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I'm back from Paris, and Darklight convention last weekend, my final con foray of the year. It was a great con with a good line up and I was meeting up with my dear friends,

amberdreams,

xlittleangx and Wendy (not on Dreamwidth)

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Yikes, how has it been almost a month since I posted anything here?

Since I've been back from Purgatory convention, I feel like I've been in prep mode (as Guy Norman Bee once famously said)

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Hot on the heels of JIB, I took a few weeks then headed onto the European continent once again, this time to lovely Deutschland, headed to Purgatory convention in Dusseldorf.

Unlike Jus in Bello, this time I had a low level pass with nothing beyond entry to the con included. Therefore all my extras had to be purchased separately. There were several wonderful guests at Purgatory, but because of the extras situation, I decided to concentrate on J2 themed extras. Bet you're all shocked at that!!

I had a J2 with Impala photo, which was a first for me, and that devolved into hilarity because I was looking somewhere - who knows where - but it certainly wasn't at the photographer who I completely missed because she was standing amongst a group of people! The plus side of this is I got a wonderful head-thrown-back laugh from Jensen captured for posterity on my photo!

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It's been a while since I posted any bunny content.

I think it's fair to say that these bunnies are ridiculously spoiled, and we have finally realised that our living room has finally been given over to the two little ratbags. Their toys and enrichment items have taken over the room, and we have accepted that floor space is a thing of the past in our house.

At least we still have the couch ... for now!

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Following on from yesterday's post, after we took the train down from Florence to Rome, and made our way to the all too familiar Fumicino Airport Hilton hotel, it was late afternoon, so we had time to get into our rooms, freshen up and then go downstairs to register for the con. During that time, we met up with our other partners in crime, including

amberdreams,

heavenli24,

stellamira and

dean_hugs_sammy.

After registration, we all headed into the hotel bar for dinner and a much needed catch up.

As you can see, I'm very excited about finally being registered :D

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Last week was Jus in Bello con (more on that later), however, before the convention, I,

herminekurotowa, and our non-Lj friends, Wendy and Stephanie spent a few days in lovely Florence.

With places like the Uffizi and the Galleria del'accedemia, Florence is a bit of a Mecca for an art geek like me, so to say I was excited was understatement of the year!

We started off the week with visits to a couple of Florence's many beautiful churches and basilicas. The main one was the Duomo which was spectacular from the outside.

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Some of you may be aware that we have been undertaking some garden work over the last six months.

Our back garden was comprised of a patio which was almost 30 years old and time, together with a freaking great big tree root, had not been kind to it.

In short, it was a wreck!

Because of that, we had lost interest in maintainng it, so over the last two or three years it never got cleaned or patched up.

This was what it looked like in October 2025.

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It's five years today since we lost

jj1564 (June), and I can't believe how we're suddenly here five years on. I've been thinking about her a lot today, and raised a glass to her earlier.

This might be a nice opportunity to hop on over to her journal and comment or visit her AO3 page and read one of her fics, leave a kudos!

We all have our favourite memories of June, and this is one of mine. When I bought Jensen for June's birthday one year, and he became quite a fixture in her life. She loved to torture Sam, and her sister, Brenda by leaving him in unexpected places around the house. Screams upon stepping out of the bathroom was a regular occurrence in June's house! XD

Speaking of Sam, he shared the below picture on June's memorial Facebook page earlier today, and I'm sure he won't mind me sharing it here, because it sums up our darling June better than any words I could ever use!!

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You may be aware of two things about me:

One, I had a birthday last week and two, I kind of like rabbits a bit.

So, I have combined the two and set up a birthday fundraiser on Facebook for the Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund.

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/

The RWAF is the UK's largest charity devoted entirely to improving the lives of pet rabbits. Their work includes education and awareness campaigns as wel as lobbying to ensure that rabbit welfare best practice is adopted wherever necessary. They also provide information and support to owners, rescues, and vets.

If you can spare a few pennies to donate to this amazing charity, you will have made my birthday very happy indeed! The fundraiser runs until the 12th April.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/1617337276255200/10166975668291754/

Juniper and Nutmeg (and I) say thank you!

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Wishing you all a very happy Easter from me and my resident Easter bunnies.

Unfortunately my Easter bunnies haven't given me any chocolate eggs, but they have left a few other little round surprises lying around the place!!

So, as you may be aware, after we lost darling

jj1564, her family planted a memorial tree at her favourite place, Hever Castle. The tree is a flowering cherry tree and it's absolutely thriving!

Flowering cherry trees produce blossom in the Springtime, usually pink or white, and are such beautiful trees when they are in full blossom. However, their blossom period doesn't tend to last very long. You're lucky if you get three weeks out of them.

