Discovered upon a midnight clear, December 30th, a story in images

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Bodie and Doyle had a hard year and were involved in some difficult cases.

Doyle is speaking with Jax about the time Bodie was taken hostage by a band of terrorists...

And he remembers the problems around King Billy and Bodie's untimely involvement with that bike race, where he also implicated Doyle...

But now, it's Christmas time and the moment has come to put all that behind them and do their gift shopping.



Cowley's gift is not yet wrapped, unless the other gifts.


It's time to enjoy a bit of respite in their garden, where Doyle listen to Bodie playing his guitar for him, while drinking tea and admiring Doyle's newly acquired Sentinel Lions.




Afterwards, Doyle spends some time in their newly refurbished kitchen, thinking about their Christmas meal.



Then, after the meal, they relax on their patio and Doyle shows proudly to Bodie the wine cabinet he made for them, while they drink some nice French Champagne.

Impossible to resist showing a detail of the champagne chilling on the table!

And as, in my universe, Bodie and Doyle love cats and have adopted some, here are the pictures of two of them. The lazy, white and ginger one sleeping in a bowl is Doyle's, and the black and white one doing his business in his cat litter box, after having kicked over his pot of cat mint, is Bodie's.



That's all, folks! Hope you enjoyed my little story...

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Love the idea of our lads off getting ready for Christmas together - curtain fic, but with dolls! They look very comfortable - even the winter is cooperating nicely, if they can be sitting out on the patio! *vbg* Nicely imagined - thank you! *g*

(Quick mod request though - with so many big pictures, this might be difficult for some people's ljs. Would you mind putting all except the first one or two under a cut? Thank you!)

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

OK, just please tell me how to do this, I only use LJ once a year and have no idea how to do it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee for only using lj once a year - I thought I didn't see you around on my flist very often!

Okay, to add an lj-cut, you need to go back into your post and edit it - go to the post, and you should see some icons on it. The one that looks like a pencil is the editing button. Hit that! *g*
(https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/3723477/3723477_original.jpg)

Then you need to add the actual code to make the cut (which is the easiest way of doing it because you are totally in control of what happens). You'll see something like this window. Make sure you're on the html tab (top right arrow) and then add the code that looks like this <*lj-cut text="Here is my story"> - only of course use whatever title you like instead of "Here is my story" - just make sure it's in quotation marks. And don't put an asterisk in it - I had to do that so that you could see the code, because otherwise it would have just worked and made a cut. *g*

(https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/3722978/3722978_original.jpg)

Then go down and hit Post, and it should work! If it doesn't, then go back into the post again, and check to make sure that you copied the code I gave exactly. It should start and finish with < >, the actual words must be in plain quotation marks, there must be a hyphen between lj-cut and so on.

BUT - while I was typing this, you've managed to do it anyway! I'm going to post this anyway, since I started it and it might be useful sometime, but well done and thank you! *g*

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

I've googled and tried to do it but it doesn't seem to work.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Okay, hang on a minute or two - I'm writing some instructions with pics to show you where to find what you need to do! It's easy to do, I promise, but it'll take me a minute to make some screencaps for you. *g*

Wait a minute - you seem to have done it! I can see one pic now, then an lj-cut! Well done, and thank you! *g*

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Is it still okay? I tried to do what Google told me, and at my end, it doesn't work, I still see all the pics. I've made several adjustments and now I'm not sure I haven't undone what I did right the first time, LOL.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's still okay! I expect you're looking at it in the actual post itself - you can't see the cut when you look at the post, because the lj-cuts only show up on lj friends pages. So if you go to your friends page (your flist page) you'll see the cut working perfectly! *g*

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

I'm really not good at LJ! Use it only once a year, for this post. I do find LJ very clunky and not very user-friendly, but well...
Thanks for the infos and your help!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

As for sitting in the garden or the patio, this year, you could almost do it in France: today we have 8°C outside! Almost a Spring temperature, LOL.
Thanks again for liking my little story!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

So cute! I love your dolls and all their accoutrements.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I just hope to amuse people a bit with my Little Lads...

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

A lovely story, well photographed, and all the details – amazing!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Photos could have been better, but I'm not very proficient, alas! Glad it was good enough for you to like them. I've been collecting barbie sized items for a long time, so they came in handy for the Lads!

