Yesterday, while driving back from swimming, I suddenly picked my four fandoms to request for Yuletide: Spooks, Quantum Leap, The Hobbit and Merlin. They're not necessarily the four that I'd most like to see, out of all the fandoms listed, but they are the four that I can think of something specific (ish) that I want. There were some that I'd love to see stories in but couldn't even decide which characters I wanted. Although The Hobbit feels a bit like cheating because that way I get Elrond fic. I was surprised to see it in there given that they'd disqualified all fandoms that were part of a larger one. But I'm not complaining. But I am looking forward to reading all the fic at Christmas.

I also wrote a fic! Well, actually I wrote it just before I went to Canada. It's Jo and the Eighth Doctor getting the goodbye they should have had in the Eighth Doctor book, Genocide. I put up a poll ages ago about whether I should crosspost my fanfic blog to LJ. The results came out even, so I decided I'd go with the answer that involved the least amount of work. But, the other day I've temporarily got a paid account to see if I'd use any of the extra features that it has (so far I have, but it has required extra effort, which isn't quite the point). With that I was able to set up an LJ for the RSS Feed for the fanfic blog. Sadly, though, LJ has decided it doesn't like it and won't update. So you can read the fic here instead.

Gluten free bread is a pain. It's dry, it falls apart and it never tastes nice. The best I can say about the bread I eat (which I make myself, from a mix) is that it's the least disgusting one I've ever had. When it's just made and still quite warm it's actually quite nice. But after it's spent some time in the freezer, it really isn't. And you can't not freeze it because it only lasts about three days before going off because it has no preservatives in it.

However, in Ottawa I found a loaf of bread that I would describe as nice. It looks like normal bread, behaves a lot like normal bread (although goes off faster) and tastes almost like the real thing too. I looked up their website and they do deliver to anywhere in the world. However, each loaf costs about £3.50, plus a minimal shipping charge per order, plus £5 airmail shipping per loaf.

Which is annoyingly too expensive to justify. Although I'm almost tempted to ask for some for Christmas because I have enough left for lunch tomorrow (assuming it's not too blue by then) and then I'm back to the old stuff, which I'm really not looking forward to. I quite liked being able to eat lunch without having to read to take my mind off the taste of the food.

None of the online free from places sell this bread, which if it costs that much isn't really a surprise. You'd think someone in this country would come up with a similar recipe, but it seems not. It's like the best soya milk comes from New Zealand, which you can't get in this country (but can in Romania). I don't think there's anything free from we get here that's better than anywhere else.