Hail, fellow travellers, and well met. My LJ is mostly for fic, recs, icons, vids and fannish nonsense - fic/vids/icons etc. remain open, but the rest has got largely flocked these days (people were scraping entries via tags, unfortunately). I'm terribly obscure and multi-fannish, but generally happy to make new friends. As of 4th Jun 2018, I only post to Dreamwidth, so please find me there!

My fic:
lost_spook on AO3
vvj5 at A Teaspoon and An Open Mind (the Doctor Who archive)

My vids:
lostspook1 at YouTube

Current & Past Prompt tables etc: genprompt_bingo card (Round 11) | Fourth Doctor Era - 6 Prompts (for dw_allsorts) | Historical for dw_allsorts | Hurt/Comfort Bingo Card | Trope Bingo card | 100 Element Prompts | 50 Ficlets | Shakespeare Plays Watched.

Also the 500 Prompts Meme. runaway_tales: Masterpost here.

Dear Yuletide Letter 2016 here

Notes on permission: Any remixes etc. based on fanworks of mine are fine - go ahead, and do let me know; I'd be thrilled. And, obviously, credit is nice. No posts made here to be reproduced elsewhere, thanks. If you wish to link to any open posts, of course, please do so!

If you would like to friend me and we haven't already interacted, please drop me a comment to say hi.

So, when I switched primarily to Dreamwidth last year following the introduction of the new TOS, my plan was to stop cross-posting when my paid account ran out. That was six months ago. I've been reluctant to take the last step, because I think I'll inevitably lose some people. (I'll still be looking at the couple of LJ-only people I still follow and comment on the same, though, so no need to worry about that.)

Anyway, it's ridiculous: I'm not cross-posting any more filtered personal content to a site that gives me no rights over it (even tumblr assures me that my content is my own), even aside from the unpleasant anti-LGBTQ+ stance embedded in the new TOS. For a site like LJ, though, the content thing is a dealbreaker. (Deal broken, LJ. You broke it, not me. ;-p)

I tried to set up an LJ feed for people if they wanted it so they can still read here and comment there, as now, but I can't seem to. I think I need a paid account? (If anyone knows how to do it, if you pm me the link either side I'll edit it into the post).

ETA: https://lost-spook-dw.livejournal.com/

Thanks, eve_n_furter!

ETA2: Of course, this only shows public entries, not private & commenting there would be pointless. (Click through to the entry proper to comment as usual.)

Comments disabled as no one will get anything good out of another round of Dreamwidth vs LJ. We all have different preferences and last straws and all that. I just need to bite the bullet, make this post, and stop at last and I'm really sorry if that inconveniences anyone, but I already waited longer than I should have done.

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Final Stand (1692 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw
Characters: Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, UNIT
Summary: Liz is stuck out in the middle of a war zone...

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I've been feeling very down this evening, and then I remembered what I do on these occasions when I can't do anything useful. Yes, I played with the Unconventionalcourtship generator, obviously.

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A quick post, but I keep forgetting to say - do check out the masterlist of fic for this year's who_guestfest now it's done. There's usually a bunch of great fic about characters you never even thought about fic for...

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I accidentally let this drop for a month, but I've been tired a lot, and reading some more fanfic (I had quite a nice Obi Wan/Padme binge for a while, after rewatching AotC and RotS for that Janeway & Obi Wan coffee heist fic I had to write). And so there were stupid Regencies and things not worth mentioning, but otherwise, over the month:

What I've Finished Reading
One of the later books in the Daisy Dalrymple series, Superfluous Women, which I read at the same time as I made my way through We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh, an amusing combination as Martin Pugh kept reminding me that the whole 'superfluous women' business was as much a myth as that of the 'Lost Generation' (but I already knew that on both counts).

I also finally finished The Surgeon's Mate, and now I don't have the next one, which is probably a good thing for me and the series, and hopefully I will have more brain when I get back into the series. Hopefully. Or a level that works out, anyway.

And then recently I read and very much enjoyed Angela Thirkell's High Rising. It was written in the 1930s (I didn't actually plan my reading to be this thematic, it just happened) so has some of the usual hang-ups (although less than others, I'd have said), but Laura, the middle-aged heroine (who doesn't get married, but turns down two proposals in the course of the novel) was lovely and it even made me laugh aloud in patches. I enjoyed the three proposals that didn't go anywhere, and the trip to see King Lear even though nobody likes Shakespeare (and "the play is in in itself inherently improbable and in parts excessively coarse and painful. But they may do it in modern clothes, or in the dark, or all standing on stepladders. You never know.") And best of all the bit where the author George Knox gets out-talked by Laura's train-obsessed son Tony and swears he will never talk so much again... in a speech that lasts for a page and a half without a paragraph break.

