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Jul. 27th, 2005 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiWell, I've packed the girliest luggage ever (OK, it could be pink, but still), and we're off to Berlin in the morning. Sadly, all the German I ever knew I got from cramming for a reading comprehension test, so I can't really remember anything, and the Berlitz phrasebook is really only useful if you'd like a haircut and your trousers hemmed.
I'm bringing Krycek out for a spin because my memories of Heathrow Terminal One are not good.
It turns out that we will get a backstairs tour of the Reichstag, via a political connection of one of the BH's colleagues. (We assumed this wouldn't happen because of the elections -- everyone would be out campaigning -- but somehow it was scheduled in, I hate to think under what auspices).
And finally, BH finished HPB, the first Harry Potter book he's ever managed to read. We made the same misidentification of the HBP himself -- he too thought it was Voldemort. This was something of a relief to me, since he's at least as perceptive a reader as I am.
As an aside, I read an interesting discussion of the probable location of Spinner's End, but since my grasp of the geography of Northern England is tenuous at best, my eye stopped at "Yorkshire." In my mind, all of Yorkshire is liable to the oversight of the Mid-Yorks CID, and I therefore made the following observations:
1. Well, that explains a lot about Enscombe.
2. Was Novello a beater in school?
3. I should write the story where Rosie Pascoe gets her Hogwarts letter, but since I'm probably the only person who'd laugh, I might as well just imagine the scene and get to work on the Multiverse story and Tiberius Solves Crimes, instead.
I wonder if there's an Earth-based series I couldn't cross with the Dalziel and Pascoe books?
I'm bringing Krycek out for a spin because my memories of Heathrow Terminal One are not good.
It turns out that we will get a backstairs tour of the Reichstag, via a political connection of one of the BH's colleagues. (We assumed this wouldn't happen because of the elections -- everyone would be out campaigning -- but somehow it was scheduled in, I hate to think under what auspices).
And finally, BH finished HPB, the first Harry Potter book he's ever managed to read. We made the same misidentification of the HBP himself -- he too thought it was Voldemort. This was something of a relief to me, since he's at least as perceptive a reader as I am.
As an aside, I read an interesting discussion of the probable location of Spinner's End, but since my grasp of the geography of Northern England is tenuous at best, my eye stopped at "Yorkshire." In my mind, all of Yorkshire is liable to the oversight of the Mid-Yorks CID, and I therefore made the following observations:
1. Well, that explains a lot about Enscombe.
2. Was Novello a beater in school?
3. I should write the story where Rosie Pascoe gets her Hogwarts letter, but since I'm probably the only person who'd laugh, I might as well just imagine the scene and get to work on the Multiverse story and Tiberius Solves Crimes, instead.
I wonder if there's an Earth-based series I couldn't cross with the Dalziel and Pascoe books?
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:08 pm (UTC)