Virtual Office Friday - yeay Friday

[byslantedlight]

Friday! One more big day of work, and then it's not the work-week any more! (I really hate that I don't like my work week, I always used to. I am experimenting next week, with a view to fixing this!) In the meantime there's more Pros Round Robin to read over at discoveredinalj, the sky outside is blueblueblue, I found 23 glow worms on my glow worm hunt last night, there's only about a week until the next KJ Charles books is out, and here's some inspiration to get us through... *g*Apparently the official background of our lads (from one of the LWT poster mags, I think, though I'd have to go and check cos have I noted it down? No...) I like the bit that says they've drifted closer together... *g*

Today's Work
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Job 1 pgs 11-20
Job 1 pgs 21-30
Job 1 pgs 31-35

Job 1 pgs 1-10
Job 1 pgs 11-20
Job 1 pgs 21-31 Yeay!

Comments

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I like it when MS says he finds it difficult switching off from a day's work being Doyle....

Thanks for this!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - me too!

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Sounds like this was an early article, when Bodie was still being 'posh' with the suits and all.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes! And presumably before Bodie made his I thought you were from Derby comment too... *g*

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed! Nothing like making up the backstory as they go along, yes?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee!

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Heh to the remark that Doyle is from London - not even remembering their own canon here! ;)

Lovely to see the article though! I probably cut this out from a mag all those years ago...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - to be fair I suspect this was written long before In the Public Interest, and I think I've also seen somewhere that Bodie's I thought you came from Derby was an ad-lib rather than scripted... but it really really does seem wrong to think that Doyle's supposed to be from London now... although, come to think of it, it might be fun writing a story to sort it all out... *g*

I can't remember where I got this one from, if it's a scan of one that I have, or if it's nicked from someone else... usually I note who I pinch stuff from in the file name, unless I found it on a general site, or made it myself, but... I didn't always.

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

i love the part that says they are drifting closer together ...*squeals* ...thankyou for such gorgeousness though i am having problems with LJ at the moment , they have for some reason switched me to the new version of viewing things and i hate it but i can see no way of switching back to the older version . I don't undrstand why LJ insists on doing this without my permission , i wish they would leave it alone so i have emailed them to ask them to switch me back manually .uuurrggghhh x

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Bugger, lj's just done it to me, too, I think. It seems to happen occasionally, and I have to change back to the old style. On your user info page, just beside the Log Out button, I think, there's an invisible button that changes it back. At least I hope it's still there - I'd better go and see. Usually I do that and then it's okay for months at a time... it tends to be just after they've had a bout of maintenance that it changes, so I presume it's some default setting that comes with some kind of "refresh all" operation they do... note the completely amateur guesswork about how it all works... *g*

I shall go and do that, and think about the lads drifting together!

ETA - no it didn't, it just introduced the clunky collapse/expand tabs... phew!

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Wonderful - thanks! Also noting the "not many would stand in the way of an angry Doyle except for his friend and partner, Bodie" bit. :) I love the pictures they chose - but they put both of the big ones backwards! Did other people not notice back then? Is it just fans and people with OCD? (like me! OCBDD)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I know, it seems so strange - but I remember only seeing tv shows once, and wishing I could see them again, and being so thrilled to find the novelisations partly because I'd have the stories there to read whenever I wanted! And then... videos, dvds, repeats, dvds-by-post, fanvids... *vbg* Who wouldn't get a bit OCBDD after all that...? *g*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This definitely helps me think through the BB, LOL.

(And no, we're not changing Derby-by-way-of-Manchester at this point. :D)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Manchester? Where does Manchester come into Doyle?! Now I'm just confused! *g*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Poetic license... and In the Public Interest, of course. :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Poetic licence is all good, but I'm not sure I'd want to definitely call the city in ITPI Manchester, even if elements of the issues there might have informed the people who wrote the ep... and it wasn't the only city suffering those sorts of issues... Mind you, it's also partly because it didn't feel at all like Manchester to me... and perhaps because I might be leery of using big cities that aren't named anywhere in the eps, because that seems so unlikely... The lads have accents that are definitely at least partly Wirral/Liverpool and Birmingham/East Midlands, so anywhere around those areas fits, but I don't get a hint of anything Manchester in the eps. But I'm just having a Sunday rambling-thoughts moment, and this is for your BB, right, rather than claimed as canon, so go for it!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Well, my understanding is that Chief Constable Green was modelled somewhat on James Anderton. But I'll discuss with the betae, if it's going to throw readers off.