I have another of hers that I picked up and I am now looking forward to reading that too. The introduction puzzled me mildly, as it is at pains to assure me that even though Angela Thirkell is completely forgotten these days, she is at times even nearly as good as Barbara Pym. I have heard of and seen Angela Thirkell's books before; I have sort of vaguely heard of Barbara Pym but have never seen her works on a shelf anywhere (although clearly I should keep an eye out). I'm not sure whether it's me that's back to front here, or just the introduction.


What I'm Reading Now
Having finished The Surgeon's Mate and being free to read lighter things more suited to a brainless person, I immediately started instead on Norman Davies's Vanished Kingdoms (but to be read in installments, kingdom by kingdom, so I have a Plan in this case), which is excellent and looks at European nations that no longer exist. It is over 700 pages, though, so it will probably take me longer than the next book in the Aubreyad would have done, but NF is easier as I don't have to follow a plot. And it should be very good!

And of course, this week I had my birthday, which naturally included me being given some presents, one of which was a copy of The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell, which I am now happily devouring.


For family history note-taking, I have started Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People From the 1820s to the 1920s (ed. John Burnett), which varies as to how relevant it is, but where it is, it's very useful indeed, as well as being interesting in itself, consisting of accounts of ordinary thing by ordinary people.


What I'm Reading Next
I don't know, Meme, but, given my birthday I am now a bit of a donkey with half a dozen carrots. I expect next up will be the light and hopefully interesting/entertaining A Viking in the Family and Other Family Tree Tales by Keith Gregson, a collection of small but interesting anecdotes about ancestors and how people found them. Less entertainly, but hopefully useful, I have The Wills of Our Ancestors by Stuart A. Raymond to help me understand wills and inventories and things. I also have The Pox: The Life and Near Death of a Very Social Disease by Kevin Brown, which is about Syphilis. (My ancestors, what can I say?)

Probably also that other Angela Thirkell, or something else I shall stumble over in a charity shop/free book shop/library.

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My friend has been and gone and we had a nice time, and now I should be back around a bit, instead of just keeping an eye on the commentfest and posting Things I Made Earlier*

The commentfest continues however! I shall do a second wave of promotion for the weekend. Anyone you wishes to help by promoting it on their journal or a relevant comm is very welcome. (And thanks to those who already have! <3)

There are many banners like this one with coding ready made to c+p here (plus links to a selection of rebloggable tumblr posts), so you barely need to do any work at all:



And I will happily make one for any fandom you wish, as long as there are images available.

It is going pretty well, though, so far. And of course, please feel free to add all the prompts you wish and make any fills you fancy. (I mean, without prompts, nothing.)


(tl;dr: I'm back, I'm still a nuisance.)


* I don't have a Blue Peter badge, but I should do.

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Another one I wrote up last week, this time for genprompt_bingo Round 14, for the square "Disgust." (Because obviously I was going to have write some Onedin Line fic and make there be some, wasn't I? I failed to make a joke about the way Liverpool looks just like Devon, though.)

Sharp Bargaining (1395 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Onedin Line (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Webster Onedin/James Onedin, William Baines & Anne Webster Onedin & James Onedin
Characters: Anne Webster Onedin, James Onedin, William Baines (The Onedin Line)
Additional Tags: Community: genprompt_bingo, Marriage of Convenience, Victorian, Boats and Ships, Episode: s01e01 The Wind Blows Free, Episode: s02e05 Yellow Jack
Summary: When James Onedin comes to buy her father's ship, Anne makes a bargain of necessity: he can have the Charlotte Rhodes as long as he takes her with it as his wife. She regrets nothing.

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I managed to get my intoabar fic done before the warm weather hit, and got it tidied up to post today. My prompt was Twelve meeting Snow | Mary Margaret, which was a lovely prompt and very easy to do something for:

Myths & Legends (1716 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard, Twelfth Doctor
Additional Tags: Crossover, Community: intoabar, Episode: s10e01 The Pilot, Post-Canon
Summary: We're all stories in the end, it's true - and, sooner or later, all stories find themselves in Storybrooke.

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Amazingly, we already have some fills, so here is the fills post. (To be updated as more come in. The actual fest is here.)

Arthurian Cycle
A Midsummer Knight’s Tale by grondfic (Crossover with A Midsummer Night's Dream.)

