PSA: Be Careful Out There

For those of you not in the UK, I should probably preface this by saying that we're having unseasonably cold weather for October. It's supposed to be autumn, not winter, but I got snowed on last night on my way to my Slimming World group, which was seriously weird.

Anyway, with the mixture of cold weather and the rain we had yesterday, the pavements were really icy this morning, and since if you look up the word 'klutz' in the dictionary you'll find a picture of me, I thought to myself "I must be careful this morning". And I was. Until I came to a patch of sheet ice that spanned the whole pavement. Of course, I didn't realise it spanned the whole pavement until I put my foot on what I thought was tarmac and turned out to be ice.

Fortunately, if there's one thing I'm really good at, it's falling over.

I managed to go sideways rather than backwards, so no real damage except to my pride (and a slight ache in my shoulder that I'm sure will go off). Also, my coffee-preservation instincts remain as keen as ever, and I somehow kept my cup upright as I fell. Then I had to tackle the problem of sitting in the middle of a huge patch of ice with no way to get up. I had to scoot to the edge of it before I could get my feet on tarmac and struggle upright again. Dignified? No. Effective? Yes.

So anyone who was driving/cycling/walking down the Banbury Road this morning and saw a flailing figure in a blue coat? *waves* That was me.

Be Careful Out There, folks.

*clings*

[This post brought to you by the over-exhuberance of a happy writer]

I'm writing Jack-fic again. I'm trying to remember why I stopped because he's just...there. You know? Like looking for words and finding them, I reach for the character voice, and it just works. It flows and the plot's there and everyone else's voices work better and it just works. I don't even care that the story makes no sense yet. It's going to because it's Jack

*gets comfortable* Oh, I'm going to enjoy this one. I'm...content with my recent pieces, but I don't think I'm as happy with them as I'm going to be with this.

Oh, and I've decided to stay in Last Fic Writer Standing, for this round at least, because Outsider POVs I can *do*. It's all good :)

Anyone else written anything they're really happy with lately? Come and share the bouncing!