I'm just reading the new book from Mira Grant, Blackout, and imagining spontaneous zombie breakouts among the crowds and on the boats in the procession down the river. It would be messy.)
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“I don’t know why dogs always go for postmen, I’m sure,” continued our guide.
“It’s a matter of reasoning,” said Poirot. “The dog, he argues from reason. He is intelligent; he makes his deductions according to his point of view. There are people who may enter a house and there are people who may not — that a dog soon learns. Eh bien, who is the person who most persistently tries to gain admission, rattling on the door twice or three times a day — and who is never by any chance admitted? The postman. Clearly, then, an undesirable guest from the point of view of the master of the house. He is always sent about his business, but he persistently returns and tries again. Then a dog’s duty is clear, to aid in driving this undesirable man away, and to bite him if possible. A most reasonable proceeding.”
-- Dumb Witness, Agatha Christie
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Date: 2012-06-03 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-03 11:13 pm (UTC)I remember reading Feed and being terribly twitchy about going out in crowds, too!
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Date: 2012-06-06 12:36 am (UTC)(Which is actually partly why my Doctor Who/Bleach crossover came to a bit of a stop: I'm still vaguely trying to think of a way that he could fix the Bleachverse without stealing the story.)
Plus if he and companion-of-the-story picked up their own K-A infections, things would be very awkward...
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Date: 2012-06-06 12:39 am (UTC)Augh, kidstraction.
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Date: 2012-06-06 12:50 am (UTC)Or then again, there's the classic and frequently used standby of "the TARDIS has got lost again, let's see where we are... oh dear." Followed by "technical difficulties have caused the TARDIS to require specific fuel/materials to fix it" or "due to walking a few steps outside the TARDIS and then running into trouble, we will now have to journey some considerable distance to get back to the TARDIS/reunite the group/etc". Which was also a classic and frequently used standby. ;)
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