my niche is back up

[lobelia321]

Some weeks ago I deleted my website by accident (duh) but msilverstar kindly supplied me with an old archived version. So today I took the day off due to heat stress, *g*, and I put much of it back up. Still not entirely done yet but I know some people were asking where my fics were kept and well, this is where: My niche. :-)

P.S. Oh, and Brighton? Brighton was fabulous! I love Brighton! There were seagulls, I could see the sea from the window of the bathroom, we went swimming and sitting on pebbly beaches, we saw the sun set over the downs and had a latae-night picnic -- it was glorious. I said to t'12: 'You could go to uni here and we could visit!' And the place was full of same-sex couples. And has that edge of naughty trashiness to it. And the houses so charming! Ah, I really, really loved it.

Comments

[lady_of_asheru]

Brighton is indeed the land of the free (the only place I would move from Cambridge for, because it has all this and the sea - and better shops - and my best friend now lives there). But dude, those seagulls are of the EVIL - especially the strafing runs as you are trying to enjoy a cocktail...
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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Hey, Lady, a certain Ipswich duck tells me that you live in the city of my own residence...

This, needless to say, spooks me no end.

Ack! Maybe we run into each other all the time at Sainsbury's or Scotsdale's Garden Centre (not that I'm ever there) but... *hides*

[lady_of_asheru]

And I think you know childeproof (it is a small world). Don't worry; I do most of my shopping online ;-)
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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I've never met childeproof in the flesh yet I've known her for years online. We keep planning to meet.

[lady_of_asheru]

She's great fun and lovely company - I met her under my LOTR nom de plume last year, and again recently.

S

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Since I was one of those people pester- asking for your webside - tahnk you very much. :)

I already read one of your LotR-fics. The one with Viggo and Orli having to share a trailer *looks up the title again*. Ah, The Other Trailer. Yes, that one. I really like your Viggo who to me is a bit of a cross between a nerd and an esoterical....erh, man. LOL.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you read that lotrips one before or after we met via the World Cup? Heh, that one was a funny one to write. I did not like Viggo (but more than I liked Rooney, *g*) and I loathed this pairing with all my heart. So I wrote it for a friend's birthday and it was totally against the grain, and the only way I could do it was via humour. And then it turned out to be great fun to write Viggo's pov! Also, I had set up the situation in the Dom/Orli/Billy saga where it figures in the background so I was stuck with it!

I was thinking of you when I set up the website again, mainly! :-) I'm not generally one to go around over-pimping my wares but it was a bit sad not having any website at all...

How are you anyway? Is it hot in Deutschland?

Today I spent quite some time ogling club sites (111). I looked at Arsenal, and Man Utd, and Aston Villa (I didn't even know what city Aston Villa was in! It's in London) and Real Madrid and AZ Alkmaar (because my parents live near their stadium!). And I am probably going to put myself on the waiting list for Arsenal membership (111) because t'sons immediately got into my clubsite-ogling and wanted to ogle as well and pulled up player info, and I walked into the house and came back outside to where the laptop was, and there was t'8, having googled Kaká all of his own volition and ogled a player info page with pic, and later on four of t'12s were playing football in the garden and from afar I kept hearing shouts of "Just like Cristiano Ronaldo!". My real life and my fan life are merging in disturbing ways!!!

You know, the Nape pic is now my desktop image.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

I read it just yesterday. And yes, I had a feeling that Viggo wasn't your favourite character. :) But it's a great fic nontheless or maybe because of it? I like that your Viggo is just a man and not some kind of Strider. I mean, he just plays Strider and no, he himself won't have those nearly magical abilities. Sadly in many fics Viggo and Strider seem to blend... I've also followed one of your recs and I am reading 'Transfigurations' or re-reading it. It's a great one. And it has Draco... *sighs*

I was thinking of you when I set up the website again, mainly! :-)
*blushes* Thank you even more!

And yes, it's hot here in Germany. Or at least in Berlin. A co-worker told me yesterday that temperature will reach 36 degrees Celsius (!) this week. Oh joy. I'll be well-done after a day in the library then.
Otherwise I'm starting to get a bit nervous about the fact that I'm still not getting nervous about my exam. The date is set and now would be my usual moment of panic. But it's not coming. It's nice in a way but what if I need panic to prepare well?
And I just had to notice that the oh so cheap train from Viena to Firenze, Toscana is only cheap if you have a so called Vorteilscard by the österreichischen Bahn which of course, I don't. *grr* So the ticket will cost more than double: 120 Euro. Damn!

And how are you? How's the book coming along?
And your sons... *giggles* GO BOYS!!! Also - there's a waiting list for membership? Jeez. What can't they have more than like 5000 members at a time?

And now I gotta run to get at least something done before lunch. Finished Kleist and am now onto Lessing's fables. Way better! Nearly animal tales. All is well. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

So you're in Berlin?? I lived in Berlin from 1985 to 1990 and again briefly in the summer of 1991. I lived in Schöneberg-- where are you? And heh, the library: what library are you going to? Not the Stabi? And your exam is 2 August, right? What are you being examined on? Is it oral?

I have no clue about football clubs but looking at a few websites and having talked to a friend who regularly takes his sons (see? it's The Thing To Do when you have sons -- I have the perfect alibi for stalking admiring footballing skills), it seems as if most clubs have waiting lists and then a system of red, silver, gold membership. And season ticket holders get more privileges than others. It's all a new world to me, and slightly overawing, but I am determined! T'8 is now making collages of Thierry Henry...

The book is coming along slowly. I've felt despondent about it for the past ten days or so, then I took yesterday off and today it's going a bit better. Thank you for asking. :-)

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, I've been born and raised in Berlin. In Charlottenburg to be exact. Now I live in Wedding. Love it there. It's like it was in Charlottenburg when I grew up.

