Happily installed in Devon
Jun. 6th, 2010 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Yesterday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., I traveled by plane (to Heathrow), bus (to Reading), train (to Exeter), taxi (to Avis @ Exeter airport, all others being closed on a Saturday afternoon) & rental car to Terri's little village on the moors. I was Troop Leader for our little expedition, which included
deliasherman , Holly Black & her husband Theo - doughty travelers, all! And each possessed of particular skills useful on such a journey. Theo got us all into wireless last night. Holly found the signs for everything from bus stops to rhubarb yoghurt (whyyy don't we have rhubarb yoghurt in the US??). Delia is cooking dinner right now (in someone else's kitchen. With a UK oven). We've been talking about Life & Writing ever since we had our naps yesterday. And drinking all the Pear Cider we can find (and also much tea).
Went for a long walk on the Common today with Terri & Tillie. There were wild moor ponies, and I made my way across the heath & the remaining bluebells to them, and sat quietly in the sun until a very young colt came sniffing up to me, snuffled in my hair & butted me with its nose (to find out if I gave milk, I guess. I do not). Another life dream achieved.
The rest of the day off, and tomorrow the real work begins: We go over the copyedited BORDERTOWN ms., and then brainstorm our stories and the line edits that will give the new book that Windling magic . . . . .
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Went for a long walk on the Common today with Terri & Tillie. There were wild moor ponies, and I made my way across the heath & the remaining bluebells to them, and sat quietly in the sun until a very young colt came sniffing up to me, snuffled in my hair & butted me with its nose (to find out if I gave milk, I guess. I do not). Another life dream achieved.
The rest of the day off, and tomorrow the real work begins: We go over the copyedited BORDERTOWN ms., and then brainstorm our stories and the line edits that will give the new book that Windling magic . . . . .
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:49 pm (UTC)Hello, and welcome to Devon! I don't suppose you'll have any downtime to meet fans??
Jay
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Date: 2010-06-06 08:32 pm (UTC)Hmmph! "Pear cider" is an oxymoron. The proper name is perry. And you should be able to find some of the real thing, down in Devon...
*grumps*
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Date: 2010-06-06 08:53 pm (UTC)But life is like that sometimes.
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Date: 2010-06-06 09:34 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I was at the Cambridge beer festival last week, and I've never seen so many real perries in one place. It ain't all bad news, I guess. Grudgingly.
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Date: 2010-06-06 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-06 11:07 pm (UTC)*lurker steps out*
Heh. I remember original Babycham!
*goes back to lurking*
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Date: 2010-06-07 07:09 am (UTC)But - original Babycham, you say? Is this to say that they've changed it...?
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Date: 2010-06-07 11:58 am (UTC)Changed... in a way. It was very hard to find for a while, major reintroduction in '96.
I've never been able to get it in The States.
Sigh.
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Date: 2010-06-06 09:35 pm (UTC)