Hi everyone, not been on for a while because of juggling assignments with moving with trying to get new house in shape with not much money, and should be revising now but can’t concentrate. Combination of hangover and disappointment, I suppose.

On a happier subject, after realising how long it is since I last visited, I’ve enjoyed reading…[Read more]

@janetteB, @bluesqueakpip, @pedant: the house I’m buying has an open fire. (Just as well, the central heating dates from the eighties). Only a little one, mind. My boyfriends uncle has a house parts of which date back centuries- livestock used to sleep.in their living room. And their open fire is massive. You could fit a good sized cauldron in…[Read more]

@janetteB– twelve days of Christmas, remember. Enjoy.

@Twholt– that is interesting, since he first saw Santa just after discovering the the coordinates missy gave him lead to nothing. I agree with @janetteB that dark water and death in heaven are unlikely to have been dreams. But could he have found Gallifray and then been attacked by the dream crab?

@FatManInABox– I thought the big, Powell like…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip, I’m thinking about his frustration in his first episode: ‘you can’t see me’

Timelords do also somewhat change personality, but the core, I think, is consistent. (Like the Dalai llama concept) people change personality over their lives, their bodies change, the concept of the soul, I’ve always felt, is related to an internal consistency.

@pedant– so many people reacting negatively to the doctors comments on her age, make up etc, it’s nice to have it made clear what I always thought, the doctor can’t really see her, because he always sees ‘her’, his Clara.

Yay! At last. Started streaming it like, half and hour and ten minutes in to it, my boyfriend carefully gauged the level on the litre bottle of Smirnoff we were given for Christmas and suggested I wait till it’s over and download it. So we streamed a little more Mila live, then I finally got to watch it.

Slinkies! And I seriously think Nick…[Read more]

Happy Christmas everyone! I don’t know if this pub serves hot drinks, but Masala tea with chilli honey and brandy is a great way to start Christmas day.

Especial Christmas greetings to @purofilion, who seems to have managed some terrible and stressful events with fantastic spirit and good humour!

@Arbutus– I saw a faintly mocking reference to such butter dishes in the guardian once, and as soon as I ascertained what it was, became quite obsessed. It has the same temperature inside whatever the temperature outside, and keeps the butter in a perfect state of spreadability. Which if, like me to subscribe to the ‘put a jumper on instead’…[Read more]

I got 4, which I’m quite pleased with. @blenkinsopthebrave– I hate to think what you’d have to answer to get Colin Baker. That made me laugh though :).

And, hi everyone. I have been lurking, but also moving, and am temporarily Of No Fixed Abode. Somehow Christmas has crept up on me, had to make a shockingly last minute booze run and- two days to…[Read more]

@Arbutus– I’ve been thinking about the Orsan- Danny thing in the light of this, and I think the two options are: she’s pregnant, and the doctor somehow missed the resemblance between the two men. Or She adopts this boy, giving him Danny’s name because he bought him back to life, and for some timey whimey reason, she thought Orson looked like his…[Read more]

@The9thDoctor– Susan’s grandmother, I dearly hope!

but yes, there was a lot of stuff straightened out. And Susan is now, officially stated to be his granddaughter.

I like your point three as well.  I’ve loved the last few seasons, but it would be nice to have a little less earth. Hopefully, if he finds Gallifrey, we’ll see a little more than…[Read more]

@ABXY– well that scene near the end of Robot of Sherwood works better as an analogy…

@ABXY, @Margaret-Blaine– that’s what I call teamwork. Would have bothered me fir ages without this site.

@Margaret-Blaine– yes! Thank you!

@ABXY, I know, I said the mother of the children mentioned in the Jenny episode. He tells Donna he’d been a father before 😉

@ABXY– queen Elizabeth? Still one more than I would have thought. Assuming ‘wife’ to mean significant relationship, one on gallifray, Susan’s grandmother and the mother if the children mentioned in the Jenny episode.

Now we know four wives, probably safe to assume at least one, maybe two from Gallifray. But how old was he when he ran away? He’s…[Read more]

@Apopheniac– well by fair I meant out and out lies, withholding vital information, or re-writing ‘bad wolf’… I see what you mean about spoilers, but they often do it for the Christmas episode, it’s sort of seen as s different thing- last year I don’t think they did, but that one was inside the arch…

Yes, I wondered when the music kicked in at…[Read more]

@ABXY– yes I loved that.

There was a lot of fan teasing- in a nice way. Four wives, all dead, children and grandchildren lost PRESUMED dead, clone daughter. A lot of clarification and bad news for the Asexual Doctor Presivation Socity or whatever it was- on a blog on here I think?

Oh OneNote- Clara eyes in the opening credits, wasn’t it?