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Nov. 25th, 2025 01:03 pm
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We went to see Wicked For Good on Saturday and I really enjoyed it. Both the film itself, and the buzz in the cinema, the charity cos players were there and Odeon had various displays up for photo ops while the staff were all wearing witches hats, add in the general air of excitement of people going in, and it was just a lovely atmosphere.

I'm sure James would have enjoyed it too if he'd been awake for more than 1% of it *g*

I will cut him some slack though as he came down with a nasty chest cold on Sunday, so much so he had to call in sick from work yesterday as he was really not well. He's a bit better today, and thankfully, had annual leave in for Thurs and Fri so with his regular day off will only have to claim two sick days. It also gives him time to rest up, as we've got a craft fair on Saturday, and then my MiL wants to take us out for Sunday dinner on Sunday.

I got a new to me type of comment at AO3 the other day. It was someone saying they thought the fic would make a good comic and said their insta name if I wanted to make that happen. Curious, I Googled the insta and it was from a fan who does comic strips, for a price I'm sure, so while their work was good, I won't be taking up the offer. The fic they picked was my Intoabar 911 Lonestar Voyager cross featuring TK and Nelix, which I guess could support a comic strip, but I'll never find out. And mainly, have come away from the comment with a grudging respect for someone putting their work out like that. Thanks for Cesy in comments for telling me what these comments are about. No respect at all now.


I enjoyed Strictly at the weekend, the Steps mashup was great, but really what I was really looking forward to was Nikita dancing with Layton again, and I was not disappointed. Well, I would have loved their part of the routine to be longer, but the behind the scenes stuff that various people shared helped make up for it.

I was sad for La Voix having to pull out though, she wasn't the best dancer, but made the show so much fun.

Class wasn't on yesterday, as someone had booked the hall for a wake. Now, the hall we use isn't a typical gym studio, it's actually part of the old Miner's Welfare building that's joined to the modern gym by a series of maze like hallways, and does actually have a bar at one end. But, I was still surprised that anyone would want to use it for something like that, as it's not the most picturesque place, and also kind of smells of sweat. But, people like what they like, I guess.

I bought a tunnel thing that's designed to circle the bottom of the Christmas tree, the idea being, the cats will go through the tunnel and leave the actual tree alone. They've both enjoyed going through it, but I suspect what it'll be is a handy step to help Kevin climb the branches. Anyway, here's Murphy enjoying the middle.

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Nov. 19th, 2025 04:39 pm
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Hot winter spice Ribena is delicious stuff. I'm always thrilled when I see it back in the shops, and I may have had three mugs already today.

All much needed though, as it's so cold and last night and this morning snow came down big time, and was lying, too. I looked like some kind of yeti by the time I'd walked to class this morning, and my feet were soaked, as my trainers were no match for the snow. I was the only person at class for ages, and Rosie was on the verge of cancelling when another guy turned up. At that point we had a talk and decided as we'd both done the talk for today previously, we could skip that and just do the exercise section.

Then three other people turned up, all but one old timers, so we kept with the plan and just had the activity part of the session.

I was offered a lift home by one of the guys in class, but as I told him, I didn't mind getting some extra steps in walking home, plus, my big coat was soaked, and I didn't want to get his car wet. I'm glad I went though, I was considering not doing so, especially when my friend texted saying she wasn't coming, but in the end it was a good session, even if it was shorter than expected.

And ha, talking about my big coat. I posted on Insta stories this morning and Kayleigh has just seen the post, and messaged telling me off for going out without a winter coat. But I told her I was wearing my winter coat, but because it's a bit big now, it wasn't covering me to my neck. But getting told to put my coat on by my baby sister, it amused me.

Now, I'm going to have a lobster bath, I've been looking forward to it all day.

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