The Avengers (UK)
Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter by timelessapeel (Crossover with Captain America Movies)
Steed, Peel, Needed in a snowy mystery by timelessapeel

Call the Midwife
Sister Monica Joan, flowers by timelessapeel
Trixie Franklin & Sister Evangelina, G by smallhobbit
Barbara Gilbert/Tom Hereward, PG (spoilers for S7) by smallhobbit

Captain America Movies
Mrs. Peel crosses paths with Peggy Carter by timelessapeel (Crossover with The Avengers (UK).)

Department S
Annabelle, Stewart, Jason & Sir Curtis, holiday by timelessapeel

Doctor Who
Zoe Heriot & Isobel Watkins, reunion turns disastrous by el_staplador

Dracula (TV 1968)
Restless Spirits (Ensemble, PG) by lost_spook

Gormenghast
Steerpike/Titus Groan. Rapprochement. PG. by anon
Growth And Decay by swordznsorcery (G, 2112 words.)

Hamlet - Shakespeare
Horatio/Fortinbras, T by executrix

Life on Mars
Sam Tyler/Annie Cartwright; G by smallhobbit

Maurice - E. M. Forster
Alec/Maurice, many years later by rusty_armour

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
A Midsummer Knight’s Tale by grondfic (Crossover with Arthurian Cycle.)

North & South - Gaskell/BBC
John Thornton/Margaret Hale by smallhobbit

The Persuaders
What Is There About Your Face That Causes So Much Trouble? (Brett Sinclair/Danny Wilde, hurt/comfort) by rusty_armour

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
1960s version, Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk, laundry day by arnie1967

Red Dwarf
Cat x the scutters, petty feuds by bruttimabuoni

Richard III - Shakespeare
Buckingham/Richard, G by smallhobbit

River (BBC)
Stevie - Rated Teen - "born without a name on the darkest day" by rosehiptea

Robin of Sherwood (TV)
Neither Fish Nor Flesh (Post TotW, Robert of Huntingdon) by rusty_armour
Crowns aren't everything; Loxley/Marion, Tuck, Much, Will (185 words) by liadtbunny

Sapphire and Steel
Nothing Up My Sleeve by spikesgirl58
Not So Much Awry, S&S, Original Elements, 1735 words by lost_spook

Spooks | MI5
Zaf/Jo, bad day, angst by nagi_schwarz

WIA
Will & Izzy, A peculiar kind of peace by timelessapeel

Y Gwyll | Hinterland
Tom & Mared, there's a murder in the National Library by angelofthenorth

Zodiac (TV 1974)
David Gradley/Esther Jones, Esther casts Grad's horoscope, G, 606 words by lost_spook

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Welcome to the Obscure & British comment fest V! Last year didn't happen for various reasons, but it is now back. And it would be wearing a hat if it could. \o/

This is a comment fest for any tiny/small(ish)/medium(ish) British fandom and open to all fanworks.



If you've ever loved any British fandoms, find yourself too obscure for most fests, or you're busy wondering why there's still no Emma Peel in all this Avengers stuff, you're in the right place. Come on in and help yourself to a cup of tea and a crumpet. Also you should make prompts and fill them.


Rules & Guidelines
This commentfest works in the same way as most comment ficathons, although all kinds of fanworks are welcome. (Fanart, icons, fanmixes, vids, or whatever your creative mind can come up with or prompt for.) Just leave your prompt and/or browse through other people's prompts to see what you can fill.

1. Be polite - no bashing or shaming of anyone, or any prompts, characters, ships or fandoms! Thank you.

2. One prompt per post, please use format: Fandom(/Fandom), Character(s)/Pairing(s), prompt (i.e "Spooks, Tom/Ruth, apocalypse AU"). You may repost prompts from previous years (or even from elsewhere, as long as that's okay with the other fest/comm/whatever).

3. Post fills as replies (or links in replies) to the comment containing the prompt. Please format the subject line as follows: Fandom - Character(s)/Pairing(s) - Ratings/Warnings (if included). There's a fills thread at the start of the post. Please also link your fill here, if you can. (I will also start up a masterlist post as soon as we have some fills.)

4. You may fill your own prompts if you wish, and multiple fills are more than welcome. (No prompt claiming, please.)

5. For crossovers any fandom is allowed as long as the first fandom qualifies. (If it's a cracky multi-fandom crossover prompt, that's fine, too, though try and make sure there are always equal or more eligible fandoms in proportion to those that are non-eligible.)

6. Any other questions - there's a questions thread at the start of the post if there's anything else you want to ask.

7. Prompt, fill, away!


Eligible Fandoms
Basically, any rare to small/medium British fandom, no matter how odd, old, obscure, non-existent, random or how shiny and new or in what medium - anything that's not on the below list is fine. (Definitions of British are also fairly wide and hand-wavy - check on the questions thread if you're not sure.)


