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The tiny plastic pin holding your fridge door snaps as you gently open it and the whole main door falls off, whilst the top heavy top freezer door (also attached by same said plastic pin) then drops down and tries to break your arm as you're trying to hold the main door from spilling all its glass jars and milk. My arm just above the elbow is now very sore and bruised.

Lucky Mum was still at the table nearby when I yelled for help. The she yelled to Dad who did the very helpful thing of not turning up at all. Apparently when you yell, he takes that as a sign to keep on ignoring you, because yelling is not a signal for serious help. Useless twat.

Both doors are now taped to the fridge with gaffer tape until tomorrow. Not looking forward to trying to fix breakfast. We'll have to take off the top freezer door first, then the main door, just to get anything out, and then stick it all back together again. Lucky we haven't bought our food for Christmas yet as we often stockpile early.

And someone is going to have to go out and buy a new fridge - tomorrow. There's everybody's one Christmas present for this year.

Fuck you, karma.

My family are trying to warp my head with the monotony of self isolation.

Just when I think I've grappled with the idea that it's May and I'm not losing my mind I start hearing the tune of Christmas carols (badly, I might add - like those singing candles that have been lit too many times).

After wandering around the house for five minutes trying to discover the source of the strange festive music I ended up in the kitchen staring at the bin. Lo and behold when I push open the lid it gets louder, confirming my utter bafflement. I believe the question I asked was "why is our bin singing Christmas carols?"

Apparently there was a broken novelty pen Mum found in the pantry which she threw out. Hours later it decided it wasn't as broken as she thought. We think it has finally given up the ghost but not without a fight.

Validation that I've not reached complete madness yet, but it's a close thing.

Day 23 in self imposed isolation and I am doing okay-ish.

To the people who were filmed stealing groceries out of the trolley of a blind woman:

You don't deserve to be classed as human beings. Coronavirus is too good for you. The karma bus should run you over.

Slightly disturbing little thing I'm about to share.  Read on if you dare...

Geared up for Challenge Week at fic-promptly but no challenge!

Our beloved mod is so snowed under there hasn't been time to post a challenge.

Oh well, I wrote a fill anyway whilst I was waiting for it to make an appearance. I need the word count boost before the end of the month. :)

9:15pm and still 35 degrees out there. They say it won't get below 27 and that's at around 7am tomorrow.

Somebody kill me before I melt, or ship in a snowstorm or something... My brain can't even be bothered reading, let alone writing.

Stinking hot summer.... I hate it.

John Barrowman coming to Melbourne on 16th January for a one night only concert.

And guess who just bought a ticket!!!

No way am I going to be able to sleep tonight....

*quietly losing my s#&@ right now*

Hi everyone!

It's that time of year again when Torchwood Fest starts up for its Spring/Summer fest, which means I'm on the hunt for some good folk to volunteer their time and skills for beta'ing.

If anyone can lend their time to myself or other writers, please sing out (reply or PM, and check out torchwood_fest for a beta callout in the coming days). I have three pieces ready for beta: one is just under 6k and two others are 1k each.

Hope to see you all for another successful fest!

Greeting readers, writers and esteemed lurkers.

It's Torchwood Fest time yet again, and yet again I have left it a little late for organising betas. What can I say? I'm just a last minute, seat of my pants kinda person when it comes to things like this.

Anyhow... would really apppreciate if anyone out there would mind giving me a leg up. I've got two pieces ready to roll (about 2.5k and 4k respectively) and another WIP that'll probably end up around 10k (and estimated date for compeltion I hear you say? Who the heck knows, Christmas Eve the way things are going!)

You don't have to be an expert, or hold a degree in Medieval literature (though kudos to you if you do), you just need to be able to save me from the horrors of predicitve text and my own inability to proof read without skipping over mistakes and automatically correcting them in my brain (apologies for the slew of errors still lurking in published pieces....) Predictive text is great for getting words on paper fast, but a nightmare for editing!

If you can lend a hand, even just for one fic, that would be awesome, and if you're feeling generous, hop over to torchwood_fest and register your interest as a beta. They don't have any yet and some writers will be needing a helping hand.

Thanks! :)