Flowers of the Forest
I’ve heard the lilting, at the yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting before dawn o’ day;
But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning;
“The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away”.
As buchts, in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning;
The lasses are lonely and dowie and wae.
Nae daffin’, nae gabbin’, but sighing and sobbing,
Ilk ane [...]
I was just checking up on The Leaky Cauldron, one of the two best Harry Potter sites there are (the other being MuggleNet), looking to see about an exclusive interview the folks who run each site got from Jo Rowling. Because of the release of the Half Blood Prince on Saturday (you may have [...]
We’re not Afraid!
I wanted to point out this site again. It’s an important one, and every time I visit this site, which has become a favourite destination since it was put up a couple days ago, I get all choked up and tears spring into my eyes. I am not afraid…and this is [...]
Just noticed that my blog’s quote up there today is from Douglas Adams the insufficiently prolonged:
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
-Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952), British author
I approve. :)
It seems to me that a lunatic with a gun and using his 17 month old daughter as a human shield while firing at police whose job it is to wait shit like this out when it occurs…no matter how long it takes…instead of fucking shooting a baby by stupidly returning the father’s fire when [...]
GAH!!!
My system crashed and I just lost all the files in my goddamn work folder! What the hell!
God there were two files in there that have had so many problems with them all week…now theyre not in my server folder anymore and if I can’t recover them it’s going to be a huge nightmare [...]
Evidently, Birmingham, England city centre is being evacuated as the result of some kid of threat.
Police evacuate Birmingham centre
Edit: Whew. :P Yay for non-events, wot wot?
