Rah, boo and yay, in equal measures.

[chaletian]

The last couple of days have been characterised by my complete and utter stupidity. Due to going on holiday on Monday (yoicks!) I had to do my transport sums, as I didn’t want to pay for a month’s travelcard. Did my sums, came up with a plan, which involved saving about £35. Excellent, say we all. Not so excellent, say I, because I am stupid. I won’t go into details, because they make me furious with myself; suffice it to say that I have made today’s zone 1-3 travelcard cost £20 instead of £8. Rahhhh.

In other news, also rah. Now, I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way. I am pro-freckles. I like freckles. However, when I go out in the sun in the summer and get freckly, mine aren’t cute little things. No, I get ugly brown splodges all over my face which, in combination with the predominantly vermilion shade of my complexion, make me look like A FUCKING LEPER. Or at least extremely dirty. So, boo, skin.

Went to see Mamma Mia with Katie and Kathye. It was FANTASTIC – the most enjoyable thing I’ve seen at the cinema for ages, even though it was completely ridiculous. The only downside was that we didn’t get into the cinema itself until the trailers, and we couldn’t sit together, which was tragic because it is the last film during which you want to be separated from your friends. Also, Katie and I are maybe going to see X-Files in Richmond on Sunday if we have time.

Have become slightly obsessed with Russian history since the tragic revelations about Anastasia. Currently reading the Royal Diary of Anastasia (yay children’s books, is all I have to say) and eagerly anticipating the arrival of The Curse of the Romanovs, which is, natch, about Alexei going forward to 2010 to try and save his family, where he meets a Romanov descendent who is trying to cure haemophilia. How awesome is that going to be?!

Anyway, have bought a load of books recently (very self-indulgently), mainly because the time is coming for Book Decisions for the holiday. I am definitely taking The Curse of the Romanovs, also Eclipse (the third Twilight book), which I have been saving as a special treat. Also, Katie got Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? out of the library for me, and I have vol 2 of Sandman, and got Eva Ibbotson’s A Song for Summer off Amazon.

Comments

[pim2005.livejournal.com]

suffice it to say that I have made today’s zone 1-3 travelcard cost £20 instead of £8. Rahhhh

I did that last month. I was so fucking cross with myself for it.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

It's so infuriating!!

[katherinea.livejournal.com]

My friend had to pay £20 for a bus journey because she forgot to touch in on her Oystercard. (She normally gets on a bus where you get on at the front and can't relaly forget.) But not only did they fine her £20 they took her Oystercard away from her! What's that all about? Gah TFL Gah. Let's hope they spend all our money on making the trains work. There's a hope.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

LOL let's not get too optimistic...

[mrsrev.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine? About Queen Victoria's doctor, haemophilia and the House of Lords. And set around Primrose Hill/St John's Wood which has made me want to go and look round there now.

[(Anonymous)]

You'll make her buy even more books!

[katherinea.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was I. LJ is being stupid.

[karababe-64.livejournal.com]

I was obsessed with the Anastasia mystery for quite a while. Did quite a bit of reading on it and worked it into a couple of school projects. I think I;ve read the Royal Diary book. It was pretty good, actually all the books in that series were good. Have you seen the Disney movie? Its quite enjoyable although very inaccurate :)

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

It is on our DVD shelf! I love it, though rampantly inaccurate, as you say...

I'm just so sad that she definitely didn't survive... *weeps*

[karababe-64.livejournal.com]

I know. So sad. Although I have read a book (at least I read the first chapter :D) about how the British government has files and photos of one of the older girls in England in the 1920's but she died a couple of years later due to injuries she had sustained during her escape. So maybe all the theories had a grain of truth in them :D

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish so ridiculously much that they were true!!! Lenin apparently wasn't convinced that they were dead...

It's funny, actually, I did a spot of googling this week, and found some full-on conspiracy they-all-survived-it-was-a-soviet plot pages about how the DNA testing etc was all faked and they were just random bodies... *g* Sadly I cannot bring myself to belief this.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

Or even believe... *g*

[karababe-64.livejournal.com]

Considering that the DNA testing didn't occur until after the soviet rulers had lost power I find it very hard to believe that theory. Still its fun to read and speculate on it all :)

The Curse of the Romanovs

[(Anonymous)]

Hello from Irvington, New York. Thanks for the mention of my book, THE CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS. I feel honored that it's going in your holiday travel bag, along with ECLIPSE. I admire Ms. Meyer's book TWILIGHT-- haven't read the rest of the series yet. Bon voyage!

Best wishes,
Staton Rabin

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