He'd brought the left over pumpkins to the club kitchen, and had told a few of their friends about the challenge. It was a pumpkin pie vs pumpkin flan cook off, between Zoe and Juan Pedro ( Read more... )

Today being Wednesday, Caleb's been down in Heart Castle spending some time with his family. Polite but strained conversation with his father and ducking his mother's thinly-veiled suggestions to switch suits to be closer to them are worth the effort, if only for Talia, his little sister. She's nine, going on thirteen, and growing up far too fast ( Read more... )

Pierre is contemplative today. Of course, even in his contemplation, he's quietly annoyed, but he's still contemplative. And apparently, balance is today's topic.

Or, more notably, the current lack of it.

It's entirely possible that he's mostly doing this to weird out most of the Hearts. After all, of the things people have seen Jordan Novak do in the Hearts, baking chocolate chip cookies is pretty far from being one of those things. But chiefly that's because most of his baking has been done at the Ambrosi household, over in Clubs. Natalia had ( Read more... )

[Jinx sat huffily in the kitchen, slowly and meticulously picking acrylic paint of of her long hair.

How had this happened. She was miffed - miffed, she projects at you! - about this. Mostly at herself.

Because... she got paint in her hair D:]

It was his second day behind the counter. After the demoralizing dismissal by the tattooist for the apprentice position, In Su had tried to grin and bear being a gopher page boy for the Spade castle for a few more days.

But the second set of weeding, this time the rose bushes, had made him have serious doubts about his longevity if he kept at that ( Read more... )

It's a foggy, rainy, less than pleasant sort of day to be sitting at an outdoor cafe with a laptop, but that's where you can find Alasdair DeWitt today, tapping away. The assumption from nearly everyone is that he's writing his latest magnum opus; perhaps a story of love and life and coming of age in Barcelona (everyone uses Paris and New York) ( Read more... )

[SWEET AND FLUFFY MONKEY IN A BOTTLE!

Oh... Oh, no. She means. She didn't mean to curse. Er. Think curse. Oh drat.

Drat drat drat.

...Just. Just ignore her. While she cleans up this mess. Oh, dear. The Butlers would be so mad at her... this nice teapot shattered because she dropped it.

She really didn't mean to...]

The lilies are in season in the Diamond Gardens. Their sweet, funeral smell is heavy on the air. Everything is as immaculate as always, with the lawns manicured and hedges trimmed. But on this morning of the 30th June, 2012, extra care has been taken and some additions made.

( an evening wedding )

It's been a stressful times. All the times are stressful times. Fortunately, now that he's unkidnapped, Cadogan is here with patently helpful advice. Because that's how the Welsh roll. They help you when you have all the feels ( Read more... )