sort of a weekly round up

[silver_sun]

I've been trying to make one post a week, but work is too busy at the moment - it's end/start of tax year and it's always a bit hectic on the phone. Downside this year is that all the correspondence produced from it is going out either side of the Easter weekend - so basically none of us can Easter off this year :( We'll get the Good Friday, the weekend and the Bank holiday, but that's it.

Luckily F is at home with A who'll be on school holidays, otherwise it would be awkward. For anyone following me since my Torchwood fandom days, A is my son who I was expecting when the whole fandom kinda imploded following Children of Earth. He'll be 13 this September, and somehow he is already slightly taller than me - and I'm 5'7"/171cm.

I want to be able to take off some of the time built up at work off - I've still not used up all my leave from last year, and they owe we a week of leave as time in lieu (we only get to build up extra leave - we don't get overtime pay or any extra pay - salary is fixed no matter how many hours we work extra).

There was no WIP Wednesday post this week as the SongXiao big bang fic is complete. It's got a posting date now of 22nd April. So I now need to think of a title for it.

I decided in the end not to sign up for the Journey's big bang. I've just done two big bangs back to back, and with a combined word total of 120k between them in less than 10 months. So I think working on a few smaller pieces for a while before launching back in to fixed timescale long fic.

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[trobadora]

A is my son who I was expecting when the whole fandom kinda imploded following Children of Earth. He'll be 13 this September

I just stared at this sentence for a good five minutes. WHAT IS TIME?!

[silver_sun]

It's even worse time wise when I think of when Doctor Who restarted - that's 17 years ago.

Doesn't help when A points out that it was a quarter of a century ago I was doing my GCSEs. He'd managed to lose his calculator just before heading out to school - so I handed him mind and said I'd used it for gsce math. He asked when. 1997. He seemed impressed that not only did it still work, but that scientific calculators were even available back then.

[trobadora]

Hee! Just the other day I found my own scientific calculator from school, which I'm pretty sure I got in 1989. I thought for sure the solar cell would have given up the ghost by now, but nope! Still works like a charm.