I've visited June's tree multiple times, but over the four plus years since it's been at Hever, I've never managed to see it in full blossom. Multiple circumstances such as covid, traffic strife and many and varied other commitments have meant that I've never been able to get there in that brief blossom window.

Yesterday, I finally managed to buck that trend!

Mr D and I took a trip down to Hever to meet up with Brenda and Barbara, two of June's sisters, and June's lovely tree put on a magnificent show for us!
It was beautiful - even prettier than I imagined it to be!

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So, there's been all sorts of Jensen goodies floating around with all the Boys publicity, and so it woud be rude of me not ro share some of the pretty here!

something a bit different today - a post from Jensen's IG page.
All I can say in response is, where to I apply to get this job?

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A post shared by Jensen Ackles (@jensenackles)

Yesterday, my two little ratbags celebrated their bunny birthdays. Their fifth birthday!

How on earth have they become five years old already?

We got them when they were 16 weeks old and it feels like two months ago! I want to say that now they've hit middle age, they've got all the sass and attitude that goes with it, but they've had that since day one!!! XD

Anyway, happy birthday bubbubs!

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This is a day late because for some reason I couldn't post on here yesterday!!

It's international women's day, and I want to take this moment to give thanks to the many amazing, strong and inspirational women that are part of my life. Not just the ones I know in person, but those of you that live in my laptop too.

Thank you for being my friend, thank you for being part of my life, and thank you for being awesome!

💜🤍💚

Here are just some of the fabulous women I am proud to call friends - there are many more:

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Soldier Boy is back on everyone's minds with Season 5 of the Boys Imminent and Jensen's Boys prequel nearing the end of production, so I couldn't resist jumping on that bandwagon!

I spent this afternoon working on my first portrait for signing at JIB con at the end of April...

Betcha can't guess who I decided to draw? XD

It would be very remiss of me to miss such an auspicious occasion, and not take this opportunity to wish the happiest of happy birthdays to the fabulous man whose existence accounts for about 80% of this journal's content.

To Jensen - 48 years old and maturing like the finest wine!
Happy Birthday!

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On Saturday, Mr D and I headed up to London for my (very) early birthday treat. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy immersive stage show.

For those of you who know my birthday is in April, the reason this was so early was because the show's run ends on the 15th February.

I love the HHGTTG. I first read the book when I was about 14, and then all the subsequent sequels, and have always counted it as one of my favourite stories.

The show was a musical reinterpretation of the story and it did a great job (I mean, it did have to fit five books into 90 minutes). It brought in Arthur Dent's love interest, Fenchurch, from book 4. The show was energetic and fun, and very respectful of the HHG universe. I had a fab time, I think I got more out of it than Mr D because I'm so much more familiar with the story. Mr D had never read past book 2, so had no idea who Fenchurch was. But he said, once he wrapped his head around the story, he really got into it, and wished he could see it again because he'd enjoy it so much more. Sadly it comes off soon, so unless it's resurrected somewhere else, that's unlikely!

Highlights of a great show was us drinking our Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters (I wouldn't say it felt like having our brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick, but it was yummy all the same) and me having a conversation with Marvin the Paranoid Android that went thus:

Marvin: what is your name?
Me: I'm Jane
Marvin: I don't care. Jane, I've been practicing giving people compliments. May I give you a compliment?
Me: of course!
Marvin: You are wearing shoes. That's very sensible.
Me: Thank you. I've had worse compliments than that!
Marvin: I don't care

Of course, anyone who's familiar with the HHG universe knows that any self-respecting hitch hiker never forgets their towel, so of course, I had to treat myself to one!

I did have a few tears when there was a tribute to Douglas Adams at the end of the show. So much love and respect for that man and his exceptional mind.

Altogether a fabulous day! Here are a few more pics - official ones because photography wasn't allowed!

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How is it possible that this is my first Jensen time of 2026?

OK, so I need to right this wrong and go hunting for lots more delicious Jensen pictures... such hardship.

Anyway, to start us off, here are a few shots of Jensen at the recent Norfolk con - credit as per watermark.

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Challenge #15

How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?

Another really enjoyable challenge. As I said right at the beginning, it’s a great little reset, and gets my brain working again after the stagnation of the Christmas break.

I lost a little momentum toward the end as I spent a few days visiting my parents and deliberately didn’t take my laptop as I wanted to concentrate on them, not my screen, so I missed challenge 13 and 14, but overall, I’m happy with this year’s challenge, and sad it’s at an end.

Thanks, as always, to the mods who work so hard to bring us this lovely little event!

See you next year!

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