Hi all, I’m back. Apologies for being away. Will try to back on more regularly.

@pedant @blenkinsopthebrave new pub has been started, in outer space.

@nerys @missy @ichabod and others, the lovely Soniya has been dealt with.

@badwolf11 @cathannabel and others. I too sometimes have trouble logging in and have to wait. It’s not anything you have…[Read more]

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Yep – a few have had the lockout. Usually it clears after a bit, but if it doesn’t log on via a vpn (seesm to be IP blocking) and that clears it.

@ichabod and @badwolf11  Ichabods answer was so good I have little to offer except to say that the theme of seeing what you expect to see is also there in the retaurant where we see people eating that turn out to be autons. Maybe even when the Doctor and Clara see a message in the paper and they both see the what they want to see. They were bot…[Read more]

@badwolf11  On Vestra’s veil — Moffat and his writers often use something that, to me, goes back to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books: the idea that people generally see what they’re used to seeing and expect to see, and miss the unexpected or misinterpret it as the expected anyway.  In a science fantasy show that works really well, of course, h…[Read more]

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Good point, but as my husband would say “it’s in the script.” I must admit to not noticing this.

Missy