Lightning

[louiselux]

Yesterday we were directly under a lighting strike. We'd just got out of St James Park after watching lightning flicker moodily in the brassy clouds over Buckingham Palace, (I hurried M up, getting jumpy being out in the open, he told me not to fret) and had made our way to Victoria for a thrilling trip to the Passport Office. A few minutes later, lightning hit the building right next to us with an enormous crash that seemed to resonate through my entire body. I saw it as an intense ball of light, the fork strangely foreshortened because it was above our heads. Coming from the sides were mauve tendrils. I dived into a doorway, completely instinctively. Of course, we were safe because effectively we were in a canyon made of buildings. But the entire street was clutching its collective chest, open-mouthed in shock.

Then we spent two hours sitting in the passport office, which was a sort of boring antidote to the excitement of being nearly-but-not-quite struck by lightening.

Hey, all those people who’ve been saying that the shoebox_project is really great. You’re exactly right. It is. (Although it could do with some Britpicking.) I had the pleasure of reading all 12 parts in one go over the weekend, rather than having to wait for updates. Of course, now I have to wait.

My remus_remix is remixing, sort of. I’ll have it done by the deadline, at any rate.

I haven’t been reading much fic recently, apart from the shoebox this weekend - can anyone rec me some good stuff? Please? I’m willing to try anything in any fandom - long and plotty if possible.

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Yikes indeed! We don't really get very impressive thunderstorms here (according to a very precise former colleague, it's something to do with the sea and the hills), and I tend to pine for the truly spectacular Fenland storms I grew up with. Once, when I was about eight, I was at a fete with a friend and we had to jump into a ditch to avoid being struck by lighting. There was even a scorched bit on the ground where we'd just been standing, and everything!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Wow, you just escaped! It's lucky you had speedy reactions and weren't carrying golf clubs or umbrellas.

One of my precise colleagues was telling me that it's far more common to be hit by lightning than people think, which made me feel better... a boy in Birmingham was hit by lightning this weekend while camping in his garden, which strikes me as terribly unlucky.