how fast one gets addicted

[incandescens]

I have a passing urge to try and turn the Lorenzaccio and Hamlet pictures by Mucha into a fabric, title it Takurazuka, and see who gets the joke. (Explanation: the pictures are of Sarah Bernhardt, playing both roles.)

The shops were very busy today, particularly those selling things which might be acceptable presents for mothers. I must remember to phone my own tomorrow, and can only hope the present got there in time. (UK Mother's Day is on a different day to the American one, for reference, and for any American friends who might panic.)

It is sad how fast one gets addicted to going to quilt shows and other craft shows. There's one in Uttoxeter somewhere in a few weeks time, and I'm looking at train timetables, and muttering to myself, "Two hours each way on the train is manageable, if I start early enough . . ."

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Chiropteromancy

Bat-related studies were once the exclusive preserve of quiet researchers hiding in dark laboratory corners. Since the Fall, Chiropteromancy has become rather fashionable, and even has its own University department. Bat experts are much like their subjects, and mistrust the glare of public interest. If you address them directly, they blink and squeak and scurry away.

-- Echo Bazaar

Comments

[archangelbeth]

*pats the fabric-addict gently*

[incandescens]

And bead-addict, and yarn-addict, and book-addict...

Still not a WoW-addict, though! (Yet...)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Have always felt ambivalent about Mothering Sunday, given that 'mothering' is an expletive where I come from, so that the phrase feels like 'Sunday, bloody Sunday.'

(Have never been ambivalent about Mother's Day. I dislike it and all its works.)

[incandescens]

That and Father's Day and similar do feel a bit forced - but my mother really would notice if I didn't at least phone.

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

On a completely random note: I have seen a Mucha print -- I believe it was the Evening Star -- screened onto a dark green velveteen over-robe. The effect was absolutely gorgeous, and if it weren't for the fact that the robe in question was approximately sixteen sizes too small for me, I would have bought it on the spot.

[incandescens]

I can believe it was gorgeous!