Warning: largely Merlin-related post

Dear friends, for the first time in nearly a week I am (almost) not limping, and it is WONDERFUL. Doing the stretching exercises is absolute agony on my bad leg for about two minutes but it's obviously working.

I cannot stop watching this video of Colin Morgan signing an autograph for a little kid. The high-five! The way he takes his time and really *talks* to the kiddie like he's the only person there! HIS HAND WHEN THEY POSE FOR THE PHOTO. OH MY GOD.

And there is a new Bradley interview which made me smile on the way to work today. And rebeccama has posted a rather awesome Merlin drinking game over at merlin_love.

And Rohan rescued a preying mantis from the laundry this morning with a glass and a bit of paper and took it outside and I got to say "And once again the balance is restored to nature" and it made me giggle a lot although poor Rohan didn't get it. But he tolerates my fandom-related silliness. <3

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I'm still following the Royal Commission into the bushfires, over a year on. I've been reading the transcripts and witness statements, working out why people died. There are three pieces of testimony I've come across recently that really got to me, particularly the last one, which is wonderful.

"You could have put a hundred fire tankers and Elvis in front of my house that day and you would have killed a hundred fire tankers and Elvis."

"I saw a car move and a car that wasn't burnt move and it was quite weird. It was like watching a Salvador Dali painting. It was completely out of context, that everything was burnt and black around and here was this car just moved. I thought, "Oh, well, it has to have somebody in it." It started to come towards me and I went towards it, it was on the road, and he just said, "Gidday, I'm Ray." I said, "Gidday, I'm Jim."

And then I apparently said to him - sorry - but I don't recall it, but he said to me numbers of times, he said, "You said to me, Jim, is anybody else alive?" And he said to me, "I took that to mean you were asking me was anybody else alive in the world or were you meaning was there anybody else alive in Kinglake?"

And I said, "I was asking was there anybody else alive in the world," "

"As we were packing things into the back of the car a tradesman went past, drove past and then backed back up again. He leaned across and wound down the window on our side and said to Kevin, "Haven't you got any shoes, mate?" Kev said, "No, I've misplaced them all in the melee." And he bent down and he took off his shoes and socks and gave them to him, a modern day good Samaritan. It was the most incredible act of kindness."