On the move with a fig (I hope)

[bunn]

I don't seem to have posted for ages. A month ago, we had just put our house up for sale : this Friday, the painters finished painting it, and today we have (I hope!) sold it. It does look good with the sun shining and the paint all new!



So, with luck we will soon be on our way to Pembrokeshire. This is all very alarming but I'm sure we will get used to it. I had not expected to move again, not least because when we bought this house it was in a very unpopular area where houses took forever to sell. But I guess that's the Plague Year for you.

I've just been wandering around the garden, eating the figs and apples and strawberries for nearly-the-last time. I shall not be too sorry to say goodbye to the garden though. It is a source of good things, but it is also rather a strain, the size of it and the way it just GROWs with the least provocation.

I tried to take cuttings of the fig and the grape vine in the garden that I planted years ago, but the cuttings got mould. Have just taken some more cuttings and treated them with very-dilute bleach. We'll see if that helps at all! I'd quite like to plant a new clone of the fig tree, because it's very productive, and although *probably* it's just plain old Ficus Brown Turkey, I don't know for sure because I originally bought it for 50p after the label fell off.

It's been a stressful few weeks, and the stress isn't over yet, but things are happening and that's much better than NOT happening and feeling on edge because the owners of the house we are buying understandably would like us to buy it so they can get on with their lives. Bit worried that the cats won't like the move, but hey.

Rosie is currently barking loudly at Theo, because I gave them each a turkey leg and Theo ate his and then stole hers. Otherwise, all is well in the land of the hounds. I've just bought Rosie a new house collar, because her old purple velvet one is looking very tired. I went for red polkadot this time, after much agonising.

What else has happened? Oh yes, I finished the two Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang fics I was writing:
Lands, Lords and Ladies, lost beyond the Sea.
which is a crossover of Tolkien's Fall of Arthur with The Silmarillion, plus my idea of a world where the land of Elves and Valinor lies not very far away, and sometimes Elves wander through and have adventures. On this occasion, Fingon is the adventurer. Oh, and it also has the concept of Corrigans, from Breton legend via Tolkien's version of Aotrou and Itroun.

The other story I wrote was:
Sea Longing which is about the legend of the Took Fairy Wife. I'm convinced that a long way back, one of the Took family married a small and unimportant Elf, and this is how.

Comments

[sally_maria]

Congratulations on the house move progress, I remember how stressful the hanging about waiting to sell was, so I'm glad things are moving faster for you.

[bunn]

I get the impression that a lot of people, like us, spent lockdown thinking about where they wanted to go and getting into moving mindset!

[dhampyresa]

Congrats and best wishes on the move!

it also has the concept of Corrigans, from Breton legend via Tolkien's version of Aotrou and Itroun.
Tell me more!

[bunn]

Ah, I thought of you when I read Aotrou and Itroun - is the tale of the Corrigan / korrigan a story that you have come across? Tolkien wrote his own several versions of the folk-tale in English. Unlikely though it might seem, the Corrigan does rather look like one of the origins of his Galadriel.

[dhampyresa]

It's actually kind of weird to hear of the Corrigan as a singular being -- kinda like saying the Human. They're fae-like beings that are about knee high on a human and feature in many stories, but I don't know any that sound like this one.

Aotrou and Itroun mean Lord and Lady respectively, lol

the Corrigan does rather look like one of the origins of his Galadriel.
Oh, interesting! Tell me more?

[grundyscribbling]

Three cheers for selling the house and moving! Fingers crossed all runs smoothly. (Including the cuttings!)

I have read Sea Longing and adored it, though I am terrible and haven't commented yet. Not sure yet when I will get to the other one - I seem to have more to do than time to do it in these days, and travel last week Did Not Help. *sighs*

[bunn]

Oh well, please don't feel pressure to read! I was less posting to publicise, than telling myself that actually I HAVE got a few things done this last month :-D !

[grundyscribbling]

Don't worry, it's less pressure than a feeling of 'drat that travel last week, it threw everything off!' (I've said something like that only about a dozen times so far today. I keep reminding myself last week was very productive and useful. It hasn't helped.)

And I'd say you've gotten a fair few things done this last month!

[anna_wing]

Congratulations on house-related success!

Also on the fics, I've read them both and they are so splendid. I love your gift of description, it's like reading Rosemary Sutcliff. Will go and leave proper comments on AO3 later.

[bunn]

Oh good - I'm glad you liked them!

At least we are onto the next step with the house move, though there are many left to go!

[narya_flame]

The house looks wonderful!

I'm so sorry I haven't read your TRSB fics yet. I will get to them soon; work and admin are eating me at the moment, and on Sunday when I actually did have some time, I ran off to the seaside!

[bunn]

Goodness, there are - what is it, 121 in the collection? No need to apologise for not having read them all :-D