Happy New Year!

[altariel]

We are back from our Christmas visit to K&J&R where we ate and drank and were merry, saw the wonderful and brilliant toft_froggy, played many excellent games, including hide and seek with a tiny person and the highly addictive Zeus on the Loose, and OF COURSE watched Ghost Watch.

While I was away, the cover art to The Never-Ending Sacrifice was released: article about 2009/2010 Trek releases here or cut straight to big image here. I think it's smashing.

Last year I wrote a novel and a short story or two, read many books and essays, became a godmother, and I have landed in 2009 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Today I'm going to do the washing, finish Anne Enright's The Gathering, make a planetarium, and perhaps catch up on some email. Happy New Year to you all, may your eyes too be bright and your tails extremely bushy.

Comments

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Also, how on earth are you going to make a planetarium? Don't you need a really big domed room? And lots of paper and scissors?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Science Museum has done the work so that I don't have to.

Although it took me a good two hours to assemble the thing - and that's only the northern hemisphere! It is, however, completely brilliant.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a planetarium of manageable size for the 8+ range. Brilliant.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I'd have struggled with this as an 8 year old. Some of the hole-punching and card-folding was quite tricky even for my deft and cunning fingers.