Miss Penelope Gate

Diary Entry

2007-03-21T00:17:29Z

I believe I wish to have an affair. But how on earth does one go about doing such a thing?

Alone at last

2006-12-11T23:03:37Z

*laughing herself silly*

The lobster quadrille!

*slapping the bathwater with her palms*

*thinks of Ianto doing the soft shoe shuffle and breaks up again*

*thinks of herself doing the soft shoe shuffle and practically drowns laughing*

miss_gate @ 2006-12-11T09:21:00

2006-12-10T22:21:03Z

Otter, my sweet. First I am going to have a bath, and then we must talk. Would you please wait in the drawing room? The Ood, whom I see have relinquished their loyalty to Satan, will bring you anything you require.

Exploring the jungle

2006-11-19T23:19:09Z

Have you noticed that the sun - that small, red sun - never seems to move in the sky? It is eerie.

The air smells like a perfume shop.

Let us spread out, but stay within shouting distance of one another.

Expedition

2006-11-19T01:05:07Z

Very well - I suggest the following:

Reinette stays here to look after the babies.

Lynda, Mr Jones, Dr Harper, the Doctor, and myself set off to explore the jungle, starting by examining the area closest to the house, then returning here.

I have a rifle for myself, but I fear I can supply no other weapons.

How does this plan strike you all?

miss_gate @ 2006-11-18T08:14:00

2006-11-17T21:14:08Z

Oh my goodness! What was that! It felt like a hurricane struck the house!

miss_gate @ 2006-11-13T14:17:00

2006-11-13T03:17:31Z

My thesis on higher mathematics nears completion.

While I have been burning the midnight oil, much of the usual nonsense has been going on about the house and grounds. For the most part I have tried to let things take their own course. I find as I grow older, my urge to meddle declines.

However, young Jimmy has asked me to encourage the Doctor to join an adventuring party bound for the villainous Circus. I think the outing could only do him, the Doctor, good. (Besides, he ought to be there if only to protect his junior twin.)

miss_gate @ 2006-09-14T15:10:00

2006-09-14T05:10:54Z

*wakened by the sound of bagpipes*

What in -?

miss_gate @ 2006-09-10T18:43:00

2006-09-10T08:43:07Z

*hysterical*

miss_gate @ 2006-09-10T12:15:00

2006-09-10T02:15:16Z

I think perhaps that everyone who is able should join me here in the kitchen for a discussion of what we know and what action we can take.

miss_gate @ 2006-09-08T18:42:00

2006-09-08T08:42:15Z

ood_baby and baby_ood, would you come here please?

miss_gate @ 2006-08-25T18:58:00

2006-08-25T09:00:56Z

My reputation, barely recovered from the shame of bearing a child out of wedlock, is in tatters once more. The truth is, I ought to blame myself and no other. I turned a willing blind eye to Captain Harkness' libertine behaviour for the sake of our alliance.

Doctor Joyce and I have had a long talk. He knows most of what's happened here since his itinerant shon, I mean son, has returned. He was saddeningly tight-lipped about his own life since we parted. Perhaps it is the tragic loss of his home that keeps him from saying overmuch.

If I might have your attention for a moment

2006-08-17T05:10:21Z

As much as I have greatly enjoyed having so much company, I can detain you all no longer. Would those of you with homes to go to please go to them. Sooner rather than later.

miss_gate @ 2006-08-17T11:48:00

2006-08-17T01:47:56Z

Well, Doctor, what do you have to tell me?

miss_gate @ 2006-08-12T10:28:00

2006-08-12T00:27:53Z

Doctor, you and I must talk privately.

The Drawing Room

2006-08-11T13:18:15Z

Please help yourselves to refreshments while we await the happy event.

ETA: There is also a small bowl of prophylactics, for the prevention of venereal disease. Please take as many as you feel you require.

Note in elegant handwriting

2006-08-04T07:52:20Z

[Written in Classical Greek] Some think me clever and hate me, others say I am too reserved, and some the very reverse; others find me hard to please and not so very clever after all.

I have failed my child in every possible way. I permitted his father to leave, when I should have used every device to make him stay. I allowed his natural solitariness to grow into an entire childhood of isolation. I allowed such a confused and miserable creature to come into existence in the first place, neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. My efforts to protect those around him from his monstrous nature, my final effort to make right his state of perpetual exile, have earned me only hatred, and rightly so. It is better for both of us that he never see me again.

miss_gate @ 2006-08-03T09:24:00

2006-08-02T23:24:06Z

Goodbye.

miss_gate @ 2006-08-02T21:57:00

2006-08-02T11:57:04Z

COME AND HAVE A GO IF YOU THINK YOU'RE HARD ENOUGH!

Natural history notebook, subject: P

2006-08-02T05:49:57Z

Synthesised a new batch of the neuropeptide. Have given it to P.

May God have mercy on both of us.

*drinks self into stupor*

Natural history notebook, subject: P

2006-08-01T13:53:24Z

Administered control solution. Results most likely indicate a powerful placebo effect, although a reaction to some unknown contaminant is also possible, as is P's unobserved self-administration of a psychotomimetic (probably an isothiocyanate).

A surprising result. What will the effect of the genuine dose be? And where is my supply of the hormone - have I misplaced it, or has it been purloined?

Science

2006-08-01T00:09:40Z

The most disturbing part of this travesty is this:

That was only saline solution.

The Picnic

2006-07-24T12:48:58Z

Let me see: we have cold chicken, cold tongue, cold ham, cold beef, pickled gherkins, salas, French rolls, cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer, lemonade, and soda water. The Ood have packed quite a basket!

Now that we are alone, my dear badwolfgrrl2006, there are certain questions I wish to put to you!

miss_gate @ 2006-07-24T21:05:00

2006-07-24T11:07:34Z

My brother Arthur has replied to my telegram, offering the use of his weekend house by the river, just outside Sydney, for my son and daughter-in-law's honeymoon.

The household becomes ever more tightly filled with visitors. I have employed lyndawithay as my new gardener. She has her work "cut out for her": someone has been violently ill behind the begonias. *sigh* If it were not for my faithful staff of Ood, I don't know what I should do. (I shall furnish Ood for the honeymoon trip - I'm sure they'll be greatly needed.)

Sigh

2006-07-23T01:34:27Z

The cockatoo has vanished, the library is in a state, and there is some sort of blue slime all over the bathroom. I sense trying times ahead.

Still, my little boy is married at long last! *bursts into happy tears again*