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this cute story! I love the shopping cart and the cats.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

THanks for liking my little story. I do too love the cats (I have many more, but not appropriate for a post about the Pros) and the cart, even if it's a bit small for the Lads size. Oh, well, suspension of disbelief works fine here...

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

very nice story to go with the images....thankyou.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for liking my little contribution to this year's challenge!

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Great job! You deserved the Champagne, and even, Cowley's whisky.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Did you see that the whisky was called "whiskey", don't know why, maybe because it was a Chinese item, LOL.
And did you catch the reference to "Bodie's cat"?

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed and I expect him to have a nice story to tell.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Ah Ah Ah! You can always hope. Well, your birthday is not so far away, so maybe Bodie's cat will have some new development in his [life] and will feel the need to tell them to us. As usual, I'll transcribe everything he cares to tell me...

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I bank on it. In earnest.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Wow. I love all the detail--that's amazing. All the bits and pieces--champagne chilling, the whiskey, etc. Heh, and the cats at wonderful. *g* Thank you!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Thanks for appreciating my efforts! (of which the hardest was to do the lj cut, LOL!)

[cyanne]

Such a very cute Christmas together, and such lovely details, too.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thank you for watching and appreciating my modest efforts!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks a lot for seeing and liking my little "roman-photo" as we say in France!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

The detail is amazing here! Well done and thank you for such a sweet post.

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thank you for liking my post! I've been collecting barbie-sized dolls for a long time, and so I have an amazing array of items to use for them.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Very nice picture-story. I like you dolls, they have a good size. And the things you have for them are really good. I love the whiskey (I think it is an American whiskey they brought) and the wine cabinet. Oh, and the cats are nice too. Oh, and the shopping cart. I think they had to use one for children because the one for adults were all in use by other customers. :-)

Oh, and I nearly forgot the bikes. The bikes are really, really great. And Bodie in black leather. Yummy. :-)

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

The dolls actually belong to the Mattel line, they are a bit taller than the regular Kens, 32 cm instead of 29/30. About the whiskey, I said Chinese because a lot of the items I bought along the years for my dolls came from China, who has an amazing array of things at lower prices than Mattel and such.
Thanks for that interpretation of why the shopping cart is so small, LOL! Clever. I wish I had thought of it!
Doyle's bike is a model which is actually falling a bit to pieces, very fragile, but I managed to hide it in the pic. This is why he's standing besides it and not on it. And the wine cabinet was put together by me, from a kit I bought.
in China, again. Not too difficult as all the pieces are just clicked together, but it took me quite a bit of time as I'm not very skilled with my hands.
And all the cats are Japanese miniatures, now very difficult to find and some are now horribly expensive (like the one in his litter box - he's now costing an arm and a leg, and was very cheap when I bought him, about 20 years ago.)

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Well, you can always let Doyle repair his bike. You know he loves to work on his old bikes. :-)

Yes, sometimes the prices for the little things go high like a rocket and become very expensive. I think my whole dolls house with all in it might have cost near to 8..000,- - 10.000,- Euro all in all. My wine glasses and the bottles are mostly handmade and all of real glas, so there is one wine bottle which had an higher prices than a real wine bottle for me would have had.

I think it is amazing what we do because we collect this things. :-)

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? I not only have the Lads and their items, but also a 1/12th scale dollhouse. I never counted how much I spent on these, but I guess it's quite a bit. Plus the gifts from my friends and family...
The Champagne bottle in the pic was a gift from my sister, and I know it was an expensive one. Conversely, the cart came from China too and was quite reasonably priced.
Yes, Doyle will work on his bike for next year's post, I promise!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Well done! What a nice story. I love a domestic fic. :) Thanks!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I loved doing it, thanks for letting me know!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Cute story! Love the attention to detail!! Thanks =)

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for seeing and liking it!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Cute!

('whisky' = Scottish or scottish-style whisky. For example, Suntory in Japan started whisky production there, and their whiskies omit the 'e'. There are also Australian brands.
'whiskey' is Irish-style spelling, and that's what travelled to America, with the name stretching to 'Bourbon County' styles as well. Cowley drinks whisky, although I've never seen what he'd do if faced with a good whiskey).

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Loved this! A sweet story and the care you've taken with the dolls to illustrate it is wonderful! I look forward to these every year!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you're looking forward to my humble contribution to this annual challenge.