Fandom: Maurice
Rating: PG - 13
Pairing: Anne/Clive
Summary: "It had all gone so smoothly - courtship, engagement, marriage. Perhaps too smoothly, because she'd been so jolly pleased with herself and pride comes before a fall, after all."
Wordcount: approx. 2400
Disclaimer: These characters belong to E.M. Forster, not me. I make no profit and intend no ( Read more... )

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I'm always a bit reluctant to re-watch some programme I saw (and loved) as a child or teenager. Because so often what appeared magical / terrifying to the child's mind with its seemingly limitless ability to suspend disbelief can just look plain pathetic when you watch it many years later as an adult.
And then the memory's a bit spoiled. 
So I ( Read more... )

Fandom : Maurice
Characters: Maurice, Alec, Kitty
Rating: PG-13
Word count: approx. 4833
Author's note: This takes as its starting-point E.M. Forster's abandoned epilogue to Maurice wherein Kitty meets two woodcutters in a forest. (I hope this won't be considered too much of an impertinence as Forster ended up cutting the entire epilogue from the book ( Read more... )

One of my beloved sister herbs, borage is a garden treasure.
Known also as "bee bread", its glowing, cornflower-blue blooms exert  a magnetic attraction on bees. If you want lots of lovely, pollinating friends in your garden borage and lavender are a good combination, I've found.
The young leaves are cool and cucumber-tasting, and the pretty ( Read more... )