Oh the shame

Couldn’t be bothered to either dress up or shop yesterday so drove the 15 miles (30 miles round trip) to the McDonald’s drive in.  Only to return to find that Lucius is addicted to the fries and was rummaging through the empty bag to get out the three or four that inevitably drops out. When those were gone, he sat at my knee tapping me on the leg every time he wanted a new one.  I don’t think cats normally eat potatoes.

I have a trailer trash cat. He eats ANYTHING.

And there are dove feathers on the lawn this morning. I should have given him chips for breakfast.

Oh dear lord

Bandwagons…

Is there nothing they won’t do to Pride and Prejudice?  Are people SO incapable of writing their own plots and characters?  Look, I know I wrote fanfic for years, and I know I DO have a project in the future which involves a “relook” at one of Bill’s plays, but I won’t be involving vampires and zombies and god knows what else.

Who is willing to bet that there will be werewolf Darcy before the end of 2010? Maybe I should clamber on that bandwagon….

ARGH!!!! Five more?  Thank you, chinae !!

Thoughts about fathers

Just noticed that Torquere have a father’s day sale.  Now, I know there are some gay fathers, but… otherwise.  I can just see my father’s face if I handed him a book on gay werewolf porn. *runs*

Somewhere else, last week, I saw someone getting sporked because erotica writers were dedicating books to their fathers.  Now, I don’t see anything wrong with this, actually.  My dad is hugely supportive—in so many ways—and I firmly plan to dedicate Mere Mortals to him. Yes, it’s a gay (Victorian gothic mystery) romance.  I know he won’t read it, because of the Alheimzer’s (if indeed it ever gets published, lets not jump the gun here, eh?  But he deserves the dedication. I don’t think dedications mean “hey dedicatee, READ THIS BOOK” – rather it’s a (hopefully) lasting testament to someone who means a lot, and someone who has helped.

I love to read dedications because sometimes they are deliciously vague. “To Mr Winthrope and he knows why” or “To a dark haired beauty” or whatever and I love to wonder who these people are and what part they took in the author’s life.

I found it rather sad that the restaurant, which we went to today and we couldn’t get a seat in for love and money on MOTHER’S DAY was notably empty of families celebrating their Dads.

Swans and Eggs

I’m wavering buying Ludwig II book one and two on Amazon.  They aren’t cheap – about £10 but I’m seduced by the pretty… He was such a good looking young man.  It’s a story so full of romance and love letters and passion and madness and swans that I’m surprised no-one’s tackled it in gay historical romance already – but then it does surprise me that there are so few true stories being put into gay historicals when there’s such a wealth of homosexual relationships through history.  I suppose it’s because they generally don’t end happily, and Ludwig’s story is certainly a case in point.  I admit that the Ludwig story does appeal to me, so perhaps if no-one’s done it in a year or two, I’ll give it a go. Perhaps I’m just the mad person to tackle it, being full of romance and letters and passion and madness and swans. Ok. Perhaps not swans.

I’ve just finished Season two of Chuck. I decided I couldn’t wait and watch it weekly, the internet has made me too impatient for that.  So now I don’t have anything to watch – any suggestions? Please?

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It’s summer and there are summer eggs!