Not that it matters but most of what follows is true

 
The last day of my Pros-y writing holiday has produced another fic, yay!  This was written this morning out of the prompt box, with each of us choosing a character and picking a prompt from the box that would somehow 'save' that character.  I chose Bodie and my prompt was a picture of a Christmas tree with lots of presents under it.  We then had an hour and a half to write something.  This is what I came up with!

Just a little trifle, written for the "wet" prompt atteaandswissroll .  It aint much and was written and posted in haste before I bottled out, but after my near melt-down a few days ago, I'm not complaining.  Hope y'all like it.  :D

Beta help was from the awesomebyslantedlight  andjojosimco .  Thanks guys, I hope the finished product meets with approval. 
 

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Hi everyone,

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful xmas break so far.  I haven't been able to catch up on lj much lately, but in the next couple of days I'm going to be glued to my computer catching up with everyone and especially reading all the Pros fics that have been posted.  I've been desperate to get to the computer for more than ten minutes!  My friend Dawn was with us for xmas and she left this morning, but my brother and his family are still here so it's still quite chaotic, to say the least!  Dawn and I managed to go out for a few walks, which was nice - pictures below.

It's been a great xmas so far.  A bit cold, but then I'm a southern nancy so I struggle with any slight dip in temperature!  I got a TomTom for xmas, which is perfect for me,  I have no sense of direction whatsoever.  My niece got lots of High School Musical stuff including a microphone karoake, and my nephew got a toy guitar and saxophone so it's been quite a noisy xmas this year! 

Dawn and I spent a lot of time watching dvds, alternating between Pros and Life on Mars and then Ashes to Ashes and I have to say - I bloody loved Ashes to Ashes!  Ok, I do have a guilty and dirty passion for Gene Hunt, but the whole series was awesome.  And the possibilities for fics are endless!...

Anyway, I will be catching up with all the lovely fics and things that have been posted and I hope everyone has enjoyed their holidays so far.  :D

 

I know it's early, but I'm going to be in London for December 6th, and I've just put my Christmas tree up, so I thought I would put up a few pictures and say "yay", it's really starting to feel like Christmas.

I used to love St Nicklaus Day when I was a kid.  Every year on 5th December my brother and I would polish our shoes and put them outside our door at night, ready for St Nick.  Then when we woke up in the morning our shoes would be filled with sweets and oranges and one or two early Christmas presents.  I remember one year getting a tiny china tea set and I would nearly always get a book, often one of the Pippi Longstocking series or something by Enid Blyton.  Christmas in our family has always been celebrated the German way, with St Nicklaus instead of Santa Claus, pfefferkuchen to eat, wooden windmills that spin when you light the candles and we always open our presents underneath the tree on Christmas Eve. 

And just because my tree is now up, here are a few pictures.  It's always so hard to get a good picture of the tree, they never quite do it justice.  This tree was made by my parents and I just love it.  My mum bought the tree in Germany in the 1960's, and they still use theirs.  They basically copied the design and made their own version for me and my brother, so we all have the same tree.  And then two of my friends liked it so much, they made a tree each for them as well. 

All in all, I'm now feeling very Christmassy for the first time and want to extend a Christmassy hug to everyone and say Happy St Nicklaus Day.  I hope everyone's been good and that no one gets sticks and coal in their shoe.  :D


                



 

Last night I signed up for the new dialj challenge, discovered in remembrance.  I obviously went to sleep thinking about my prompt because when I woke up this morning, I was thinking about poppy day.

 

Again, just cross posting a new fic.  It's at dialj here:

http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/118068.html#cutid1

My first dialj challenge fic!  I feel quite proud for actually managing to write something.  And quite nervous!   It was fun to write, it took my mind off the dreadful week at work I have looming over me. 

Nope, not thinking about work.  Thinking about the lads...