@purofilion    Your list of “positives” actually makes your family life sound completely charming! And so interesting, like you and @janetteB, I have the car seat issue as well! I’m also 5’2, and Mr. Arbutus is […]

@pedant      I agree that there are other ways that things could be “fixed” for Clara. Bringing back Danny is only the most obvious. And it’s also true that, as long as Clara is in the picture, anything from the […]

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All the best to Mr. Ilion next week. Hopefully all goes smoothly and the hotel– oops, hospital– is as four-star as you say.  OO

Loose ends. Well, lots about Missy, I think. How did she escape from Gallifrey? Why exactly did she choose Clara to matchmake with the Doctor? My guess is, though, that we will not see Missy at Christmas. We will […]

@Bluesqueakpip     Ha. “The Evolution of the Doctor as a Romantic Hero.” I like it!   🙂

It’s when I think over the individual episodes of the series that I realize I need to see the whole thing again. I can remember how some things impacted me but not always the reasons for it. I think I agree pretty […]

@Juniperfish     Oh, I think Eleven wins the prize for Huggiest Doc Ever!

@Apopheniac, I’m so sorry about the ROUS’s. I just wasn’t thinking. I know better than to give noisy toys to the children of my friends, and any rodent too big for a cage should have been on the same list. If you […]

@JimTheFish    I enjoyed reading your summary of Twelve and his character. I will admit that he had me from the moment he came bursting out the TARDIS, exuding confusion and madness. Everything that came after […]

@JimTheFish   Wow! Just in from three hours of running around in the rain, and lo! A whole new blog for my reading pleasure. There’s far too much here for me to make much response without a careful second reading, […]

@nerys    Very nice. I’m in Vancouver myself, and while I don’t see banana trees as such, I do have a potted olive tree on my back porch.  🙂  A few years ago my family and I took “the mother of all road trips”, […]

@nerys     Interesting ideas. I’m sure you’re right that the gift and/or Christmas miracle themes will play out in some way. It definitely seems to have been set up in the teaser at the end of Death in […]

@blenkinsopthebrave      Sympathies to you and Mrs. Blenkinsop as well. You are absolutely right about the sense of age that comes when you begin to lose the previous generation. My own parents are still […]

@Pufferfish    Oh, your post made me smile. Eating your body weight in everything seems to be a part of most people’s Christmas memories. My mother’s parents were both Ukrainian, but my grandmother was born in […]