Dragon quest success
Sep. 1st, 2010 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethBack when I was making grand plans for my quest I decided I would like to get a dragon on my side and take it to Cambridge to defeat the time eater.
... it makes perfect sense if you're me...
So the quest went to Stonehenge because it was on Doctor Who and Stonehenge is awesome. That was excellent. We stayed in Salisbury at the Red Lion hotel, which has excellent breakfasts, and also big red lions everywhere and a clock made of skeleton and organs. Good clock.
... it also had loud humans in the street up until about four in the morning, and a wonky loo seat, and a room made of pink and roses. I'd go back for the breakfast. Good mushrooms is worth a lot of pink.
While we were in town we went up to see the cathedral and went for a wander. And we found a dragon. Or possibly he found us. He is an excellent dragon, made of plants but not of the sort that I'm allergic too. They're spiky things that look like scales. I have not the knowing of plants so I couldn't tell what sorts they are. But Gilbert has a web page as well as a facebook, and it says Alternanthera lehmannii; Carex buchananii; Sedum 'Gold Mound'; Sempervivum calcareum and Sempervivum tectorum 'Rubin’. Mum wanted to know which ones were the ones she didn't know, so now I can tell her. The plants were a bit worn through in some places but I kind of like it that way, the dragon has much mileage. Also the mohawk had grown really big. I looked up the names and the sempervivum seem to be the scale looking spiky ones; also the name means something like live forever. Excellent spiky green dragon made of alive. Is a good dragon to have on your side I think.
And then on the way home we ended up in Cambridge, not by my plan but by the vagaries of train travel. I did not go right up to the time eater, but since we spent only a few minutes on the platform and filled them usefully with getting good foods, I think we won a bit anyway.
So I did my quest, with coincidence and luck and a bit of chaos.
Excellent.
... must be careful what I wish for next...
... it makes perfect sense if you're me...
So the quest went to Stonehenge because it was on Doctor Who and Stonehenge is awesome. That was excellent. We stayed in Salisbury at the Red Lion hotel, which has excellent breakfasts, and also big red lions everywhere and a clock made of skeleton and organs. Good clock.
... it also had loud humans in the street up until about four in the morning, and a wonky loo seat, and a room made of pink and roses. I'd go back for the breakfast. Good mushrooms is worth a lot of pink.
While we were in town we went up to see the cathedral and went for a wander. And we found a dragon. Or possibly he found us. He is an excellent dragon, made of plants but not of the sort that I'm allergic too. They're spiky things that look like scales. I have not the knowing of plants so I couldn't tell what sorts they are. But Gilbert has a web page as well as a facebook, and it says Alternanthera lehmannii; Carex buchananii; Sedum 'Gold Mound'; Sempervivum calcareum and Sempervivum tectorum 'Rubin’. Mum wanted to know which ones were the ones she didn't know, so now I can tell her. The plants were a bit worn through in some places but I kind of like it that way, the dragon has much mileage. Also the mohawk had grown really big. I looked up the names and the sempervivum seem to be the scale looking spiky ones; also the name means something like live forever. Excellent spiky green dragon made of alive. Is a good dragon to have on your side I think.
And then on the way home we ended up in Cambridge, not by my plan but by the vagaries of train travel. I did not go right up to the time eater, but since we spent only a few minutes on the platform and filled them usefully with getting good foods, I think we won a bit anyway.
So I did my quest, with coincidence and luck and a bit of chaos.
Excellent.
... must be careful what I wish for next...