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odycee ([personal profile] odycee) wrote2006-03-06 08:47 pm

Continuez tout droit

I thought my internet connection had mended itself but it turns out it hasn't so I'm typing this while it's having a moment. Thank goodness for Semagic!

I had a great weekend. We went for a walk in the Cotswolds on Saturday and the weather was lovely. Freezing cold when the sun went in but great when it was out. There were lots of frolicking lambs and we saw two muntjac deer. The walk was out of a book of walks around the Cotswolds and I swear to god, whoever wrote the directions was insane - I'm surprised we didn't end up in a ditch somewhere after about six miles. He was hallucinating gates, raised fuel tanks (!), lines of poplar trees, willow trees, farm equipment... If you were going to write directions for a walk which was going to published in a book, you'd probably want to avoid referencing things like what material the gates were made of, because at some point in the next however many years that the book is floating around, someone may well replace the gate with a wooden one or something equally as dastardly. At many points in the journey we marvelled at instructions such as the one to turn left at the 'tiny green triangle'. The green triangle turned out to be a small bit of grass at a T junction. Very strange.

Ooooh, I think the internet has resurrected itself. Hurrah!

[identity profile] niennah.livejournal.com 2006-03-06 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
lmao, sounds like the guy who wrote the book was having a laugh. Or on some kind of insane-making drugs.

Did you watch the Oscars? Heath robbed again! Well, I'm sure PSH was really good as Capote but I wish Heath had won.

[identity profile] odycee.livejournal.com 2006-03-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I decided he must have had syphilis. it's the only explanation.

Didn't see the Oscars, but I saw the results. I wish he'd won too. And I wish BBM had won best picture. I've not seen Crash so I can't really judge. But still. :(

[identity profile] silent-chris.livejournal.com 2006-03-08 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Directions so bad they approach a kind of anti-genius.

The Cotswolds are nice though.

[identity profile] odycee.livejournal.com 2006-03-09 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
They were anti-genius! They kept us amused for the whole way round though so they can't have been all bad!