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shewho ([personal profile] shewho) wrote2006-06-12 02:23 pm

something for the (magickal) weekend....

much as i loathe the summer, despite it containing my birthday, summer weekends do have the potential to be amazingly magickal.

this weekend contained, in no particular magickal order:

[livejournal.com profile] fugitvemotel's birthday drinks at the faltering fullback with football on t'telly.

♥ dancing to [livejournal.com profile] dr_f_dellamorte and co in a bar in Hoxton that wasn't full of gunts and was actually much fun.

BONVING!!!! or more accurately spectating at the bonving in Regents Park whilst drinking champagne and eating strawberries.

♥ playing in the sandpit, courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] thechild. You should have seen our castle! it was HUGE! though we did have a bit of help from a crack team of Kosovan labourers and a small child that followed me around silently. hmmmmm.

slimelight. yeah yeah, shudduppaya face.

♥ early morning wandering through Dalston in search of cider. it already being baking and only 5am or so.... market traders doing things......

♥ party with ace folk until well into sunday.

♥ my first ever visit to the open air theatre in Regents Park - what a glorious venue! surrounded by trees, sitting in the end of the sun towards the end of the day watching my top magickal thing of the weekend.....

♥ ....which was Daniel Kitson. marvellous, absolutely marvellous. first half comprising a set of excellent stand up, second half being told stories in the dark with tears rolling down my face, interspersed with songs from a chap whose name i have forgotten but with a lovely voice and a guitar.

Seriously, chaps, that was the happiest i have been in a long time. i love that man. i may be feeling post-weekend toxic, but i'm still up there.....

[identity profile] drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A perfect summer weekend. Utterly glorious.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
i hope it hasn't peaked too soon though! more glorious summer please, thanks!

[identity profile] thermaland.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually summer doesn't begin for another week, but I know what you gals mean.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
what what what? since when was june *not* summer?

[identity profile] thermaland.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Since at least February 1582. Every late spring we have this conversation. And indeed every time [livejournal.com profile] barrysarll mentions obscure pagan rituals and equinoxes and what have you and insists it's the world that's out of step with him.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
but that article does not cite its sources! tis all a filthy lie! don't make me agree with barrington or something.....

[identity profile] thermaland.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes it does:

Gregorian reform of the calendar: Proceedings of the Vatican conference to commemorate its 400th anniversary, 1582-1992, ed. G. V. Coyne, M. A. Hoskin, and O. Pedersen (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Specolo Vaticano, 1983).

Footnotes
^ House of Commons Journal Volume 8, 9 June, 1660 Regicides.
^ Mike Spathaky Old Style and New Style Dates and the change to the Gregorian Calendar: A summary for genealogists
^ The Month Poem

External links
Inter Gravissimas, Gregory XIII's bull introducing the new calendar (Latin and French)
Inter Gravissimas (Latin and French plus English)
British Calendar Act 1751
Frequently Asked Questions about Calendars
The Perpetual Calendar Gregorian Calendar adoption dates for many countries.
Synoptical Julian - Gregorian calendar Compare Old and New Style dates 1582 - 2100.
Gregorian Calendar Printer
Chronology of change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar"

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.


there is at least one lie on that page! wikipedia does my head in.

[identity profile] perfectlyvague.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
WHEN IS MIDSUMMER'S EVE THEN YOU GOOF!

[identity profile] thermaland.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Over there. *points*

[identity profile] exliontamer.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray for lovely weekends!

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah yeah yeah :) now listen. did i fall over at slimelight? my bruised posterior is telling me so, but i really can't rememeber....

[identity profile] exliontamer.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that I can remember, but after about midnight on Saturday night everything gets very hazy..

[identity profile] green-badger.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Regents Park theatre is lovely. I must arrange to go there again.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A Midsummer Night's Dream is on there at the moment if you fancy it. I know D definitely doesn't, and I quite want to have a look.....

[identity profile] drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
If ticket sales dwindle we usually get sent a bundle over last minute. I'll let you know if anything comes in. But then as long as the weather stays fabulous I doubt we'll get anything.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh, that'd be ace, if it happens!

ta!

[identity profile] suicideally.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to see that! Let me know if you're going.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
excellent! will investigate and let you know :)

[identity profile] green-badger.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I went to see that there a couple of years ago. It is the best setting for it ever, I would quite happily see it again. :)

[identity profile] ms-cc.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I would definetly be up for going to that.. count me in too!

[identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Gavin Osbourne. He is good, innee.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
well remembered sir! had you seen him previously?

[identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes - when I saw Kitson at the Albany, the second half of the show then was the same as the second half last night, in rougher form.

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
aaaah. when i saw him at the albany it was even rougher than that, i.e. less stories and no music...

hablo

[identity profile] la-pasionaira.livejournal.com 2006-06-20 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
contigo
i loved hable con ella

Re: hablo

[identity profile] shewho.livejournal.com 2006-06-21 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
it is a Very Good Film indeed! I haven't seen an Almodovar film that I didn't like. Yet.....

Re: hablo

[identity profile] la-pasionaira.livejournal.com 2006-06-21 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
wait till volver is released in this country,
fab