The mess left in the kitchen and dining room of the TARDIS wasn't as bad as Romana feared it was -- after all, she'd been quite careful to 'clean as you go' when she was preparing dinner earlier in the day, and they'd removed the dinner plates to the washer before the after-dinner mayhem ensued. What was left were several empty wine bottles, wine ( Read more... )

It must be stated up front that Romana did not drink (particularly to excess) very often. The last time she'd been any degree of intoxicated had been back in her first incarnation at a Christmas party, and really, that was just only buzzing. But after the events of the previous evening (after which Romana had stumbled back into her own TARDIS and ( Read more... )

With The Doctor & Aislinn's individual help to locate the linens & other things, Romana set a table filled with charmingly mismatched settings almost reminiscent of the Mad Tea Party. Candles of various sizes & colours flickered amongst the serving dishes set in the midst of the table ( Read more... )

During one of the few & far between moments of levity during Romana's third incarnation -- when she served as Imperiatrix of the Nine Gallifreys Lady President of the High Council of Time Lords -- Romana had a passing conversation with one of her aides; a young Time Lady who was a recent graduate of the Academy and still new to off-world travel. ( Read more... )

I believe the going thing lately is for others to put five questions to me, and I do my best to give honest answers. I'm intrigued to see what queries you come up with.

Yes, my relativespace journal pup, romana_two, has also posted this meme. Interested parties are invited to ask questions of the Romana you know best, ask questions of both of them, or ignore this silly ( Read more... )

Duggan: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."
Romana: "If you made an omelette, I'd expect to find a pile of broken crockery, a cooker in flames and an unconscious chef!"Romana was bored. The elation of being rescued was already starting to wear off (although when she realized this, she was astonished at how quickly she'd forgotten ( Read more... )

If you could pick anyone, alive or dead, to be your parents, who would it be and why?Time Lords have a rather different family structure than Humans do, but that is neither here nor there, for the purposes of this question. Its intent, as I take it, is for us to name who we might wish to see as our spiritual forebearers, if we were able to choose ( Read more... )

What is the biggest mistake you've made in a relationship?

Pride -- no question about it. And that subcategory of pride, making the presumption that someone must be inferior to you simply because of surface details.

( Starting the search for the Key to Time on the wrong foot )

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