That Was The Year That Was

[inamac]

I haven't been posting much to LJ partly because I've been using Facebook for everyday stuff, partly because I've been concentrating on knitting and updating my Ina-Jean DW account so can't be arsed to switch to the Inamac one for cross posting, and partly because (I imagine because most people use i-phones to post these days) no one seems to use

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[msmoat]

Oh, poor Draco in the Christmas Hat with Antlers! *g* (Although it's a lovely hat. *g*)

I've missed getting updates on the dogs and the cats, as well as you!

[enchanted_jae]

For shame, not using a cut! *giggles*

I love Draco's hat, even though he seems quite bedeviled by it. Ha ha! How cute!

[delphipsmith]

The Christmas Hat With Antlers very nearly made me splooge wine all over my keyboard. I'd like to hear more about the pseudo-Wimsey -- worth reading, or better give it a miss?

[inamac]

Jill Paton Walsh writes competent modern detective stories set in Oxford with a nurse detective, Imogen Quy. On the strength of this she was asked to 'continue' the Peter Wimsey books from Sayer's notes: 'Thrones, Dominations', which is an interesting read (if only to spot the original from the pastiche). She's had three more Wimsey 'authorised fanfic' pieces published - which get progressively more irritating. Only worth reading if (like most of us poor Wimsey fans) you're desperate for a fix.

The Quy books are rather good though.

[delphipsmith]

Only worth reading if (like most of us poor Wimsey fans) you're desperate for a fix.

That would be me as well *sigh* I adore Lord Peter and am so sad there will be no further adventures. I've read all of them so many times I practically have them memorized -- that scene with the two of them on the riverbank in Gaudy Night still wins the prize for best UST :)

Have you read Laurie R. King's Holmes/Russell series? Lord Peter makes a cameo appearance in her A Letter of Mary :)

[aunty_marion]

I adore the Mary Russell books, and may have squeeeeeeed uncontrollably just a little when I realised exactly WHO that was...