Sunday picspam.

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I seem to have managed to post a few times this week despite poor old LJ being hit again. My life has not, though been any more exciting than usual - work, shop, cook, watch TV, write a bit, on-line WriterconUk committee meetings - but I also started to upload some of my Tolkien fics to a new archive which was started by one of the writers who left 'Lord of the Rings Fan fic' when it was declared a 'for as much profit as possible' site.

Esteliel's site is growing slowly - but I would recommend it to any Tolkien Writers, though - it is easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to post to, as well! All styles andd ratings of Tolkien-related fic is welcome - and I have already found some good things that I had not previously read. Here is a link (I hope...!)




For those who didn't see it, I would also recommend the wonderful piece of silliness that is speakr2customrs' response to the furore caused by Keith Mander taking over the LotRFF site. To enjoy The Ring at Pooh Corner all you need to know is that Keith Mander was christened Sarumander by someone at an early stage, and he also runs a Winnie-the-Pooh site, and a Twilight fanfic one... Read and enjoy - but put anything containing liquids down first...

So - apart from the usual stuff, and uploading fics - I have also spoken to D-d a couple of times. She was having a fantastic time, been scuba diving and snorkelling, (both on the Great Barrier Reef), been in a rainforest, seen wild saltwater crocs, and also cuddled a koala and been intimidated by an emu. By now she should be fast asleep in a hotel room in Perth on her way to visit her grandparents and aunt and uncle.

I had a lazy day yesterday - and spent time sitting out in the garden reading. I had plans for today which involved taking my camera down to the south of the island - but it is damp and grey today - so grey we've actually needed the lights on in the mid-afternoon!

So there are no pretty pictures of The Sound as I had planned - but there are a few pictures that I took yesterday in the garden

This was lunch - I had made a salmon and baby asparagus risotto for dinner on Friday and this was what was left over -



It went very nicely with a wee glass of elderflower wine and lemonade.

And I took a few pictures of the wall baskets - two with geraniums and the middle one filled with surfinias -










And then I snapped the sweet peas - I particularly like that very, very, dark one -




And I snapped Shaka as I was going in for a drop more wine - if I sat around less and weeded more I would not need to say 'ignore the weeds'!





Next weekend it is WriterConUK - it promises to be small and bijou this year - but I'm sure it will be fun anyway. It should, hopefully, all progress smoothly - all the on-line committee meetings and the flurries of e-mails backwards and forwards between the three of us who are the committee, and also all the other wonderful people who help, go on behind the scenes like the feet of the swan...