Maru Yakalskovich spreads fandom and civilisation

My Little Lady was both bored and ouchy just now (she is old enough to be ouchy in a TMI way now; well, she turns 13 tomorrow), so to distract her, I took her to my computer to show her something, and when I said 'Bad luck we can't watch movies', she said 'Why not?' and I looked and saw I had some episodes of Doctor Who on my netbook.

One of them was a standalone, so I introduced my Little Lady to the Doctor. Her English is finally good enough. Never mind her grades, she can follow an episode of Doctor Who, so that's good enough for my standards.

She got what was funny in the beginning, then she got why the next part with their dad being missing and the dreadful telegram was so sad, she followed it right along, asked for a word here and there, I told her what she couldn't know (What is a police box? What is a TARDIS?), and we got to half-time when her folks wanted to leave and go home, as all her little brothers have a strep infection.

We'll continue the episode tomorrow. If we can have an USB stick, we might even hijack the huge TV in their living room.

In any case, advancement of civilisation was achieved.-

Maru cheats at art

What Pan Walther did with great care by hand & with smelly chemicals, I can nowadays do with some picture editing program and a working knowledge of histogram curves. I had been wanting to try for a while; when I took a walk with my mum this evening, I took some pictures with my new camera (which is neither new nor mine), then frobbed the results a bit, and here we are:



Memories Of A Special Place I.




Memories Of A Special Place II.




Memories Of A Special Place III.