Though Doyle isn't spending a whole lot of time in the town itself.

Well, as long as it's significantly north of London, though not too far - that's the main thing.
And look - it is! Better than Manchester, even... okay, filing that away for later...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'd say he probably was - but modelling on and being is different to me. Everyone's mileage varies, as they say... *g* Anderton was actually in charge in Manchester when I lived there - horrible, horrible man... But anyway, that's probably why I can't conflate the two - if Anderton was in Manchester, then the ITPI city can't be Manchester, cos Green wasn't Anderton - if you see what I mean. *g* Different betas will have different thoughts about it, and/or might not know anything about Anderton, so I expect you're fine. It's one of those individual things. *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, I love the daily Pros dose soooo much!!! Thank you!

What a wonderful article, thanks for sharing where ever you got it from!

Yay for almost being done woth work, you were finished quite early, could that be?
Tomorrow we'll be at the Viking Market.
We wanted to go to the local Lighthouse, but the weather was quite funny, low clouds at the coast, but the most wonderful sunshine further inland.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad! It's a nice distraction from work when I need a brain-breather - I like having other people around the office! (I wasn't finished early today, I've only just finished now - I did lots of faffing around today... *headdesk* I have special plans for Wednesdays that I'm hoping though - I think that really I can only do two days of concentrated Job 1 before my whole me needs a change... *g*

I like lighthouses - I've not been to one for aaaaages! But I like your second picture too - I am wishing that the horse and wagon are ordinary things that people use in that town, but I suspect they might be for tourists..? Either way, how fab - horses clip-clopping down the cobblestones, and the rattling of wagons... it sounds like the sound effects I need for my Victorian story... *vbg* Thank you for taking me with you again!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, so sorry about finishing so late.
I cross my fingers and hold my thumbs that your Wechsel Wednesday will work!

We will go visit the lighthouse again, go upstairs and look around....I'll tell you about it. *gg*

The horse and wagon are really only for Tourists, and it's quite cheap. We walked anyway.
Hee, so much fun to provide you with the right sound effects and pics for your story.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've never ridden in a tourist-y horse and wagon either, but I've been watching an old tv series set in the 1900s called Flambards, and thinking that I'd quite like to have a go in a horse and carriage of some kind, so maybe I'll go for it one day, just for the feel! *g*

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Great article, its one I've not seen before, thanks for sharing!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It's so easy to forget that the stuff we've got tucked away and saved won't have been seen before by at least some other people - I'll try and get better about posting things like this! *g*

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

I'm like a sponge, I soak up any and everything Pros so feel free to keep posting things like this *g* I wouldn't expect I've got anything in my collection that's not already out there in spades.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - that's what everyone says. And then one day they post something from their collection, and someone says Thank you! I've never seen this before, how ace!... *vbg*

[dollidaydream.livejournal.com]

This is a blast from the past! I remember having the Pros mags and I remember this article. I recall being very taken with the picture of Bodie and being very annoyed about the small picture cutting into it! So many times over the years I regret throwing out so many fannish things along the way. :(

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You lucky duck, having the Pros mags (even if you did throw them out at some point - *weeps gently but in the background*)! I was so excited to find the novelisations when I went off to the big city on work experience one year, I can't imagine how much I'd've loved the mags! *g* I did collect all kinds of cuttings from the various TV Times type magazines, and although every now and then I'll find one that escaped the tip when we moved to the UK, it's heart-breaking to remember how many of them didn't, now when I want them just as much! :(

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

do you knowmy lj is still stuck in this crap way of viewing style since friday . No matter how often i try to get back to viewing in the older style , nothing is happening . I have asked to be switched back manually but so far haven't had a response . I feel like giving up .

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh rats - sometimes it just goes back on its own, but sometimes it seems stuck.

Okay - I have my own instructions written down somewhere, but I saved this screenshot of the invisible button (no, it really is) that you could click to get back to the old version. It should be better than mine, because I'm using an older lj style and I suspect yours will be the newer one.

So - on the user info page, find this spot (my equivalent is top right of the window) and click in what looks like the blank space, as the screencap says. Hopefully that will work, but if not let me know and I'll see if I can find my other instructions!