Happy St David's Day story challenge!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look like Stories Where the Lads are Outed is a very popular Reading Room Theme, so unless it kicks off in the next couple of days I'll move on to the next idea in our list. But in the meantime, since there's no Reading Room review scheduled for today, maybe we could have a go at another game...?

It's St David's Day!

So I was wondering whether there are many Pros stories out there with a Welsh connection? Or whether Wales comes up in the eps at all? Is it at all possible to curl up with some Pros-Welsh(ish) fic? *g* (I know I set one there, but I'm sure there must be others!) Welsh characters in stories?

And for something else fun, moonlightmead has been playing with the lads for St David's Day.... *g*

A St David's Day Story List - the Lads and Wales
Al Fresco by Cherilynn
Between Folly and Love by Josey
Brecon Beckons by ILWB
Doyle's Vacation in Wales by Ann Carr
Fall Girl - the episode!
Family Matters by Jane
Mollycross by Slantedlight
Mystery Trip by Jane
A Nice Day to be on the Canal by Slantedlight
Out of the Blue by Heliophile
The Pushbike Song by Jane
Pwnco by Slantedlight
Scoring a Try by ET

Comments

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten what day it was until I saw google this morning, LOL. Even the nouveau-Welsh neighbours don't put on a show. Only Owain Glyndwr day in September is nationalistic enough for them.

Welsh nationalists attempting a bit of domestic terrorism, presumably in default of other homegrown terrorists in those days, isn't too rare in Pros fic, iirc.

Don't they go to Wales in your 'Nice day to be on canal'? And there's one where they're using a remote cottage in ?Snowdonia for surveillance and are snowed in and one rescues the other from the snow? (this is more prosfinder than ci5hq...).

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

this is more prosfinder than ci5hq...
Erm - not really - we've been doing storylists here for ages (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/?skip=20&tag=storylists) - since 2006 according to the taglist...

Prosfinder is about finding single stories that you can't quite remember... although I've noticed a few people asking there for stories along a theme lately, and wondered why. I did wonder about pointing them over here, but didn't in the end... People have pointed them here (and to the Hatstand) on previous occasions when it's arisen.

I'd forgotten Nice Day to be on the Canal was in Wales... And... the other one maybe sounds like Jojo's fic - I'll go and check when I've got time...

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Was just poking fun at myself, vaguely remembering bits of plot but needing someone to tell me the title and author.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, you meant your story suggestion! *g* I thought you'd been here more often than that... *headdesk* See, this is what happens when you work in a brain-dead job... yer brain dies... *sighs*

Turns out it's not the story that I'm (you're? *g*) thinking of though - Love in a Cold Country (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/17/lovein.html) is set near Penrith, in Cumbria... Was that the one you were thinking of, d'you reckon?

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Love in a Cold Country - no, I know that one and that's not it. hmmm.

The mental image I have is injured Bodie, I think, being pulled out of a snowdrift near the cottage by Doyle. It must be h/c!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hmmmn... who else has done snow-drift ones... Izzie? SAC? Erm... PFL? Erm... You know, maybe this is a job for Prosfinders... *vbg*

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Irrelevantly, but inspired by your pic, happily the daffodils are blooming here. Some years on St David's day they are still some way off flowering.

Which may be why it used to be traditional to wear a leek.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I think I read something just the other day about the whole daffodil/leek thing - that it's supposed to be a leek, cos daffodils usually flower later and so couldn't be worn, but that... is it that the Welsh for leek is similar to the Welsh for daffodil, and some eejit English mixed it up...? I think that was it... Wonder where and why I was reading that?!

I spotted a lone daff that was open to the sun here today, otherwise there's none yet!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

No they used to wear leeks, but more so when observing St David's day outside Wales, apparently.

I assume daffodils took over because it is more socially acceptable to wear a daffodil on the lapel than a pungent vegetable. And maybe thanks to hothouse flower-growing.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

RotFL - there should be more wearing of pungent vegetables! *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

The author I associate with fleeting mentions of Wales is Jane, actually. Isn't there a cycling holiday in Wales fic? And I think they have to find a safehouse in Wales.

Oooh! There's one in one of the Never Far Aparts. Involves Keller and a safe house in Wales, and Bodie disappears, and they have to rope Anson in to cast a military eye over Bodie's maps.

Heliophile has them in Aberdovey/Aberdyfi. Argh. I can't find it, but I'm sure it exists. .

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah - Josey's story, the NFA one, Between Folly and Love! And Jane's is The Pushbike Song... Can't think of Heliophile's story though... erm... I can think of Edinburgh... *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one! And - erm, that's the other one too!

Out of the Blue, by Heliophile (http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/206670.htm) (also on Proslib and hence on recent CDs)

A quick search on 'Welsh' and 'Wales' in the Jane stories got me the safe house one: they briefly end up in Abercrave at the end of Family Matters, hunting Baader-Meinhoff terrorists - and a bonus Welsh link of ending up (again, briefly) in a village with an unpronounceable name at the end of Mystery Trip.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done - I should have remembered that one, shouldn't I! *g*

Great minds think alike re the CD too - I did a search this morning that came up with quite a few stories, including some Jane ones, but I didn't have time to check them all, so I ended up closing the window without doing anything...

You know I'll love you forever if you post links for me next time, like you did for Out of the Blue... *g*

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being obvious there's Anne Carr's "Doyle's Vacation in Wales"... *g*

And didn't you have a Welsh estate agent in a Halloween fic?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Thank you! (I don't think I've read that Ann Carr one - must remedy that immediately! *g*) And I'd forgotten about the Welsh estate agent in Mollycross too..! Thank you!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Am I going mad? My brain tells me very firmly that Mollycross was somewhere in East Anglia and Pwnco was in Cornwall or Devon. But then that's like witnesses getting things wrong...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - only a wee bit mad, it's okay... *g* Pwnco was very much in Wales, from start to end, and Mollycross was set in the Fens, but featured a Welsh estate agent... *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I suppose Pwnco had to be in Wales, really, but my brain was quite definite... I'm glad I remembered Mollycross correctly! Both of those are on my longlist for crack_van so I'll be reading them again soon!

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

COWLEY: ... Is he still seeing that Welsh schoolteacher?

DOYLE: What Welsh schoolteacher?

(Fall Girl)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, well remembered! *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Alfresco (http://www.palelyloitering.com/Fic/alfresco.htm), Cherilyn (in Unpro 8)
Brecon Beckons (http://hatstandfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=551&index=1), ILWB.

Wow, there's loads more than I thought...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thank you!

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

And another. Don't have it (shall have to remedy this) but apparently Bear Necessity (O Yardley) involves camping in Wales?