Cider with Bodie - Discovered in Yuletide Spirit - 3 January 2020

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

100 word Drabble for Discovered in Yuletide Spirit - 3 January 2020, with a prompt of 'Cider'

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He was soaking wet and freezing. Stupid sod.

"Come in and get this down you."

His eyebrows shot up, "Wow, that's good. What is it?"

I grinned, "Haven't you ever had mulled cider before?"

"No. Most I got at Christmas was a thick ear," he mumbled before taking another sip.

"I'll go and run you a hot bath before you turn into a popsicle. Dinner'll be ready for you when you're out of there."

"Thanks, Ray. You're a real mate."

As I made my way to the bathroom, I felt a warm glow inside and I hadn't touched a drop.

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Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960)

Link to Fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22100620

Comments

[cim3745.livejournal.com]

As I made my way to the bathroom, I felt a warm glow inside and I hadn't touched a drop.
that's so lovely. Thank you.

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Very kind of you to comment. Thx. :-)

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Aww, sweet. Thank you! That's a lovely image of the two of them. *g*

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

:-) Thx. They look out for each other in a lovely way.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Love the way they take care of each other. Nicely done!

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Delightful!!

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

So lovely. Thank you! :-)

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Gad you liked it

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

My class read an abridged edition of Cider with Rosie when I was in, like, 8th grade. It was okay.

Skip to 1980, when my mother and sister and I took a trip to England and France and, on the England leg, spent a while in a b&b plus local tours place owned by a woman named, I think, Blatchley, who did not conceal her contempt for American education or her adoration for Laurie Lee. "So poetic," she rhapsodized. Okay.

Anyway, what a cute story! Thank you.

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

I read it as a kid too. I don't have particularly fond memories of it, despite it being considered a 'classic' by many! The title did stick in my mind for some reason though...

Glad you enjoyed the drabble :-)

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

What a delightful Christmas Lads moment! Nicely done!

Most I got at Christmas was a thick ear That made me chuckle. :D

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting.

Yeah, can't give kids a clip round the ear any more of course. Poor Bodie ;-)

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

That was lovely, thank you! And I loved the last line.

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

:-) Thank you.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

You said a lot with those few words. Well done. Thanks!

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[cyanne]

This is lovely and very sweet.

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This is a lovely image of them - thank you! (And sorry, I thought I'd commented ages ago, but clearly not...!)

With my mod hat on - I was wondering how you made this post? Did you post directly to the comm, via the link here at discoveredinalj or did you post it in some other way? The reason I'm asking is not because it looks different to all the other posts on the comm (although it does!), but because it won't let me add a tag to the post, which means that it won't show up via the challenge archive.

[bodie24.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting :-)
Re your 'mod' question. I'm sorry, I can't remember what I did. As I think I have mentioned before, I find LJ a bit of an enigma, so it's more than likely that I clicked on something random (and invariably incorrect) to post this. However, I can't remember to tell you what it was that I clicked on! Soz

I did edit it, does that make a difference?
Could I try and tag it? would that help?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No worries - I just don't want you to miss out on being tagged.

Yes, maybe you can add your own tags! I've changed the permissions, so if you could add
yuletidespirit
bodie24
as tags, then that would help people to find your posts!