Easy to be worth more than a thousand of mine.

[lady_schrapnell]

Such a great cover - it tickles me every time I look at it. The manly, manly jaw and sharp pointy object so undercut by the stance and wrist limpness... (But is the pose This dagger will be used to pick my nose if necessary - it's my compensation or the more obvious Mention my flaming campness and I'll give you a free lobotomy?

Very interesting read, too - I was babbling to steepholm last night about a few of its oddities, including the fact that Regina, who has 'never had a mother or father' but was owned by a nasty old woman who sent her out begging in the streets of Vinconium, speaks with the perfect, rather formal language Rosemary Sutcliff uses for People from the Past.



This is the more obvious type of happiness - my second completed (all except getting Younger Daughter to choose buttons and then sewing them on) Mrs Darcy cardigan. I'm thrilled to have it off the needles, sewn up and blocked, in large part because I kept making idiotic mistakes which made me sure I need a keeper. There were attempts to get pictures of her wearing it, but she claimed they were all horrible and they were on her camera so I couldn't just ignore her.

Silly, horribly immature pleasure provided by a thread on Ravlery about a new yarn (wrote 'yearn' first time!) called Fannie's Fingering. It *is* a US company, rather than a British or Australian one, and fingering *is* a weight of yarn, but still... Yes - this remains book-related - Fanny Burney - Fanny Price - Fanny Hi... never mind.

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There are dogs in Knight's Fee, too. Yes - Blue Remembered Hills was the book my mum read and enjoyed. (I do miss the wonderful book talks I used to have with my mum...). I shall have to look for it again (it's even possible I have a copy rattling about the place somewhere). I don't really associate Connie Willis with dogs?? (oh, duh, except for To Say Nothing, of course, and, oh, The Last of the Winnebagos, - sob - so, yes, I suppose)

And, oh my - homoeroticism much??? (the cover, the cover!)

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And, oh my - homoeroticism much??? (the cover, the cover!) :) Quite!

I suppose I was being a bit careless with Connie Willis and dogs, as I kind of include the other dog-like animals in the category with the dogs... By 'dog-like', I probably mean only not-cats, as good spec-fic cats are hardly worthy of mention. The fire monkeys in Promised Land are very lovable and the horse in Lincoln's Dreams... I was reading that when my mother's last dog was put down -- well, you can imagine.