@ania– oh I know, I get a tingle whenever I log on here and see the countdown! Nice to see another Dickens sceptic. I suppose the rambling does come down to taste- Anthony Trollop, who didn’t bother at all with the forth wall is a very chatty narrative-voice-as-character and I find him pretty perfect. What Dickens has to say just doesn’t int…[Read more]

@Mudlark @Miapatrick

Obviously, people have a right to their opinions and the right to read what the want. But there is a bit of responsibility that goes with having access to a public forum like the Guardian. Literary criticism is one thing, and if he had read one of Pratchett’s books and then said, “Here are my problems with this book”, then…[Read more]

@Ania   We have seen the Master survive so much worse than a lasor blast. And, if my theory is anything close to correct, Missy is the 8th regeneration, so there is plenty of story-weaving wiggle room.

@Ania welcome. If Old High Gallifreyan sounds as beautiful as it looks when written I hope that we do get to hear some. I imagine it might sound rather like Swedish or Welsh.

DotD and the Prequel provided some hints as to the richness of Gallifryean society and there were no plastic seats in sight. (A reference to the set dressing in Invasion of…[Read more]

@lisa   Wait, now — do you really want to look at the grocery clerk and see that he’s really a zygon?!  I’ll take blissful ignorance, thanks.

Thanks all for the reminders about apple cider and honey — I did that for a while, should probably go back to it.

@Ania  My mom had an old upright and it never stood a chance, really.  One of mom’s fri…[Read more]

@ania I pretty much agree with all you said but I just think its a bit odd that
Missy created thru her manipulations the impossible girl and therefore very
probably some of those claricles that saved the Doctors from some Masters. So that makes
me think Missy created some unforeseen obstacles for her past selves. She/he has often
not thought…[Read more]

@Ania   On arthritis — the same person who directed me toward the rosemary oil + gin-soaked raisins included also not an application of lavender oil, but sniffing the stuff along with the others.  I keep a bottle of lavender oil for that purpose, and so far, so good!

@bluesqueakpip  My GP, like most GPs, has no time to learn herbology, so I do…[Read more]

@ania   What “cow” were you watching?  Did you mean to write “watching the show”?  If not, you’re seeing a *very* different DW than I am . . .

Re the sunglasses — I think Capaldi explained in a recent interview that the sunglasses were needed for one episode — to see zygons, was it, in human disguises?  He liked them, so he’s incorporated the…[Read more]