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@nerys  Hello to you!  So you visited my neck of the woods eh?  We did have a lot of snow but last winter was even worse. We actually ran out of room to put it when shoveling the driveway out. We were down to the grass but then it snowed again the other day. Ah winter,we love it.

@janetteb  It snowed on my lovely crocus but they are very har…[Read more]

@janetteb   I actually have all my DVD’s indexed and numbered, so I can find them.   But of course if I see a DVD in an opp shop, and it’s a movie I might like, I can’t remember if I’ve got it already.   So two bucks is a reasonable price to secure it, even if (as often happens) I find I have it already and just end up donating the DVD back.…[Read more]

Joy To The World: appendix.

Looking again at the progress of the Star Seed, Joy IS on record as saying she needs a room further back in time. Even so, Joy is still an accident. The Silurian clearly intended The Doctor to get the Star Seed, NOT Joy. Was that was always the intention? Because we have seen, the Silurian was chosen deliberately to g…[Read more]

Hello, all! Good to see the updates from everyone. We just got back from a trip to Ontario to visit family. We thought we were sick of winter here in Nova Scotia. Well, there the snowbanks are still heaped so high that the street signs barely peek out over them. And this is the slowly melting version. I can’t imagine what they were at their peak…[Read more]

@winston I loved spring when we were in Sweden. Crocuses were the first sign of life to emerge from the frozen soil. I have photos of them peeking through snow. We were renting and the garden was deeply buried in snow when we moved in and so it was a daily discovery of new flowers and plants all through the spring. Maria, the owner, who had just…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent, I agree with you, the cloud is giving someone else your stuff to mind or otherwise. I also like to manage my own back ups. I have several, one on a desktop hard-drive, one on a portable that I carry everywhere with me, and a few old back ups in the sideboard.

I also have doubled up on my op shop dvd purchases. I keep thinking I…[Read more]

@janetteb  @dentarthurdent     Hello! Nice to see you.  I am so panicky about my favourite shows and movies that I have them on my computer and on DVDs and then I can watch whenever I want.

I do have a tablet so I can download books from my library and I really like it. If a storm is coming I get extra books and some audio books to entertain me d…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent  @ps1l0vey0u       I always enjoy the Christmas episodes and I like a sappy ,happy ending so this one was a good one. I loved Trev!  I would gladly watch a show about the hotel with Anita and Trev managing all the tourists and doors. Fantasy Island goes Time Hotel. I would definitely visit the Hobbit Door. My imagination is going…[Read more]

@janetteb   I like to have control of media I have paid for.  If I buy a book, it’s mine.  The publisher can’t break down my door and take it back.   I can sell it again.   Same with DVD’s.   In fact there’s something physically satisfying about a DVD.   (Of course I can’t (legally) copy the DVD and sell it, same with a book, I can’t copy the en…[Read more]

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Joy to the World.

Looks like Moff ‘gets’ Christmas Who. Chib wasn’t allowed (or maybe he didn’t fancy it). You would think RTD finds it a tedious time of year: the decorations are tacky, the tv is rubbish, people eat too much, the snow is fake and people insist on laying hospitality on you whether you want it or not.

N…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u and @dentarthurdent Oh damn. Torchwood is now twenty years old. I am part of a podcast that reviews cult tv from 20 years ago and before. I have been bringing an episode of Dr Who to the table every year, one from each Doctor and this year we are doing the film, (yuck) and to make up for it I am going to introduce “Curse of Fatal…[Read more]

@janetteb   As with the possums, so also with rabbits.   And deer in South Island I believe, and goats.  (There are deer in North Island but they live on farms surrounded by high fences).   Fortunately for us, nobody thought of cane toads   🙂   And, I noticed that everything had gone quiet too.

Currently Summer is still hanging on – late summe…[Read more]

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I suppose the ‘New Unit’ is the official RTD2 version of Torchwood. And I didn’t really watch Torchwood. Is it heresy to say you can have too much Barrowman?

The genesis of the post 1970’s UNIT is interesting because, under RTD1, the Sontaran 2 parter, and the Planet of Death, they’re just a bunch of mooks (and Malco…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Yes It does seem like they are throwing all the old companions into UNIT as a way of bringing them back. It feels very contrived. I also don’t like the corporate feel of UNIT> the office under the tower of London was real style. Not the shiny Marvel style glass towers. there seems to be an inverse relationship between budget and…[Read more]

@janetteb   Possums – we have ’em here in NZ, but they’re regarded unfavourably as they eat our native bush.   A couple of decades ago we had one in our garden, I was always cautious about approaching it because I’d heard they   have sharp claws and, when alarmed, a possum will climb the nearest tall object and if that happens to be you, ouch!…[Read more]

This is basically a fresh review, since it’s long enough since I watched that I’ve forgotten much of the ep.

‘Orient Express, Italy, 1962’ See my previous post for 5 ways this is technically incorrect. 🙂
The book the girl is reading, though, does look like an authentic Penguin paperback.
And I don’t think the mountain in ‘Everest Base Camp 1953’…[Read more]