Drabble: Spring In Cardiff

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Title: Spring In Cardiff

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ianto

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 313 – Open at tw100. Prompt used is Challenge 188: Yellow.

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: As a patriotic Welshman, spring is Ianto’s favourite season.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: My fourth drabble for this prompt.

Spring had finally arrived in Cardiff.

It was Ianto’s favourite time of year; the air was almost balmy, the sun sometimes peeped through the clouds and people started to shed their dull and heavy winter clothes in favour of something colourful. They even smiled at each other and called out cheerful greetings. It was a vast improvement over dreary winter.

Then there were the flowers. Shy snowdrops gave way to the white, purple and gold of crocuses then almost overnight the daffodils appeared, carpets of sunshine yellow dancing in the breeze.

It was a sight that always gladdened his heart.

The End

Comments

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

Aww I love spring!
Daffodils are so bright and happy, and patriotic for a Welshman too :-)

(I think you may have got your flowers muddled - you say snowdrops give way to snowdrops...?)

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Bugger! How did I miss that? Gotta go edit it now. Thanks for noticing my crocuses had wandered off...

Ianto is very patriotic indeed!

iantojjackh and I are neck and neck for this challenge so far - or will be when I get today's drabble up. She's slightly ahead on account of posting each day before me but I'm keeping up. I have a few more already written, I love open challenges, hope this one runs for another week!)

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

That's ok. Everyone else was obviously too polite to mention it...

You are both doing really well! And you wrote hundreds for the last challenge!
I hate open challenges - I have no imagination so hate being given free reign. I have managed to write one, but only because it was a scene that I wanted to put into the longer fic I was writing at the time for my cotton_candy bingo piece but I couldn't see how to fit it in. So I wrote it as a drabble then looked for a prompt it might fit.

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You can always ask someone else to pick a prompt for you. If you want to write another, how about doing the Beatles song title We Can Work It Out? (I've done two Beatles titles drabbles, I don't want to do another, but it's such a great title).

I far prefer it if people let me know when I've buggered something up. No matter how many times I check things, mistakes sometimes slip through - like missing the 'r' out of Thursday or typing 's' instead of 'a' (my eyesight is such that it can be hard for me to tell I've done that, they often look similar.) I'm always grateful, if annoyed with myself. I've fixed it now on all five sites, so there are crocuses insteasd of the later-blooming psychedelic snowdrops which follow the regular kind in Cardiff, due to the Rift ;)

Thanks again for noticing *hugs*