Reflections of a stormy petrel

I have decided to change a couple of things. First, because I am sick and tired of answering people who will not show their faces while they criticize me - while my name is known, and my address accessible, to everyone - I have decided that from now on only registered LJ users will be able to post comments. Second, I have unbanned nearly everyone on the banned list. It does not make sense to ban permanently people for things that happened two or three years ago and which, in some cases, I barely remember. Queen Pretty Arse and the other heroes of the Blaise Zabini mess are excluded; that is still too recent. And do bear in mind that I am going to be as quick to ban again if people go beyond what I regard as the limits of decency; that, this time, I will not allow anonymous posting; and that I am the sole judge and jury of what counts as decency on my blog.

...and what a pleasure it was. I spent yesterday afternoon around London with kagome_sama, who is an unusual and delightful person. She is, in person, a rather small, square, lively lady with amazing eyes and a highly intelligent expression, spoiled only by rather poor skin, and she is terrific company. It helped that it turned out that we had almost the same interests - history, social anthropology, the arts, etc - but I cannot imagine anyone who would be bored talking with her. There is not much to be said about our afternoon together (except that at one point I lost my bag, which gave her an opportunity to show that she can keep her cool in a crisis), except that it was fun and that I hope to do it again some time.