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Hullo Puro. I must admit I’m a little confused, you and young syzygy both use the same name and log in as @thane16?
I’m pleased you and young syzygy came through the storm unscathed.

Are these storms getting more frequent? We’ve had two major events in two weeks here. But it seems to me the few regulars on these pages have been…[Read more]

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@thane16 And by the way, I like Clara best, but I do love Amy too. And Nefertiti – I think she would have made an excellent Companion if the job wasn’t already taken. I would have loved to see more of her.

@thane16 syzygy – you raise an interesting point about credibility. I think we all have our individual ‘limits’ of what we find credible and the border is not a straight line.

In the case of ‘Dinosaurs’, I’ll grant time travel, no problem (it’s part of the premise of the series). And the dinosaurs follow from that, the ship was built to…[Read more]

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Hi syzygy @thane16 I read ‘Longitude’ a while ago, it was largely about a clockmaker (Harrison – I just had to google that). As I dimly recall, though, it didn’t go into a lot of detail about how he managed to achieve super-accurate timekeeping (I could be wrong about that though).

I’ve just paused my intermittent re-watch at the end of…[Read more]

@winston Yes, you have been having serious storms in your neck of the woods. Miraculously, we have been spared them here. Once again we seem to have been saved by being on the “warm” side of the Gulf Stream. Sometimes it doesn’t work in our favor (droughts, etc.), but this latest round of storms and the “Polar Vortex” passed us by. (By the way:…[Read more]

@thane16 The Silents certainly were frightening monsters. Probably second only to the Angels in the Moff menagerie. They reminded me mostly of Munch’s ‘The Scream’. Where the Angels got a lot of their frighteningness (is that a word? It is now!) from moving when you weren’t looking, the Silents got theirs from their property that you…[Read more]

@thane16 Apropos of my crack about a modern ‘phone’ being baffling to people from 50 years ago, I’ve just recalled a scene from ‘The Impossible Astronaut’ where Amy was confronted by a Silent in the White House rest room and took a picture of it. Amy exits the rest room and the Secret service guy says “What’s that?” and Amy says “It’s my…[Read more]

@thane16 Yes, ‘device’ in this context means phone/laptop etc. Notice in aircraft they ask you to turn off your ‘devices’. I think ‘computer thingy’ is a better description – and a ‘phone’ in this context is really a tiny computer that happens to make phone calls. More like a ‘communicator’ really. Just think how baffled people 50 years…[Read more]

Hi syzygy @thane16 Okay, I must admit I’ve never tried reading this site (or most Internet sites) on a smartphone, I always use a laptop. Warning: Big rambling digression follows. (In fact, up until Covid struck and I needed a ‘device’ that would run the Covid Tracker app – you know, scanning in at the entrances to everywhere – my phone…[Read more]

@thane16 Hi, if I can comment on one thing you mentioned – The Sofa. I don’t know how it shows up on your ‘device’ (what an awful term:) but on my laptop, I never need to load 22 pages. At worst it opens at Page 1 and there’s a little list of pages at the top or bottom of the page and I just click on ’22’ or whatever and it jumps there.…[Read more]