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So in my quest to revise French, I've ordered another French book (like I need it; I own a fair few already. But to be fair, it was one I was already coveting).

The reason I ended up ordering it is this: sometimes when mum's making internet orders on her tablet, she has trouble, I assume, because the screen is small. Or the internet decides to hang, which is a regular occurrence in our house. Then she gets in a snit about it. Anyway, this time she made a book order because she wanted the free gift. She wasn't feeling so good, and the website was getting on her nerves, so I completed the form for payment details. Except I made a boo-boo when I clicked "pay with paypal", because I forgot to put in the code for the free gift.

Mum was a little displeased by that.

I say a little, I mean a lot.

So I said, since the website sold cheap books, which are like catnip to me, that I would make an order, and I would add the code for the free gift, and then we would have a copy anyway. So I did. I ordered a book of German verbs*, and a more up-to-date/in depth French dictionary than any of the ones I currently own**. I also ordered a book about angels (because I'm obsessed with them), and a book about folk music which I'm essentially buying for mum (because she's into it), but also because it has sheet music for ninety traditional folk songs and I'm interested in that side of it. Plus the free gift, of course, which is a book about the villages of Britain.

If they are still available in a little bit, I'm going to go back and get the French grammar and verbs books that go with the dictionary. BECAUSE LANGUAGES GIVE THEM TO MEEEEEEEEEEE.

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I had a dumb idea for a story on Friday and thought I'd spend the weekend figuring out how it works. Except that here we are, on Sunday, and I've spent most of that time playing Skyrim.

Er, whoops.

And when I'm not playing Skyrim, I've spent the rest of the time making name lists (though as I said on twitter, not the way Arya Stark makes name lists ;) ). Which I've just finished doing. I have more male names than female, as is usual, but this time it wasn't because I was being picky (I wasn't), it was because my resources were skewed towards male names.

But it's a dumb idea and I love it a lot and it amuses me, so I'm running with it while I've got the impetus to do so.

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*I probably don't need any more German grammar books, but it's been literal years since I bought one and I needs them, precious.

**I do have a fairly modern one, but it's meant for high school students, so has less words than I'd like.