Doctor Who Drabble: Spring Is Sprung

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Title: Spring Is Sprung

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Amy Pond

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 029: Spring at dw100

Spoilers: None.

Summary: Spring by name, spring by nature.

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

The humans who colonised this world call it Spring; Amy thinks they chose the name well. The weather’s as balmy as the finest spring day on earth; warm sunshine, a few small, scattered wisps of cloud, a gentle breeze, and everywhere an abundance of green and growing things, a riot of colourful flowers.

Then there’s the native fauna. Small, fluffy creatures like dandelion clocks, tufty, feathery things, the planet’s equivalent of birds, larger grazing animals, even a few species of carnivores… None of them walk; they bounce or leap or bound. It’s dizzying to watch.

She can’t help but laugh.

The End

Comments

[akawho.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am SO ready for spring!

[bk_forever]

Me too, it's suddenly turned really cold and I had to go out. I nearly froze!

Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I have to wait longer. I'm in the last month of summer down under.

I instantly thought of daffodils for when Amy met Vincent Van Gogh. I learnt about him in primary school.

[bk_forever]

And sunflowers!

Spring is approaching, but we had a sprinkling of snow today and it's really cold out.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I meant to say sunflowers. I was looking at my daffodil day pen on my desk. Silly me. In general spring flowers are usuallu bright yellowish or pinkish colour. This reminds me to look at my flower book again.

Too bad Vincent wasn't as impressed by them as Amy.

[bk_forever]

Sunflowers are beautiful!

Mum used to bring home Daffodils a lot in spring. I got yellow Freesias for Valentine's Day =)

Here, spring flowers are usually yellow, white or purple. There are a few pink, but that's mostly tree blossom. I love flowers and gardening. Never seem to have time or health to do it these days though.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Flowers are lovely to look. I wanted to work in a florist because I though the scent would be relaxing. Gardening is high maintenance.

[bk_forever]

Gardening can be hard work, but relaxing too.

I love scented flowers, my favourite scent is honeysuckle, but I love roses, lilac, evening primroses... So many great scents.

A florist's would be great, but I have hay fever!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I get hayfever like symptoms from time to time so it probably wouldn't be a good idea. Still nice to admire all flowers from a far.:)

[bk_forever]

Well, there are always antihistamines, and taking a spoonful of honey every day is supposed to help too. I'm allergic to all pollens, so I take my antihistamines daily all year round. My eyes still itch at times but at least I can breathe, which is the most important part!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yes. Breathing is most important.:)

I have a bad alergic reaction to mosquito bites so I have a pill for that. For some reason its worser when I'm in Indonesia.

I was told by the a doctor that the mosquitos are attracted to my blood because its sweet. That I should eat foods like bitter melon.

[bk_forever]

They'll probably like me then, lol!

Mosquitos are a pain. They must breed nastier ones in Indonesia.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Only female mosquitos bite. I don't know why the male ones don't.

[bk_forever]

I know! I think the males eat nectar or something, the females must need something from the blood I suppose.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Is that why?. Learn something new. Its gross that they leave their saliva behind. Yuk!.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, but it's to stop the blood clotting while they drink. Similar to vampire bats in a way.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I knew there must be a reason. Still gross though.

Speaking of bats. There are fruit bats in my neighborhood because of a guava tree. I can sometimes hear them at night while in the backyard.

[bk_forever]

AWESOME! I love bats =)

There's nothing about mosquitoes that isn't gross!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

The guava tree fruit is rotten so it probably not good for them. My cats are scared of the tree because the fruit falls down. Maybe it hit them. I think the council should chop it down.

Mosquitoes must contribute to the eco system for some reason?. In Brazil they are a big health problem for pregnant women.

[bk_forever]

I really don't know that Mosquitoes have any practical use besides playing host to various diseases and being food for insect-eating birds.

It's surprising that birds, and probably bats too, can eat quite rotten fruit with no harmful effects, although if it's fermenting they sometimes get a bit drunk!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Flies carry diseases and leave their business for dung beatles to pick up.

Seagulls are always begging for food but the public is advised not to feed them.

I hope that being intoxicated doesn't effect a bird or bat while flying.

[bk_forever]

I think if they were that drunk they wouldn't even be able to take off.

It's not just seagulls; pigeons are just as bad.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Seagulls act more aggressive. They will keep staring at me if I'm eating food. They give up after a while.

One time I saw a bunch of them fighting over food someone threw at them. They were so focused on getting the food for themselves that one of them crashed into some parked bikes.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, seagulls can be very aggressive and some species are huge. They have wicked beaks. they're also very greedy, so they will fight over food. I'm not surprised at one crashing, when they're focused on food everything else is ignored.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

It was like something out of a cartoon. I saw one with only one foot. Who knows if it was in a fight or not.

[bk_forever]

There are a lot of reasons birds can lose feet. Our first cockatiel had only one leg, lost the other one to a cat. An appeal went out for a home for the one-legged bird and we took him on because I'k already had several zebra finches missing legs or with legs but no feet. It's amazing what birds can cope with while still enjoying life.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I had a distressed bird in my backyard. I called the RSPCA and got some advice on how to handle the situation but they warned me that birds are fragile. It died shortly after. I had to bury it.

[bk_forever]

That often happens with wild birds, I've had a few like that, but we also raised a baby Coal Tit successfully, and re-launched several swifts. My sister's cat used to sit on a neighbour's car trying to knock swifts out of the sky as they swooped up o the eaves of the house where they nested. Swifts have very short legs for clinging to cliffs (or houses) and very long wings, so they can't take off from the ground. They only ever land to nest, high up in caves or under the eaves of houses, they even drink by swooping low over lakes and snatching a beakful of water in passing. The fallen ones had to be thrown from my bedroom window! It's quite a sight. Sadly they're in decline these days.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

No matter how domestic a cat is, they will always hunt. They are sneaky even with the cat collar bells.

[bk_forever]

I know, it's hard to protect wildlife with so many cats around.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Cats can deter mice. Which can be good or bad.

[bk_forever]

We only have wood mice which aren't a problem. House mice need predators to keep their numbers down.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I had a situation with house mice. One ran behind my cat. When he realised what had happened he went after it to take it out of the house.

It's hard to see, but I know it's necessary.

[bk_forever]

Mice can be a plague, their numbers have to be kept down. predators exist for a reason, to keep nature in balance. The problems begin when the predators and killing too many creatures.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

My mum told me of the diseases. She use to dislike cats growing up but she does like that my cats can deal with mice.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, that's why mice and rats are considered vermin, because the carry disease.

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Great drabble.

[bk_forever]

Thank you!

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

That would be so beautiful to see 8D

[bk_forever]

Not to mention fun to watch!

Thank you!

[black59.livejournal.com]

:-)

[bk_forever]

Thank you! I wanted to write a cheerier DW drabble!

Thank you!