Oh, oh, oh!

I just posted what I want to nominate for Yuletide, and I suddenly remembered something I would dearly get. I’ve never met anyone who has read it. It was one of my Mum’s childhood books and I have loved it since I was nine. Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre by Gwendoline Courtney. Originally published as Stepmother in, I think, 1948 and also as Those Verney Girls. It’s very high on my list of comfort reads.

It’s about four sisters, aged nine to seventeen who has a blissful childhood in the countryside with their father, who is an author. Their whole life gets turned upside down when their father suddenly remarries and they decide to hate their stepmother with a passion, though they have no idea what kind of person she actually is. It’s a funny and charming book, the sister all have their individual characters and I’d love to have fic about them.

Writing and watching

My Mummy fic is getting a very wordy ending. I’m enjoying writing it a lot, but it’s rather romantic. For being written by me, that is. I guess most people would not think it particularly fluffy. I had hoped to finish it tonight, but I got up at 4 this morning and is starting to feel rather fussy. But I’m off work tomorrow, and husband will be elsewhere, so I have the whole day and afternoon to myself.

Fellow Doctor Who fans may enjoy that public_call will open for nominations on September 15. I don’t think I will be signing up because I’m really not very interested in writing, or getting, New Who only fics and you have to include one of those. I understand the reasoning behind it, but much as I love New Who, it’s the Classics which sparks my imagination when it comes to fics.

( The Strain )

( The Musketeers )

( Charmed )

Husband and I also watched the first episode of Firefly which we hadn’t seen before, despite liking Buffy, Angel and The Dollhouse. We quite liked it, though it felt a bit confusing at times.