Happy New Year, my LJ lovelies.
I know I am largely absent from your lives these days, but I will never forget any of you.
I'm very excited about 2011, and I hope this year brings good things to you all.

LB xxx

Well, I get to go online so little these days, I only noticed two hours ago that we'd had the 'Big Reveal' at the Exchange.
Yes ... quick off the mark ... that's me.

I only got to read the first few stories at the exchange before life sort of went supernova, but what I read, I enjoyed. I'll try to get through the rest of them over the summer.

I just wanted to say thank you to ladybirdington for my wonderful story, To be Lived, which you can find here:
http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_exchange/149631.html

I was so lucky to receive a fab prompt fromjemags_brown , and the result was Affected Recollections, which I only had four days to write. Thus, it was a short tale, but it really was fantastically good fun to write. I know most of you have read it already (thank you for your kind reviews), but if you're VERY bored, you can find it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_exchange/155130.html

I've posted the first chapter on the various archives in the past hour, so you can find it there, too.

Hugs and kisses to all, especially to lady_karelia , who, as always, worked her beta magic. :)

I have the next half hour all to myself! Can you believe it?
I haven't done a meme since before Christmas! Yay!
And I feel so guilty about never getting to play on LJ anymore that I will make
this comment-free, so that you don't all have to say nice things and then I won't feel bad. LOL.

 

( Meme ... )

I just checked my e-mail and found out, much to my delight, that Denial has won 'Best non-canon Romance' in the 2008 QSQ Awards over on Mugglenet!!! I'm so delighted! I had completely forgotten about that nomination, so it was quite a surprise. After the noms, the awards were decided by a panel of judges rather than readers' votes, so I feel doubly honoured to have won. Here's teh pretty, made my YourWildestDreams:




A huge thank you to sarahandcocoa  and phoenix5225  for their kind nominations, and congratulations to the other winners, a list of whom can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.mugglenet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=323184#post323184


Squeeeeeeeee!

Hello, my loves. Yes, I am still alive, but only managing to make it online about once a week at the mo.
Thought I would share a hilarious current news story with you in relation to Brian Cowen (our Barrack Obama/Gordon Browne).
I'm pasting directly from the RTE NEWS website www.rte.ie/news and here, first, is a little guide for some of what goes on in the story.

Taoiseach = Prime Minister/President (pronounced Tea Shock)
RTE = Radio Teilifis Eireann. (Irish Radio and Television)
Garda/Gardai = Police
Fianna Fail = Political party currently in power
Fine Gael = The main opposition political party

If you have a minute, do read. It's very funny.

( LOLZ ... )Fair balls to that teacher, I say. May he live long and prosper!

It is pelting snow. In Dublin. In March.
This is entirely unacceptable.