Bullace farm
Mar. 23rd, 2026 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
watervoleI belong to two Civil War reenactment groups. The Norfolke Trayned Bandes and Little Woodham.
The Norfolks have a strong connection to Bullace Farm and many of them spend a week there every year as volunteers. This year, the volunteers from LIttle Woodham are visiting the farm for a day.
I really really want to be there, but it's a three hour trip on a mini bus, and three hours back again. And I'm paranoid about long journeys. I've had three really bad (lasting more than two months) of sciatica in the last few years, and two of them were triggered by long journeys.
If you've ever had sciatica, you'll know just how painful it is. If you haven't, all I can tell you is that it's the most painful health condition I've had in my life and it can leave you pretty much immobilised for the duration.
The last bad attack was triggered by a long train journey. I chose train rather than car, as I knew I'd be able to get up and walk round at intervals, but sadly, even that and doing tai chi at stations when there were changes, wasn't enough.
By the time I got home I was in agony. My husband picked me up at the station, and I didn't do any journeys after that for quite some time. Even the short distance to physio appointments had to be done lying on the back seat of the car. Sitting upright was't an option, even for five minutes.
Over the next couple of months, I worked my way through three different physios who all agreed that I needed an operation (to be fair, my original bout of sciatica a few years before HAD needed an operation), until, finally, Manfred came back to England (he has an elderly parent in the Netherlands). I walked in with all my weight on my walking stick, and walked out without the stick.
Took a couple of weeks to finish off the job, but that man is a miracle worker. (He correctly identified the cause of my previous bout of sciatica, as well.)
Ah well, to cut a long story short, I shall not go to Bullace Farm, even though I madly want to.
If you want to know what the farm is like, watch Tales From the Green Valley.
Glinda Go Zoom!
Mar. 22nd, 2026 06:56 pmglinda(For the newer readers, I used to be a roller derby referee. Roller skating - quad skates - was a big part of my life for the back half of my twenties and my early thirties. I drifted away from it after I moved up to Inverness, but I’ve loved roller skating since I was a little kid, so while I don’t really miss derby these days I do miss skating.)
I’m still on my ice hockey kick after the Olympics and one of the knock-on effects is being really aware of how much I miss skating. I’ve been meaning to check when the public ice skating sessions are and try to convince one of my skating buddies to chum me along to a session for ages, and this weekend I finally did it. And it was great!
I haven’t been on any sort of skates since before the pandemic and I think the last time I was actual ice skates was in Princess Street Gardens just before Xmas 2013 when my then girlfriend decided that would be a cute date idea and then spent the whole session clinging to either the edges or my hand! I wasn’t sure how well it would go, but after a slightly wobbly start it all came back to me satisfyingly fast. (My buddy was even rustier but also got the hang of it eventually, we did a fair bit of skating round holding hands like kids because she’s had a stressful week and was getting into her head about it. That was pretty fun too. We had a lot of fun reminiscing about ice discos from our teen years.) The ice was a mess so I didn’t dare try crossovers or anything too fancy. (The kids team had practice that morning, and I don’t think they bothered to send the zamboni out between sessions as we got there at the start of the session and it was pretty roughed up already.) The rink skates are super rigid so my feet are a bit sore from that - actually I ache all over from nearly 90 minutes of skating, but I had so much fun. My buddy gave up after the first 45 mins of so and went and got a hot drink and heckled from the sidelines while I went zooming around gleefully with a big stupid grin on my face. I was high as a kite, all the good endorphins. We’re going back - or at least we’re going to try the rink at Aviemore instead. I cannot stop grinning!
( I do not need my own ice skates. I do not.)
Spider Quinn 03: Comes Great Responsibility
Mar. 22nd, 2026 07:32 pmfardell24fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14543824/3/Spider-Quinn
Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78701331/chapters/206375231
Reviews and/or comments are welcome, and would be appreciated.
Church notes in March 2026 so far
Mar. 22nd, 2026 05:07 pmfardell248th March 2026: https://fardell34.blogspot.com/2026/03/church-notes-8th-march-2026.html
15th March 2026: https://fardell34.blogspot.com/2026/03/church-notes-15th-march-2026.html
22nd March 2026: https://fardell34.blogspot.com/2026/03/church-notes-22nd-march-2026.html
Church notes - 22nd March 2026
Mar. 22nd, 2026 04:58 pmfardell24Context
Purpose
Biblical Arc - leading to and following from Jesus' death and resurrection
Exodus 8:16 - 22
Philippians 4:7
Peace
Gr. Eierei (erio)
Join, Bind, Weave together
God Confronts Oppression
Colossians 2:13 - 15
Exodus 3:7, 7
Gnats
- The magicians couldn't replicate the feat.
- - "It is the finger of God."
Flies
- The Israelites were spared.
Matthew 6:10
Heaven on Earth.
