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

[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.