Happiness and a Trip to Colchester
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smallhobbitAnother week, and I'm just over half way with these posts. Yay!
Day 45 - My angsty Lestrade ficlet Broken Dreams received lots of kudos. Which, for something written on the spur of the moment was completely surprising. It is now my fourth most kudosed fic.
Day 46 – Our ensuite shower room is finished. I’m not one for House Beautiful, but this is wonderful. The tiles we chose look really good. We have a heated towel rail, so I can now have a hot towel and pjs when I shower late at night – bliss. And when you get in the shower the floor is solid and doesn’t bend and you don’t wonder whether this will be the day when you fall through. (Yes, there was waterproof tape on the floor to seal up the crack.)
Day 47 – Totally unexpectedly, I received Swiss chocolate through the post.
Day 48 – Back to Brownies we have four new girls and we are now FULL. Which is great news, after our concerns at the beginning of the year.
Day 49 – Off to Colchester to spend a weekend with fangirls. We met through the Sherlock fandom, discovered our shared interests were far wider and there is nothing better than drinking Pimms, eating pizza, Tesco party food and lots of biscuits and chocolate. Before four of us slept in one room, just big enough for the blow up beds/camp bed/mattress.
Day 50 – Colchester Medieval Fair. Having been forced to shelter under an archway in a thunderstorm we didn’t have high hopes of the weather for the day, but the storm cleared and the sun shone brightly for the afternoon and the suntan lotion was shared. The fair was very good. Lots of stalls to wander round, staffed on the whole by people in medieval costume, who will camp on site overnight. A birds of prey demonstration, various fight demonstrations, plus dancing, music and a story teller. There were opportunities to try out archery and four of us tried firing a cross bow – our accuracy may, or may not, have been affected by having been drinking cider; it didn’t matter. And there was a hog roast, and crepes. And probably other things which I’ve forgotten.
Day 51 – The end of the weekend. I bought SM a number of presents from the fair: chocolate fudge, a jar of local honey (there was a beekeeper there with his bees, who let people taste the different sorts of honey. I don’t like it, but SM does), and two markers for some of the herbs he’s growing with the Green Man on them (I sent him a text asking what herbs he was growing, which rather surprised him). I also bought us a new milk jug – hand made pottery that was reasonable priced; one of the delights of the fair was that it wasn’t ridiculously overpriced; I spent far more than I would normally do, simply because there was so much nice stuff. I bought myself a leather wristband with a purple dragon on it – lots of lovely leather goods; I had to restrict how much I bought as I had to carry it – as it was I left my pillow with my hostess. And a leather make it yourself purse, which I shall use as a template for a Brownie craft (the Brownies can use ordinary material).
So, a great weekend with great people.
Day 45 - My angsty Lestrade ficlet Broken Dreams received lots of kudos. Which, for something written on the spur of the moment was completely surprising. It is now my fourth most kudosed fic.
Day 46 – Our ensuite shower room is finished. I’m not one for House Beautiful, but this is wonderful. The tiles we chose look really good. We have a heated towel rail, so I can now have a hot towel and pjs when I shower late at night – bliss. And when you get in the shower the floor is solid and doesn’t bend and you don’t wonder whether this will be the day when you fall through. (Yes, there was waterproof tape on the floor to seal up the crack.)
Day 47 – Totally unexpectedly, I received Swiss chocolate through the post.
Day 48 – Back to Brownies we have four new girls and we are now FULL. Which is great news, after our concerns at the beginning of the year.
Day 49 – Off to Colchester to spend a weekend with fangirls. We met through the Sherlock fandom, discovered our shared interests were far wider and there is nothing better than drinking Pimms, eating pizza, Tesco party food and lots of biscuits and chocolate. Before four of us slept in one room, just big enough for the blow up beds/camp bed/mattress.
Day 50 – Colchester Medieval Fair. Having been forced to shelter under an archway in a thunderstorm we didn’t have high hopes of the weather for the day, but the storm cleared and the sun shone brightly for the afternoon and the suntan lotion was shared. The fair was very good. Lots of stalls to wander round, staffed on the whole by people in medieval costume, who will camp on site overnight. A birds of prey demonstration, various fight demonstrations, plus dancing, music and a story teller. There were opportunities to try out archery and four of us tried firing a cross bow – our accuracy may, or may not, have been affected by having been drinking cider; it didn’t matter. And there was a hog roast, and crepes. And probably other things which I’ve forgotten.
Day 51 – The end of the weekend. I bought SM a number of presents from the fair: chocolate fudge, a jar of local honey (there was a beekeeper there with his bees, who let people taste the different sorts of honey. I don’t like it, but SM does), and two markers for some of the herbs he’s growing with the Green Man on them (I sent him a text asking what herbs he was growing, which rather surprised him). I also bought us a new milk jug – hand made pottery that was reasonable priced; one of the delights of the fair was that it wasn’t ridiculously overpriced; I spent far more than I would normally do, simply because there was so much nice stuff. I bought myself a leather wristband with a purple dragon on it – lots of lovely leather goods; I had to restrict how much I bought as I had to carry it – as it was I left my pillow with my hostess. And a leather make it yourself purse, which I shall use as a template for a Brownie craft (the Brownies can use ordinary material).
So, a great weekend with great people.
