Hurrah!

[erastes]

The new mobile – she works! FINALLY! I have a new stupid number that I’ll never remember, which is irritating in the extreme because the Orange number I had was wonderful, being very repetitive and easy to recall. This one is like Pi. Only not filled with banoffee. Talking of which I had the most gorgeous banoffee pie on Sunday. We can has music, radio, phone, photos, dictaphone and other stuffs. I don’t need the 4g bells and whistles.

Tomorrow I plan to take a few pictures of my commute. You will feel sorry for me. Here’s an example: Oh the horror!

 

Today I had to slow down while a pheasant meandered across the road. Actually, yesterday, it was rather scary as another one did exactly that, and I was unable to slow up or swerve so I had to just grit my teeth and hit him. Luckily he managed to jump back onto the grass verge, though.

Now that Last Gasp is out there and being bought - Chris Smith is amusing me by going through exactly what I went through the first time I published anything. I released a short story into the world and then (being used to fanfic) I sat there for the next day waiting for feedback – which of course didn’t come!!  And when Standish came out, I must have visited Amazon’s best seller pages a bazillion times in the first six months watching each rise and fall with corresponding jubilation or disappointment. It’s only natural but thank god – after a few *coughyearscough* I’ve cured myself of that.

Lucius is not here for dinner. Let’s hope he’s not doing his disappearing act again, just because i’m out of the house 5 days a week. Gah.

Comments

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

I am glad I'm good for something as I'm obviously a horrible writer. Sob. Rend. Weep. Etc.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes, true. horrible. see Gehayi's review.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Ashamed to be associated with you. *shun*

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor pheasant. :(

Rise and falls...if only *sigh*

Go teh pony tail!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i missed it, thank god, but it was scary. i had my eyes shut.

What pony tail?

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Good driving!

C's pony tail in her icon!

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I never heard of banoffee before, so I had to look it up. It sounds yummy!

And it sounds like your area should have pheasant crossings.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Luckily I didn't actually hit him, i realise i didn't make it clear enough - but they do tend to wander all over the roads!

Banoffee is delicious. This particular one was deliciously light an inch of toffee on a biscuit base and then a light banana filled cream on top. mmmm.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Banoffee is heaven and possibly the easiest thing in the world to make.

[aunty_marion]

How long before Lucius turns up at your Dad's? *g*

Bloody pheasants, think they own the road. Mind you, I was coming home (walking from the Tube) last Thursday after an enjoyable knitting group, and a fox trotted blithely across Junction Road in front of me and ambled up Hargrave Park! I've seen them out at East Finchley, but not this close in.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are everywhere now!

Lucius turned up shortly after seven, bouncing in with a "well- where's my dinner?" face on... I see his absence in my future.

[taylorbooks.livejournal.com]

Poor Chris. I have never been involved in the world of fanfic and have never had fiction posted online. To me, getting any feedback at all for something I have written is not only unusual, it's almost unheard of, unless it's a paid editor. There is zero anticipation about feedback from me when something is published because it's not part of my awareness to expect any.

I'm sure that's bad thinking in it's own way—but it does make publication blissfully unstressful.

Hope Lucius has repaired. Is he a grudge-holder?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

he used to vanish for four months at a time, did that three times went - four months, back for two weeks - rinse and repeat three times. then when I stopped working he stopped wandering. I think he just wanted company. but i'd love to know where he was for four months.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

and yes, hes back now. the ingrate.

[taylorbooks.livejournal.com]

I bet his other family would like to know where he was for the two weeks. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I agree - if he did it again, i was going to get him a collar with one of those little barrels on it with a small message.

[taylorbooks.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a very good idea. What would the message say?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

don't know really - something thanking them but making it clear that he's been my cat for four years.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Suggest "Cower Before Me, Minion. For I am the Great Lucius Malfoy"

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Just think of the pheasants as being natural selection - it certainly seems to have worked round us as the pheasants are much less likely to even try dropping in front of a car than they were in Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire (one time, one *landed* in front of me & then proceeded up the road as if he were a man with a red flag announcing the approach of a motor car!) I've even seen them watching the traffic like little kids are taught to, waiting for an opportunity to cross :-)

We do have to slow down (& often still stop) for lambs though :-S

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I will always stop and slow down when it's safe - but this particularl time it was impossible, I was just lucky he jumped the right way. A couple of years ago a hare leapt into the road when it was busy both sides and I had to crunch him, it was horrible.

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Pleased to know the Bad Lad turned up. Do you think he might like an excursion to your Dad's with you?

Those pheasants! We met a lot on the Bxxx roads last summer. They only take alarm if you walk up to them - and not always then. A wonder there isn't more pheasant pie about.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd thought about taking one or other of the boys to Dad's but it would be too stressy I think - I'd have to take a litter tray and keep an eye on them the whole time or Dad would just let them out - and this weather we have all the windows in the conservatory open which means they'd just escape anyway. Eventually, when I've lost a bit of weight and am more mobile, I'm going to get a dog which will be easier to cope with as the garden is at least dog escape proof!

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

We get a lot of skunks, deer, possums, and raccoons on the roads around here (Kentucky, USA). I live on the outskirts of Richmond (a medium size town, population about 35,000) near a big field with a pond in it. Several times a summer, we get treated to skunk effluvia when something gets after one in the field.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I do love skunks. Stinky but so cute. People are a bit worried as idiots have released them into the wild here, and it's uncertain what affect they'll have on the ecosystem.