Compliments of the season!

[altariel]

I've failed to send out cards this year on account of finishing up teh book, so I've spent my stamp money on some good gifts for you all instead. Please then to be enjoying your hive of bees and your puffin aid.

We are off to London this afternoon to spend the holiday with J&K&R. Whatever festival you are celebrating at this time of year, be it Yule, the Solstice, Hannukah, Christmas or Gauda Prime Day, I hope that you are well and happy, and rest assured that we shall be raising a glass to you all:

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[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Festive greetings to you too. Have a good one.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[gair.livejournal.com]

BEEES!!!!

(Bees are my secret Vergil totem - they were central to the conception of, then cut from every version of, the thesis/book. So I am very happy with my hive!)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Georgics! I did not know they were your totem, that is fortuitous!

[gair.livejournal.com]

The Georgics, which are completely brilliant, but also the Aeneid which is way intertextual - the best sentence I ever wrote in the thesis (which was cut before the final version, again) was 'Aeneas loves Dido because she is a bee.' (This is true! At least, there is a bee simile and all of a sudden Aeneas is in love with Dido.)

This is my new Vergil icon!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I like your new icon! Your sentence would fit on an LJ icon, which is almost like having it in your thesis, surely? At the least you could certainly fit "because she is a bee" on an icon.

[gair.livejournal.com]

I have been making icons between paragraphs! (Here is another one.)

Now everyone's feelings have been sorted out in my story and I have to write the plot, so I will certainly make a BECAUSE SHE IS A BEE icon.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Bees! And puffins! Are very good Christmas cards indeed.

Have a lovely holiday!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I thought so too, although I was tempted by the goats.

Safe travelling to you, and *hugs*

[infinitlight.livejournal.com]

I *love* puffins.

Uh, bees are nice, too, I just don't feel so strongly about them.

I have just eaten huge amounts of fresh bread, and there is a sleeping kitten beside me. Life's good.

Peace and best wishes to you and yours, and thank you for being one of the voices in the internet-wilderness that kept me sane this year.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love puffins too, ever since learning to read courtesy of Puffin Books and being a member of their Puffin Club.


I have just eaten huge amounts of fresh bread, and there is a sleeping kitten beside me. Life's good.

Happiness is...!

All the very best to you, and here's to striving for more internet-sanity next year.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Definitely my favourite kind of Xmas card. Thank you.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

All the best to you and yours!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay puffin aid and bees! And all hail Servalan! I for one welcome our new midwinter deity.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Happy Servie-day!

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Happy Christmas et al!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And to you!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

What a sweet little puffin!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I thought so too! :-)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Happy Christmas to you and yours

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hope things are more restful for you now.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Have a fantastic holiday! (Can't wait for teh book.*g*)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And to you! (Me too! *g*)

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas and much happy reading and writing. :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Rather late, but Happy New Year, and hope to see you soon :-)

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Puffins, yay! Thanks -- warmth of the season to you & your family.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Thank you! A perfect choice of gifts ;-)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Ack! Bees! ;) (Of course, that is one meaning of my name, so... ;)

I adore puffins, though-- have you ever gone to Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel? They're a puffin haven. :)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Merry Christmas to you both and hope you have a great holiday.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Have a great holiday!

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas

May your garland never lose its radiance.

Finishing your book is a grand Christmas gift.

mk

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Is that the mighty Nick Brimble on the right?
Merry Christmas.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes it is the mighty Saint Nicholas Brimble, well done you! (Do you also cheer whenever a Brimble appears on screen?)

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

I find you don't tend to see his brothers on telly so much these days, I don't know why. I will admit to a small exclamation of delight when he turned up in A Knight's Tale, though.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Repeats of The Professionals and The Sweeney are also fertile Brimble territory.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. There's one - I can't remember whether it's a Sweeney or a Professionals - where he played an ex-con just out of prison and looking for revenge and he tied a hawk's feather behind his ear and I thought that was the coolest thing I'd seen. (I was young and I was from Sheffield; I hadn't seen many cool things yet.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It must be The Professionals, he's a semi-regular copper in The Sweeney. But I'd have to rootle around the box set to make sure. Look at his fascinating bio.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Hm. The IMDb rules out The Sweeney - he's listed as a Detective Constable. He did two Professionals but neither of them sounds familiar. Could've been Dempsey And Makepeace. I see with interest he did Danger UXB and an episode of Space 1999, too, both of which I'd forgotten about.

That is an interesting CV, isn't it? I knew some of it already, but I'd never heard about the lecturing in Baghdad before.

[kerravonsen]

(laughs at the Federation officers having their Christmas cheer around the portrait of Servalan Sleer)

Merry Christmas!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Splendid choices both - thank you!

I hope you're now safely in London, and have a completely splendid time with J&K&R. Enjoy it!

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Same to you. Thanks to you also, I discovered a xmas present for myself.

The Red File Of Callan, found at local secondhand bookshop for a whopping 40c.

Happy New Year!

:)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Enjoy! And Happy New Year :-)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy the holiday.

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, another book! *adds to Amazon wish list*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! :-D

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Yay, puffins. Puffins are A Good Thing. (We have a very cute finger-puppet one brought back from the trip to Lundy that took place over First Small Person's birthday. It is, inevitably, called Nuffin.)

More than happy for stamp and card money to go on puffins and bees :-)

Hope you've had a wonderful relaxing holiday and come back refreshed and recharged!

[greylin.livejournal.com]

Happy Christmas! What lovely presents. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a gorgeous icon!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Bees, hurrah! (My parents were beekeepers for a while.) And surely everyone reading your LJ realizes that sending out a book is more important than sending out cards. I wish my excuse was so worthy. :D