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Unpopular opinion: Pineapple is fine on pizza and Colin Baker is the best Doctor. (I’m joking. He’s not.)

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@winston, hope you do well.

@winston Good to hear you’re slowly recovering, though it must seem too slow. Hopefully you’ll be able to enjoy summer when it arrives. DON’T apologise for posting, I’m sure we don’t mind as long as Craig tolerates us all (and he’s usually remarkably tolerant 🙂

Our weather, since you mention it, has been poor for the last week. I had a…[Read more]

@winston

Revenge of the Cybermen featuring The Vogans. (NOT Vogons).

Not THAT bad; better than Robot, but poor after Ark or Genesis. The Zygons and Planet of Evil are a bit clunky too. The Android Invasion however is better than I remembered.

I am revisiting 4 too.

@dentarthurdent @janetteb Thanks for the well wishes. Day 6 and still in bed most of the day but today I feel a bit more human. Cons- can’t move without help, missing the tulips and daffodils, can’t bath except from a bowl, mister Winston does not know where anything is, pain, boredom… more to come. Pros – I can watch old Who all I want, eat…[Read more]

@nerys Resuming the James Bond theme, I just watched Skyfall and Spectre. Skyfall was quite good (I gather it’s highly regarded amongst the Bond genre), though I do have to question his wisdom in taking M to a deserted house in the highlands without stocking up from Q’s gadget collection first. And I thought the new Moneypenny (Naomie…[Read more]

@winston Well it’s great to hear your surgery was a success. But I’m sorry to hear that you’re still in pain. I had assumed they could give painkillers for it but I was forgetting that that seems to be an area where medical science isn’t yet perfect, no such thing as a 100% effective yet completely harmless painkiller. Hopefully the pain…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent and @winston I second the MP3 player suggestion. When I was in icu I had four cd’s and listened to them over and over. The music really helped but I also read a lot, all books I was familiar with starting with Pride and Prejudice which made me laugh, I think I owe my life to Mrs Bennett aka Alison Steadman, followed by Lord of the…[Read more]

@winston I’ll just wish you the very best with your operation, and your six weeks’ enforced bed rest.

I have no idea if this will help, but when I had a heart valve repair about 15 years ago, I almost enjoyed the ‘holiday’. NOT the operation itself (which of course I have no recollection of whatever), but the week I spent in hospital…[Read more]

@winston. Sorry to hear about that. I am wishing you all the luck possible and hope you will be back on your feet soon and in the meantime that you have lots of books to read and Dr Who to watch.

Best wishes

Janette

@mudlark thanks for sharing that.  Always excited about any scrap of information. I don’t recall just who Sethu’s character was in Andor. All these Star Wars spin offs tend to blur into each other though Andor was the stand out of the pack.

Cheers

Janette.

@mudlark

Good point about Jinkx Monsoon’s character being named Maestro.

Hmmm. I would have thought that the Master requires someone who can communicate real threat. The little I have seen of Jinkx Monsoon seems to evoke silly rather than sinister.

But who knows.

It seems that Ruby is to be joined by another companion in 2025

Doctor Who confirms Varada Sethu casting with first look at season 15 TARDIS trio | Radio Times

Query: does the fact that the Jinkx Monsoon character is named Maestro have significance – or is it just a piece of misdirection?

Meanwhile, not so long now until May 11th

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@dwnerdfrommars</p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Do you mean The Giggler or Church on Ruby Road?</p>
Go to ‘forums’; it’s all there.

Either way… THE HAND gets many mentions. Waiting for the meme with said HAND and the spoken words: ‘that’s the spirit Thing, lend a hand…’

Otherwise… the Goblin Song got a lot of thum…[Read more]

Anyone have any Series 14 finale theories?

@dwnerdfrommars @winston

THE HAND… reference to Last of The Time Lords… the means via which John Simm resurrected himself. I hope RTD doesn’t revisit that… it was in the worst possible taste, if not quite as bad as Anthony Ainley’s most extreme scenery chewing.

You will notice there is no wheelchair evident in the preceding shots…

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I have to be honest. The 70s was a very underrated time for music.

Lots of people stereotype this era as “bad singing” or “lots of voice cracking”, sure there are bad songs, but not ALL of them.

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@ps1l0v3y0u Oh the music of the 70s, the ridiculous and the sublime.  I think if you can’t be traditionally good then you better be strange or interesting.

My younger sister loved the Bay City Rollers as only a 12 year could and her bedroom here in Canada had more tartan than a Highland Games.

Mind you I can’t say anything because at 12 I was…[Read more]