@wolfweed

You are 100% right. I haven’t noticed it on my cell phone. I thought the picture is visible only in the first shot and the circles are just darken. But I watched it on my computer and it’s so obvious. The circles definitely have a texture.

@wolfweed a new Doctress.

I forgot about Cornelia, Rembrandt’s daughter whom he had with his lover Hendrikje Stoffels. She of course outlived her father.

I posted this yesterday but it’s a ghost post so I post it now again.

@whisht

I think I will watch some episodes with 7th, I’ll start probably from those mentioned by @jimthefish. Thanks for that. It’s somehow refreshing to watch Doctor with completely different personality from last three Doctors, less emotional but at the same time more…[Read more]

@ichabod I would agree with you if it was any of the other Rembrandt’s late self-portraits in which he did depicted himself as an old man who stares in disbelief how the young man full of self-confidence and self-esteem he was turned into this tired and lonely old man. But even than the sense of humor didn’t abandoned him as he painted himself im…[Read more]

@kharis you are right, there’s Shakespeare too, on a different window silk.

@wolfweed @blenkinsopthebrave

I think Moffat wanted people to spot them. The painting hangs in the background and thin circles as they are in the oryginal could be missed.

@kharis the bust I’ve mentioned has a mane of hair and chubby cheeks. I think it’s Beethoven.

@whisht

I think I will watch some episodes with 7th, I’ll start probably from those mentioned by @jimthefish. Thanks for that. It’s somehow refreshing to watch Doctor with completely different personality from last three Doctors, less emotional but at the same time more expressive (I think it’s McCoys’s voice).

@blenkinsopthebrave

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@kharis

Thank you, that’s nice. I think this picture is significant (or maybe not, maybe Rembrandt is Moffat’s favourite painter and he wanted to pay him tribute, it definitely tells something about his excellent taste). But Rembrandt throughout his life painted plenty of self-portraits, as a young man, as a middle-aged man, as an old man, as a…[Read more]

@kharis Doctor gave Bill her mother’s pictures. She didn’t look at all like Donna.

The circle can also represent a full circle either for the Doctor or for Steven Moffatt or return to the beginning. That’s why Susan’s portrait would stand on a desk. This portrait of Rembrandt is one of his last if not the last and it’s a coping stone of his life-long series of self-portraits. Rembrand died in 1969 outliving his wife Saskia, his…[Read more]

So the new companion is an orphan or a half-orphan, most of the time she’s happy-go-lucky but sometimes she’s sad because her mom died. She quotes her mother, who was a charming, lively woman. Bill is also very friendly, sociable and protective. How inventive. I hoped for something a bit different this time, not diffrent from Bill but from the…[Read more]

My first encounter with the Seventh Doctor didn’t go well. I saw him for the first time in Doctor Who movie when he was so stupidly killed by the Chinatown mafia in San Fransisco. I thought he looked pitiful and stupidly with his awful vest and question mark shaped umbrella, a kind of a whimpish good uncle or loser. And of course it was during his…[Read more]

@mudlark I’ve been thinking about something easy but with flowers to make them blooming again, so it should be a biennal or perennial plant. My windows look on north-west and I have very intensive and really hot sunsets on summer but not very bright sunrises. I will be very grateful for any tips. They predict snow on Easter 🙁

@mudlark

It would be great if Gardeners’world last one hour with half an hour of Monty Don wandering in his garden and half an hour about interesting gardens. The current format seems a bit cramped. The next episode is one hour long so I can’t wait. The interview with Beth Chatto was very inspiring. My favourite moment was when Beth touched…[Read more]

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@mudlark

You didn’t upset me at all. I’m very grateful for your suggestions about other Monty Don’s programmes. I’m not sure if I can say that I have watched Gardeners’ World  for 16 years but 16 or 17 years ago (definitely before 2001) I saw several episodes with Alan Titchmarsh for the first time. On Monday mornings I was alone at home I…[Read more]

@pedant I have your point and I agree with Moffat although the announcement itself contradicts his words but if it’s because the press is so vile so be it.

@miapatrick @pedant @mudlark  @janetteb

The fuss is not about Bill’s sexuality but about announcing it now. I can accept that it’s a PR move althoug I don’t like it. Sexuality shouldn’t be discuss as something sensational. And as the announcent has become a kind of sensation I feel it took some power of the fact that Bill is gay. I think it…[Read more]

@mudlark

I’m sorry that I enraged you. I cause only trouble :(. But I think you misunderstood me. I said that I know nothing about gardening and because of that I can’t really asses those voices of critique. My point was that critical comments or any other comments let me look from different point of view and reconsider my view on Gardeners’s…[Read more]