@winston glad to hear it! It’s great news. As a Czech, the mention of quarts of tinned tomatoes & loads of pickles is heart warming & thrilling! We douse everything in vinegar (or rather my parents did) including vast amounts of red capsicum, cauliflower & baby corn.
When I was growing up we’d eat, every month, a type of boiled, jellied meat wit…[Read more]

@winston how are you feeling this week? Has Mr W completed the tomato tins in your absence?  🙂

I was a bit ill in the last couple weeks & a friend visited with several women’s magazines which I originally rolled my eyes at except in a few days I’d read some articles, cooked a few simple recipes (my cooking is sometimes frustratingly repe…[Read more]

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Apparently it will be the last TN novel. 🙁

I’d love to see Fforde do an episode of Who.

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 I have a Jasper Fforde on my tablet right now.

Ah -ha ! Another Fforde fan. The last Thursday Next novel is out next month.

@winston that’s terrible! The daily frustrations of a broken limb (never mind the pain!) and the general physical discomfort’s nasty. I only hope you have some help around the home (and medication)?

And plenty of audio books (I discovered these myself last year -very slow to that party).

I love The Who! At uni we investigated the film Tommy (fr…[Read more]

@winston oh, I love that!! We had a wall phone which I forever chatted on ensuring no one could call my parents at night! Ours was mango yellow. 😀

I remember a good friend across the street pulling out some Dylan & Cold Chisel (Cheap Wine, Forever Now), the latter which I’d never heard before (my parents were notorious haters of rock) & playing t…[Read more]

@winston Your experience with ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was similar to mine with ‘Pulse’ (which just happened to incorporate the whole of DSOTM as the second half, although the musical arrangements were different in many places).

In fact I’ve noticed there are many different versions of tracks on the Net, some official, some bootleg from various…[Read more]

@nerys @winston I can recall Donna’s appeal which hit me more in the episodes with Doctor 14. I saw a Short on YouTube in which she bemoans giving away her money with her husband, Rose & the Doctor highlighting her compassion & empathy.

I also remember how she heard & felt, temporarily, the Ood’s song of captivity which the Doctor heard at all…[Read more]

@Thane16 @ps1l0v3y0u That beginning, with no music, just a creaky windpump, is very effective. And Morricone’s score, particularly Jill’s Theme which is a haunting piece of music.
I watched it recently and managed to follow all the plot threads (for the first time). Not that it’s complicated, just that Leone leaves the audience to join up the…[Read more]

@craig Adding to @winston‘s comment about spam posts:

“On the Sofa 11” has had a lot of recent activity with many brilliant posts, yet it is not listed among the topics on the General forum discussions page. I only knew to reply to it is because I received several notifications for posts in which I was tagged. I can access the thread via not…[Read more]

How have I missed this thread and its brilliant observations? Bravo to all for an engaging month-long (and hopefully longer) discussion!

The “resolution” for Donna through her daughter was, as others have noted, clunky. Yet I must admit that I was one of those who was furious with RTD for abandoning Donna without any memory of her adventures wit…[Read more]

@thane16 @dentarthurdent @whohar @winston @nerys

The Doctor Lies

The Soufflé is not the Soufflé, the Soufflé is the Recipe

Planet of Hats here I come

Just Some Bloke??!

Mark Gatiss made a rather downbeat interview recently, rather different to the ‘all is not over shtick’ issuing from the usual armchairs. He points out the BBC’s stance n…[Read more]

@whohar @ps1l0v3y0u @winston @dentarthurdent @nerys and all

I think a comic-con panel had Billie Piper. A fan asked the question …..the only question that can ever be asked! “Are you the doctor?” And Piper said “I’m not the Doctor I’m Rose Tyler on hiatus.”

@thane16 Hmmm … I thought it was clear from my review that I enjoyed “The Reality War” … but maybe I didn’t express that clearly enough. The only part I disliked was the chunk of exposition we got in the middle, which really slowed down the momentum.

Or maybe you’re reading back to @winston‘s observation that I had been on a journey. That’s…[Read more]

@winston @nerys Oh yes! I also feel that way in the garden. I noticed that a gent who helps me weed, mow & mulch, often places more mulch on top of other mulch rather than turning the ground? I remember @mudlark teaching me many wonderful things about soil & its turning (among other stuff like archaeology, medieval churches & ancient history).

I…[Read more]

@thane16 @winston Yes, a good library is priceless. As you say, sometimes I have to wait, and waiting meant that I didn’t get in on these great discussions first time round. But I did get to see the episodes. Not only that, the library has them as hard media, meaning that anyone who has a DVD player can watch them and isn’t relying on the vagaries…[Read more]

@winston   Our garden has osteospermums (Cape daisies) flowering, and also our rose bush has a few flowers on it.   In the middle of winter.  (Did I mention that before?)

But what I came to say was, that garden idea of yours is intriguing.  You becoming part of the garden.  A garden that captures people.   Has that ever been used in Doctor W…[Read more]

@thane16

@dentarthurdent

@winston @nerys

Whitaker’s Tardis was “off” so her opinion on Gatwa’s is …..but I think it was more a nod to Moffat’s lines: “I don’t like it.”

This goes back quite a way. In The Three Doctors, Troughton’s Doc is in the Tardis with Pertwee’s Doc and he looks around before saying something like “You’ve redecorate…[Read more]

@Winston @nerys that’s brilliant. We’ll be very thrilled to watch it again beside you. Subscriptions are insanely expensive. A friend of mine, at the last weekend, said she’s planned out what subs to have within a 6 month period, & which to drop & like us, holds videos at the Brisbane City Council library just up the road. Considering Dr Who on Di…[Read more]

@winston Yes, not quite The Odyssey … but definitely a journey. I’m late to the party because I refuse to subscribe to Disney+ (looks like that’s not going to be a problem anymore), and I don’t want to buy more “stuff” that I will use only once, then forget about. So I put a library hold on the DVDs and waited (because they were only just…[Read more]