Soledad&#39;s Journal

I'm here - just not so much as usual!
I'm looking forward to that cake - come over as soon as you like!

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makamu

I am around also, though more in the form of a Suruli than solidly me :)

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I am here *waves*

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That's good. You're needed to write Rhade's awakening before he dies again, drowning in the drool of Harper ogling him. ;)

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On my way... the cake turned out apple-cheesecake, though. I hope you don't mind...

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lindahoyland.livejournal.com

My readers all seem to have disappeared.Maybe Halloween is to blame?

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*nods* Yeah, I know. Awfully busy in the kitchen today, though, so it'll probably be tonight.

Just finished with 12 glasses of Quittengelee, now a cup of coffee, then Kohlrouladen (both made with Mom, fortunately, or at the end of the weekend I would be more exhausted than at the start of it.)

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I know the feeling. Produced Apfel-Quarktorte yesterday - took me the whole afternoon. It's yummy, but very work-intensive.

I'm lucky that we're having autumn break.

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Mhm, sounds delicious! I'm going to bake tomorrow, Bailey's-Sahne-Biskuitrolle.

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lissas-elves.livejournal.com

I've had a little 'down-time', but am now slowly resurfacing.... :-/

Slave labour? Oh dear! *g*

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cirdan-havens.livejournal.com

My excuse is brother coming back from New York and nothing else happening in my life. -_- I can't even talk about NaNo because while I want to do it, I haven't come up with anything yet.

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I'm told that people are holding Hallows' Eve parties a night early, because it's Saturday, and combining with fireworks, because the 5th isn't Saturday. As ljuserRichenda once said, in the person of ljusersharedkitty, "I wish the Saturdays would go away".

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Tell me how it turns out. Loved your "Gaheris wakes up" entry, by the way. *g*

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No idea. We don't do Halloween over here. Well, the commercial part is slowly seeping in, but we don't really have that kind of tradition. Other than going to the cemetery and light candles for our dead, that is.

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With mean little trolls... erm, sweet little schoolkids. Have a very unbalanced working schedule this term.

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Heh. You're the one who actually is around most of the time. I just never understand the technical stuff you're posting about, or I'd comment more. But telling you "sorry, I'm an idiot" over and over won't be very funny...

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I like Saturdays, myself. It means I'll still have one more day before returning to work. Actually, I like Friday afternoons best. Then I can look forward to 2 free days, which is nice.

Fireworks, eh? What is on the 5th?

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I don't know if I'll bake it. After having spent so much time in the kitchen yesterday, I don't really feel like spending another day there.

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rcfinch.livejournal.com

Guy Fawkes Day.
As you see, I'm around too - but I wasn't for most of this week, for reasons totally unrelated to Halloween.

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lindahoyland.livejournal.com

I think that is a lovely tradition. We have an All Souls service at Church today.

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cirdan-havens.livejournal.com

I often don't understand such stuff either. -_- 50k words in 30 days. Hm, we'll see.

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I won't blame you for that. Housework is a most unsatisfying thing - it never ends, and the results don't last.

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When I was a child, we lived in a very small town in Transylvania. There was no public illumination, and the first snow fell quite early. All Souls night was particularly beautiful: the cemetery illuminated only by the candless and the whiteness of the snow, in contrast with the blackness of the soil... it's been almost fifty years that I last saw it that way, but the memory still touches me.

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Well, good luck with that. I've just managed to finish another chapter to my Ninth Doctor/Toshiko adventure that takes place in 12th century Japan and am relieved beyond measure. That's one research-heavy story if you've even seen one.

I intend to finish it in november, for

picowrimo, but I can never be sure that I'll manage. I mean, I've figured out the plot in my mind already, but, as we all know, the devil hides in the details. And to get your details right about a culture and an age you know nigh to nothing about can be time-consuming.

What are you going to write about? (fantastic icon, BTW)

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Oh, is it? I've learned about the event itself but never marked the day for myself.

Nice to have you back. My spontaneous disappearances rarely have anything to do with the holidays, either. Work just tends to eat one, doesn't it?

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In the UK, it's a reprehensible annual tradition of burning the effigy of a man who died in a torture chamber; admittedly, he was caught with explosives on the premises where the monarch would be meeting the politicians of the day - so the effigy-burning was probably an effective way of reminding the populace that it's a bad idea to be caught near a monarch with explosives.
Our family tradition in the 1950s, because my birthday was during half-term, was to postpone the party until the 5th, when we had my birthday party with bonfire and fireworks, but without effigy

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mmmmmmmm - mouth too full to reassure you adequately

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Oh they certainly have their use, do Saturdays - it's just that we both worked in environment that didn't give Saturdays off work - and the cat whose care we shared had been used to living in a remote area, where Saturdays didn't impinge

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