Someone lives in Bath

Someone lovely on my flist lives in Bath and worked in the Costume Museum a year ago. I am sure that if I put my brain to it, the right name will pop up, but sadly I am still a bit woozy from the flu and, more exhaustingly, am I am doing far too much proper work thanks to circumstances that cannot be discussed as they lead to me raging and frothing in an unbecoming fashion.

The point of this being, I think I need to spend a day or two in Bath in November, and would love to catch up for tea and pop into the museum, especially because the glove exhibition is on! And Vionnet! There is even a nice little hotel that has good rates, which means I can afford to pay for the cuppas, so all is shiny.

Alas, trains to York were exorbitant, and local areas even worse, so I will not be able to turn up on goddessriss 's doorstep with Violet Crumble this trip, but the upside of the current grim work situation is that my next contract will see a significant increase in hourly rate, so next time!

Off to sleep more, hope to be back to normal (normalish) soon!

Someone lives in Bath

Someone lovely on my flist lives in Bath and worked in the Costume Museum a year ago. I am sure that if I put my brain to it, the right name will pop up, but sadly I am still a bit woozy from the flu and, more exhaustingly, am I am doing far too much proper work thanks to circumstances that cannot be discussed as they lead to me raging and frothing in an unbecoming fashion.

The point of this being, I think I need to spend a day or two in Bath in November, and would love to catch up for tea and pop into the museum, especially because the glove exhibition is on! And Vionnet! There is even a nice little hotel that has good rates, which means I can afford to pay for the cuppas, so all is shiny.

Alas, trains to York were exorbitant, and local areas even worse, so I will not be able to turn up on goddessriss 's doorstep with Violet Crumble this trip, but the upside of the current grim work situation is that my next contract will see a significant increase in hourly rate, so next time!

Off to sleep more, hope to be back to normal (normalish) soon!

Just had another scary Twitter follower appear

wemyss  and shezan , you in particular will laugh at this.

I have a Twitter account, which I rarely use and is under a different name. One of the people who is on my flist and on my Twitter list posted a link to my Aus politics in Harry Potter terms post of last month using my Twitter name – which was perfectly fine! A very small number of people put two and two together and followed my Twitter after reading the post. Very briefly in most cases, for reasons that I will outline.

Every single one of them has been a Conservative. A really, really conservative Conservative, not an I find Boris Johnson strangely appealing and do believe in free trade but not in a wholly unregulated market, dipping my little toe in the waters of conservatism but really a Bleeding-Heart Leftie type, like me.

In fact, most have been so scarily conservative that I have not been able to Follow them on Twitter because I would froth too much, and I prefer to use it as a medium to discuss hairstyles, local cafes, meet-ups and Bob Katter on Q&A.

Intrigued, I vanity-googled my post to see if they were all coming from somewhere, and discovered that there are people who read that post who are convinced I am a card-carrying socially wet, economically dry Liberal. Which for Americans would equate to a Reagan-era Republican before they turned all gung-ho and Rambo-esque, and for Brits equates to, er, Boris Johnson.

I am counting this as a win on the not trumpeting bias front. Alas, we have a government again now, though, as both sides have appointed the previous leaders to high ranking positions in a bid to 'get past all this messy leadership coup business', things are still entertaining.

And in related internet matters, thanks, fourth_rose !

Just had another scary Twitter follower appear

wemyss  and shezan , you in particular will laugh at this.

I have a Twitter account, which I rarely use and is under a different name. One of the people who is on my flist and on my Twitter list posted a link to my Aus politics in Harry Potter terms post of last month using my Twitter name – which was perfectly fine! A very small number of people put two and two together and followed my Twitter after reading the post. Very briefly in most cases, for reasons that I will outline.

Every single one of them has been a Conservative. A really, really conservative Conservative, not an I find Boris Johnson strangely appealing and do believe in free trade but not in a wholly unregulated market, dipping my little toe in the waters of conservatism but really a Bleeding-Heart Leftie type, like me.

In fact, most have been so scarily conservative that I have not been able to Follow them on Twitter because I would froth too much, and I prefer to use it as a medium to discuss hairstyles, local cafes, meet-ups and Bob Katter on Q&A.

Intrigued, I vanity-googled my post to see if they were all coming from somewhere, and discovered that there are people who read that post who are convinced I am a card-carrying socially wet, economically dry Liberal. Which for Americans would equate to a Reagan-era Republican before they turned all gung-ho and Rambo-esque, and for Brits equates to, er, Boris Johnson.

I am counting this as a win on the not trumpeting bias front. Alas, we have a government again now, though, as both sides have appointed the previous leaders to high ranking positions in a bid to 'get past all this messy leadership coup business', things are still entertaining.

And in related internet matters, thanks, fourth_rose !