Our mini fruit orchard arrived today and Andy and I have just spent the last half-hour potting them up! It's silly, but I feel really excited to be the owner of a mini orchard comprising a Braeburn apple tree, a Conference pear tree, a Victoria plum tree and a Morello cherry tree! They look really cute all sitting out there in a row till we decide where to put them!

(Okay, I'll stop spamming you all now!)

Well. Considering at the start of today my brain was nowhere near interested in writing, I think I've done pretty well!

Not only have I finally tagged on all three of my RP threads, but I actually had a sudden urge to take another look at the Giles/Jack post-CoE fic I started in July - and I wrote another 425 words of it!!!!!

I don't know how long it's going to last, but it feels great to be writing again!

One good thing that came out of me being so tired and out of it last week was that I actually sat down and watched quite a bit of telly. I watched several episodes of Torchwood, one of Buffy, two of Angel, one of Dollhouse, and finally The Five Doctors. So have a review!

( Review of The Five Doctors )

Ever since we got our scarlet satiny (but cotton) bedding for our new bed back in Jan/Feb/whenever it was, I've been looking for blankets/throws to go with it for when we need extra warmth.

We had decided on black chenille throws, and had more or less decided I needed to settle for the Dunelm Mill £15 each ones (single bed size, because we have two separate single duvets) even though they probably wouldn't be that great quality.

And then I went into Asda for groceries and clothes today, and I just happened to glance down an aisle and saw chenille cushions, and found throws just below them. Gorgeously soft and snuggly, 35% cotton, and only £8 each! In fact, now I look at the receipt, I see that they were actually on a '2 for £12' offer, so in fact they were only £6 each!!!!

How fabulous is that? :-)

Title: Twists and Bends
Original story: No Exit (Everybody Lives) by bagheera_san
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Simm!Master
Rating: R
Word Count: 1146
Spoilers: End of Season 3 (NB the original story has slight spoilers for the end of Season 4)
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: With the Doctor apparently coming round to his way of thinking, the Master reflects, and celebrates.
Beta: The everlastingly wonderful mad_jaks
Author's Note: Written for the fic remix at best_enemies. This is the twist I kind of expected when I first read bagheera_san's story. (Not that her story needs it; it's excellent as it is. It's just that this is where my mind went as I read it!) It's not so much a remix as a tag to the original story and follows on immediately from where the original left off.


Twists and Bends

Hope you have a really fabulous day! :-)

I just have to share how incredibly yummy peach and plum crumble is when made from Marks and Spencers' 'perfectly ripe' fruit (on offer at the moment 'cos it's in season) and a basic crumble topping combined with crumbs from homemade cereal bars that got a little overcooked and had to be scraped out of the baking tray in bits. I've been enjoying the bits of those cereal bars anyway, but there were some bits that were just too small, so I've been saving those to make a crumble, and golly, this was gorgeous!

Which is fantastic, because there are now three more two-person crumbles in the freezer! :-)

Also? Butternut squash soup from the freezer served with bacon butties? To die for.

I really, really enjoyed my dinner tonight, and even more so because I wasn't really looking forward to it that much! :-)

P.S. Talking about butternut squashes, we finally have two fruits growing in the garden! One is kind of round, so like half a squash, and the other is bent into an L-shape, but I've raised them on a couple of old cooling racks (I have loads) so they don't rot and they seem to be ripening nicely!!! :-)

(Note: review contains spoilers for Children of Earth)

A very long time ago – on 31 July 2007 so just over two years ago – I took part in a 'pay it forward' meme and becky_h requested from me a review or commentary of End of Days. I never got round to it, mainly because when I finally was able to rewatch it, it was during a hurried rewatch of the whole of S1 before S2 aired and I didn't feel able to form any interesting thoughts about it.

However, I watched it again last night (as part of another rewatch of Jack's whole story which will hopefully lead to me actually being able to watch Children of Earth again by the time I get there) and found I did have a few thoughts, so here's my review, two years late but better late than never!

( Review of End of Days )

Sincerest apologies to those of you who got spammed by a stoopid email apparently sent from me this afternoon - which presumably is any of you I've ever emailed. Ooops!

Andy has gone over my computer and can't find anything else odd, and has re-installed virus checkers etc. so hopefully this won't happen again. If it does, I guess I'll have to close down that account and get a new one, which would be a bit of a bother since I've got about 20 RP journals and various other things all attached to that address... *sigh*

Chucked water over my laptop. Letting it dry out while I in out to the bbq. Hopefully I'll be back online this evening!

Snagged off skipthedemon and itinerant_vae.

✘ comment with a character of mine. (Any game)

✘ receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.

Any character - past or present games, and fic too, if you prefer.

So, last year I won Vae in the Sweet Charity auctions, and this is the fic she wrote for me. It's a little late *g*, but more than worth the wait. It's a Firefly/Torchwood crossover: Captains Reynolds and Harkness cross swords, so to speak, and the result is dark and tense and hot as hell.

This way to the fic: Fallout.

I think I've finally worked out what my problem is with Russell T Davies. It's his belief that drama is only drama if it's on a massive scale. He doesn't get that human drama, the drama of the people we're invested in can be just as epic.

( Cut for length and Children of Earth spoilers )

I am feeling very yukky with cold (though still fortunately no fever) so god knows how well I do with this, but I'm game for a laugh! *g*

Snagged off karaokegal:

A) Go to my fics (fandom tagged accordingly), and pick out a line or three from one of my stories. (Must be a full line, please — no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense.)

B) I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.

C) A drabble (ficlet) to anyone who stumps me.

Having been half-asleep all day (though I've got lots done), I'm suddenly wide and awake and... getting even more stuff done!

(This does not bode well for getting to sleep though...)

So, very late, but better late than never, here's my second quarter ficlist, such as it is.

( Statistics here )


My Master Fic List can be found here.

Unexpected drabble time!

Title: What's in a Name?
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Character(s): John Hart, Jack Harkness
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Vague for The Sea Devils and Captain Jack Harkness
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: John ruminates on where he and Jack took their names from.
Author’s Note: Why yes, I have been watching The Sea Devils recently! How could you tell? *g*


What's in a Name?

I can't write PWP any more! Every time I try, it keeps turning into h/c! :-(

I mean, okay, Jack/Giles post-CoE fic is pretty much *going* to be h/c whatever you do with it, but it started out as just a nice bit of porn and now it looks like it's going to be another bloody epic like the Nine/Simm!Master fic!

My last rec for the week is Safety Catch by sistercarrion, a very hot bit of Jack/Ianto/John PWP. Warnings for gunplay.

And in the course of this, I've realised that I've never actually commented on the fic myself! So sorry, sistercarrion! Hope this makes up for it a bit. :-)

Today's rec is for someone who's a more recent addition to my flist, but who certainly writes some steaming hot stuff! This one is 51stcenturyfox's Desk Set.

There are probably very few people on my flist who haven't read today's rec, but hopefully more at three_settings who haven't, and I'm reccing it anyway because it's one of the best fics I've ever read anywhere: becky_h's Naked.