December already!

[nineveh_uk]

Not quite sure how that happened. 12 ½ working days until Christmas – great, except that I have quite a lot of Christmas shopping yet to do... As ever at this time of term I am extremely tired, but I haven’t got anything on this coming weekend (other than making my sister’s Christmas present, quite a lot of housework, writing, at some point I must look at my CV, really need to start running again* etc.) and planning to keep it that way

picowrimo is over for another year. I had my best pico ever, with a word count of 11,300 and a lot of advancing of the plot. I haven’t any since Friday, because I’ve been utterly exhausted, but I’m aiming for another 3000 words before Christmas. At this rate, I may actually finish the story this winter. It is, alas, utterly ridiculous, and from time to time I wish that my longest Wimseyfic by far were not mpreg crossover crack, but unfortunately removing the mpreg aspect is not possible for artistic reasons. I know that sounds about as convincing as the excuses for nude scene in films, but it’s true! Not least because it would leave me with a big plothole concerning the reason for Wimsey’s presence in the locality when the murder is committed.

AKICOLJ/DW Does anyone have a good recipe for Lebkuchen? Having tasted the real thing courtesy of my September Austrian holiday (it lasted about 48 hours after I was home), the supermarket stuff just doesn’t cut it.

The Men’s Room, 90s TV series with Bill Nighy and Harriet Walter, has been released on DVD and I have treated myself to it. I was delighted to learn from the back of the box that the characters are sociologists (must ask my father if he’s seen it, and if not lend), but I had got the impression that it was a comedy with some black jokes and quite a lot of sex. I am a bit more concerned to learn that it’s a “hard-hitting serial, set during the Thatcher years.” I was hoping for a bigger emphasis on light-hearted fun.

*I say “again”, really I mean at all. I did go in September, but then I pulled a muscle, long since recovered from so no proper excuse.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Increasingly, every time the calendar reaches December, I feel there is a case for taking the year back as it's clearly faulty. It's not necessarily that the year has been bad, but it shouldn't run out of days so quickly.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

That is a very good way of putting it. Though I would require the missing days to be extra weekends.

[coughingbear]

I remember The Men's Room - I really liked it, and remember black comedy aspects, though it's definitely grim in places. I would sort of love to watch it again and sort of not, in case the two leads are not as good as I recall, or aspects of the plot annoy me.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Strawberries. And Holland. But mostly strawberries.

Though perhaps that was just the book. My view at the time was that Harriet Walter improved it but it has been a while. Light-hearted fun It is not.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Humph. I shall of course still watch it, because it is Bill Nighy and Harriet Walter, but I am feeling miffed. Where is my jolly comedy?

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Well there's the bit where she thinks his penis is like a hibiscus flower. I did wonder if I was making that up but I can't possibly have imagined it. Googling, combined with the book title, is unadvisable.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is quite a specific image to have made up, so it must be true! I can see that this is going to enliven my January no end, as long as I am braced for the miserable bits.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I shall report in due course! But probably January.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I do love the wry way you regret that your longest Wimseyfic is mpreg crossover crack. I sympathise, but on the other hand - long Wimseyfic!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I tell myself that since I showed no signs of producing something long and serious, long and a bit silly will have to do.

(Currently 77,500 words long Wimseyfic!)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I look forward very much to the Wimseyfic when it appears! (I'm not sure if I want to say "even" or "especially" the necessary-for-reasons-of-artistic-integrity mpreg.)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I like to think of it having something for everything - murder, mpreg, werewolves.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I will do! I have decided to save it for the new year, as there isn't time left in this to do it justice.