Laura Laakso

My Wilde Investigations series begins with Fallible Justice: 💜 Female PI 💚 Magical London 🖤 Goth sidekick 🧡 Chronic illness 💛 LGBTI+ MC 💙 Death by magic ❤️‍🔥 A smoky spirit 🌳 Magical garden Can an infallible justice system be fallible? #BookTwitter geni.us/falliblejustice

@dept42 Oh cool. How is it? (Stephen Fry does an amazing job as Sherlock Holmes narrator, btw.)

@LLaaksoWriter No narrator it's full-cast radio play.

Not posted one of these for awhile but here goes... Tonight's cooking audiobook accompaniment, A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes's first mystery.

@joybroker You too!

@LLaaksoWriter 💐🌻 Joy to you, Laura 🌸

Good morning #1LineWed players! Your theme for this week is JOY. Happy writing! #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writingprompts #writerslife

‘Fine. Good. So what is real?’ Picking up an olive, Will twirled the toothpick in the air. ‘Who’s to say? I haven’t travelled across the globe and discovered all of its secrets. The day someone has all the answers, joy will disappear from this world.’ #1LineWed

Whether your scribing location is a room of one’s own, a coffee shop or in the office/factory, Wednesday means it’s time to get #writing for #WedsStory. This week’s optional theme is: MAGNET/MAGENTISM (A special WedsStory shout out to anyone who’s joining in while at work🛠️)

The darkness recedes, revealing a figure bent with age dancing at the centre of the circus arena. Her feet move in their own rhythm, separate from the notes of the mouth harp, and lines on her face are etched into a look of manic joy. #1LineWed

@dept42 I can still recite poems from my 3rd grade English text book, but can barely remember what I had for lunch, so I get it.

@LLaaksoWriter If you knew how many times I walk into a room and forget why you wouldn't say that but ask me about a TV show I watched over thirty years ago, perfect recall. 😁

Found this childhood favourite on one of the streamers.⬇️ Anyone else remember it, or just me?😁

@dept42 Your memory is better than mine!

@LLaaksoWriter It was good wasn't it. I can still remember and sing the theme tune, (I'm not going to, relax, but it's there in my musical arsenal if I need it 😁).

@dept42 It's about the moon turning into cheese overnight. 😁

@LLaaksoWriter No, I haven't.

'Until I left Earth I thought all moons were dust and rock,' said the Captain. 'Yet here we are orbiting a forest moon, and there are ice moons, water moons, moons made of cheese—' 'You might have dreamt that last one,' said Skiv, 'and before you ask a cow didn't jump it either.'

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@dept42 Brilliant!

'Well,' said the Captain, 'that themed restaurant was an eye-opener.' 'Nearly cost me an eye,' grumbled Skiv. 'Sorry, I blame the Isttorians making the theme medieval England. I don't think they did their research, jousting poles can't have been used as olde English chopsticks.'

@HilaryRSparkes Andrea Gibson, on whose unfinished poems the lyrics are based, was an extraordinary poet. I recommend looking up some of their poems on YouTube. Sadly they passed away last July.

@LLaaksoWriter Just got round to listening to this. It's lovely.

Good morning #1LineWed peeps! Your theme for this week is SOUR. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writingprompts #writerslife They weren't in the right order, but the last three themes were inspired by this song: youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?si…

@dept42 It is when I want coloured versions of your art!

@LLaaksoWriter You say that like it's a bad thing.😁

This find of two missing episodes is great news. The Dalek's Master Plan is the show's longest running story, (twelve episodes and prequel). I might have to draw the first Doctor to celebrate.🙂😁

@dept42 Outrageous slacker! 🤣

@LLaaksoWriter I've never coloured my fourth Doctor drawings and his era was colour.😁

@dept42 The Doctor deserves colour!

@LLaaksoWriter I hate you.😁 His pic' should be black and white because his TV era was, (get out of that😁).

Hugh angled his face towards the sun and closed his eyes, some of the tension he’d been carrying falling away. Now he knew what to look for, he could feel the call of the house and the leaves. Instinct made him reach out with his mind, and the melody grew stronger. #WedsStory