Help! I need somebody, well somebody's brain at least ;-)

[dragonyphoenix]

Okay, I'm writing a story for, um, Summer of Giles I believe. I need to know what Giles' family home would be like. Where he might have grown up, what the house would look like (Faith's PoV), and a vague description (main roads) of how to get there from London.

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[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Awesome idea. thank you. That's perfect. And it gives me an excuse to watch S7 again!

Oh, and it's extra fun because I grew up in Westbury, New York. *huge grin*

[gillo]

That's a nice added touch. And a house like that would never have screens on the doors or windows, no form of aircon and if something isn't working properly, "We've had it for years; it'll do." is considered an adequate explanation. If a thing is historical it is always worth keeping.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

No screens? How do you keep flies and moths out?

if something isn't working properly, "We've had it for years; it'll do." Wow, that's totally my attitude! ;-)

[gillo]

We close the windows. Honestly, it's quite rare for it to be so warm after dark for us to leave windows open with lights on. Flies don't seem affected much, and moths aren't much of a bother. We don't have many biting insects. Americans are often surprised by this - Faith would probably be astonished.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

She will have been in London, at least, for a while before this fic. It's comics AU, a Giles coming back as a 12 year old story.

I recall one guy from England who came to visit a friend of mine. (They are married and living in England now.) He asked us what the noise was and it turned out to be cicadas, which is a kind of bug we have here. The thing is it took us a while for us to figure out what he was talking about. We're so used to them we didn't actually hear them at first.

You have the most awesome icons!

[gillo]

London is a whole different country. If that's all Faith knows of England, she might assume lots of restaurants deliver, 24 hour public transport exists and nobody is sppoked by unusual skin colours (races, demons, etc.) Rural Britain is somewhat different.

Thanks - I make most of my icons myself, so they tend to mean something to me.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've only been to London for a short visit myself so I did not know all of that. Thanks.