The Farmstead

So, something came up and I was inspired to write a fic. It may or may not be humorous! Giles POV, sort-of Spuffy, 1300 odd words, PG-13 for suggestiveness. It's the sequel/companion to Deliciously Self-Centred, which you may remember was about Jaffa Cakes, right at the end of S7...

Credit to hobbituk for the title...!

Dark and Fruity... And all mine!

The end of days was due, but Giles was a man on a mission. It had been three months since his last Jaffa Cake, and the time had come. When the groceries had first been brought back, he’d resisted in the name of decorum, but now he had the chance to make good on the promise to himself that he would have one last moment of pleasure before the apocalypse.

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I'm gearing up for the Shakespeare Globe to Globe festival at the end of next month, so have finally started working through the logistics of it all. Most importantly, of course, is the weekend of the 25th-27th May!!!


Banner by the dazzling ningloreth, who I think has perfectly captured the moment before Legolas and the HP trio called for a dance off.

Yep, writerconuk is back with the 2012 event at the end of May. I'm going to be there and clearly you should be as well, dear flist. For there will undoubtedly be much exciting chat and disparaging remarks about the speed with which the hotel bar fails to make cocktails and laments over the old chairs and extravaganztastic talks about fannish things aplenty. With heckling! There will also be a lot of time sitting around with laptops and working out whether casual games that revolve around horses are better or worse than tower defence casual games, and potentially mine and bogwitch's jaw-droppingly-accurate-not-at-all-sarcastic-or-in-any-way-resembling-Eastenders portrayal of Tara and Willow in Once More with Feeling. And did I mention the interesting fannish talks?

I'm just back from writerconuk which was absolutely fabulous, as usual, with a lovely mix of interesting and funny new people, familiar old hands that it's always nice to catch up with at conversational pace (even if they spent a considerable portion of the weekend telling me how much was going to go wrong with my body as it got older... Cheers again, gang!), tasty food, tasty drink, comfy hotel furniture and extra specially informative talks! Having got back, also, I have found myself in the WiFi-enabled cafe down the street and am being constantly informed by menus to 'make myself at home', so I intend to.(I feel very cool though; this is the sort of cafe that only appears on TV, with loads of random tables and rickety chairs, with nice people serving you stuff and a whole library's worth of old books to read. I feel like a proper student or something... ETA: I should probably explain this with an extra comment that I currently have no internet in my house, and so have been using my phone as a WiFi hotspot, but do not have anywhere near enough data allowance to properly surf the net, so that's why I've been somewhat absent, and will probably continue to be until I go to France via my parents' house at the end of this week.)

I'm a bit tired so I'm not sure I'm up to recounting everything at any sort of length at the moment, but I did do a fanpoetry talk involving a workshop where we collectively wrote a poem in the style of Blackadder (from the Blackader III era - written to Amy Hardwood in Amy and Amiability, aka The Shadow, before she screws him over), and I have promised Gill repeatedly that I would post it, so the two versions are below the cut. There should be a podcast of the talk at some point (scarily!), so I'll post the rest of the presentation then, because the slides aren't very informative on their own and all else I have are the scribbles in my notebook.

( Poemy Poem. )

I learnt many things over the weekend, so I'll have to get on those at some point. I think the main points are, though, that my vids are vastly more amateur than it's quite standard for vids to become (I have this horrible feeling I might have to learn some software); I have a worrying tendency of picking up on sueworld's accent and vocal mannerisms if I talk to her for more than five minutes; also that Tara in OMWF is actually enjoyable to play when putting on a mildly(?) David Bowie voice. And when having an EastEnders style row with bogwitch as Willow.

Oh, oh, oh, though my Docs also won an award for Cutest Shoes (I may have been ungracious about the 'cute' label, but was chuffed nonetheless) and I won an apparently authentically patterned Fourth Doctor scarf in the raffle, as knitted by lilachigh! I am much pleased with it, and look forward to wearing it in the autumn/winter. (Yes, with my anorak parka! At least until I need a thicker coat. :P)

Hope everyone got home OK, or is stiil OK at the hotel! I'm already looking forward to the next meet up. :D

[Last year's ramble.]

Faboo all round, I thought! Though, of course, I won't leave it there because I lack the ability to shut up. Especially at 1:30 in the morning when I'm mildly inebriated, as gillo and bogwitch found out, but more on that within my ( supermassive recap ramble. )

Well, blimey, did anyone get to the end of that? I should really have gone with COME TO WRITERCONUK, FANDOM PEEPS, IT'S ACE. just_sue, thismaz and kitty_poker1 did an amazingly wonderful job. In any case, apologies for all the typos etc. that will almost certainly have crept in during my brain dump. To use a phrase of the weekend, I quite possibly need a beta...