@BarbaraLefty    I think they were going for aubergines!    🙂

As to what I write, I have a blog which is mostly about travel and always sadly out of date, as the balance between being the primary homemaker and chauffeur/cheerleader for a teenage son, and my own artistic endeavours is a constant challenge for me. As my son would say, the strug…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty I am dropping in to defend the honour of fan fiction!

I think it is a wonderful, creative gift economy, where people (mostly women) write stories for free for one another. Sure, there are sexual stories, and some of them are really well done in fact. But by no means all fan fiction is erotic. Yes, the quality of writing varies…[Read more]

@barbaraLefty and @Arbutus as well as some of the other Who-sters on the forum — just want to say
that I can tell you are writers by the level of sophistication in your posts and can I say that its
a treat to read them! I’m not a writer but I am definitely a reader. I suppose this is the case cause
if I have had a occasional idea usually when I…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty    Agreed. There are an awful lot of readers out there, and its probably fair to say that if you care about the story you are telling, then someone else probably will as well. The trick is getting to them!

@BarbaraLefty       I write as well. There are definitely others here who do. Bring it on, I say.  🙂

I take it you mean in the context of a story, ideas are expressed that might offend someone? I’m not sure that you can avoid it, if you want to express anything valid or interesting. Certainly fiction doesn’t have to be respectful of everyo…[Read more]

@barbaralefty

Always happy to talk about writing.

Just so long as it doesn’t involve fan fiction 😀

@Craig – I’ll happily go with @JanetteB @Bluesqueakpip @BarbaraLefty @Purofilion re Enemy.  In honour of @HTPBDET is a lovely thought.  Shame Troughton’s intro story Power of the Daleks is missing, it was a belter!  But better to go with the cleaned up refreshed EotW than a recon. When do we start…??

(@Pedant – You’re just a curmudgeon 😉 )…[Read more]

@JanetteB   You have hit on exactly what was in my mind throughout this story. There’s no way that anyone who had ever seen this could make some of the claims that we frequently see about the way they feel the show has “changed”. This story is not pure science fiction in any sense that I am accustomed to. The science/tech is completely invente…[Read more]

Loved watching that again… it’s been a while (not seen it since first broadcast)!

Putting it in context – this was only the 3rd story.  We hardly know the Doctor at all by this stage (or how long the series had to run) and so far he’s hardly been endearing – he kidnapped Ian and Barbara in the first episode, tried to brain a caveman in the…[Read more]

@barbaralefty Definately them. They me sent the exact same message as last time.

@All, and especially for their nominations @Bluesqueakpip @ScaryB @JanetteB @BarbaraLefty @Blenkinsopthebrave and others I may have missed.

Everything is still up in the air as to what to discuss over the coming weeks, and I haven’t had time to give it much thought – hopefully can now. Think I will now have more time on here, back into a routine,…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty  Eep! Sorry. Sitting nicely, waiting for a biscuit – good dog spider 😉

Looking again, it’s maybe not stuff from the full 60s trailer (although I think there are snippets) the one I’m really meaning is one of the ones released before the main trailers. These seemed to be called ‘teasers’ rather than trailers, and the one I’m really…[Read more]

Capaldi “fails” to make NTA shortlist?  Au contraire, NTA shortlist “fails” to include his Doctor, is all.  Their problem, I would say . . . or rather, as has been pointed out above, a problem of timing, most likely.

@purofilion — Thanks for good wishes; and yes, 2015 is starting off well reasonably well, so no punches due, pulled or oth…[Read more]

@Craig @Bluesqueakpip

I’d be happy to watch Night of the Doctor again. It’s not quite BG as you say, but it’s a better representation of what 8 was about, although McGann is eminently watchable in whatever he’s in!  And there’s probably as much to discuss in it as there is in the movie 😈

@barbaralefty suggested Edge of Destruction for…[Read more]

@barbaralefty — Oh, *lots* of sugar, must go straight to energy to drink your coffee like that and end up with a body like a 6′ stepladder.  It would *take* a face crab to get to sleep after a dose like that.

*Love* your addition to Obscuritantarian lore — or are they “Oscurritantes”, sort of Latinized like “Los Penitentes” who haul real great…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty   I also believe that the Doctor has, for better or worse, come to terms with his past and present, and will be inhabiting his new incarnation with less angst going into Series 9. I had that sense already throughout Last Christmas, that we had really left the “Am I a good man” debate behind. Missy really did give him that gift, he k…[Read more]

I have been thinking about our viewing schedule for the year and an excellent post by @BarbaraLefty on “An Unearthly Child” helped me formalise those random ponderings. Given that PC is now established as the Doctor might we pick one story from each Doctor that somehow reflects upon the character of that Doctor, either their first story or from…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty

A wonderful reflection on “An Unearthly Child”. I agree with everything you say–about its strengths at establishing the premise, about the obvious callback in S8 to the opening, about the links between Hartnell and Capaldi, about the dynamics of Ian, Barbara, Susan and the Doctor, hey, I even agree with your comments on the…[Read more]

Woke up this morning to the urgent buzz of water bombers overhead. The fire has turned south now and is endangering numerous towns and suburbs. The wind is erratic and I cannot begin to imagine just what hell it must be for the firefighters on the ground. From looking at the maps it appears to have got within a kilometre of Patrick’s friend’s…[Read more]

@Whisht @Bluesqueakpip

2015 is the year of the Green Wooden Sheep 

Love it!

So long as it’s not “MEH” that’ll do me!!

<ducks>

@Barbaralefty You owe me a new keyboard!! 😉

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!