Sick again

Oct. 17th, 2025 12:07 am
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Once again I seem to be suffering some kind of 48 hour bug. This time it’s a full D&V. I went to bed at 16:00 and am up because I can’t sleep and thought that a lemon and ginger tea might help.

So far it hasn’t, I’m just being sick again, and my stomach hurts, just under my ribs. It’s miserable.

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Oct. 10th, 2025 05:52 pm
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It’s been several days since I came down with this whatever-it-is but l’m still not quite recovered. Grump.

October country

Oct. 8th, 2025 10:46 am
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Time for my annual pitch for The Hallowed Hunt as a suitably spooky autumn-themed read...



Unlike the protagonists of the other two books in the Chalion trio (to which this is NOT a sequel -- it takes place a couple of centuries earlier in another country) grumpy main character Ingrey kin Wolfcliff does not become a five-gods-style saint in the course of his adventures, but rather, a [spoiler], if only for one harrowing night. Very different job description.

Some of its matters do reconnect with Penric & Desdemona in "Penric and the Shaman", if one wants some worldbuilding cross-illumination.


https://www.amazon.com/Hallowed-Hunt-... among other sources. Also in audio wherever Blackstone markets.

Happy Halloween reading!

Ta, L.

(I tried to mask a spoiler, above, as per the Goodreads formatting tips <spoiler> word </spoiler> but according to the Preview function it just appeared as plain text anyway. If anyone knows the trick of this, shout out in the comments.)

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on October, 08

Back!

Oct. 7th, 2025 01:48 pm
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I am home from being away for the weekend. A weekend away was just what I needed, it was lovely to see some old friends.

My journey back, however, was rather horrible, I had just left the place I was staying when I started to get stomach pains. I managed until I got to Birmingham when I started to get diarrhoea.

For the rest of the journey I was in the train loo every half an hour. Even today I am still not quite well - I think it is a 48 hour bug. I feel a bit dizzy and not quite the ticket.

The cats seem vaguely happy to see me back, but have retreated to my bedroom. For the very first time last night they were both on my bed without handbags at dawn breaking out. Perhaps they felt sorry for me.

Edited to add: while I was away, Storm Amy brought my back fence down. This is the second time my fence has come down in North Wales winds. My insurance does not cover fences, hedges or gates, so I have to find funds to put the fence back up. I have no idea where that is going to come from.

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