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Title: Love and War and Snow
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/Laura Cadman
Rating: M+
Word Count: 4350
Author's Notes: Written for control_freak80's Gilmore Girls Title Challenge.

( Follow the yellow brick fakecut )

I started writing Nettlewood this morning. It is apparently going to be a children's novel. Well that was unexpected. I've never written for children before which, considering I have five of the damn things, is either weird or lapse of me.

Anyhoo...

300 / 50,000 (0.6%)

It sucks monkey balls but it's something. Let's call it a first draft and I refuse to edit until I have at least the first chapter done.

So I've finally managed to do teh Rodney White Shadows/Hide & Seek vid that I've been whinging about.

It was an... interesting experience, to be honest. A lack of vid playback meant I had to remember which part of the song I was upto and play the clips whilst counting beats of the next part. Thank god I know about timing and crap. It also helps that I know both the song and the episode off by heart.

I've not actually been able to watch the video because the computer's being a pita. I might resave in a lower quality and see if I can get it to work.

For anyone else it's here (8mb)

You know, being a country fairly far north it's constant source of irritation that every year we go "omg snow!". It's winter people. And just days after Christmas - the day we wish was white. Well wishing it white means snow.

Apparently the roads are "dangerous". They have "claimed victims". Bollocks. Roads are inanimate objects, incapable of being dangerous. No, what is dangerous are the people out there with NO idea of how to drive on snow and/or ice. Revving the engine out of your car and jamming the accelerator down when the wheels start spinning is not how it's done.

Shesh.

The last time I had a driving lesson was over 15 years ago but I still remember that you start off in second gear (or even third) and go easy on the accelerator. And easy on the brakes. ABS will not stop you banging into the car in front when you leap on the brake pedal.

Save yourselves, other people and your insurance going through the roof and purchase a copy of the Driving Manual. Read it til you know it backwards.

And stop bloody moaning about a touch of bad weather. We don't have it bad - that was Indonseia and the Philippines last Boxing Day...