@thane16   I also hope you and yours are safe and sound. My thoughts go out to all those suffering through this cyclone.

@janetteb We have had a lot of snow  this year and it is beautiful , like a glittering white fairy landscape.  Winter is wonderful if you have a nice warm house and if you don’t have to travel too far. Being retired I have the…[Read more]

hoping Puro (@syzygy) and Thane are safe from the battering being unleashed on Brisbane.

@winston and @nerys As I look out at our heat-blasted garden I am so envious of you both. Snow is the stuff of fairy tales. I love snow. Took so many photos of snow when we were in Sweden. the neighbours must have thought I was insane.

cheers

Janette

@nerys @janetteb @dentarthurdent

The War Between the Land and the Sea is part of the current BBC-Disney deal. IIRC they signed up for (something like) an initial 25 episodes total. Which would mean an 8-episode season 2. I would have preferred a longer run, but I’ll take what I can get at this point.

Still no release date for TWBtLatS that I c…[Read more]

@janetteb    We adore the Detectorists  and have watched them all a few times. The show is a love letter to people and the hobbies they like. The whole cast are great at creating amusing characters who go about the business of real life in between times spent with their metal detectors. I like the meetings of the detectorists club where they sho…[Read more]

@nerys. Have not been watching much lately. The eldest and his fiance are currently camping in the old living room in front of the air con because their room is too hot to sleep in and she starts work early so we have to be quite at night. We watched Dune Prophecy which was ok and Star Wars Skeleton Crew which was also Ok and then the S/O put on…[Read more]

@nerys
I wonder if RTD’s instinct is for a lot of Brit jokes and he knows he needs to be more Cosmopolitan in Age of The Mouse.
The escape sequence was really slightly weird, complete with it’s own Tennant plus periwig lampshade. Non lethal guns. No loft rooms. RTD, in the first run, would have had SO much fun with that idea. But it doesn’t trans…[Read more]

@janetteb     @nerys  @dentarthurdent  We were talking about this episode  and I had to watch it again. I still can’t say why I like it so much because there is just so much. John Hurt being so weary of war ,death and destruction, literally carrying the weight of his world on his shoulders. Matt Smith the youngest actor somehow being a very old an…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent  @nerys     This one was a great episode. That long ship corridor and the ever growing fake Doc and Donna almost made me queasy, like a fever dream. The closer they got the larger they grew! They gave me the willies.

It had a good puzzle , a visit with Newton and a little robot.This felt very Who to me and I enjoyed it all. The…[Read more]

@nerys    Wild Blue Yonder was the peak of the Tennant revival for me.   The episodes before and after were a bit too Disney for my liking.   But WBY I would add into my list of top episodes from any season.

I have been known to rant that CGI and special effects are no substitute for good characters or plot, but I have to admit the CGI in WBY wa…[Read more]

@nerys  I just watched these a little while ago and I enjoyed them all. I love the Doctor and Donna combo and I was thrilled to see them together again along with Donna’s family and Unit. Donna gets her memories back and the Doctor gets his friend.

The bi-generation was certainly different and I am still fuzzy about how that works but whatever.…[Read more]

We had some help with news avoidance this week. Someone sabotaged an optic fibre cable leaving a entire region without internet for over 24 hours.

@nerys I have been reading a lot too, I now keep a book beside my laptop so in idle moments I read rather than scroll through the news repeatedly. Not having internet for a day didn’t really bother me…[Read more]

@nerys @janetteb

yesss… anyone else running a news blackout? This week is worse than rewatching World Enough & Time/The Doctor Falls… though I LIKE WE&T/TDF…

W&G was wonderful. Apart from the ‘fact’ that no one checked the… oops, spoilers. Maybe no more ridiculous than any of those Scandinoir plots involving meatheads, who are released fr…[Read more]

@nerys. I hope that you don’t have to wait too long. Some cheerful viewing is much in need right now.

Talking of which we recently watched the new Wallace and Gromit movie and that was a pure delight. It ranks with the original trilogy. When it finished everyone in the room wanted to immediately rewatch it.

Cheers

Janette

@ps1l0v3y0u    I think Trump has a very simplistic view of the world.   He sees every transaction as a zero-sum game – for one party to win, the other has to lose.   (The concept of ‘win-win’ is beyond him, if he ever heard of it he probably dismissed it as woke nonsense).   I think this explains why he is so gratuitously obnoxious – the more he…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys @winston
Why?

1. Disruption… give things a shake and see what falls out.

2. Mess up liberal opponents so we can give more sympathetic parties a leg up. Elon is helping with this. He’s very good. Very sane.

3. Justify protectionism. We need to show we got something back.

4. Lay the ground for the resolution of the Ukr…[Read more]

@winston   @nerys    The way I see it, tRump’s proposed invasions of Canada, Greenland and Panama are just diversions to distract from his less-than-stellar appointments to senior government positions.    It’s not like they’re policies that anybody else wants, so in a few weeks he can quietly forget about them and nobody will object or scream…[Read more]

@nerys  Interesting times is as good a way as any to describe whatever this is. Canadians have always got along fairly well with our neighbors to the south and we always help each other in times of need. This whole Trump thing is just weird and worrying. The question among most of my friends is “why?” The second question  “Is he crazy?” and my q…[Read more]

@winston   Actually we’ve had pretty much a perfect week.   The high tides have been the right times (late morning to mid-afternoon), the right height (near the top of their range), and the wind has been from south-west so the beach (Blockhouse Bay) has been sheltered behind a ridge.   Next week – not so good with the times or the depth…[Read more]

@nerys   Happy New Year!    When we were on Vancouver Island our daughter took us to the secret beach that only the locals knew about. We first walked through an old growth forest with trees so big and ferns so tall that we felt very small. We felt like Hobbits on a quest and low and behold the secret beach. A strange thing about that day was that…[Read more]

@nerys    A new beach?    Always an exciting experience, I think.   Though I imagine, in your half of the planet, you wouldn’t be swimming this time of year.   🙂

I wish you luck with the Who DVD’s.    It may well be a licensing thing to do with the change of franchise, it’s always frustrating when I try e.g. a Youtube video and get ‘The uploade…[Read more]