Just to clarify one of my earlier posts: We are currently watching the first season of Wolf Hall on PBS’s “Masterpiece” program. I thought that since others were talking about the second season, that must be the one we are watching. We’re recording it on our DVR, and I see now that the episode descriptions say Season 1, Episode (whichever one…[Read more]

@winston Because of where we lived, we didn’t experience that sound of trees crashing down, which you endured. But I knew people who did, and they described it much as you did.

The sad thing is that even trees that appear undamaged, or not so badly damaged, may eventually die. That was what we experienced from the 1998 ice storm. It took several…[Read more]

@winston I am so very sorry about your garden, and the trees. I’m glad that your family and your property were spared, but I understand how it feels when a natural disaster causes such devastation. The wildfires we had here in 2023 destroyed so many trees. My heart aches still to drive by them now and see a seemingly endless stretch of charred…[Read more]

@thane16 We’re currently watching Wolf Hall … and I don’t think we realized there was a previous first season. Oh well, it’s fine because we’ve watched so many films and documentaries on Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell that we know the story without necessarily knowing this story.

@thane16 I’m so glad that you and your family are OK. Thank you for letting us know.

@blenkinsopthebrave @winston “Elbows up” is the rallying cry now. But it’s so sad what got us here. It’s hard not to have vertigo or whiplash, with all the constant seesawing.

@janetteb Thank you for reminding me that our weather is what others dream of. It’s easy to take it for granted.

@thane16 I second Janette’s concern for you and your family. I hope that you are safe from Cyclone Alfred.

OK, that looks good! Still waiting for my library to get Ncuti Gatwa’s first season, but I don’t think it spoils anything to see this trailer for his second.

@janetteb This looks like the cast I saw in the third installment of the 60th anniversary specials.

@whohar @dentarthurdent I agree that knowing who the Sun’s owner is is key to understanding the article’s slant. I do hope the end is not near. After all, I just got back on board with the specials. But, we live in uncertain times.

@winston How lovely! We have bird feeders, but no creek nearby to produce such amazing sightings.

Here, we do not have the amount of snow that you do, though this is the first winter since 2015 that the harbour has frozen over, and we have snow cover. Typically, if we get any snow at all, we go through rapid freeze/thaw cycles and it melts…[Read more]

@janetteb Something we do for comfort viewing is the WildEarth SafariLIVE safaris from South Africa (also available on YouTube). WildEarth is among the free channels on our LG TV. I’ve been watching since 2014. Once hubby found it on our TV, he started watching, too. Their live segments are comprised simply of the naturalists and their camera crew…[Read more]

@janetteb I’m trying not to doomscroll too much these days. Difficult. I too am reading a fair bit. I’m currently on Kate Atkinson’s latest Jackson Brodie installment, Death at the Sign of the Rook. It’s a good diversion.

We also seek solace in movies, and watched a lovely one last night. Minari (2021 film about a Korean family who moves to…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave It’s interesting that, not so long ago, television was blamed for all of society’s ills. Now it’s cellphones. But I think RTD had a good point about returning to that earlier concern. Of course, it’s a bit odd when a TV show laments the damage done by television.

I wonder if the reason RTD does so well with Tennant’s Doctor…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about seeing into someone else’s living room (the fellow on his couch). So these would be terraced houses, correct? I forgot about that detail and was confused as to why, during their escape, they could see into other people’s houses. Because they’re connected, duh!

@ps1l0v3y0u You’re right about the sonic screwdriver at Donna’s house. I had forgotten about that. It did, what? Create a kind of force field, blocking off the Wrarth Warriors but allowing the Doctor, Donna’s family and the Meep to escape?

Like you, I didn’t find the episode amazing. Many of RTD’s stories ran on timey-wimey machinations rather…[Read more]

@winston @dentarthurdent I used to watch “The Day of the Doctor” fairly regularly when Crave still carried Doctor Who in Canada. Alas, it is no more. However, I’ll bet my library has it, so I will check it out.

It was so much fun watching the three Doctors haggle with one another (himself), and then finally come together for a solution. Rose/The…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I agree with you that “Wild Blue Yonder” was the best of the three. Yet I am glad to have them all. I understand what you mean about the Disney-esque elements. I tried to overlook them. The Flux was kept to a bare minimum, so I was OK with it. Kind of like tying up loose ends, I suppose.

@winston I love your “fuzziest socks”…[Read more]

@winston That’s true about the working Tardis! Though No. 14 didn’t seems so inclined to use it, did he? Still, as others have noted, the 14th Doctor is on call if needed.

There was an echo of the Whittaker Doctor in the need to search for and create a family with his companions (though I don’t think that story was told particularly well in the…[Read more]

“The Giggle” was a satisfying, if, for me, an overly drawn-out, conclusion to this three-parter. It was wonderful to see Wilf again at the beginning, as well as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart later on.

Did anyone else see a startling resemblance between Neil Patrick Harris’ Celestial Toymaker and Matt Smith’s Doctor? Occasionally I had to do a…[Read more]

The Newton intro was fun … and I guess it got us to the point where, thanks to time travel, mavity replaced gravity (except that there was that odd slip-up the Doctor did on the ship, saying gravity first, then correcting himself with mavity).

Anyway, this was the first seriously thrilling Doctor Who episode for me in a while. I enjoyed the…[Read more]

OK, so the 60th Anniversary Specials finally arrived at my library, and I have enjoyed my first outing with Doctor Who in quite some time. It was so wonderful to see Tennant Doc and Donna reunited, with all their old chemistry intact. It was as if they’d never been apart. I felt engaged by this episode in a way that, for whatever reason, I didn’t…[Read more]