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I went back to Belfast on Monday, this time for two days of work and staying overnight near Stormont. The trip went reasonably well and we had a good meal together on the Monday night. However it was also two long days and I was glad to be home.
On Thursday it was my birthday.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur had bought me lots of bags of dice, a new book, a music CD and Codenames (a game - not quite a boardgame, more like Fluxx). Bea bought me some chocolate bars. So far, I've eaten chocolate, but the rest will probably come on holiday with me.
I read The Last Watch, the fourth of The Night Watch series by Sergey Lukyanenko on the train this week. I liked it a lot, not least because some of it was in Scotland and involved Merlin. There were also callbacks to earlier books; it's turning into a rather nice series.
Last night we watched Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It had some lovely action sequences, which made up for the plot being rather inconsistent, but had a definite "lack of women" thing going on. Although, frankly, that's been true of all but the first one. However this one was particularly jarring because Cruise is clearly getting older, but the age of the series' female role isn't rising in the same way.
On Thursday it was my birthday.
bateleur had bought me lots of bags of dice, a new book, a music CD and Codenames (a game - not quite a boardgame, more like Fluxx). Bea bought me some chocolate bars. So far, I've eaten chocolate, but the rest will probably come on holiday with me.I read The Last Watch, the fourth of The Night Watch series by Sergey Lukyanenko on the train this week. I liked it a lot, not least because some of it was in Scotland and involved Merlin. There were also callbacks to earlier books; it's turning into a rather nice series.
Last night we watched Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It had some lovely action sequences, which made up for the plot being rather inconsistent, but had a definite "lack of women" thing going on. Although, frankly, that's been true of all but the first one. However this one was particularly jarring because Cruise is clearly getting older, but the age of the series' female role isn't rising in the same way.
