A month of October - October 29th - an indoors day...

[byslantedlight]

...and not as warm as it has been, though not cold either (unless you're sitting at a desk all day desperately trying to meet your deadline cos you were skiving in the sunshine the day before... *headdesk*)

Anyway, it looked rather like this... That's yesterday's laundry still not quite dry because the air got so damp and stayed that way! Ack! I keep wondering if it's just cold, but I think there's a touch of damp in there still... and it was warm enough yesterday that there's been no evening heating again - rats!

Oh, but a happy thing - - A Flight of Magpies is finally out (though only in e-reader - it's one of the few that I'll buy to read now and buy the paperback when it eventually comes out... And since I'm reading The Haunting of Hill House right now, and I am not going to read that in bed at night, I reckon I might just start my Vaundrey/Day book... *g* Although the sad thing is that I've seen it described as a trilogy, and the last book in the trilogy, as in there aren't going to be any more - waaah! (I know, there are four covers there, the third one was for a mini-novelette bonus free extra that the author very kindly wrote... *g*)

And A Death in the Dionysus Club is hopefully winging it's way this way as I type, too - but a real proper paper book... Yeay!

Now, if I'd just gotten on with planning for NaNoWriMo, cos it's the one thing I haven't done after buying those books yesterday, and... and... I think I need a plan or it might all fall apart after all! Eeep! Last writing group in Bath tomorrow morning too (and then home for the day's work) - but more about that then, of course... And I have lj comments to catch up with too - I will, I will get there...

Soooo sleepy now - bed beckons. Can I be bothered going down to fill my hot water bottle, even? I'm not sure I can, you know... zzzzzz

Comments

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I may have read Flight of Magpies instead of writing Instalment no. 2 and I may have enjoyed it so much that I gave it 5 stars *g* It is the last in a trilogy but there's another free short coming out in January, A Case of Spirits, Magpie 2.5 . She says she'd rather leave readers sad by ending a series we like than by screwing up a series we like.

Oh... and then there's Jackdaw, coming out sometime next year, which features a character from Flight who demanded that his story be told. I believe Stephen and Crane appear in it too, although the story isn't about them.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I love The Haunting of Hill House. Both the book and the movie. The original movie, not that horrible mishmash of nonsense that was the remake. Good idea reading it during the day. *g*

[(Anonymous)]

Here in Oz we've been getting re-runs of "Judge John Deed" and even though I own the vids; I still enjoy watching Martin in action = any excuse for a perv [lol] He's certainly aged well; leaving no doubt a strict vegan diet does wonders. Lew also looked fantastic [so photogenic] even with stark white hair; until he became ill. I hope I'm so lucky by the time I catch-up in 20 or so years....Kiashi