Our ISP is not popular in our house right now ( Read more... )

When Fraser was much younger, that is approximately twenty years younger, his Grandmother had always insisted upon a large spoonful of cod liver oil to be ingested by Fraser before he was permitted to go to bed. Grandmother swore, figuratively since she abhorred certain words of Anglo-Saxon origin, that the consumption of this vile-tasting nostrum ( Read more... )

Okay, went to Cathedral City and did some shopping with bbd! Besides getting my hands on a ludicrous amount of sticky, sweet and not healthful consumables. I also got a nifty necklace/earrings combination with cherries on and a new watch (cheaper than replacing a watch battery in Town) and a new book (about the history of surgery)*. It was ( Read more... )

Does this work? My theme doesn't like user-pics ( Read more... )

Through janne_d's amazing powers of clear insight and insanity-sporking, I might have a work around that might:
a) work properly
b) separate the two approaches into two separate fic things
c) work
d) have a justifiable (sort of) reason Fraser should be leading a murder investigation.

Also, if Ray was confused by the operation of the Consulate in Asylum.. ( Read more... )

That man was the reason I became a Mountie; he was in a recruitment video that they showed for years. Really, I think they filmed it in ’81 or so and careers officers just kept playing it. At the end of Depot, he returned to his home community as he’d always intended. He didn’t join the RCMP for its own sake; he joined because he wanted to ( Read more... )

This wasn’t right, this was not buddies, and any moment now he will wake up in the goat. It’s what happens when you take a cheeseburger to a stake out.

[pun very intentional]

Today, I am deliberately writing bad fiction.

I checked this with dad and it is terrible enough to be the work of Annalise Treason

Annalise was found dead at 6:00 at the former Avery Hotel

Sadly, it wasn't for Crimes Against Literature [sorry Turnbull, Welsh beat you to it]

Brett Mayers had resolved to keep away from Patricia, hoping that the ( Read more... )

Part of me thinks how much can we fudge Fraser's age? The feeling when you write something, check out of curiosity, and it kills what you were writing.

Landrovers, as vehicles didn't exist until 1978. nope, the standard vehicle came out 1948 and had independent four wheel drive (i.e. each wheel is individually powered ( Read more... )

The plan was for the Detectives to find and arrest the felon and then Kowalski would throw the book at them.

Fraser surmised that since the only book Ray kept at the Precinct was a hefty tome called “Canadian Impressionism” this would indeed be the full weight force of the law.