Doctor Who Drabble: A Bit Of Rain

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Title: A Bit Of Rain

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ten, Donna.

Rating: PG

Written For: Challenge 014 – umbrella / spire at dw100

Spoilers: General.

Summary: Weather’s unpredictable no matter where you are.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

“Bloody Hell!” Donna peered out of the TARDIS door at the pouring rain. “Where d’you keep your umbrella?”

“I haven’t got one.” The Doctor stuck his head out the door. “It’s just rain. A bit of rain never hurt anyone.”

“If you think I’m goin’ out in that without a brolly, you’ve got another think comin’, spaceman! A girl could drown in that, not to mention what it’ll do to my hair. Drowned rat’s not a good look on anyone. Good thing I brought mine with me,” she added cheerfully. “Never know what the weather will be like in space.”

The End

Comments

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I don't have that problem, but it makes my hair horribly greasy.

Thank you.

I will reply to your other comments when I get a chance, but I'm way behind with Christmas preparations and I had to go to the doctor's today, so I lost half a day when I could've been doing something useful. I'm always in a mad scramble before Christmas. It never fails to sneak up on me! o_O

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Happy Holidays!.:)

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Same to you!

I still haven't written all my cards... I am so far behind it's getting ridiculous!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

At least you make an effort to send and write personalised cards. What with all the forms of technology we have to communicate. It could be temping for some people to just text or email a message. Time management can be challenging though.

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I even make most of my cards, though this year, what with losing mum earlier this year, I've mostly used some left over from last year for my special friends and family members, and the neighbours will have to have shop bought cards from the stock mum's built up over the years. There are several packs with only a few used out of each, so I've got plenty. I'll have to get started early on making cards for next year.

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Its a good thing that you are trying to be Eco-friendly while helping the postal service. There was a story I saw on the news about how people are using the postal service less for letters and cards. However, people still need this service because of online shopping. Which means someone still needs to deliver these products.:)

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There are a lot of courier services out there now too though, and some are cheaper than the regular postal service.

I've just always enjoyed crafting, I wish I had more time for various crafts but writing has taken over.

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I remember when I had to pay rent and wait in a long queue at the post office. Now theres a choice of paying bills at an electronic machine or online. Even though its less busy, I still see people prefer to do theses kinds of tasks old school. My mum still gets Christmas cards or letters from her former co-worker/friends every year. Some are from those who have gone overseas.

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There's definitely still a place for the post office =)

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I still struggle with getting with the times. Hense the reason why I'm doing a Business Administration course. My knowledge of Computer Studies is not quite cutting it.

One thing that annoys me is when certain businesses ask for personal details and different ways to send it to me. Yet will misspell my name or get other information wrong.

Anyway. If the postal service didn't exist anymore, Postman Pat would become irrelevant.:)

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Can't have Postman Pat out of a job!

My dad worked for the post office back when it was still the Royal Mail. We used to have a great postal service but it's gone downhill in recent years. Prices keep going up and service goes down.

I'm a bit of a computer dunce. I've learned a lot I suppose, but there's so much I don't have a clue about.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Its unfortuate that when a business can't make a profit, that they will put prices up but are not up to the standards of their competitors.

They can always make a show about a courier if Postman Pat had to retire. I use to watch the original series when I was a little kid.

I'm stuck in the middle where those who have little knowledge of technology will expect me to know alot, and then those who wonder why I don't know more. But I'm studing for my own benefit.:)

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That's always the best reason to study =)

It seems that people don't have pride in their work any more, they want to get paid but they do as little as possible to earn their pay.

People turn to me for computer help sometimes, but I can't always help. I've learned a lot since I got started, but I still have a lot to learn. I can do the things I need to get what I want out of my computer and the internet though, that's all that matter to me.

I was too old for postman pat, it was Andy Pandy when I was little, lol!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

In my retail course, I was always expected to know stuff. I always had to take time to explain it but most of the time they just wanted me to do it for them. I didn't have to worry for the younger students since they knew more than me.

I still remember the Postman Pat theme. Thats the thing about jingles, they get stuck in my brain forever. Yet I will sometimes misplace my keys?.

I've never heard of Andy Pandy. I tried to Google it and all I got was baby diapers?.

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Lol! It's British of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Pandy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfnJBArxGg

Then there was Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, and Trumpton...

