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| Okay, NOW Panic! by Boz4PM | 6 Review(s) |
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| Daynawayna | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 1/7/2006 |
| OH dear! What an experience for Penny! I love that Lindir is looking after her and that she has a friend in him. And again, I love to hear how they traveled and took care "of business" in such detail. You've really done your research, my dear. I'm looking forward to reading more! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/21/2005 |
| You have to take tea, Penny. You're English. And have you found a supply of Marmite and digestive biscuits? Following the Fellowship's footsteps would be awesome, although some of the other aspects of travelling would be less so. I like Lindir. He makes a good replacement friend for Halbarad. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/18/2005 |
| I see Penny is in no doubts over her fighting abilities. Very nice change to all the Mary Sues who can swordfight as good as Aragorn and shoot a bow as good as Legolas! And I love the image of Bilbo in command of the remaining elves of Imladris J What a feeling to travel in the wake of the Fellowship! I’m not sure what I would feel in Penny’s place. It’s exciting and interesting, yes, but unsettling, too. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/16/2005 |
| One wonders, now, if Penny will need to use that dagger. So many uses for a dagger. Cleaning under your fingernails, for example (though not at table. Our list of rules for behaving at a medieval feast specifically excludes cleaning your nails or picking your teeth with your knife). Following in the footsteps of the Fellowship! How exciting! Hours of research and double-checking, I suspect. Suddenly she realises why humans don't wash *at all* while travelling. What a choice--to avoid offending the sensitive noses of her fellow-travellers, she has to suffer being often naked and freezing. Sheesh. I find that the best time to wash your hair in ice-cold water is when you're still toasty from crawling out of your bedroll. Somehow the water doesn't chill you as much as it might, later on in the day. I don't know why this is. Of course, this presumes you're fully clad while washing your hair, and that you wash your other parts in a sort of sponge-bath, loosening your clothing and reaching under to dab at various parts with your dampened flannel. I think it would be much colder, to strip off completely. However, I've never gone without *bathing* for two months. A week of washing hair in spring water (read "ice-water") and sponge-bathing the rest of me is about as much as I can stand. No, scratch that. I spent a summer where I "bathed" once in three months. We were counsellors at a wilderness camp. There were no showers. We had a sink where we could wash our hair, and an old-fashioned washing machine (with wringer!) for washing our clothes. To keep ourselves clean, we'd go in the sauna several times a week, sweat out the impurities, and jump in the (cold) lake. No soap allowed in the lake! ...but I don't think we stank. The interesting things was that we were not at all bothered by mosquitoes after a week or so of this regime. I had a bit of a holiday in the middle of the summer, where I went back to the "city" and showered--ahhh--with soap. The mosquitoes ate me for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for several days after. So a sauna-regime for keeping clean in the wild is practical in more ways than one. Are you completely bored now? *g* Author Reply: Not at all! It's most interesting (and informative) - the kind of thing I wouldn't have minded knowing about back in last year when I was writing these chapters, truth be told. Thank you for reading and taking the time to review. :) | |
| Gandalfs apprentice | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/16/2005 |
| Hi, Boz Another great chapter. Bloody elves, indeed! You continue to get the tone just right, between serious and funny, and I feel like I'm there myself--especially wishing for a proper bathroom with hot water!! And what IS going to happen to Penny in the end? I'll read eagerly to find out! G.A. | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/16/2005 |
| I'm with Penny. A bathroom with hot running water and a comfortable bed. I've never understood the charm of camping. | |