@dentarthurdent and @winston I second the MP3 player suggestion. When I was in icu I had four cd’s and listened to them over and over. The music really helped but I also read a lot, all books I was familiar with starting with Pride and Prejudice which made me laugh, I think I owe my life to Mrs Bennett aka Alison Steadman, followed by Lord of the…[Read more]

@winston. Sorry to hear about that. I am wishing you all the luck possible and hope you will be back on your feet soon and in the meantime that you have lots of books to read and Dr Who to watch.

Best wishes

Janette

@mudlark thanks for sharing that.  Always excited about any scrap of information. I don’t recall just who Sethu’s character was in Andor. All these Star Wars spin offs tend to blur into each other though Andor was the stand out of the pack.

Cheers

Janette.

@winston the “Victorian Library” was my favourite Tardis interior. I do like this one but I certainly wouldn’t want to live in it or record in it. It would be very echoey. A messy house is great for recording. (I have an excuse..) The whiteness does have a kind of 70 futuristic look and the colours improve it a lot. I would like to see a few…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent. I will try that. I confess I used to have trouble with your name too, until you pointed out that it was Dent, Arthur Dent. How did not not see that at once?

I enjoyed trying to work out an explanation for Danny?Orson. I love a narrative puzzle, the word equivalent of Mr Squiggle, a reference that probably only Australians of my…[Read more]

@ps1lOv3yOu (I tried..)

I once came up with a very complicated theory to explain Orson, not as a descendant of Danny’s but his twin brother. There are a few hints that Danny has no family, the orphanage having trouble finding family etc, So my theory, which i have now mostly forgotten was that Danny had time travelled in infancy. He and Orson…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I agree that Bill’s fate was the most tragic. Clara’s fate happened as a result of her own choices, sad yes but Bill’s was as a result of trust betrayed. The Doctor should know better than to promise that he can keep his companions safe. He cannot. The scenes of Bill in the barn are heartbreaking. Nardole in his handling of the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. Now that made my day. I am very happy indeed. Was hoping for just this.

cheers

Janette

Hi @dentarthurdent. Your swimming sounds lovely. We are a long drive from any good beaches. Mostly to the west of us is mangroves though I believe there are some ok ones heading up the coast a bit. Nothing compared to the magistic wonder of Piha beach however. I loved the beaches we visited on Eyre Peninsula last winter. Too cold for swimming but…[Read more]

@winston thank you the concern. We are thankfully safe from fires here. We have had a relatively cool summer which is odd though I guess we are not getting the cool nights which brings up the average temperature. Weather patterns have changed. It is very dry though. I am getting tired of watering and  I fear we have a long wait for rain.

It…[Read more]

@ps1iOv3yOu

You sum up old Who well. Yet I at least, loved it for all that.

@vickymallard

Who scrips definitely have to work for the first time viewer as well as the aged fan. (like myself.) A friend is currently introducing the new stories to her daughter, who refers to them as “old Who”. She is loving it. I don’t think she will ever watch the…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent. Jackie and Mickey definitely deserve credit for elevating every episode they were in. (Sadly Noel Clarke has somewhat soured things by his behaviour off screen so I am talking of Mickey the character.) Camille Coduri was excellent bringing warmth and humour to the role of Jackie. RTD did so  well with the family background for…[Read more]

@translatorCircuit Most of RTD’s companions have only done one series, ie, Martha and Donna so I would not be too concerned. I think the return of RTD heralds a new era for Who or at least that is what BBC is thinking.

Cheers

Janette

Our youngest member of ‘cult Tv Club, (9yrs old) is currently watching through AGWho essentially for the first time and was awed by Blink. I think she was both terrified and loving it. We did a podcast on what we all watched last year and she talked about Dr Who which was great, it it wasn’t me for a change. It was generally agreed that Moffat’s…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I would agree with Jamie Mathieson with that ranking. Mummy on th Orient Express is a fantastic episode and Flatline is also flawless in terns of plotting and scripting. Girl who Died was by far and away the weakest but I suspect he was writing to specification rather than his own concept.

Cheers

Janette

@winston I feel your pain. I had to get my tech support, (otherwise referred to as the S/O) to re install Windows on my aging laptop in the hope that it might actually work. It had started corrupting files. It has taken the better part of two week, copying everything off the hard-drive and then reinstalling it all and setting up slide shows etc.…[Read more]

Well finally got all the recalcitrant cats together, (including the actual feline one) to watch this episode. We have been waiting since Christmas and one or other is either out or asleep or busy..

It was a lot of fun, not one of the best Christmas Specials but not one of the worst either. Very Labyrinth, which isn’t a bad thing, though not sure…[Read more]

@vickymallard. Welcome btw. I envy you a little, watching these episodes for the first time. There is an episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten asks Dave to wipe his memory of Agatha Christie books so he can read them again for the first time. There are a few books and tv series, and Dr Who episodes I would chose to have wiped from memory so I can…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. Thank you for sharing the new trailer. IT looks promising, a refreshing change for a trailer.

Really looking forward now to the new series having watched the specials.

Cheers

Janette

A bit belated by Happy Christmas everyone.

We have been very busy, as always. I always try to do about ten times as much as humanly possible, much to the annoyance of the s/o. We have now celebrated “second Christmas”, which to all involved including extra household members if the Christmas Day that really counts. Now that it is all done I don’t…[Read more]