Good morning, lovelies.

I'm feeling remarkably mellow this morning, but then a three day week will do that for you. Since I have to work tomorrow, and next Saturday, and two 6 day weeks didn't appeal, I booked today as holiday. I could get used to being in my dressing gown at 8.15 in the morning.

Not a whole lot to do, which is, of course, the idea. Some typing, some audio recording, some writing, maybe some cooking, the washing, some tidying up. Nice and gentle, much pottering. Yesterday was the first time in a while that I didn't exchange a gazillion emails with the Big Bang Mods. I'm feeling quite bereft and may have to put a post in the comm to make up for it.

We watched A Tudor Feast at Christmas on the BBC iPlayer last night. Not great for the squeamish or vegetarians (I closed my eyes through bits) but it was mostly a wonderful recreation of a traditional Tudor banquet. The only woman on the team, a historian called Ruth Goodman, was just wonderful. Practical, knowledgeable and funny. I want to be her when I grow up. Of course, it then led to me having a dream about holding a Tudor feast in the library. There were Daleks there as well, for some reason, one real and two inflatable. At one point, someone (I think it was _medley_) unzipped one of the Dalek cases and there was a sort of 'half-Dalek' inside, just the bottom half, that was full of bubbling green liquid. Very Macbeth.

I swear, I'm getting more random, which I didn't know was possible...

Rather than dig myself in deeper, I shall wish you all a happy day and invite you all to drop in for coffee at some point. I'll keep the kettle on, and there may be some biscuits later on.

Ooh, two last pieces of randomness: Wouldn't it be awesome if you could do this with your LJ Friends list?.
And I think some of you will love these science quotation icons, just in case you haven't seen them.

List for today:

Typing

Read articles on allusion*

Recording 4 stories. enough for today.

Washing (2 loads done, 1 to go)

Bath

Print-out from yesterday

Finish editing story

torchwood_meta

Make Bread

In Our Time recording (1 down, 3 to go)

Make dinner (cannelonni)

*I'm thinking of trying to write something for Iris magazine, and that was a subject that interested me during my degree, so I figure it's a good place to start!

More audiofic

I really must tidy up my audiofic page - there's quite a lot there now, and even I can't find what I'm looking for.

There are now lots of stories under the Torchwood tag at the Audiofic archive - definitely worth a look and a listen. My stories are all here.

With huge thanks to the authors for letting me play. And apologies for my Welsh pronunciation. I did my best!

Scymnus by aeshna_uk, The Burden of Truth by dark_aegis, and two Sic Transit Tempus stories, The First Time, and Absent Friends by miss_zedem

( all under the cut )

Happy happy happy

Three happy things to finish the day:

1. Hellene gave me sunshine! Thank you! It is now extra sunny on my profile. This makes me happy.

2. Story is nearly done, just waiting for second beta. This makes me happy.

3. Made cannelloni. Have no idea how to spell it. But it tasted good, and this makes me happy.

4. (so I lied :P) The podfics have come out well according to the authors. This also makes me happy.

Also, husband washed up to the strains of 'Living on a prayer' and 'Hungry like the wolf'. This seemed to make him happy, so I am happy also :)