Non-eligible fandoms
ALL non-British fandoms are ineligible and the following fandoms are British but too large and therefore ineligible for this fest (although don't forget that you can prompt for any fandom as a crossover with an eligible fandom):

Chronicles of Narnia (all), Doctor Who (2005+), Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, The Hobbit (all), James Bond (Craig!Bond films), The Kingsman films, Lord of the Rings (all), Merlin, The Musketeers (BBC), One Direction, Primeval, Sherlock (BBC), The Silmarillion, Torchwood.

(RPF is welcome. Please use specific categories when prompting (e.g. history by century, and all actor/bandom RPF by individual series/film/band or whatever grouping seems most appropriate. In the spirit of the fest, please try and avoid RPF for non-eligible shows/v. popular actors like Tom Hiddleston & Benedict Cumberbatch, but as they turn up in less popular film/TV RPF, that's a guideline, not a rule.)


There's no closing date for prompts or fills - the fest will stay open until next year's post goes up. Once you've created a fill, you're welcome to crosspost it anywhere you like. (If you're posting to AO3, there's no collection for the fest, but there is an "Obscure & British Commentfest" tag you can use if you want.)


If you want to promote the fest, then thank you! Please do. You can find a selection of banners ready made with code here and rebloggable tumblr posts here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

You can find the previous fest (2016) here. Also: O&B 2015, O&B 2014 and O&B 2013. If you want to fill or repost a previous prompt, you may, although please also post to the fills thread on the current post.

ETA: The fills post is here

For those who don't have an Dreamwidth account or prefer to remain anonymous, anon commenting is on.

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I wasn't sure when to do my commentfest this year, but have realised that it is probably best started at some point this weekend. (It's a bank holiday one here, so probably tomorrow or Monday). \o/

I am still unsure about how it will go in these lesser days, but I am all excited now that I know it's going to be soon.


(Obscure & British is a commentfest I run where all the fandoms need to be British and not large (the obscurity is relative) and it has been a lot of fun in the past, although I skipped it last year for several reasons. It is, in fact, not-so-secretly also my birthday party, as I can't have physical ones. It has, until now, been a very good birthday party - hopefully for everyone else too!)

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I got myself a reccing bingo card from tardis_library (a challenge designed by me for people like me who tend not to post recs without a reason, so I really had to). If you want one, the challenge is open till the end of August and you can find all the details here

Magic	Apocalypse	Mystery	Stories	Multi-era
Flora & fauna	Games	Work	Introspection	Good & evil
Atonement	It’s not what it seems	WILD CARD	Drunkenness	Horror
War & peace	Angst	Aliens made us do it	Rare Pairings	Torture
Daleks	Supernatural	Revenge	Remix	Missing adventure

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I saw thedevilchicken's letter for Space Swap and they mentioned that they liked Janeway/Coffee, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and ridiculous crossovers and so this happened, even if it took long enough that the exchange had ended before I was done.

There's Coffee in That Galaxy (Far Far Away) (4159 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kathryn Janeway, Wilhuff Tarkin
Additional Tags: Space Swap 2018, Crossover, Coffee, Crack, Coffee Addiction, Swirly things in space
Summary: Janeway's quest for coffee lands her on a desert planet somewhere in another universe, and still minus a proper caffeine fix. What she needs now is someone who can help her out with both problems...

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It's that time of year again! Last year's is here.

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1. tardis_library seems to be starting off well, so I am pleased! I've nearly finished all my pimping now, you'll be relieved to know (sorry!) - but if anyone who hasn't already and is into Doctor Who or knows a few people who are could still pimp it on their journal or anywhere else that seems appropriate, I'll be very grateful! c+p banner coding here for LJ/Dreamwidth:

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With even more thanks to anyone who is kind enough to reblog this tumblr post for it. (The couple of people who have - thank you, it made a big difference. It's just there's no way for me to do the rounds myself there and I am entirely reliant on other people reblogging, so any help there is marvellous. thank you thank you.)


2. I don't know if it's a new Freeview channel, or just one that my TV Guide has deigned to cover now or what, but there's a channel full of very old films called Talking Pictures, which has just provided me with some more Margaret Lockwood in the shape of Hungry Hill (1947), an adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier book (from the days when Daphne du Maurier was still around to help with the scripting). I'm now nearly through it, and some more Margaret Lockwood being headstrong in big frocks has been very welcome!

Tomorrow, I see that it will be showing The Wicked Lady (and no doubt some other days this week), so, if you are also in the UK and want to see Margaret Lockwood and James Mason galloping about being highwaymen you should watch. It is not quite as fab as The Lady Vanishes obv. but it is excellent OTT melodrama with cross-dressing and villainy and shenanigans and also the lovely Patricia Roc. (Plus it's clearly the inspiration for a lot of the DW ep "The Woman Who Lived" too. Watching them close together is quite the experience.)

