Squee! Yay! Girlie armwaving!

[blamebrampton]

My gift fic at the AS/S fest posted, and it's SO ME! Politics and journalism, my friends, politics and journalism.

Follow the link, nice and short, delicious, delightful and delovely little kick to the end. I have my Suspicions As To The Author, and will be resisting the urge to poke Bryoney until she squeals like an adorable little miniature pig. Not that she looks like one, aside from the huge soulful eyes. But she does squeal like one, my friends, oh yes, she does.

I keep telling people to check out this fest, there's an awful lot of good stuff! Check out By the Book, if you haven't already, too, it's fabulous, as is Potter Shaped Malfoy.

Postings end in a few days, and I am mightily tempted to play the guess my fic game, except I suspect that I am depressingly obvious.

ETA 5 degrees C overnight here, pingrid! Actual winter! and about 9 degrees at 4pm today. Okay, so not winter on the scale of Oslo, or Glasgow, or even Christchurch, but I could have done with a coat rather than the lightweight jackets that are my Sydney staples!

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, but as I say to pingrid, the houses here are all designed to deal with 45 deg C summers. So every aspect of the design is planned to shed heat as quickly as possible. Our blankies are thin and cotton, and out coats are unlined, and, in my case, natty little jackets for the most part.

So after a few years of faffing around in Sydney you give away all of your warm things, because they are worm for two days a year when you visit Melbourne and there is an Antarctic wind, and then all of a sudden there's a cold snap, which may be feeble by actual cold snap standards, but which is really quite chilly when you have what are essentially slightly long summer clothes with sleet and a slightly further from Antarctica Antarctic wind ;-)

I have not been to Canada, but I have been to Siberia. I preferred unpowered communes in Wales.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

I understand about the houses. We have relatives in italy and they need to sleep with hats and mits on because those stone houses just don't keep any heat.

I'd rather be here in the winter and properly dressed and sitting in front on my fireplace :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes! Exactly! Though I should be used to it because my grandparents' place in Sussex was the same. I grew soft, I tell you!

I would rather be in a Canadian interior, but not exterior, you chaps have it grim! A friend of mine was talking to Canadian pilgrims the other week, the refused to believe it was winter. Admittedly that week was more 12-20 deg C ;-)