Man o' action.

[reddragdiva]

• The Fujifilm F100fd is not as good for low light as the F20/30/31fd, but it's the best these days. If you want something robust but slightly bigger, Panasonix TX3 is the current best superzoom.

• English Fail Blog.

• Q. What is karma? A. Credit Suisse paying bonuses in mortgage-backed securities.

• NotN: Branson takes over NHS; Merry Thursday and a happy new Thursday; Culture secretary to rate all websites. Photo: mutoid waste company; five volts of christmas joy.

Tomorrow is arkady's birthday. We are all going to the Pembury around 3pm. You are invited.

I shall see nyecamden there, after far too long. Namecheck namecheck!

Fredamas was Fredamas. In The Night Garden DVDs and cuddly Iggle Piggle, Upsy-Daisy and Makka-Pakka (she waves Upsy-Daisy at the screen when she's doing the gazebo dance at the end), cuddly Lola from Charlie and Lola, red Hello Kitty shirt and red skirt and red tights and piles of other clothes. And a VTech Baby's Laptop, designed by the same mad child psychologists who designed her robot companion. Same voice actor too. I wonder who she is.

Arkady, redcountess and I did more house rebuilding today. Anyone with a car who can help us get several boxes from here to the Salvation Army on Forest Road?

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[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Merry Thursday... was excellent, I have to say.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Ah, this explains why I haven't seen any NotN via LJ lately: it's “Too big” for the syndication thing. Whatever that means.

[reddragdiva]

This is breakage in the RSS feed. It should be feeding the summary, but is too often feeding the entire post. Apparently at random.

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

We are all going to the Pembury around 3pm. You are invited.

I shall be there.

I should note that there's no roast tomorrow; the kitchen will be open 12–3 and 6–9 as on a normal weekday. Simon took 25th–27th off and so has not had time to prepare.

[reddragdiva]

we'll probably be there from 3pm-6pm or even 3pm-5pm. Depends how long Freda puts up with it :-)

The girls appear to be doing dinnery things at home. Certainly a cake.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

malwen might be able to take some stuff down to the Sally Army for you. They won't be open today though, will they? I'll ask him. We have taken approx 5 carloads to charity shop (Scope for us normally) or tip so far.

[reddragdiva]

Probably not today, but whenever would be good!

We don't really care which charity shop, whichever one the driver prefers is just fine by us! We'd just rather not just trash it all. Toys, knick-knacks, outgrown baby clothes, unwanted adult clothes, the girls' stuff that should never have been shipped over from Wales ...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

OK, we're happy to help. Will need to be Tuesday because we're off to Lakeside or Bluewater or something like that for the day tomorrow.

Cheers

Alison

[reddragdiva]

Whatever's good for you!

I'll call the Sallies and Scope and whoever to see who'd accept a carload of random crap ...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Based on our experience, I think they're all happy to take a carload of random crap (provided it's usable items not actual rubbish of course); we think Sally Army is a lot easier to park by though, so that's probably the best choice if you really do have a car full.

I realise I don't have proper contact details for you -- I know you're just round the corner. We'll plan for Tuesday morning. My contact details are here (http://bohemiancoast.livejournal.com/21148.html).

[reddragdiva]

Mine are top of my LJ.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

TX3? You mean the LX3?

I got one of those recently, and it's vastly better in dynamic range and image quality from my Fujifilm F45fd (despite the F45fd ostensibly having lower pixel density and a Fujifilm SuperCCD); I'm guessing the large f/2.0 lens has a lot to do with it. In fact, it's the first compact camera I've had that feels like a worthy successor to my PowerShot G2, rather than a compromise.