Hooray!  I even passed with merit.  One more down, two more to go.  Phew.  I shall now do the dance of joy.

Week 2, yay!  Although I'm thinking it might actually be better for me to do this every other week, as I don't actually read that fast!  

So, has anyone read any Wilkie Collins yet?  I definitely have some new titles on my wish list over at amazon following the last post, thanks soooo much everyone for chatting, I enjoyed it so much.  I have the best flist ever.  


( Books and fic forever!  )

Tags: read this week

So, I was thinking about posting an entry every week about the things I've read during that week - novels, short stories, fic etc.  I'm hoping it will be interesting and also encourage me to read more.  I used to read so much, and now I'm out of the habit.  And I do love to read.  And I love to remember what I've read and what I thought about it, and what I loved or disliked about it.  This is only an experiment, but I think it could be pretty cool.  

Post under the cut, because I'm really not expecting anyone else to be interested enough to read or comment (but it would be cool if anyone wanted to, and let me know what they've read this week, and give me some recommendations)

No spoilers, I promise.

( Books books books )

Tags: read this week

Don't mind me, I'm just cross-posting my fic for this year's dialj.  It's over here:

http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/230114.html#t5780194

Big thanks to byslantedlight and solosundance for the beta, and to cornishcat cos I nicked her sand-writing without asking!  

Tags: pros fic

Remember Connie Talbot, that cute little girl who sang Over the Rainbow on Britain's Got Talent a few years ago?  Well, she's 10 years old now and she sounds like this:


Isn't she good?  It's exciting to think how amazing she's going to be in another 10 years time.  Please god, don't let Simon Cowell get his hands on her, she'll be given mindless drivel to sing and she'll have to do it  wearing not much more than a thong and a vacant expression.  

I was going to make lots of profound comments about tv talent shows and about child performers who suffer as adults, but sod it.  I'm gonna have a cup of tea and listen to the clip again.  Happy Tuesday everyone.  :D

Not a proper fic, cos this is just a bit of scribbling that happened when I thought of the lads first thing in the morning whilst feeling tired and slightly grumpy and didn't want to get out of bed, but I thought I could at least post it to my own journal.  Because really - who does want to get up in the morning?  Definitely not Doyle...

 

( Don't make me go to work today, pleeeease! )

 

Tags: pros fic

 Or the further observations of Miss Foxcat...



Miss Foxcat stood at the edge of the lane leading down to Shaw Abbey and breathed in the scent of freshly cut grass that still lingered in the air. In the distance, the song of a solitary blackbird broke through the early evening silence, making Miss Foxcat smile to herself in something akin to perfect happiness. She paused and looked down on Mr Bodie's ancestral home, sprawled out in front of her in all its glory. There was no doubt about it, Shaw Abbey was simply beautiful. Indeed, although Miss Foxcat had only been in Derbyshire for a few hours, she was quite inclined to declare it to be the most beautiful county in the whole of England. Her own home county of Devon was perfectly acceptable, of course, and the south west coast certainly had its areas of outstanding beauty, yet nothing could compare to the sheer wildness and scope of the Derbyshire countryside. And to think, this was the county where dear Mr Bodie had been born and raised.

( Oh Mr Bodie, I am undone... )

Tags: miss foxcat

 
My flist is glum.  I don't like to see my flist glum, although I know that sometimes you just have days when you feel blue for no good reason.  I also think it's pretty important to have days when you just let yourself be a little bit miserable for no reason, if that's how you're feeling.  But being down in the dumps is not very nice, is it?  So, I got to thinking of the things that make me happy - you know, the kind of things that just make you smile in spite of yourself, the things that can be really quite unimportant but which mean something to you.  My own Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)



Wuthering Heights, The Beatles, Robert Browning, Dresden, Berlin, my pets, livejournal, a nice cup of tea, Wilkie Collins, Bodie & Doyle, a good fountain pen, Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood, Richard III, my parents, Berry Pomeroy Castle, Morecambe and Wise, public libraries, gin and tonic,  Adam Ant, Stargate, Alias Smith & Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Bing Crosby, Jane Austen, The Secrets Beneath by Sally Fell, trips to London, The Old Parish Poorhouse, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, bone china teapots, Starsky & Hutch, The West Wing, Atkins Law, Bodmin Gaol, old cemeteries, white roses, Devon, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Martin Luther King, Dr Who, second hand bookshops, The Mastodon Diaries by aka Jake and being one of the Mastoholics, the city of Durham, a long lie-in, the front row of Les Miserables in London, Mr Darcy, a cooked breakfast, finishing an essay, Art Garfunkel's voice... and

My Friends.  

Tags: musings

 I want to write something!  That's a good starting point, isn't it?  And at the moment, I've got time to write.  The flat is vacuumed and polished, all chores are done.  The law course has been put aside for the weekend.  The rats and hamster are in clean cages and are fed, watered and sleeping happily.  I don't need to go into town, I've done my weekly shop.  I'm stocked up on teabags and the cupboards are full.  In the words of the wonderful Simon & Garfunkel "I've got nothing to do today but smile."  And I want to use the time to write.

The problem is, this is as far as I've got.  I want to write something, but I have no idea what.  Please flist, in the spirit of the recent meme doing the rounds, I need prompts.  Inspire me, please.   I'll take any prompts you can give me - pictures, quotes, missing scenes, something you'd like to see put in a fic.  Want me to write a drabble featuring Bodie and Doyle undercover with angst,  first time fic, bondage, character death, AU m-preg crossover with Eastenders?  Let me know.  

I'm in your hands.   :D  

Anyone?  

Tags: writing

 Don't mind me, I'm just cross posting a new Pros fic which is up over here:

http://community.livejournal.com/discoveredinalj/199809.html?view=5134977#t5134977

Tags: pros fic