@janetteb @thane15 (and Puro) @nerys @cathannabel @missy @ichabod and anyone I may have missed.

Many thanks for all the very lovely comments. I’m sure Nicola would have enjoyed them. You really are a wonderful bunch given this is an internet forum!

I’m sorry if I gave the impression Nicola died recently, she died 14 years ago, but listening to…[Read more]

@thane15  ”mum will run me over even if I’m dead” (source: one of the Chinese Australians

Oooh — a Tiger Mom!  As if life weren’t tough enough . . .

@missy @thane15  My sister’s favorite dog (of the many she’s had) was a Great Dane that died ated 12 yrs, apparently a very unusual age for such a big dog.  They usually only make it to around 8…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @thane15 @ichabod Yes, sadly I arrived back in the UK on Monday to hear the news about Steve Hewlett. Eddie Mair did a lovely tribute, I thought. I’m told there is a special award waiting in the wings for what has been an extra special piece of radio.

@missy thank you, but no need to be sad for me. She was wonderful and made my life…[Read more]

@missy I understand.  That gets me to thinking how long we’ll have to wait for the Complete Series 10 box set, because it wouldn’t surprise me if they did the same thing they did with Series 9 — wait until after the 2017 Christmas special/finale for Twelve has aired and then pull everything together!  With that in mind, I’m more forgiving that t…[Read more]

@missy  Yeah, cold is no word for Twelve!

“The Return of Doctor Mysterio” came out on DVD today in the U.S. and I made sure to pick up a copy at my local “big box” store.  (Hmmm, I don’t remember DW being so easy to find at the Wal-Marts and Targets of the world in the days of Tennant and Smith…those places, they only stock what the masses w…[Read more]

@missy  @thane15  Ichi and i were talking about PC and the chance that we might have kept him a bit longer.

Yup; and I’m still talking about it, under my breath, to myself, grumbling and growling and snapping at the air . . . good thing it’s bed time, after a nice soothing glass of wine . . . But DRAT! and damnation!

But I also think Thane’s r…[Read more]

@missy   No, I didn’t know he’d done such a documentary, although I saw some comments on the subject that he made in a couple of his later interviews, talking about the disease.

@missy  Yep, that’s pretty much the feeling.  I had persuaded myself that I was all right with this — three season, okay, pretty standard — but reading about *this*, I’m snarling.  Wish Chibnall had kept his mouth shut about it, frankly.

@missy  I just read an article in this or that place, interview with — Chibnall?  Said Peter Capaldi was hovering for a long time over the decision to stay or go, and Chibnall almost had him persuaded —

God Damn It!  I am gnashing my teeth and tearing my hair.  Well, metaphorically.  But really — DAMN it!

@missy   Ah, the Luggage!  One of the great inventions of a great and inventive mind.  Fond memories . . .

@mudlark  Thanks for the enlightenment!  But — but — Morris dancers?  Why, lord, why?

@missy  Oh, that’s great news!  Nice for Cumberbatch and well-earned, but important in a different way for Capaldi.  So much for the naggers and haters who’ve been saying things like, “Capaldi is killing the show — because all those international fans of the Doctor love it for Tennant or Smith, not Capaldi”  because “He’s too old!” or “His Doc…[Read more]

@Missy

Why it didn’t get an Oscar is beyond me

Probably because they haven’t been dished out yet.

It is nominated for Best Pic, Dev Patel for best supporting actor and Nicole Kidman for best supporting actress,and the film for cinematography, adapted screenplay and music.

@missy  Me, too.  The weird thing is, CapDoc already makes me miss two years of my life that I would otherwise gladly just gloss over and forget (health problems, mainly, piling up after years of neglect); because there’s this wonderful excitement and mystery associated with it — “Who is this Doctor?  What’s he like?  He said what?!  (‘She care…[Read more]

@Missrori and @missy.  I doubt they have even began auditions for the role yet and there will not be an announcement until after the next series.

Cheers

Janette

Right @missy, and the word on the street is that it will be at least a few months of waiting on the announcement.

@missy  Thumbs up, then — !  Yer in.

@davidZdep   Welcome to the Forum.

As @Missy suggests, your description exactly fits the third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee from 1970 to 1974.  He affected a dandified style of dress, with frilled shirt fronts, velvet jackets etc. and, during the earlier part of his run at least, he often wore a silk lined cape.  The vintage yellow car was name…[Read more]

@missy  — Pratchett?  I’ve got all his books too.  An all around good guy, gladly remembered, though sorely missed.

@missy  Thanks!  PC is my Doctor, and I don’t expect to see his like again — but on the other hand, I don’t *need* to.   He’s thrown himself into the project of growing up the Doctor with everything he’s got, and and it’s been wonderful.  Here’s a “motto” that I saw on a mammy lorry (a truck delivering goods and people, often to an open air mar…[Read more]

@missy  I don’t like too many changes myself. At my age I find change upsets the whole system so to speak. So why is my favourite thing a series about a person who completely regenerates into someone new every few years? I must like to punish myself.