@Rob
A true knight indeed!
Maybe you should take a wetsuit and a spare pair of flippers for the next stage. Well done tho. Hope the jammy dodgers stayed dry and you had a well earned pint of caffeine at the end. Look forward to the next update (and post the fundraising link when it’s ready)

I salute you too Sir Rob (@rob)  What you are doing is noble.

I hope the sun shines upon you and the foot gives you no pain.

Will follow your progress

Cheers

Janette

@Rob

You are a hero.

I suspect that there is more than one of us who frequent these boards that can identify in a personal way with your story, but less of us that do what you are doing tomorrow.

And as I notice that you have been knighted, I salute you, Sir Rob!

@rob

Good luck with the walk Rob, and you’re a hero for attempting it to be honest.

Shortly after I was born my mother was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (late 30s) and then combined (as it was called) with osteo, and it’s so easy to disregard the words “arthritis” with someone much older. The pain she suffered was incredible, and I can b…[Read more]

Thank you all for nominations received so far.

@Craig – for someone who is busy, you had a surprisingly adept catalogue of stories nominated. 😉 Glad to hear the light at the end of the tunnel is approaching.

@janetteB – Absolutely vote for a choice. Last month, @JimTheFish asked the same thing, as Pertwee isn’t his favourite. But, you never…[Read more]

@Max-Nash247 I would be very surprised to see Amy and Rory return, their story’s more complete than most companions.
@Rob – yes, more super-cybermen (tho they’ll need to find a way of limiting the upgrades; it’s a great idea but it’s easy to overdo it. How invincible do they have to be before they’re actually invincible?)

@Whisht – So no to that hairstyle. lol!

@Rob – Now you’ve got me onto Dalek speculation! We definitely need proper Daleks; I really am not keen on the newest design. I don’t mind different coloured Daleks however, if only to signify rank of course. So basically… keep the bronze for the regular Daleks (or return to grey perhaps?), black and…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @FatManInaBox

Congrats on your game triumphs and please don’t lure me into it!!

@Wolfweed – you owe me a new keyboard!

Greetings to @Rob and everyone I’ve not seen for ages.

@Rob
Welcome back from the mud. Sounds like you and @Phaseshift have been doing sterling soggy work the last few weeks

@Rob

Good to hear you are OK, but commiserations to the extended family. I was about to say “wouldn’t it be funny if yours was one of the contaminated sites I’d visited!”. Then I thought “No it wouldn’t – they were disaster zones”. Glad to hear yours didn’t go pear-shaped.

Morning all. Apologies for the absence, and to those who posted mentions I’ve missed. I’ll get round to them eventually I’m sure.

I’ve spent the missing period checking on flood damaged industrial sites and looking at long term pollution potential from the flooding in the SW. All a bit depressing and fraught to be honest.

Hope nobody got cau…[Read more]

@BESD1     @Phaseshift     “It does seem to suggest that the Time Lords (and Doctors) fears about them being frozen in that moment in an alternative Universe were unfounded. Time seems to play out at some pace on the other side.” Or is the question looped over again because the Time Lords are frozen in a discrete slice of time during which they ca…[Read more]

@rob –

one section of the bar could be stretched to make room for a barista

Having worked in several bars around the world, while I’m all in favour of people bobbing in for a coffee in the morning and afternoon, I can honestly say there is a special layer of hell reserved for folk who think it’s sensible to order a bloody cappuccino* in a crowded…[Read more]

@Rob

“She’s a psychopath,  loves the Doctor, lives in a mainframe” – ooh now, I was utterly convinced Tasha and River couldn’t be one and the same right up to there. Are you suggesting that the Papal Mainframe is descended from CAL in some sense (an app perhaps?)?

Last thought for now…

@Bluesqueakpip – while  I agree with you that Tasha is definitely the Doctor’s “type” I also think @Rob picked out a lot of similarities between her and River. (And I’m really glad they didn’t confirm our worries the other day about her looking like standard female villain). Really chilling line about having “to kill her…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip– definitely.

@Rob– It wasn’t ideal viewing conditions, but I’ve worked out how to use iplayer- and I feel a lot better since I’ve baked a passive-aggressive loaf of bread at her…

for @Rob and @Miapatrick

(yes, yes, I know, it should be on the music thread – but it seemed incredibly appropriate)

@Rob – I’d suggest they’re similar because that’s the type of woman the Doctor fancies. Right the way back to Enemy of the World, he’s attracted to mature, confident, slightly dangerous women.

It’s not, however, the type of girl he’ll deliberately take on board the TARDIS as a permanent travelling companion. He wants to marry (this is a family…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

So glad you enjoyed it – thought you would.  It was full of lovely touches, and I agree with you that Hartnell having a relationship with the TARDIS is one of them. Bradley did a great job on the characterisation – you can see the vulnerability of the aging, jobbing actor under a quite prickly outer skin.

@Rob

Did William…

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