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Thanks for all the birthday wishes - I had a good day, went to see Captain America: Civil War and had pizza. Then crashed with the cats for a while.

( Brief thoughts on Civil War behind here )

And some Lola pictures:





(She likes smelly human areas - she is one of those cats)

I am spending a day doing very little, because I need a break from all the sewing. I know I am going to get paid for all said sewing, but yeah, just so much.
(Part of me regrets saying 'yeah sure I will make you three more mummies to use for ed sessions' the other part is like 'they are going to pay you for them' - but most of my non-work time has been committed to making said mummies, and it was making me a little mental, enough that mum commented on me looking like I hated the sewing machine last sunday *heh*)

So basically that is why I have been so quiet recently - have watched Highlander in evenings as pinning stuff together, and oh the scottish accents are so terrible. I love the first movie, and Christopher Lambert's accent does not bother me, because it actually works historically, at the time he was meant to live there was a lot of French/Scottish bonds, so it's ironically suitable. And Sean Connery is Sean Connery.)
Duncan just sounds so awful in all the flashbacks, it's almost as bad as the Geordie they did on Castle. It makes me think of Leverage and the Rashomon job, and how the others think Sophie sounds. I am guessing the accent is due to what the show wanted, cos I'd hope Adrian Paul would know what scots sound like.

Work is, crazy? I know my job is safe, for now, but so many of the others have been messed around, and literally we got a last minute annoucement on thursday saying that they now have until September (original was 31st March, but they had made no decisions, or given any notice, so that had kinda become impossible given that it was the 17th March - such a crazy mess).
We are going to have serious staffing issues (due to all the messing around) so it's going to be fun, but at least we have an answer for the moment.

I went to Manchester Museum at the end of February - I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would? It's a strange museum, attached to the University and barely sign posted, which was fun.

( They did allow pictures - includes animal mummies and taxidermy )

In other news, we may be getting two new kittens (after debate of whether to ever have any again, mum decided she'd rather have an overlap, our three remaining are all elderly now) - a Bengal and a Maine Coon - but we'll see. Parents are visiting the Bengal tomo, to see if they get along, and the Maine Coon is still only a few weeks old.

It'll be a change, and it'll be nice to have little ones in the house again (we've done little pups a few times in the last ten years, but kittens it's been twelve years).

I intended to post before now - but somehow have failed to do so - at some point there will be a post with my aims and such for the year, but not today.

So, it's getting colder (and there was snow in Cumbria today) but we've still got rain for the moment. It's been relatively quite on the storm front, yay. Work is settling back to normal (things are still weird due to the unknowns with all the council proposed changes, and the effects of the floods and sadly one of the peeps based elsewhere died at New Year, so the inital week was weird.)

I have a weekend off, and a trip to London (Crime Museum exhibition! Special curatorial talk about said exhibition *bounces* - plus Celtic Art exhibition at the British Museum, though those are Mon & Tues stuffs, sat and sun will be visiting with peeps).

I did not manage to read 100 books last year (closer again though, 85) - so that's an aim again this year. I'm planning to mostly read books written by women/poc, and books with female/POC/LGBT/disabled main characters, though I have some from last year's pile to finish that don't fall under that. But if anyone has any recs they would be much appreciated (I favour plot over romance).

Work peep E and I are having more convos about stuffs - she was unimpressed with her latest book on the suffragettes (written by a man, and written from the pov that they didn't need to do what they did, almost having rights should have been enough, or they should have wanted universal suffrage). We have random convos about a mix of things, and they are always interesting, and we exchange books more often now *g*

I am also attempting to stealth make her a Pike scarf before the Dad's Army film comes out, I now have chunky wool, because DK was taking forever, but I need to poke at the stitch to figure out what type looks closest.

I hope all are well, and the year has treated you well so far!