all made up with nowhere to go

Having a LotR lovefest. It is totally the fault of Howard Goodall, because he does a film music (and sometimes video game music) show on Classic FM. This week he played an hour of stuff from the LotR scores because today is sixty years since The Fellowship of the Ring was published. So obviously I was in film music heaven, because I love the scores.

And I decided to watch Fellowship because it's about a million years (actually five) since I last watched the films and there's sod all on TV.

(I don't really talk about LotR much these days and I'm not in the fandom, but I have a bunch of happy memories and experiences because of it, and that's cool. And I will always love it because of that. Also Balrogs. I will never not want to draw Balrogs).

(P.S. it's also the reason my cat tag is "and my cat". Imagine Gimli saying "And my AXE!" except replace axe with cat and...there's my tag).

Two Towers tomorrow and maybe Return of the King IF I can be bothered for both of them in one day.

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On Wednesday, we had a family outing. It was good, a good time was had, and things were bought. Despite being confronted by the most amazing yarns, I had no desire to buy any more (even though there were several great colour combos, and also some yarn I'd been looking for more of for YEARS). Although I would like to reduce my stash at the moment which...given I don't want to knit or crochet right now, is a little difficult. (I think it's stupid brain right now, rather than I don't know what to work on). In fact I really didn't want to buy much (and not so much because I don't have the readies - which I don't - just because I didn't really see anything I couldn't live without).

I also learnt that if I talk to my nephew in Gollum voice, he thinks it is the most hilarious thing ever, even if all I'm doing is saying his name over and over again.