Salvation - "Out of" and "in to"
Salvation reshapes identity and life.
Israel receives
- A new identity
- A new way of living (Torah)
- A new relationship (Covenant)
- A new calling (a kingdom of priests)
You can know you're forgiven, but still be a slave.
What do you need deliverance from today?
What are you a slave to?
What oppressive patterns are you trapped in?
The Friday On The Saturday But With Other Stuff
Mar. 21st, 2026 07:10 pmmagnavox_23In that vein, would anyone have any recommendations for communities/websites etc where I could find some lovely sapphic imagery? I've the urge to explore some more Thasmin art... possibly due to the spoilers coming from Big Finish... I am not fussed on rating, I'll make it work.
onto the meme!
1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)?
I had friends on the SG1archive that were on Livejournal, and found it had a better community for the creative side of fandom than the forums. Joined LJ in 2007, mirrored DW as soon as I could get an invite, and finished up with my personal LJ when the Russians banned LGBTQI+2 content in 2017. I ran the
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sg1_debrief on both sites until the post dried up. 2. How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to?
49, though if anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to build on that. Drag me out of my shell!
3. Do you have a favourite community or one you check out often to see what's new?
Probably the icon communities, I love seeing everyone's amazing work. Back in the day I loved running the challenges on
event_horizons because there were/are so few spaces where fic and art are respected equally, and running sg_delights as a safe space for mature fanart. I do try to check my reading list at least once a week, life just gets in the way!4. How did you pick your user name?
An old tv and a teenage obsession with Latin?
5. If you could change your user name, would you?
Nah, it's been too long now. I'm just Mags...
6. If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it?
Surprisingly, I am. I have periodically popped in just to keep it active so folks there can still access my older works, etc.
7. Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?
I remember Denise posted something a while back about them trying to restrict use to Russian users only and implementing a pay to play system so they could track citizen's online activity hence an influx of new DW users. How many of our governments are trying much the same, dressed up as 'think of the children' whilst supporting the orange pedo starting another war...
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Spider Quinn 20 The Imitation Tempest Part 9
Mar. 18th, 2026 08:16 pmfardell24“The Fourth Vigilante is here to see you, sir.”
“Let her in.”
“Yes, sir.”
A minute later, the Enigma stormed in, with her hands glowing faintly.
“I know why you’re here, Sandi,” he said after the doors were closed.
“Do you?” the Enigma asked, as the glow intensified.
“You’re going to ask me why I am having you and the others followed. The answer should be obvious.”
“That you don’t want us to be in your way as you plot to gain more control over Lawndale?”
“That is a strong word,” Osborn said.
“That is what you’re doing.”
“You don’t have proof of that, and I know you’re not in the school paper.”
“I’m not, but, like, I am still investigating what you are up to, along with whatever else in Lawndale that you may not be responsible for,” the Enigma sot
“So, you’re not seeing the hand of Oscorp in everything?”
“No. There is a line between suspicion and conspiracy theories.”
“But I’m sure you’re engaging in the latter regarding SpiderGirl,” Osborn taunted.
“I’m not! She is overhyped, playing up the fact that she is Lawndale’s first superhero, and getting the credit for everything.”
“That is why I am doing what I’m doing!”
“No it isn’t,” the Enigma shot back. “You want to bring her down, as well as Ninja Talon, the Shadow and Dafoanairi.”
“I neither confirm nor deny, but I say that you are a variable that I could capture right now.”
The Enigma raised a forcefield. “Not without a fight and a lot of damage to this office, and you would have to explain to Harry why his friend disappeared.”
“That’s true. But that doesn’t mean I can’t try, or make something up.”
“You’re going to test me? You think I haven’t prepared?”
“I know you have some ace up your sleave, but yes,” Osborn responded become pressing a button and a panel opened revealing several of those pumpkin bombs.
Dafoanairi was ready, especially when she saw the window of the office open and one of the Enigma’s energy projections was shot out. She quickly moved to the window as the Enigma ran out.
“I know someone else is there,” Osborn said from inside the office.
Dafoanairi remained silent; she didn’t want Osborn to try to identify her from her voice, even if she was disguising it by pitching it higher. She let down a rope to a lower ledge.
“Let’s go. I did what I came to do,” the Engima said.
‘Which wasn’t much,’ Dafoanairi thought.
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Ncuti Gatwa in 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:56 pmwatervole
Go here to watch the performance
I've just watched it and it's great!
Excellent cast all round, great costumes (Gatwa looks amazing in his skin tight suit)
I mean, what could possible fail to delight in a show which starts with Gatwa playing a piano in a ballgown?
Multi-racial cast, loads of laughs, Algernon and Jack definitely have bromance going on, and Oscar Wilde's brilliant script.
I think Wilde would have loved this performance as much as I did.
You've got one more day to watch it before the free view comes to an end!