Wow @whisht your music choices are just brilliant. Loved those!

The beginning and end of the choir vid reminds you these are regular fun-loving children making this amazing sound. Incredible really. x

Hi everyone. It’s a *really* long time since I last visited. So I thought I’d pop to the sofa to say hello and Merry Christmas to you all.

Hats off to you Craig for keeping the forum going, and thank you. This is such a great space.

Looking forward to see where RTD takes us!

x

Looking forward to reading the threads. I just caught up

First episode: “Please, spare me the ridiculous dog-alien”

Fourth episode: “Where’s the dog-alien?? We need him now!”

Well hello!

Many apologies for being such a fairweather friend, only rocking up when there is new Dr Who to be watched.

Some of you may have clocked that it’s been a crazy couple of years. I hope you and yours have all stayed well and in good health.

And also that you’ve remained in good spirits. Apocalyptic turmoil, dread and seclusion can…[Read more]

First off, Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

Ooh, well-played, I did not see that coming. There was even a bit when O offered to show Graham the doctor’s files, when I thought he must he a wrong ‘un. But by the time he was chasing after the plane I’d forgotten all about that and was rooting for him. Ha ha, trust no-one 🙂

Enjoyed, enjoyed, enjoyed a l…[Read more]

All sounds incredibly positive and exciting @pedant @bluesqueakpip

@thane16 Thanks for asking, and I hope you and yours are all ok. Savon Manor is looking rather unkempt. This is partly because we haven’t looked after it in the cold weather, and partly because we barely look after it anyway.
What is more, the groundsman (aka Mr Savon) has an…[Read more]

@mudlark

Hilarious, and bang on. She reminds me of Kathy Bates in Misery.

And it seems she’s survived yet again. Perhaps she’s handcuffed herself to the radiator?

@janetteb

I cringe thinking about the UK’s international reputation at this point.

Although I’m a passionate Remainer, I cling steadfastly to my belief that Remainers and Leavers…[Read more]

Ah, David Lidington. The man who insisted in Parliament (when he was Minister for Europe) that there would be no need for a double majority – or indeed any kind of threshold – because the referendum was “advisory.”

And who now, in spite of clear evidence that the whole thing was riddled with fraud, continues to treat the marginal outcome as an…[Read more]

@thane16 Thanks for the little @ragnarok. It did make me laugh. 🙂

@mudlark and @scaryb (amazing to see you back, by the way.)

We got our turkey from a really great local butcher. It was massive and got its own oven. (We’ve got a tiny kitchen, but 50% of it is one of those “range” things with two ovens.)

Mr Savon is the chef in our house, and…[Read more]

Happy New Year one and all, and I hope your festivities have been thoroughly brilliant.

We had a few hiccups here at the Manor. A heavy Christmas cold, a “kerthunk” in the car chassis at the exact least convenient time a chassis could possibly kerthunk, and – worst of all – giblets undetected in the turkey!

Still, a good time was had by all. The…[Read more]

Thank you @craig (and @jimthefish.) Running and modding this site must take a considerable amount of time and energy, especially recently!

I absolutely love this forum because it’s open to all while maintaining standards of civility and intellectual rigour, and a genuine sense of community.

It’s sad but no surprise that occasionally commenters…[Read more]

@mudlark I’ve enjoyed learning from our discussion and it would be nice if I could find some point of disagreement just to carry it on! But I think we see eye to eye and I just got a bit fixated on the common ancestor idea. 🙂

@pedant

Ha ha, from my perspective, Middle English is a good example of what I’m talking about because it entailed such…[Read more]

@pedant I see what you’re saying. I think we’re probably on the same page but maybe the problem is my understanding of the word convergence.

My take is this: If you put two different groups of people together, speaking different languages, the people will want and need to communicate, as you say.
So the first generation will establish a very…[Read more]

Thanks for that @craig, yes that’s really interesting. I was convinced the Scottish vote made a big difference just because I’d heard it said so many times. I would add that I was joking and I don’t believe for a second there should be any onus on Scottish voters to take the English into consideration at the ballot box. In fact I think the idea is…[Read more]

@mudlark It’s a fascinating topic. Apologies, I misunderstood your original point about the German-ness (or not) of the Grimm tales. And thank you for your response. You have me curious about those ancient Irish tales 🙂

I take your point (and agree) that the similarities between myths can be explained in terms of the cross-fertilisation that you…[Read more]

@mudlark That’s fascinating. I always thought the Grimm tales were regional folklore.

I was introduced at uni to the enormous contribution that Jacob Grimm made to linguistics and philology. His work was on Indo-European languages (similarities in vocab and predictable, systematic differences in phonology.) He helped cement the hypothesis that…[Read more]

This episode for me is the gift that keeps giving, it’s so rich with allusions.

Thanks @nerys for your post. 🙂

@cathannabel I absolutely love Gide, The Vatican Cellars and The Counterfeiters being among my all-time favourite books. Haven’t read Theseus though, so that’s really fascinating thank you.

I totally see your point and agree, @mudlark,…[Read more]

@craig She sounds incredible. 🙂

@kevinwho Thank you for sharing those bittersweet and beautiful words. I really like your take on Doctor Who aswell.

@pedant I suspect your keyboard has a delete key and so I deduce that Finger The @Cumquat is precisely as obscene as you intended. 🙂

Sounds like a good game, let’s play.

*dons Poirot moustache* ‘Ello mah leetuhl Ehngleesh chuhms…

No hang on, that’s Eurotrash.

I have a couple of suspects in mind, but how do we know the culprit would come…[Read more]

Seconded @kevinwho. Well said.

Welcome, @bluffme. 🙂