365 Photos - 1/365 (Water theme)

[byslantedlight]

Thank you fiorenza_a who suggested the theme of water for the first week of my 365 project (which is where I post at least one picture a day, for 365 days... *g*) Trouble is - it rained today, and I was going to go out, but actually... So not a very exciting first photo, but it is a photo! It's a start! In other news:

Reading - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (for book group next Thursday.) I wasn't sure at first, but 100 pages in I'm happy to keep going and find out what happens. *g* It's set in the Congo, which makes me think maybe I should find one of those travel-the-world reading challenges, this year!

Fanfic
Meg Lewtan's Bird in a Gilded Cage beside my bed, but I've remembered what happens in general, and sort of stalled. Read the first story in O. Yardley's Septet zine last night (technically very early this morning!) - nice enough - and I may read the next one tonight, which is a sequel to Two Lovers. Except that I wasn't keen on Two Lovers, it sounded more like O. Yardley than our lads, imnsho, so I might skip it to the next story in the zine... We'll see. *g*

Writing
Erk - a bit of helpful research this morning, does that count?

Telly
Missed the beginning of Dickensian cos I was making fudge, but the rest was still good. Sherlock was a bit more good - anyone else watch?! If I'd thought about expecting something, that wouldn't have been it... *g*

How're you doing, this first day of 2016 (well, second I expect, by the time I hit post and you read this...)?

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Eh, water is water - it totally counts! :-)
I think Gilded Cage/Lewtan in general and O. Yardley are both fun in their ways, but somehow after a while neither of them usually seem all that lads-ish to me. The ways in which they diverge seem gradually to accumulate, building up until it's beyond critical mass until at some point - after being engrossed initially - I find I'm reading (albeit some great fun stories) about two blokes with their names. Not that I don't enjoy them, I do, but there's a purely OurLads-ish-ness spark I miss ... *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was definitely water down there, too... *g*

I do agree about both Gilded Cage and O. Yardley... I'd actually wanted to read Murder on the Moor, but for the life of me coudn't find my print out - and I'd forgotten that GC was quite so ooc! To be fair, ML totally warns readers that it is... *g*

I always found O.Yardley's lads stretchable-to though, although they were always a bit posh-sounding, I thought, and sometimes a bit soppy for my liking, but the writing was solid enough and there was nothing specific enough that would throw me out of a story. Until I got to her later two zines, Two Lovers and A Lovesome Thing... I did buy the next anthology-zine of hers, Septet, which is the one that I'm reading now... some of the stories are a bit close to the edge again, but the two I've read so far have been readable... It's a good description - the divergences reached critical mass for me in those ones, and I just couldn't.... which is a shame...