Pros Everyday for a Week - Day 4/7 - Missing scenes...

It has been a long time since I missed commenting on lj for a day, and then had to scroll back three whole lj pages (of twenty posts each!) to catch up! How bloody brilliant is everyone just now? *vbg* Thank you and thank you and thank you for all your gorgeously Pros-y posts!

My post today is prompted by pics I seem to have seen a few times recently, from Need to Know - you know the one, where Cowley's giving Bodie oxygen after gassing his top team, and strokes his face? ali15son posted a nice version today too. And it got me thinking about the pics that people don't post - all part of the same scene in the ep, but somehow a missing scene as far as pics being posted anywhere go!

The ones where Cowley helps Doyle as well!

And when Doyle pushes away the oxygen, Cowley gently strokes his chin with a finger, and then he lays a comforting hand on his neck, holds him for a moment... *g* Cowley looks after both his lads, and although it's a bit difficult to reconcile these tender moments from him with the way he later shoots Manton cold-bloodedly in the back because he's "no use" to them, it's nice to see that he's got a softer side for our Bodie and Doyle... *g*

366 Photos - 23/366 - Random pictures again - Somerset Winter

( And some more... )

Reading in 2016 so far

I've been reading Pros fic this year too, mostly old favourites so far, but I have been reading book-books too. I posted about The Poisonwood Bible, and I'm determined this year to keep up with reading posts - so!

The second book I finished this year was actually Terry Pratchett's Truckers (The First Book of the Nomes, which I bought before Christmas undecided about whether my nephew would be old enough for it yet (I suspect not quite), and deciding that since I'd meant for years to read it myself anyway - well, that I should. *g*

And it's such a fun book - just as you'd expect of Pratchett! It's also lighter than the Discworld books, which is also to be expected as this is officially a "children's book" - but it's still full of very grown-up insights into life, and worth reading at any age, I reckon. It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time stretches out. To a nome, a year lasts as long as ten years does to a human. Remember it. Don't let it concern you. They don't. They don't even know. Okay, so that's all about nomes (and why we can't see them - they move so fast! *g*), but think about how elastic time is - the way you can jam so much more into it when you're young and moving faster and just getting on and doing it. Being settled in my own place is weird like that - time rushes by and I get nothing done, even though in theory I have all the time in the world. It's cos I'm here, in one place, all slowed-down... Well, that's what I reckon - and whether it's true enough, Truckers made me think about it!

( The story is about... )

My third books was Cry, the Beloved Country, assigned to me for the books1001 community (and reviewed over there too, so sorry if you're a member and seeing this bit twice). I'm afraid I put off reading this for a long time, partly because of life, but also partly because I was confusing it with the film Cry Freedom, also set in apartheid South Africa, but about Steve Biko. It wasn't that Cry Freedom wasn't an excellent film, it was that I knew it would be a difficult book to read, and perhaps needed easier times in which to read it. My first book read this year was The Poisonwood Bible, also set in Africa (the Congo), and when I'd finished I knew I wanted to read more African books, and so at last I picked up Cry, the Beloved Country. And of course it was a completely different book to the one I was expecting! But it begins There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. - and I was caught. Beyond any singing of it...

( Cry, the Beloved Country )

And this means that I've also read 2/24 books from my Mount TBR Challenge, where I said I'd try for Mount Blanc - 24 books. Here's the mountain - two down!

366 Photos - 24/366 - End of Day

Blimey, today! I was supposed to be working (on an extra job), but I may have let myself be distracted. Not just into lj-things, but I was good and paid my taxes today (I was waiting for their idea of the amount to show up on the webpage, to confirm it matched my idea. It was a few pence less. *g*). It's actually a relatively painless process (well, except for the money going from my bank to their bank), so that's good! Lots of catching up lj-things too - though not people's posts today, yet, or my replies! I will though, promise. But I finally finished my books1001 book (assigned over a year ago - eep), and posted about that, and sorted out my sticky post so I can find stuff, aaaand... oh, a bit of tidying up my actual house, too. A bit more blimey just as I was about to start work at last, so I went for a double-hacktrack swim walk, and it was just at sunset! And here you go. *g*

If I can get a couple of hours of this work done, watch War and Peace, cook one of my favourite veggie dinners, and write something for my Pros Discovered on a Bingo Card, then I'll be happy! Wish me luck... *g*