Via tumblr, some pics of Margaret Lockwood in Hungry Hill, big frocks v much included.

(And Drama are also starting showing Juliet Bravo from tomorrow (an early 1980s series about a female police officer policing Up North (but not pretty like All Creatures)). I like having my terrible elderly-TV/film watching habits enabled like this. I don't remember the early series(es) so well as the later ones with Anna Carteret, but I think Chris Boucher was script editor for 1 or 2 or the early ones, so naturally, I'm interested, especially in any eps he wrote for it. (I'll check IMBD).)

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Written for the hc_bingo April Amnesty challenge, using these scary prompts:

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heart attack / heart trouble

food poisoning

interrogation

robots / androids / AIs

(And I managed to get three of them in, and maybe even something that might count as the fourth.)

When I asked people for ideas about what crossover to write, Persiflage suggested more Silver/Liz and, so, that was what I wrote:

Heart of the Trouble (2984 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)/Silver (S&S)
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Robots, Community: hc_bingo, Hurt/Comfort, Bruises, Crossover
Summary: Liz finds herself caught in a trap meant to snare an Element...

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It is now a thing that is a thing! We shall see how this goes...



If you're willing to pimp it anywhere, here's the coding for the banner:

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Plus, a rebloggable tumblr post here (and I'll be very grateful for any reblogs there in particular).

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I was tagged for one of these on tumblr and since I haven't done the WIP meme here since last May, I thought I'd post it here too:

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What I've just finished reading

Tracing Your West Country Ancestors by Kirsty Gray, which was pretty much what you would expect, but useful/interesting enough from my point of view, although I am still eyeing it askance for failing to mention the Monmouth Rebellion even once. (This is not quite as bad as adaptations of Lorna Doone that skip the Battle of Sedgemoor or film it in a hilly Welsh wood*, but I am judging the lack, as you can guess.)

I also read Whip Hand by Dick Francis, which was really interesting because it's both a book in a series by the original author and sort of pro-fanfic for the TV series The Racing Game. This happened because Yorkshire TV turned Odds Against, Dick Francis's first book about Sid Halley, a jockey who injures his hand and turns to being private investigating, into a 6 part series (1 part adaptation, five parts new adventures), but the twist is that Francis really liked it and the star Mike Gwilym and was inspired to write more about Sid - the result being Whip Hand. Having now read the other three books, I was intrigued to read this (which is even dedicated to Mike Gwilym and the producer of the show). It really does try to mesh the TV continuity into the original and he keeps the casting not only for Mike Gwilym as Sid, but clearly for Mick Ford as Chico and James Maxwell as Charles Roland (so you see where I fit into this equation). (I had no idea till I read Odds Against shortly before this that there was any fundamental difference, because of the way that he actually made the two fit as closely as possible retrospectively. The books have an extra injury! I suppose this shouldn't even be surprising...)

Anyway, I liked this one the most, probably not unrelated to its being the most TV-influenced, and also because it had the most Sid & Charles, and they have a really great relationship, which comes to a point here. (Charles is Sid's father-in-law, a retired admiral with a posh house and they initially hated each other, but later became such good friends that their relationship outlived Sid's marriage to Charles's daughter. Sid's narration says things about how Charles is the most important person in the world to him, but of course they never say things like that to each other. But he tells Charles, when he turns up in trouble in this one, that he came home and they both know what they mean. <3<3<3)

(The last one Under Orders isn't as good but it does have a priceless bit where Sid introduces his new fiancee to Charles and then gets jealous because Charles non-seriously flirts with her as Charles is HIS ALONE.)


I also read another Daisy, Sheer Folly, which is a later entry into the series, but an enjoyable one - a unique restored grotto that Daisy is writing an article about gets blown up with somebody inside it. Could it be murder? Of course it could. Alec is annoyed again, because he was coming down to join Daisy for a couple of days off and instead when he arrives he has to dig a body out of an a lot of rubble underground and unofficially assist a murder investigation. It's hard being married to a murder-magnet, although a DCI of Scotland Yard is the best candidate for it, really. (Luckily, she's cute.)


What I'm reading now

I am still reading The Surgeon's Mate, and in my family history note-taking, I have started We Danced All Night: Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh, which is proving to be both highly relevant and readable so far.


What I'm reading next

Well, I do have another Daisy out from the library...


* Sedgemoor is situated in the middle of the Wetlands in the Somerset Levels, so you know, there could be a clue as to the landscape in that fact.

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