Squee, my Xmas pressies arrived! I now have Explore Phantom Black Dogs by Bob Trubshaw, upon which I've been perving in the virtual shop windows for ages. Hellhounds ROCK. So hard. *hugs it* This is a slim volume, sparsely illustrated, but it does have the woodcut from A straunge and terrible wunder in Bongay, plus pics of the Blythburgh church door (of The Darkness fame, among others) and Bungay weathervane, the obligatory quote from Robert Johnson, a list of sightings by year and even a list of motifs (at crossroads, wearing chains, leaving no footprints, etc). Did I mention I love spectral black dogs? WOOF!

Slen also got me Spider-Man 3, which I never got round to seeing in the cine (you wait ages for your brothers to come along and see it with you, and then they say "oh, I saw it the other day with so-and-so"...). And Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch --- which I don't remember asking for, but will probably be good, judging by the second one.

New Iain M Banks out soon. Squeeeeee.

Some friends of Slen's (and mine, to a lesser extent) from secondary school are coming round this evening. I get to entertain them for an hour before Slen gets home from work. *twitch* (Probably fine; if nothing else, we've got a ton of new DVDs to watch.) So I shall go and bathe and put some laundry on and generally stop sitting around in a dressing gown playing Neopets and happily contemplating my roleplay partners and injokes about mages in wet shirts.

Mum's away at a friend's house in the Lakes for New Year. For those of you I don't see later this evening, since oddly enough I have nothing in particular planned in the way of wild parties, have a good one and stay safe on the roads.