By Slanted Light

...lads. It's Job 2 and 3 time again, and in this first week I'm combining it with Job 1 for a few days, because everyone wants my money, and argh! And of course with foodsaving, which is a good thing, but sometimes - people argh! And I will get ProsFandomCards sorted in the next couple of days too. And catch up with comments and watching Pros vids, and emails... and... I will. *g*

All of which is fine, but its nice to see the lads on lj to help me through days that feel a bit overly... busy. So here they are, two shads of our lads. *vbg*

First some Doyle looking gorgeous, cos of course I'm not the only one who likes seeing him... *g*

But I can't neglect our lads together, cos that's how they belong... that's the whole point of them!

I swear, all I want to do right now is write a story to go with this manip... but I can't. I have to work, and then I have to work Job 2, and then I have to find more volunteers to cover people who are quitting, and then I have to... waaaah!Oh, but the story's on the tip of my pen, it really is... I can feel them there... our AU lads, a murder-mystery, a... One of these days... and all the other wips on my laptop, of course... *sighs more* God I miss isotopes...

( It's been an odd day... )

Okay - clearly more lads required before I get on with work...

So I'd better post some lads...




Why-oh-why can't I concentrate on (admittedly ridiculously teejus) work in the morning? *eyes clock* Or the afternoon, come to that...?

How's your Monday? Tell me something cheerful?!

I blame myself, I should never have said I was looking forward to a free weekend... having not been able to find foodsaving cover for Saturday, my Sunday volunteers also cancelled, so I spent half the day chasing around to find cover and still ended up having to do it myself... *headdesk* Everyone wants to help in a crisis when you're stuck at home otherwise, everyone wants to slip away when the sun comes out... *sighs* So no chance of escape very far for me after all. Or time to catch up on my emails etc., never mind the paper circuit library... *sighs more*

I've also been offered a chance to go away to the caravan in Wales again, and since it will be my only chance to go away this summer, the way things are looking, I want to take it. Trouble is, I won't be able to cover foodsaving if I do, and going by this week, the odds of finding other cover aren't high. *sighs more* So I either go away and the food gets wasted, or I don't go away. And for sanity's sake, the latter isn't really an option - I just can't cover every single weekend, plus days in the week myself, not on top of work (even if it is only Job 1 now...)

All in all - I'm taking some deep breaths before I start work, and I would like some smiling lads on my flist page, so I'm going to put some there.


Hope your Monday's looking better!

What I like best is... the way they look at each other.

I've just found this in a file, marked 2011, and can't seem to find it posted anywhere, so just for the sake of completion... *g*

Angel Hair
by Slantedlight

There are some names that Doyle doesn’t mind – Sherlock, Batman, even Raymundo – and some that are guaranteed to make his eyes flash. Goldilocks was pretty good, and the Bionic Golly, but Bodie’s latest soubriquet will do it every time.

Angel-hair.

“Get us another pint, Angel-hair,” he’ll say, reaching out to ruffle Doyle’s crop of curls, or “You finished that report yet, Angel-hair?” wrapping both hands around Doyle’s head in happy emphasis.

Yeah, it winds Doyle up something chronic, a good laugh.

It doesn’t have anything to do with being able to touch Doyle like that in public. Nothing at all.

...I started writing a Pros fic this morning - lads! *g*

I'm imagining they go off on summer weekend away together... *g*

I've been in the mood to write lads over this last week, although (quel surprise) I've not managed to do it. It's all work and are-there-any-houses-available-in-the-village and so on. But I'm hopeful that today's work will be straightforward, and it's an early deadline, and the weekend is set for rain, so cross fingers. In the meantime - some inspiration...

I've got these two pics in a file on their own, because I had in mind a sort of clothes post/project - I do like it when tv shows give their characters a relatively realistic wardrobe, instead of an apparently infinite selection of clothes. *g* Here's Doyle's black leather jacket survived all the way from Season 1 to the middle of Season 2. I'm sure it went on longer than that - can anyone think of a later ep where we see it too?
I've just glanced through Professional Insight to see if there's any more info on how often Doyle wears the jacket, but it doesn't summarise that one. It does say Doyle wore the red, grey, black and white large check jacket in 16 episodes...(Covers series 1 through 5), and also that Out of a possible 57 episodes, Bodie wore polo-necked sweaters in 33. *g*

Apparently Out of 57 episodes, in only 6 did Bodie and Doyle manage to stay in the same clothes from start to finish. In fairness, I think most eps take place over more than one day - on the other hand, The greatest number of changes of clothes occurred for Doyle in The Untouchables (14)... for Bodie it was The Untouchables (9) and Involvement (9).

I do love Professional Insight from the sadly-missed Gryphon Press/Pear-Tree Press. The frontispiece lists 18 "Watchers" and "advisers", three proofreaders, a special thanks and illustrator - a real team effort. It originally cost £9, of which £2.80 was donated the Terrence Higgens Trust, which is a UK-based HIV and sexual health clinic.

Ages and ages and ages ago I thought it might be cool to do an updated online version of Professional Insight, which turned into this page over at CI5hq. Someone I was talking to not too long ago said something similar too - and I still reckon it would be fun to do that kind of group watch, looking out for particular things, like their clothes. Professional Insight also has things like a list of the food and drink they eat, who they're dating when, and so on. It'd require some dedication, though... *g* If anyone fancies it, do say - maybe if there were enough of us, dividing projects up by ep...? *g*

It's Monday - here's to a good week for everyone! (And one where I get to post properly, and at least reply to everyone who's nice enough to comment to the posts I've already made!)