Lightning

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.

No silence

No Pity. No Shame. No Silence.

Each person to post on this subject has been incredibly brave to do so and I wish that the things they've posted about had never happened. But my wishes don't mean anything, because they have happened and I imagine that the people who did them are mostly still at large. Silence lets things stay the same - nothing will change if we never speak about these things. From reading other people's stories I know I was 'lucky' - what happened to me was very mild in comparison, but it affected me for a long time - it still does, I suppose. It took me a long time to decide to write this.

( what happened )