Podfic! and a funny coincidence

[regshoe]

It's been very much the sort of day for the folk song 'the snows they melt the soonest when the winds begin to sing' today, or at least that's what I'm telling myself to make myself feel better about it being so cold. But birds are on the move, at least—I saw (and heard!) an oystercatcher in town today, which was a bit of a surprise.

Anyway, a couple of things:

1) The amazing luzula has recorded a podfic of my Flight of the Heron story 'No Man Can Shun It', my favourite of my fics in this fandom. It's a really beautiful reading, and (if I may) highly recommended! <3

2) Reading A Very Private Eye, a collection of Barbara Pym's diaries and letters, and enjoying the random bits of observation she scribbled down in her notebooks for potential later use in novels, I was amused by this coincidence of names in an entry for 4 February 1960:

Laurie Fleming stays at home with his mother—does the flowers beautifully—Is it now the unmarried son who does this?

Mrs Fleming canonically does the flowers in church, doesn't she, and I can definitely imagine her bringing Julian along to help out sometimes. I'm sure he'd be good at it, with his theatrical instincts. I don't know about Laurie!

Comments

[osprey_archer]

Julian helps out with the flowers, but when he does Too Well, Mrs. Fleming gazes on with Dark Thoughts about the vicious theatrical instincts he has inherited. But if he does it badly, she has Dark Thoughts about the Theatrical Sloth he has inherited. There's no winning!

[regshoe]

XD Oh dear, I can definitely see it.

[luzula]

Awww, thanks for the rec! <3

[regshoe]

:)