In a wee cottage in the Dales...

[byslantedlight]

I can't believe I haven't posted even once yet on this holiday - usually I'm posting every day... There's just been... stuff... Good stuff, but stuff. *g* So what's been going on? Let me try and catch up...

I suppose it all started last Thursday, when I turned my computer off at work - holidaaaaay! I collected kiwisue from a local train later that night, and on Friday - we were off!

Friday
...after various battles with road diversions, began looking a bit like this...


Retirement job, perhaps? *g*


And then we headed for our house, and a bit of this...

...for probodie's birthday, and a bit of the other (Pros trivia quiz, yeay!), and then we'd been in our gorgeous Pros Writing Holiday cottage for a whole night, and it was time for bed...

Saturday
...was waking up at our house...


...and then it was Christmas - a Pros-y Christmas!

There was mulled wine and Pros-y vids to start, then baked brie, cranberry sauce and french bread horses doovries accompanied by black beer and raisin wine and a little Pros-y Christmas reading. Chestnut soup, sherry and a Pros-y Christmas fic quiz, sorbet as a palate cleanser, and some Pros-y trivia questions, and then the main Christmas roast - either lamb or a festive squash jalousie, accompanied by traditional Christmas vegetables, and red or white wine according to choice... *g* A few Pros-y dilemmas completed the course... and then everyone wimped out! There should have been macadamia nut salad and a Pros Christmas song game, sweet dessert and a little more Pros-y Chrismtas reading, a cheeseboard and Pros-y drabble session, fruit and nuts and some Pros-y consequences, with brandy and mince pies to conclude... but oddly enough we just moved onto the creme brulee and an ep or two before rolling into bed... I dunno - we've not the stamina of our 19th century lads... *g*


Sunday
Sunday was a quiet day...


There was probodie's super soup for lunch, and a wee round of trivia, and left-overs for dinner...


...and our constant_muse had to go home - waah...

Monday
Monday looked like this...


Not bad weather for ducks, as we discovered when some of us went into Bakewell... *g*

So we cosied up in the wee pizza place that does fab garlic bites and gorgeous pesto spirals and pizza and cherry bakewell ice cream... and the bookshop that has books, and... okay, the supermarket too.

And then because it was probodie's last night, we went to the pub (*g*) which looked very mysterious in the mist that afternoon...


And then everyone went to bed... *g*

Tuesday
Today is Tuesday... First two blokes came to fix the loo flush, then there was sitting around our table, and then - then - we lost probodie...


...but cornishcat made scones to console us:


...and there was a wee trip out for a walk...

...despite the cloudy dark...

and Mexican dinner (yeay murphybabe!) and Runner, and Backtrack, and much sleepiness... *yawns*...

Tomorrow Miss Foxcat has offered to take us to visit her acquaintances at Chatsworth House, so I'd best end here... hoping that she will, of course, tell us all about it from her perspective...*g*

Also - how much Pros-y fic has been written here this year? Loooooads!

Comments

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Hah never saw you taking that photo!!!

And yay, an update from BSL :D

And fabby photos.

And...i wish I was still there with you.

PS I need some photos of Reggie the 70s Cop Revisited, so if anyone has any...*g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'd hope you were watching the road at that point! *g*

We wish you were still here too! And constant_muse and that there were still days to go - Wednesday is far too far into the week, if you ask me... :(

But there's still Wednesday and Thursday, and the tail-end of getting up on Friday, and there'll only be a few weeks until the Scarsdale, so... so yeay as well!

Shall I email you Reggie? Or post him locked, maybe? Which is easiest?

[foreverfoxcat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, great pictures. It's always really nice to go back to posts like these and reminisce (is that spelled right?) afterwards. Is it too soon to reminisce? I don't care, I'm going to reminisce.

It's also quite odd to be commenting on this when we are sitting in the same cottage. Are you up yet? Is the kettle on? Hang on, I'm coming downstairs...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heeee - I'm doing a foxcat74 and am sat in bed in my room. There's a cup of coffee beside me, and I've had two kittens already... *g*

[foreverfoxcat.livejournal.com]

Ha! And here I am sitting at the table downstairs. What a role reversal!

Keep those kittens coming...

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

I´m SOOO jealous!

It all sounds just so lovely and so happy Pros-y!

Christmas dinner in November sounds awesome! And the company! And the cottage! And ....*sigh*

Have some more fun and be sure to tell in all detail!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was all lovely and happy Pros-y, and I can barely believe I'm not there still... *sighs*...

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I feel as though I'm there with you. I'd forgotten about the pizza place in Bakewell - that was rather yummy!

Have fun. I hope the next couple of days go really slowly for you ♥

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You should have been there with us! If nothing else it was very lonely driving back on my own this year... Those days went too fast...

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

My jealousy, let me show you it *g*
Lovely photos; those last two in particular very moody and atmospheric. You do seem to be having a great time, too! Seeing your photos makes me want to hop on a plane to the UK right now. Enjoy the rest of your stay; I hope it doesn't go too quickly.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Can you be jealous of your past self? I think I am, cos I want to be there now too, again...

Personally I think you should hop on a plane to the UK right now - you know there's the Scarsdale Bash in a couple of week's time... *g*

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm torn in two here - I love seeing all the photos and hearing about your exploits, but I'm all cut up that I'm not there with you all!

The house is looking as gorgeous as ever. I miss it (and all the Pros-y folk too, of course!)!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The house was as gorgeous as ever - though no greeting-wine this year (and we left so fast on Friday morning that we didn't get to see Kirsty, and I remembered later than when there was no greeting-wine the other year, there'd been farewell-wine - but never mind!)

Next year... *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear you're all having a lovely time - and to see photographic evidence!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've barely lifted my camera for months too, but there's something about our hol that brought it right back into my hand... *g* Oh, I want to be back on our hol!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pics. It nice being able to see what everybody's seeing and doing.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I apparently can't resist telling everyone... *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

What an absolutely lovely place for a a Pros-y weekend—or any kind of weekend! And your pictures are making it very hard for me to remain patient for my trip over.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oooh, your trip over - now I've forgotten your dates again! Is it soon?

We had a whole week in our gorgeous house, and I want moooooooooore! *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Oooh, your trip over - now I've forgotten your dates again! Is it soon?

Unfortunately, not. I won't be going over until August (the 8th through the 26th.) First, there's KiSmet, a K/S con in London, and then it's off to the North.

We had a whole week in our gorgeous house, and I want moooooooooore! *g*

I can well imagine. It's always hard to let go of fannish time together.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to hide my envy, but it keeps jumping up and down and pulling faces. *g*

It all looks fabulous - I think I'm a bit in love with your cottage - and I'm amazed any of you had anything left to give after your Saturday Pros-y Crimble.

Thank you for sharing it all, even if it does make me pout *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're not allowed to be envious until you have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can't come to play even for just a weekend... *g*

I'm in love with our cottage too. I tried to convince the others that we should barricade the doors on Friday, but they weren't having it - in fact they were out before our 10am deadline! Overly-efficient little buggers they are sometimes... *g*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

It is a gorgeous house, no question. Yay for fab times and wonderful people and immersion in Pros, not to mention the creation of Pros stories! I hope the remaining days are just as wonderful!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They were rather wonderful - and I hate that it's all over again for another year!

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

Wow, looks like you all had a great time! :D The photos are great too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was lovely, and I don't want it to be over, even though it was days ago... *sighs sadly*