And I'm going to the library of the Technische Universität. It's relatively new and pretty modern and by now even the computers work. :) I know the Stabi of course and will go there tomorrow to get new books. What joy...
Yes, the exam is oral. Two subjects (Kleists Dramen und Lessings Fabeln) in an hour. Me and the professor and some other teacher who does the protocol.

Maybe I should get myself a few sons, too? It seems like such a great excuse - erh, reason to obsess about football. ;)
T'8 is now making collages of Thierry Henry...
As long as he doesn't doodle little hearts with his name in it... I mean, that would be fine, too, but yeah...

I'm glad that your work spirits have returned! I know all about these kinds of Durststrecken. It took me over a year to write down my damn master thesis and it's become more of a Doktorarbeit anyways. *sighs*

P.S.: Where are your Draco/Dudley fics though? Can't find them. And you did say that you wrote some, didn't you? *nag, nag, nag* ;)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Draco/Dudley opus has not been posted. Just angsted over for two years and put in my ringbinder. I've posted bits and pieces of it. Hm, let me find them in Memories.

Ah, here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=lobelia321&keyword=hp+opus&filter=all

Some of them may be locked; I can't remember. There are about nine posts.

:-) Thanks for making me run back to my book! I need those kicks up the bum.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

I need those kicks up the bum.
Well, since it's in my best interest to give them... :)

Will read the pieces this evening. Right now I'm at the library. Again. What a surprise... Well, only for two more weeks...

[lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com]

Everyone tells me Brighton is lovely. Glad you had such a great time :P

Okay, I am cracking up over 'Liv feels hot. Miranda has icecubes'. Nuff said, LOL

Am curious why you have a pic there of John Noble.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, John Noble, *laughs*. He was the first of my Really, Really Obscure Rare and Very Rare pairings. Because I wrote him with Bernard before they even appeared in the movies. Denethor doesn't appear until Movie nr 3 and I wrote him 2 years before that so all I had was this one b&w pic to go on and that was more or less it. He was my very first LJ icon. That whole website is imprinted with my entry fandom and I haven't had the heart to change it. I'm so used to it. I thought today, hm, John Noble, that's a blast from the past, maybe I should put Cristiano there. But then tradition prevailed...*g*

Heh, you noticed my one femslash. :-)

Brighton is wonderful!

[lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thanks for explaining. I have such a soft spot for the man, he is so sweet and such a gentleman. You should keep it that way, really!

That sentence was just priceless! That's how I noticed it.

[msilverstar]

I did? Golly, I don't remember. If it was me, you're very welcome. If not, thank you to whoever did!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't scroll back or anything but I'm sure it was you! Such a life saver! I mean it took forever fixing it up, as it was, but having to do that from scratch... It was so wonderful to have my life saved! :-)

[lazulus]

I was there on Saturday and had a lovely lunch at Tootsies with my friends and there gorgeous baby. We did attempt to walk along the prom, but it was too hot and there were too many people to make it a pleasant stroll!!

I love Brighton so much that I intend to move there in a few years. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You do? You will move there? Will you commute to Islington?

What is Tootsies?

I loved the place. The friend we were visiting was a bit problematic but the place is gorgeous. I would have lounged in coffeeshops (apparently they have a Carluccio's!! O heaven) but it wasn't really possible with this particular friend.

Hey! Nice to hear from you! And your saddle shoes! *waves*

[lazulus]

Tootsies is a restaurant in the lanes that is very child friendly. This meant that we spent most of the meal with various staff coming up to coo over 10 month old Ilse. :)

When I love there I shall not work in London, just get a job nearer Brighton. :)

It's basically London by the sea, which works for me big time!!

[sophrosyne31.livejournal.com]

laz, you're too lunnon to live in brighton. you'd be pining for soot and smut and smog in no time.

[lazulus]

Yes! But's Brighton is just London by the sea, Soph!! And I can always come up for day trips to get me smog fix. ;)

[sophrosyne31.livejournal.com]

omg don't lose the website. you nong!

brighton! i love brighton too! it's all, um, you know -- it's cool. i had the most delightful last day there last year the day before i flew home, and it was all sparkly and i went on a merry-go-round and we were total dags the whole day and also ate the best sunday roast lunch ever ever in the history of roast dinners, it had PUMPKIN and everything. :) oh brighton, lovely place.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I'm glad we're calling each other nong now. It brings back fond memories. Nobody does swearing quite as well as Australians. Not that nong is a swearword.

Oh, and you said 'dags'. *falls over with the Aussie love*

I have to get into some Australian football players here; I need to slash men who say 'dag'. Of course, half of them may also call each other 'dago', seeing as they are. Um.

I think next time you visit we must go to Brighton ensemble. I'm sure it is very slash conducive!

[sophrosyne31.livejournal.com]

nong! galah! dickhead!

i put 'daggy' in there specially for you, of course. one has to be careful with whom one uses that word, since 98% of the world doesn't know what it means and if you start talking about sheep's bums they look horrified. also 'spunk' is a hard one to translate. :)

yes brighton, we shall sit and cackle and gorge ourselves on the goodly food of brighton, it's the bomb. can't wait!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I don't know 'it's the bomb'. 98 percent thinks you're talking sheep's bum, and the rest are kiwis who live under the delusion that a dag is a 'jolly old chap'. Spunk, I feel, relates perfectly well to its more widespread meaning. Ho. A spunky guy = a guy who is young, dumb and full of cumb.

Have a totally arcane, insiderish football icon wot i just made. *cackles*