I remember Friday nights as some of the favourite nights of my childhood. For the obvious reasons, of course, and also because it was the one night of the week that my brother, my sister and I could sit down in family harmony and all watch something we enjoyed without squabbling over the remote. Our tastes varied wildly, but each one of us loved The Thunderbirds, shown on repeat in the early nineties. Even our parents could sit and watch it with us, chuckling over the outdated technology of the future and us 'shhhing' them as we waited with baited breath for those fabulous machines to appear.

Years later, and those same episodes are showing again and yet this time I want to discover the character of the boys, how their lives have developed around them (yes, I know, so far I've only played with their childhood years, but be patient, I'm sure there is more to come!) and this time I have access to a laptop! The world beware!

I don't know why I write fanfiction, but I do know I was doing it before I knew there was such a thing. None of our favourite programs escaped my own spin and I would lie awake for hours telling stories to my little sister. I couldn't get her to go on a Thunderbirds jaunt with me, however, as she much preferred the glamorous angels of 'Captain Scarlet', but those two happy pastimes from so long ago have finally been able to combine.

So sit back, brace yourselves and count down from five because THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!