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[byslantedlight]

I must admit, I've been a bit fed up today. I've not got the flu, I'd taken the long weekend off, and today was fun things at Stourhead. So of course I could barely walk after yesterday - gaaargh! Turns out I twisted my ankle quite badly - but I twisted my knee even worse, and it's doing rather worrying crunchy things when I bend it, which I can only do a bit. Just when I thought I might get out into the world a bit - if only to treat myself to an easter egg! And even if I could get to the GP, they'd only say to rest and use ice-packs and take paracetamol if you need it (as per the NHS website advice, and previous experience with various people!). So that's what I did. And, I must admit, sulked...

And then - I looked out my window, and (cue spooky music)... They're blue tits, and they were just lying there, poor wee dead things, and I can't begin to imagine what happened to them. There was no blood or mess or muss, and although the one looks like it fell awkwardly, the other is neat-as-you-please. There's the roof and gutter above, but no sign of a nest and I've never seen birds playing around up there. What can have happened? One I wouldn't blink at, but two of them, just lying there like that?

I realised when I moved them away and left two dry spots on the stones that they must have died before it started raining this morning, so quite early on.But that's as far as my detective work takes me, there wasn't a sign of a reason for death on their bodies. I just cannot fathom it...

Poor wee things...

So quite apart from being fed up over having pointlessly fallen so badly yesterday, there's been a slightly dark element to today - mysterious bird deaths displayed outside my bedroom window!

And to top it off, I was jangly enough from painful knees and ankles, that I couldn't concentrate to work, so it's effectively been a sick-day, and I now have the work to do sometime in my four days off. Gaaargh! I tell you, something nice had better happen tomorrow!

Hope you're having a better days - though I know there've been at least two other people with falls in the past couple of days, so here's to better days to come, and to cheering-up things!

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[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Edited to add - He's most definitely not aiming at any birds or other animals.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know just what he was aiming at! And you're a brilliant shining star, cos I saw your pic in my flist this morning, and not only was very cheered up, but fell a bit in love with it, and got to thinking, and then actually sat down at my laptop, and... I wrote a story for it! I hope you don't mind that I re-posted your pic as part of the story, but it just belongs there, so beautifully inspiring... *g* Thank you so much!

a plot there involving some sort of covert pulse weapon possibly stolen from the military if it's canon-era, or Old Magic if it's AU and, sad though it is, maybe it was best they went together so neither had to live without the other
Also - yes! Both these things! *g*

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

You did! You did!!! I'm glad the picture cheered you up a little and I'm THRILLED that it inspired you to write a story!!! (SQUEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEE!!!)

I don't mind at all that you reposted the pic as part of the story, because half of the picture is yours anyway! (Told you I loved those tree roots) *g*

Thank YOU for the photo that inspired the manip, and an even bigger THANK YOU for writing a story to go with it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I keep forgetting that your picture started with a picture that I posted myself! *g* Those tree roots are rather fab, aren't they... *vbg*

Yeay and yeay!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

:-) I made you a medieval!AU!Bodie in leather with a sword *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee for being a wicked temptress! Hmmn - Bodie didn't have a shield when he met Doyle in the woods, but this is clearly later in the year, with all those lovely bluebells.... *g*

Very nice!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Guilty as charged (and completely unrepentant) and yes, this is indeed some time after. :-)