By Slanted Light

I am eternally behind, it seems, and tradition says that since I've started the new year like that, it's going to carry on. We'll see... *g* It's been ages since I posted - it seems like the less officially busy I get, the harder I find it to post too, weirdly enough. My last post was 26th November, just before examining was over and I settled back into proofreading, then I had two weeks off, with only a day and a bit left - and how many posts have I made? Well, a few if you count discoveredinalj and Yuletide, but none here...

So how are you? Hope you had a good December and Christmas and New Year, even if they were quieter than usual. I finally had time to sort this place out a bit more - I've alphabetised music, dvds and books; I can find things again! And put photo-type things into chronological order. Cos I'm like that. *g* It feels better, though there's still all sorts to do, including the UK Paper Circuit Library. I'm hesitating a bit because despite deciding, and people agreeing, that it's best to just throw out the stories that are online, since they're old and hard to read and often slightly smelly, I hate throwing away paper fic! I will though, I'll gird all the bits that need girding, and do it.

( In the meantime - 2020...  )

Fandomwise, I have to say that emotional rollercoasters aren't brilliant for writing - but then that might just be a continuation of me over the last few years. That said, I seem to have written ten fics - all but one Pros. And Pros FandomCards was fun and brightened up Christmas no end, and I still have to catch up on commenting on the Discovered in a Box of Baubles posts, and replying too, but I will...

The other one was my Yuletide fic, which also turned out to be on the crazy side - I requested and offered my usual small fandoms (Astreiant, Charm of Magpies, and Mathey/Lynes) (and I received an Astreiant fic! Wheee!), but I was thinking about re-reading an old favourite series at the time, and so I threw them into the mix - and that was only the assignment I was given, wasn't it! So I ended up writing Altogether Your World, which is for The Dark is Rising fandom, and set many years later when the characters have all grown up. Among other things I remember telling someone years ago that I couldn't even think of that as a slash fandom, because they were kids books, and I really couldn't... but then you glance at the odd story to see how much it makes you go eww, and when it's well-written enough... So I was able to offer it, in the end. And the story seems to have gone down pretty well, so phew - I wish I'd had time to make it a bit longer though, I think it needed more... Still - done!

Have some pics from the end of the year...




I'm thinking maybe I should try posting a pic each day again to try and cheer up January a bit... I've one more day before I'm back to work, and then I feel like I'm going to need something! Decorations down on Tuesday, too, so yeah, I need to think about a different kind of decoration, right?! *g*

Ha - well that's good, cos I renewed my lj for another year last month. *g*


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I'm pretty sure the comments must be comments everywhere, and include things like sign-up posts for discoveredinalj and all, but still. It reminds me that there is still lj and Pros on lj, and that we're all still here. And one of my resolutions for next year is to reply to every comment, no matter how busy I am and/or no matter how late I have to do it. Because they always make me smile, and it's fairly shocking that my manners have been slipping so much. I'm very glad you're all around!

I think a fair amount of credit probably has to go to these two as well... *g*

Here's to good things happening, and to kindness and happiness where ever we can make it in 2017.

Well, it's all changing again in that staying-the-same-really way that it has - and I am blissfully having a quiet one at home. I'm gonna ramble about this year a bit though... *g*

What have I done this year? Mostly, I think, I just lived in Somerset for a bit, and didn't really do much, but I did do things... I worked with words. I worked with history. I volunteered with history. And I worked a bit more with history. Sounds better than getting more specific, that. *g* I spent three days in Cornwall, which was lovely, and a weekend in Stratford, and a meeting or two in London, and dotted about the countryside here a bit, but otherwise I kept on working. Not clever that, I've been a bit wiped out now for months and that's probably partly why. Shall do better in 2016. Plus I have my passport back - hello, world! There must be going somewhere this year - lots of it! But back to this (still) year...

( I read books! )

( I read fanfic... )

( I wrote fanfic... )

( I watched telly a bit... )
( I went to the cinema! )

What else? Not much really... oh, I learned some stuff! I learned archery, and fiddle, and started learning book-binding! So that was quite cool. The archery sadly fell off, cos Job 2 interfered, and it all got a bit lycra-shirts and how-many-laser-sights-can-you-attach-to-your-bow, which wasn't where I wanted to go with it. Glad I did it though, and hopefully in the future... *g* I'm not practicing my fiddle enough - but I'm definitely better than at the start of the year! And I've made one wee book and am halfway through binding a photo album. So cool. Oh, I began a 365 photo project, but stopped when I realised I was spending more time online as a result, rather than getting out of the house more... that was also the reason I finally gave in and got a Facebook, and to be honest I'm not overly happy about it, except for being able to follow one of my favourite writers (KJ Charles) who posts wee extras now and then. But there now, and it's tricky to back away again when there's family there, so...

Oh - I saw a comet! And a lunar eclipse! And a solar eclipse! Actually, 2015 was a pretty good year, sky-spotting-wise! *g* I even managed to catch a bit of the Milky Way on a photo, though only if you look very hard. But yeay!


( So what about 2016? )

So them's my plans. If you're still around at the end of all that - happy 2016 to you!

So... it's that time again again and already, where we look back on the year and think... wtf? Or, you know, something else... *g* So I thought I would too... It's been one of those parson's egg type of years - really more gorgeous things than lousy, but the couple of properly lousy ones were fairly lousy...Isn't it funny (and annoying) how they can so easily eclipse the fab things... But there have been many fab things this year - MS in The Country Girl, holidays on a barge in Maldon, in a sunny Cambs., on a summer weekend in May, camping in Dorset, looping the loop in a Stearman, wandering all around the Cornish Birdwatching south west, in an Aga-d cottage in Derbyshire, and back again to Devon... and more MS in The Country Girl, and the Scarsdale, and... just... lots of gorgeous things. In fact too many to put on my one-pic-for-each-month thingie below, even... Although I did included one of the non-gorgeous things, cos it was a biggish-impact kind of thing... didn't include the stairs I fell head-first down, though... *g*

( My 2010 in pics... )