Discovered on the Thames
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discoveredinalj rest for a while, but what with everyone being Jubilee-ish, and all those boats out on the water this weekend, I got to thinking about how often our lads were to be found messing about on or by the river - in Blind Run, and Close Quarters, and Spy Probe, and Female Factor, and Blackout and Kickback and... and... well really quite often. *g* And after all they live and work in London, by the Thames, which is the very thing around which the city twines itself...
...so I thought they should join the Thames Flotilla too, via a new challenge:
Hurrah, and jubilation! *g*
If you'd like a prompt then please comment below, and I shall find you something suitably riverine. If you'd just like to let us know you fancy joining in then that would also be nice (but feel free to write secretly and quietly, and then just post to surprise us, if that's what you'd rather... *g*)
We've seen the lads racing along the Thames on a speedboat, confronting hovercraft, diving in it, wandering beside it and contemplating life across it - but how do you think they relate best to the Thames? What does it mean to them, or not mean to them? The Woolich ferry? Drunk for a quid, drunk and sick for two? What about the pub Bodie uses alot, near Marlow? Doyle's days as the terror of Stepney Green? Brownie and his boat, Marty Martell and his other office, plying up and down the river where they rob all the women, and... well, if you like that sort of thing... *g* Our lads and water - is there anything at all to inspire you, there? *vbg*
Challenge deadline will be midnight on the 31st July in your own timezone (including anyone who needs to visit Pago-Pago in order to qualify), and please remember to use the trailer on the user info page, put under a cut to avoid spoilering people who don't want to be spoilered.
Anyone fancy playing with the lads all wet? *g*
discoveredinalj rest for a while, but what with everyone being Jubilee-ish, and all those boats out on the water this weekend, I got to thinking about how often our lads were to be found messing about on or by the river - in Blind Run, and Close Quarters, and Spy Probe, and Female Factor, and Blackout and Kickback and... and... well really quite often. *g* And after all they live and work in London, by the Thames, which is the very thing around which the city twines itself......so I thought they should join the Thames Flotilla too, via a new challenge:
Hurrah, and jubilation! *g*
If you'd like a prompt then please comment below, and I shall find you something suitably riverine. If you'd just like to let us know you fancy joining in then that would also be nice (but feel free to write secretly and quietly, and then just post to surprise us, if that's what you'd rather... *g*)
We've seen the lads racing along the Thames on a speedboat, confronting hovercraft, diving in it, wandering beside it and contemplating life across it - but how do you think they relate best to the Thames? What does it mean to them, or not mean to them? The Woolich ferry? Drunk for a quid, drunk and sick for two? What about the pub Bodie uses alot, near Marlow? Doyle's days as the terror of Stepney Green? Brownie and his boat, Marty Martell and his other office, plying up and down the river where they rob all the women, and... well, if you like that sort of thing... *g* Our lads and water - is there anything at all to inspire you, there? *vbg*
Challenge deadline will be midnight on the 31st July in your own timezone (including anyone who needs to visit Pago-Pago in order to qualify), and please remember to use the trailer on the user info page, put under a cut to avoid spoilering people who don't want to be spoilered.
Anyone fancy playing with the lads all wet? *g*
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Date: 2012-06-03 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-04 08:57 am (UTC)After Great Fire of London, people began claiming they had seen an angel floating above the Thames. The Thames Angel has been seen in both World Wars, and afterwards...
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Date: 2012-06-03 07:24 pm (UTC)I was just here less than an hour ago, looking at the last prompt after seeing some of the Jubilee pictures. You'd changed the banner, but you hadn't put up the post yet - so I started to write a two-day drabble that got a *bit* out of control, LOL.
Back to the BB for me, for now. :)
ETA: Doyle's days as the terror of Stepney Green?
I had a prof during my semester there who was an expert on the East End. This sounds like a story he'd tell, LOL.
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Date: 2012-06-03 07:45 pm (UTC)Totally off-topic, but out of interest what was your prof's name?
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Date: 2012-06-04 09:06 am (UTC)And yeay! *g*
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Date: 2012-06-04 08:13 pm (UTC)Can we steal prompts? :looks shifty:
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Date: 2012-06-04 08:18 pm (UTC)Another River Thames ghost seen by Cleopatra's Needle is a ghostly naked man who has been seen dashing from behind the monument and jumping into the cold water which accepts him without the faintest ripple. Strangely, Cleopatra's Needle does seem to be a magnet for those suicides intent on drowning themselves in the River.
*g*
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Date: 2012-06-04 09:39 pm (UTC):goes off to research a bit:
Thanks! :D
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Date: 2012-06-18 10:10 am (UTC)The challenge is Discovered in the Thames, but
For your prompt: The Thames was polluted with London's sewage and waste for centuries, but by the 1960s and 1970s schemes to clean the river again were beginning to have an effect. A steady increase in species was recorded, including a lot of odd “one off” species such stingray, angler fish, seahorses and even goldfish! (Source of information) (http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/londons-ecology-how-clean-is-the-thames)
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Date: 2012-06-28 06:39 am (UTC)The River Thames seeps out of the earth in a Gloucestershire field near Cirencester. Two hundred and fifteen miles and six counties later, it is swallowed by the North Sea. (More information here (http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/riverthames/source.htm).