@purofilion     Wow, congratulations. A Silver Wedding so that would be… Cybermen?   🙂

I purchase my AG Who through iTunes, and new episode downloads become available at midnight on the night of broadcast. So I am usually able to see each new episode sometime on Sunday, usually in the early afternoon when Mr. Arbutus is napping and Arbut…[Read more]

@Missy @all

Personally, I’m pretty sure that this is a non-issue. We always knew that Capaldi was unlikely to stay for more than three, or just possibly four, series. He has done one and has wrapped or is wrapping (not sure which) two. So the speculation begins, but nobody really knows anything, and Capaldi hasn’t really said anything, except…[Read more]

@ichabod    You’ve inspired a great longing in me for a range of useful sonic devices for around the house… sonic can opener, sonic corkscrew, sonic piano tuner. And so on. And a sonic device for clearing clogged drains would be really useful.  🙂

@pedant – Congratulations! I’m sure the bed will soon follow.    🙂

@Rose2112   Gluten and dairy, wow, that’s tough. My experience with “gluten-free” products has not been positive, they often taste pretty bad. My father-in-law is gluten intolerant, and his solution is to eat a lot of corn product. This is a natural for him due to his career…[Read more]

@Rose2112     Wow, haven’t you been having a time? I can’t even begin to imagine cooking for so many people. It sounds like the best office barbecue ever.

Your soup sounds great! I enjoy making soup, but I am also not the greatest at dicing things. My husband is actually much better at it than I am, he is more coordinated. And onions are a parti…[Read more]

@Mudlark     I know that the long proofing process is part of the problem. There just isn’t the cultural interest here in the kind of time that the traditional process requires. I knew about the baguettes traditionelles, and they are definitely the ones to get. The last time we were in Paris, we were in and out of the local boulangerie twice a day…[Read more]

@ichabod  @mudlark  @lisa         Oh, bread. (happy sigh) I love good bread. We have a decent bakery in our neighbourhood, and a few pretty nice French patisseries around town. (A really good croissant is one of the happiest things I can think of!) There are a few very fancy “foodie” bakeries that do make fabulous bread, but the prices make me s…[Read more]

@IndigoMoose    I too like the idea of an explanation that includes the Romana and Six regenerations. It would have to be a cleverly done, and we know Moffat is up for that! And like @Bluesqueakpip, I can’t believe that we are completely done with the Danny/Orson thread. For one thing, the existence of Orson is a big loose end; for another, as lo…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip    And never forget the Doctor Who zealots– Moffat must die for sins against canon!

@janetteB       I don’t know the Swedish buns, they sound fantastic. We had Ukrainian ones filled with cream cheese.

@lisa        Whenever we have travelled to the U.S., we have always been delighted to be served entirely unsweetened iced tea. This is not something we ever see up here (except at my house!) and definitely goes against the usual…[Read more]

Oh, and @purofilion, you make your own marzipan? I am massively impressed. Can I come to your house for tea?   🙂

Oh, I love these conversations!

@bluesqueakpip     Ha. I should have realized that that was the case, as we had already been discussing other language variants. Fascinating!

@janetteB    If your story had happened to us, we would never have heard a thing about it, as Arbutus Jr. really does drink tea every night (of the non or lightly caffei…[Read more]

@IndigoMoose    This is cool. We’ve rambled a lot in the past about DW as mythology, stories, fables, and related things. If the Tardis is the one telling us the stories, it could explain a lot about the Doctor as we are shown him: sometimes a hero, sometimes a buffoon, sometimes mad man in a box, depending on how the Tardis is feeling about hi…[Read more]

@IndigoMoose     Welcome to the Forum. Love both your username and your bonkers theory. I also thank you for my laugh of the day at the phrase “head cannon”, which, spelt that way, brought an inevitable picture to my mind.  🙂

@janetteB   @mudlark     I’m puzzled about the Anzacs. Are they a kind of cookie? Because a flapjack is more of a pancake, and I don’t think you could sell them in packages. But anything with oatmeal in it is tops in my book. (Must be my Scottish heritage!)

@blenkinsopthebrave      So Canada owes its gain to a packaged biscuit? Nice.  🙂

@janetteB, @purofilion

Ah. We do have those gambling machines here. But, at least in BC, they are not allowed outside of casinos. I’m not sure of the rules in other provinces; I think in some places, you are allowed to have them in pubs, but as far as I understand it, nowhere that minors are allowed. Every so often I read a news story about the p…[Read more]

@Whisht     Howlin Wolf, beautiful. Well done. How about this for a tea song (with a callout to @TheKrynoidMan)?