Snowy Saturday

[erastes]

Lucius is watching “One Man and his Dog” – he’s absolutely LOVING IT.

We haven’t had the amount of snow that other people have had. You’ll know how annoyed that makes me. Couple of inches only and none forecast for here. BAH HUMBUG. Dad’s windows on the conservatory had all this beautiful frost on them, it looked like spray on snow!

I had written an alternate ending to Muffled Drum, which I had ditched, but in the light of the development edit that my editor has sent, I think it might work well and would address most of the problems that she sees in the current ending. I think I ditched it because I thought “oh well this can be taken out and dealt with in one scene,” but in order to have Mathias true to himself, the longer ending might work better. I’ve sent her the outline of the new ending, and we’ll see what she says.

I had some new clothes delivered – badly needed, couple pairs of trousers, top for Christmas day and two pairs of Pjs and slippers. Severus-who is the biggest coward in the world, fled at the scary sound of crinkly paper. Obviously pink PJs are too terrifying for cats—as are Womble hot water bottle covers. I have an Orinoco one which is HUGE, too big to fit in the bed, you have to cuddle it, I suppose, and Severus is terrified of it. I have to keep it hidden away in a cupboard and he KNOWS which cupboard it is in and won’t go near it. Perhaps Wombles do unspeakable things to cats?

Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

We barely got home today after going out to Cambridge to take Rose to a party. We'd left Ailith at home, and as we were skidding about the roads in the car, I was thinking 'I'll never wish for snow again.' Awful!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

If you have to get around in it - or get stuck an airport, then yes, horrible. I'm lucky, I guess I have no-one to please in this regard! If I can't get to Dad's it's not really the end of the world!! Glad you got home safely

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Wombles probably dislike cats for their habit of littering the place with parts of dead rodents and birds.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

BAN CATS FROM WIMBLEDON COMMON! THAT IS THE ANSWER!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I'm with the cats. I had a nightmare about wombles when I was a kid. Thirty years later and they still freak me out!

[enolabloodygay.livejournal.com]

Poole had an inch of snow and instantly became a ghost town. Apart from those idiots who think they can drive on snow at 50mph and then brake instantly. If I hadn't had to buy a Christmas tree, get some logs, buy wine and then go to work, I would not have gone out in it.
Not because I don't like snow, but because it has turned me into a little old lady, thanks to the fibromyalgia. I am scared to walk on it, because falling will hurt, I am so tense when I do walk on it, I hurt anyway, where's the pleasure in that?

But still, thank God for taxi drivers, wonderful men (and women, but predominantly men in Poole) who not only pick me up from work within 15 minutes, when everyone else has to wait 40 minutes or more, but also wait at the bottom of the drive to make sure I have made it through my front door before driving off.

But a wonderful, proceless moment I had - Owen was out on the patio, about to build a snowman (he's 21 - what else would the boy do?) and decided instead to throw snowballs at the window to attract my attention, then kicked the snowman into the air. Snow fountain! Yeah, I like snow really.

The cats just find it insulting.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You sound like you are defintely having the right kind of Christmas. and we never grow out of snowmen! :)

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Aw, Snucius! He's really into it there! <3 'Mummy...those woolley things...I want one for Christmas' He's obviously thinking of the follow up show...One Cat and his Sheep.

Womblefront>>> We were both on nightshift last night. Can you believe Dave put hot water bottles in his bed and on the sofa for Puss. The heating was on timed too!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*snorts* i used to have to fight Spooky for the hot water bottle I'd put it in the bed, go and brush my teeth and she'd appear from nowhere and be asleep on it by the time i got back. In the end i had to buy her her own one.

[sinick.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Severus Knows Best.

After all, Wombles look like they're closely related to ALF, whose species ate cats.

...wow. And here's me, never having actually watched a single episode of the Wombles, ALF, OR Father Knows Best.

*disappears in a fog of Random Secondhand Geekitude*