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

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.