I know the theme to Postman Pat because of my nephew and niece who grew up watching it. I can remember loads of useless stuff but often have to look on my computer to see what day it is o_O

Young people are better with computers than on oldie like me. I was nearly twenty when the first home computers came out, first the ZX Spectrum and then my boyfriend bought a huge BBC computer, like a portable TV attached to a keyboard. It weighed a ton and programs were on floppy discs. They were rather basic, huge strides have been made over the last 30 years.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Thats the first I've heard of them. I watched shows such as:
*Spot the dog
*Sotty
*TUGS
*The Trap Door

Then when I got a little older:
*The Goodies
*Simon & The Witch
*Ghostwriter
*Babar
*Blinky Bill (The original)

I didn't realise that I watched alot of kids shows. Those are the ones that I can remember by theme tune.

I remember the first computer took up a whole room. Technology just keeps getting smaller and holds more functions.

Now mobile phones can be used as a camera. I'm using mine now to communicate with you!.

I used floppy discs in high school. I saw a story of a little girl who didn't recognize a VCR. Kids are growing up thinking everything is as quick as pushing a button or swiping a screen. Thats what happens when things are getting more and more "convenient".

I remember waiting by my radio so I could press record on my cassette in my youth. Now you can download off the internet. I did buy CD's when I got my first Job.

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I can barely use my mobile phone as a phone! No idea how to text, or take photos with it, and mine is about as basic as you can get these days!

When I started work, I bought myself a music centre: radio, cassette and record player all in one! It was the height of modernity. I'd sit beside it to record songs off te radio too =)

I still buy CDs, and I still have my massive record collection too. I hate to think what will happen to my records when I die, my niece and nephew won't want them.

My first computers used floppy discs. Well, after the ZX spectrum which used cassettes and had to be connected to a cassette player and a TV, lol! Programmes for that, I had to type the code in manually from a magazine and save it on cassette, sometimes it took days of typing before I could play a simple game. Everything is so much simpler now.

I can't even remember half the shows I watched growing up. I remember The Clangers, Bagpuss, Thunderbirds, Stingray, and my early SF shows UFO, the original Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel... And Westerns, watched a lot of those as a kid!

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I got my first mobile at age 18, a Nokia. Then an iPhone. Now I have a Samsung. But I sometimes miss the simplicity of my first phone because it was smaller to hold. I didn't think I was missing out on much back then. In this case technology expands in a different way.

I avoid texting when I can. I prefer just verbally saying what I want. I now have emoticons to choose from. My brother is jealous that my phone has more functions than his. :D

Remember dial-up phones. The only phone booth I see is on Doctor Who and that's not even the real one.

I had to write down my work roster with a notepad & pen. Nowadays people can just go "click" with their phones.

I didn't know what a ZX spectrum was. You went through alot. I though I had it hard. Its a plus that someone manage to invent electronic devices quicker. It probably was time consuming though.

I still have CD's. I don't buy them anymore because all the music stores are gone unless I go to an electronic store. I guess it could be considered a vintage item. Kind of like vinyl records. I don't know what I'm gonna do with my VCR tapes. I hated when the tape got too old and got caught in the player.

Bagpuss!?. What a title. Despite watching alot of kids shows, I don't remember that one. I'm a cat person though. I looked it up.

"Thunderbirds Are Go". I definitely remember that one. It was repeated alot on Australian TV.

My mum watched Lost In Space but only because there was nothing better on. According to her anyway.

My dad loved to watch Westerns. He always hog the TV when one was on.

Wow. I didn't realise I would be reminiscing alot.:)

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Christmas is a good time to reminisce =)

There are still phone boxes around, but a lot fewer. We didn't even have a phone in the house until I was 18! If I wanted to phone someone I had to go to the phone box.

I still make notes in notebooks and on bits of paper, but my handwriting is terrible.

I bought Bagpuss on DVD a couple of years ago, so much fun. Now I need to find the Clangers. I still love a good Western, I get to watch the High Chapparal, Bonanza, and Alias Smith and Jones on TV at the moment.

I get my CDs off ebay now, there are loads of bargains to be had. I have no idea what to do with my old videotapes. I used to tape my favourite shows off the TV and watch them over and over, but now I'm getting most of them on DVD. It seems like a terrible waste to throw the videos away but I don't know what else to do with them. the pre-recorded ones can go to the charity shops, but the others... I've got hundreds! I don't even have a working VCR now.

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I can't imagine not having a landline phone. Although I went without a washing machine or microwave in the household while I was growing up.

