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Which Peanuts Character Are You Quiz


Awww I love Linus! I used to have a blue blanket just like his too. *G*

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I am so excited! Whooot! *bounces up and down happily*
Eyre called this afternoon and said that she had spoken to Angelina Lupin, and we're all going to have a day out together in London on thursday! Yipeeeee!
We're going to the London Dungeon (I'm a bit scared, but I'll be okay with so many friends with me *grins sheepishly*) and then off to Leicester Square for the final showing of The Fellowship of the Ring! And to make things even better, I called Tanya Kirk to see if she wanted to come join us, and she said YES! We're going to have a full Ravenclaw House reunion party, what fun! What a perfect, perfect day it will be. : ))
(Unless we all hate each other o'course. *laughs* But we're Ravenclaws, so that could never happen! ;- )


I joined a few more LiveJournal groups today, mostly LOTR ones, as I would very much like to meet new and interesting people. So, if you're fun, interesting and reading this, say hello! *waves* *giggles*

I also downloaded the first six episodes of the BBC radio production of The Lord of the Rings, and I am really enjoying it. Ian Holm is a wonderful Frodo, although it is rather difficult to remember that he is playing Frodo, not Bilbo. I don't like the man playing Gandalf at all, (even before he was cast, I knew that no one could be Gandalf except Ian McKellen - his beautiful, twinkling blue eyes convey more passion and wisdom than anything on this earth, and his voice is absolutely magickal... yes, I admit it, I'm a Pervy Gandalf Fancier! *lol*), but the other Hobbits are brilliant. Samwise is sooooooooo adorable, I already love him to ickle bits, Merry is UltraPosh (he sounds like Prince William!) and Pippin is unbelievably cute and very young, I'm sure the man who voiced it couldn't be more than 20 or so. Which is of course perfect for Pip. So yes, I'm enjoying it very muchly. : )

And speaking of enjoying things...

READ THIS except from Bagenders and laugh your arse off. The Fellowship are at a holiday camp and want to go splishy splashy by the pool...I can't even begin to describe how much (and how loudly) I laughed when I read this. S'brilliant! *grins from ear to ear*


It had come to the time that occurs in every holiday, much like the 'crisis' of any serious illness, when it is decided that We Will Do Something As A Group or in this case As A Fellowship. Since it was easiest, it was decided that they were all going to go swimming. All of them. At the same time.

The hobbits looked reasonable normal. Well, reasonably normal stood next to the others. They were all wearing very long, very baggy swimming trunks, with ill advised designs on them, so they all looked like very, very small surf dudes, or at least they thought they did. The effect was somewhat spoiled by Pippin still wearing the string vest, and Sam wearing a pair of water wings. And holding a polystyrene float under each arm. And wearing what looked suspiciously like a navy surplus life jacket which came to his knees. However, next to Gandalf this was normal.

Gandalf was sporting a most fetching and fashionable 'bathing costume', straight out of the couture catalogues of 1891 (or more accurately straight out of the back of Messers Smith and Watson Clothing Suppliers at 3am in the morning). Thankfully for the rest of humanity it covered him from neck to knee, but even Gandalf's shins were fairly worrying. This had horizontal stripes, which gave him the appearance of an elderly, evil version of the Michelin man. He had a waterproof pointy hat on his head, and was wearing an inflatable ring which had a holder for his can of Tenants.

Gimli could not be persuaded to forgo the helmet, and in deference to his dwarvish heritage his swimming trunks were made of chain mail and leather. Gimli was probably the local fetish supply store's biggest customer, but not for the normal reasons. Legolas and Aragorn were getting a lot of attention because they were both wearing very, very small speedos. Ok, so maybe some of the attention had the undertone of 'poof', but more of it had the undertone of frustrated middle-aged mother. The attention given to Legolas increased as the group approached the pool and Legolas put on a pink swimming cap. The Fellowship stopped and looked at him disapprovingly.

"What? Just because I actually care what chlorine does to my hair..."

They gave in. There was no point arguing with an elf that felt it's hair was under threat, but they had great trouble at suppressing their giggles at the way his pointy ears stuck out round it. Gandalf waded out to the centre of the pool, and bobbed about leering at anything over the age of 18 in a swimming costume, even the woman who looked like a clone of Ann Widdecombe. Frodo dived in and started splashing about, doing handstands under the water and so on. Aragorn went into butch mode, i.e. doing the butterfly and manfully half drowning the rest of the swimming pool. Legolas swam in old woman style, doing the breaststroke very slowly with his head lifted as far out of the water as possible. Gimli and Sam remained sat on the side of the pool together, dipping their feet in the water and nothing more. Merry and Pippin headed straight for the water slides, trying to avoid each other while doing exactly the same things. This even included when the inertia of Merry's greater bulk meant that he caught up with Pippin half way down the water slide.