Urgh @lisa you have done it to me again. I can waste hours on that FBDr Who Hub page. I have done so and concluded that there are infinite images.

In a way those images reflect something of what @ichabod was saying about the generating of the Doctor as a mythic figure. I think that status was established by the old series but has come to…[Read more]

@purofilion A proper Irish coffee has about two centimetres of pouring cream floating on top. The coffee has to be quite hot and very sweet to support the cream which is poured in over the back of a spoon. I threw away a lot of coffees before I got it right. Luckily I had a tolerant boss at the time especially when it was something like Tia Maria…[Read more]

@ichabod I live a hop and step from one of Australia’s premier wine growing regions so we are rather blessed with good, affordable wines. I was not a wine drinker until I moved to SA but here one has no choice. We have a favourite winery just up the road, expensive but not out of the range of the average quaffer. Their Alicante is about $18.00 a…[Read more]

Hi. quick wave to @all. I have mostly lurking of late, too busy to post but really enjoying all the wonderful discussions as always. Last night I sent off the first order for festival brochures so hopefully I can have a bit of a breather now.

@prurofilion I believe the Doctor’s alcoholic bevvy of choice, like @Ichabod is red wine. PertweeDoc…[Read more]

@lisa Nice to know that you are a fellow Hardy fan. I love his novels but I do have to make a slight correction. It was Far From the Madding Crowd (of which a new film is imminent) where the Valentine Card sets in motion a Hardyesque chain of events leading to tragedy. In Tess the trigger for the chain of events is her father’s discovery of the…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty Thank you I raise a glass in return to you and @all for being such a wonderful community. I love all the discussions happening though I have not had much time to participate of late. Busy with organising the program for the writers festival.

@lisa I love that tardigrade, (water bear) photo. I put prints of it on the boys’ science…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip I must have been about fifteen when I watched it and yes it was quite scary. Watched it recently and it stands up well to the test of time as does Omega Factor.

Cheers

Janette

@ichabod

 skinny guy, all nerves and huge eyes sparky with intellect.

That sounds remarkably like CapDoc to me.

cheers

Janette

@JimTheFish The Who stories drawing upon Britain’s pagan past are some of my favourites. I would like AG Who to re-vist some of that territory. There is so much to draw upon. This story also reminds me of another favourite TV series from the late 70 or early 80s which you might recall as it was made by BBC Scotland; The Omega Factor. It starred…[Read more]

@Ichabod  I think Twelve’s chips suggestion was him trying to be “normal” and failing abysmally. Chips and coffee sounds even worse than fish fingers and custard to me. I note that when he does turn up he only has the coffee.  I think food is  a little beneath his notice, too basic and human. If he eats, assuming that time lords do require su…[Read more]

@WhoHar welcome back. Nice to hear from you again. RL can be annoying can’t it. It keeps getting in the way of the important things, like Who.

Cheers

Janette

I had written a long post about food in Who then accidentally deleted it. Oh well. Little food features in BG Who beyond the Pertwee years. One of Jo’s major roles appeared to be to serve sandwiches and tea to all and sundry. Earlier Barbara made it clear that she did not consider cooking was her role. Pertwee Doc also expresses a fondness for…[Read more]

This is a very different pace to the last story. Maybe it is just the change from B&W to colour or the acting style of Pertwee. Not sure.

Like @Purofilion I loved the English setting. Half the appeal of Time Team was the stunning locations, so different to dust-dry South Australia. The village is the like of place where one expects to find magic,…[Read more]

I have noticed that there has been almost no mention of food since Capaldi took the reigns of the Tardis. We have seen him with a spoon but don’t know what was on it. I have not been able to add anything to my Dr Who Party menu. (Somehow liver, spleen and eyes just don’t have the same appeal as souffle or fish-fingers in custard.) Back in BG who…[Read more]

@lisa I also prefer to be the viewer in the Doctor’s stories most of which are great, afterwards. I am certain that when chained to a rock in the desert without the vibro cutters Clara was wishing that she had opted to stay home. However if I had the offer of a trip back to the dark ages for some first hand historical research without the…[Read more]

@Ichabod I thought the same thing when I was composing my last post but then I thought, no, we are talking about time travel and how it changes people so I thought it kind of does tie into the topic. Anyway I guess it is finally Craig’s decision whether to leave this discussion here or move it. i am happy either way.

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@BlueSqueakpip

we’ll just have to imagine that the Research Station is a mobile free zone (bit like Jodrell Bank), so they have special public call boxes just outside the gates.

A scientific research instillation in Australia that is mobile phone free! Ah sounds very familiar. Our technological institutions are getting increasingly paranoid a…[Read more]

@ichabod Re’ the undoing choices, I think now that I wouldn’t change any of my choices, not even the bad ones, because they are got me to where  I am now. It certainly isn’t where I wanted to be when I was twenty but I am happy and there are still plenty of possibilities ahead. I guess that is really one of the central themes of all time travel…[Read more]

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@Ichabod Well said. I often think of the Companion’s travels with the Doctor as equating to the working holiday/gap year adventure that so many of us embark on when young. We know that it can’t go on forever. There comes a time to turn one’s back on adventure, to settle down to daily life which in comparison can appear to be very mundane. There is…[Read more]