My mum didn't have a TV when she was growing up, so she had to go to the neighbor's to watch her favorite program's

I remember in the shopping centres they had these little cordial machine dispensers that cost thirty cents. Now they have vending machines for bottled water etc.
Alot of items that use to be in a store are now in vending machines like DVDs.

I remember going to the video store to rent a movie etc. Now I have Foxtel. Thats how I found out about Bonanza, since my mum watched it originally.

I caught reruns of sixties shows like Get Smart, I Dream Of Jeanie and Mr Ed, when I was a teenager.

My VCR/DVD player has broken down so I can't even check my tapes. I guess I can just give up the ones that have programs still available to purchase or see on Foxtel.

I still have a CD player but I seldom use it. I use the one on my laptop to transfer music or audio.

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I rip my CDs to my laptop so I can play what I want when I want without having to keep getting up to change CD.

I used to watch I Dream of Jeanie, but I only saw some of the other two. I watched Mission Impossible when I was little too, the original series. Loved that!

We always had a washing machine, but when I was a kid we had an old twin tub. We've never had a tumble drier because there's nowhere to put it and we had a microwave eventually, but I don't have one now. Growing up, we had a fridge with a tiny ice compartment at the top, but no freezer.

I remember going to record shops at the weekend, buying LPs. Once I went the day before I was going on holiday, bought the new LP by my favourite singer, took it home, recorded it onto cassette and took my battery operated cassette player on holiday with me so I could listen to the tape.

My mum grew up in London during the Blitz. During air raids everyone took refuge in the rifle range under the Drill Hall where her dad was caretaker. They had no TV back in the thirties. No fridge, no phone, laundry was done by hand and the record player was a wind-up gramophone! She walked to school across bomb sites.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I rip my CD's for the same reason's as you.

I didn't watch the contiuation of " I Dream Of Jeannie because it wasn't the same without the original Tony, since the actor was busy on Dallas. Apparently Jeannie showed her belly button this time. The actress wasn't allowed to in the original.

All I remember from Mission Impossible was the brief case exploding. I thought something like that would draw attention. It was different to what I saw on Get Smart but then the latter was a comedy.

At one stage the family TV was black and white and could only screen one channel. Later on we got a proper TV that had a timer so it would switch off by itself. It came in handy when my mum fell asleep in front of the TV late at night.

Electric kettles amazed me at first because I was use to the noisy ones that you have to watch on the stove to take them off. I use to cook rice on the stove too.

My mum grew up without a fridge, so my grandmother had to keep heating the food to preserve it.

I handwashed my clothes as a teenager.

I use to have a walkman and spent time doing a play list. Transferring music from CD to cassette. These days music can be shuffled on a mp3 player.

My mum experience air raids when she was growing up in Indonesia. I think it was back in the 60s. She told me about the army tanks. She can't hear a motorbike without thinking of that period. It was obviously a scary experience for her.

My mum grew up poor so her parents couldn't give her enough money for public transport to go to school. She would have to walk and hitch hike some of the way. Which I thought was dangerous.

Since she knew she couldn't afford to pay for additional school expenses like excursions or extra curricular activities, she sometimes didn't bother telling her parents about it.

I think thats the reason my mum made sure my brother and I had the opportunities she didn't have financially. I never missed out on a school excursion or camping trip.

She became a student nurse when she was 16 and moved to the boarding school to earn money to give back to her parents.

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Wow! You'r mum's had quite a life, not an easy one!

Out TV was black and white until I was 18, when my parents divorced, because dad refused to pay for a colour licence. As soon as dad left, mum got a colour TV and rented a video recorder. They were too expensive to buy back then. There were three TV stations as I was growing up, but dad didn't approve of commercial TV so we were only allowed to watch BBC1 and BBC2, lol!

I have MP3 players, but I still have my walkmans too.

We don't have gas so we've always had electric kettles, but the jug kettles are so different from the whistling metal ones we had years ago.

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My mum had to look after her younger siblings when she was growing up. She has an older sister but she lived with the grandparents at that time so her upbringing was different.

I've never heard of a colour licence for a TV. We had five prime time channels. Which are now no longer free to air but part of the cable channels.

We use to have a gas stove and had to be careful when lighting the grill because the flames would shoot out.

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TV licences are a British thing, the licence fee funds the BBC, which doesn't have advertisements so has to get money another way. Over here, everyone has to buy a TV licence, black and white used to be quite cheap but a colour licence cost more and dad hated spending money, lol!

I'd be too scared to use anything powered by gas O.O

My mum was the youngest of 6 surviving children. Now only her oldest brother is left.