@Arbutus– yeah, I should have worked that out re: phonecall. Red face.

byw, glad you managed to watch it in one go. I started watching on laptop, switched to TV when the mother in law went to bed, missed a few minutes then a friend popped in, saw what I was watching and very kindly sat in silence till it ended. I like that my friends have…[Read more]

thinking of missy’s ‘heaven’, and the papal mainframe- what happened to the consciousness of the little girl in SITL so concerned with ‘saving’ people?

bloody hell I was waiting till I re-watched it to come back here, I forgot how busy these threads are during the run (It’s been a long time) fantastic!

still on page one, @Littlemess, yes I thought so too, and again on re-watching. And I also like the new title sequence. I liked the music a lot more the second time around, maybe it’s quite right…[Read more]

just a quick reaction- using my boyfriends iPhone because Internet not working. I never had a problem with Clara, but she is even better here. brief Capaldi doing smith before the new personality bedded in. he looks like the character from Pompeii because he’s trying to tell himself something? his ‘sorry sorry’ to the dinosaur was more moving to…[Read more]

happy Who day everybody! so close!

@arbutus I thought of you this morning, at a quarter past eight when my mother in law and her husband arrived. Someone forgot to tell me…  more awkward because we sleep in the living room. This is the woman who piped up with ‘I didn’t know doctor who was stupid’ during the Christmas special. But I came back…[Read more]

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@Arbutus– brilliant, I don’t feel quite so petty and antisocial now

Being cut off half way through could be terrible- could you get away with watching it last thing at night? Heh, as for not being grown up about it, at least we’re not locking ourselves in our rooms and watching it anyway (are we not? ) and it has been such a long time, and such…[Read more]

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Just over a week to go and my boyfriend informs me of an approaching event called ‘his sister’s birthday’. Sulk, rant, mutter how typical it is. But then it turns out her birthday is on the Saturday at the end of the month, which isn’t quite as bad, and is exactly, to the letter, why I got a kindle fire last Christmas. (We’ll be going for the…[Read more]

@Craig– I think I was the worst offender there. I think I knew it was wrong when I did it but I got a bit giddy- very sorry!

A Game of Thrones blog could be good- if there is the demand for it. (which there probably isn’t.)

@Whisht and everyone- I was going to vote for Rani because people mentioned the industrial revolution etc, but I don’t know now- can I give my vote to asking Colin Baker on twitter? without mentions of red hot pokers etc, though from the fiveish doctors he does seem to have a sense of humour about it…

@janetteB– I see what you’re saying. What I meant, I suppose, is that given the influence of Judo-Christianity, classical culture etc on our middle ages, I can imagine, without these things, a society would be very different. That said, given how influential these things are, there might be something a but shonky about using a medieval style…[Read more]

@whisht– isn’t it odd how the brain can jumble up sentences like that? I like that you were at least surprised at the idea I’d say that, and were contemplating a reply to such madness!  There are a lot of things I like about it, not really a boob woman, but there are some nice bottoms sometimes as well…

@Whisht– game of thrones! I watched the first series on channel four (back when terrestrial channels bothered buying sky shows) but it took time for me to feel really hooked. But I recently went into a rant with someone for dismissively saying that it was ‘how some American’s imagine the middle ages to be’.

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@Whisht– thank you. In fact we have just returned from the wedding for which said tweed was purchased (his sister said, buy something dapper…) and went down very well, far better, in fact, than the alcohol he consumed during the reception. Fortunately the tweed survived intact.

@purofilion– just as belated a thank you (see above) and…[Read more]

I never realised that was Peter Davison. Knowing, and watching, I can see it- ish- have decided to put my ignorance down to his skill as an actor. It made me think how he would have been as Author Dent, and I decided: too sympathetic.

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@blenkinsopthebrave, @janetteB: thank you, it feels particularly good because for the past few years he has been wearing mostly (or only) combats and tee-shirts. The module result is also good because I hadn’t done much creative writing for the year or so before this course, it was nice to have the focus.

@PhaseShift: well Morrison’s had the…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip: I has to hide quite how happy I was about the bow tie at the time, or it might have scared him off! 🙂

Oh yes, and the bow tie is red.

@ScaryB, thank you! I can happily picture that. I meant to say as well, many thanks to and I am opening a tab at the Rose and Crown for @Bluesqueakpip for her help. @FatManInABox, quite. I like to think of the bow tie as my reword.  @Wolfweed, that is actually very similar to the tweed jacket he got. We’re contemplating the waistcoat as well 😉