Badwolf.org.uk Screenshot of the BBC’s Doctor Who site. Spoilers ahead. A nicely balanced episode, with moments of comedy interspersing the rather more serious story of Blon the Slitheen being willing, again, to exterminate the entire human race to get what she wants. The last time we met the Slitheen family, they were prepared to wipe […]

This is going to be a lazy link post. Chicken Yoghurt says a lot of what went through my mind when Bob Geldof announced the plans for Live8. He makes the excellent point about the naïvety of Live8 organisers. When you think of how Tony Blair turned on his selective-hearing aid after the election, do […]

Time to find you… Spoilers ahead. I enjoyed this episode. Perhaps it’s because I watched the midnight repeat on BBC Three, or it was particularly scary, but I was close to jumping behind the sofa a few times. The writing for The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances was just brilliant. Firstly, the WWII setting […]

Quick plug here for Gunnella‘s online questionnaire about pregnancy myths. A bit of background: Gunnella is nearing the end of her M.A. in folklore studies, and is writing about the beliefs and customs of pregnancy across cultures. Men are also encouraged to fill-out her survey, as it’s more about what you perceive as common knowledge, […]

Some snarky comments about Eurovision… What is it with the bloody drums?!? Every song has superfluous drums. Is there a theme this year? And every contestant has sung at least one off note so far. Don’t these people practice before the night? P (in response to Germany’s entry): “I’d rather listen to Vogon poetry.” Best […]

From The Empty Child Are you my mummy? Whoa! What a freaky episode; there were some genuinely scary scenes in The Empty Child. Some random thoughts follow… The morphing scene gets our vote for the scariest effects scene so far, almost Alien-esque in it’s execution. The POV of the child is even more unnerving than […]

In today’s Guardian, Leo Hickman objects to the conclusions drawn by the Environmental Agency comparing the environmental impacts of disposable and washable nappies. An excerpt from his article that picks the gobstopper-sized holes in the report: Why are its findings based on an assumption that washable aficionados use 47 nappies, whereas we had easily got […]

Magrathea Gimp-ed and uploaded by framboise. In which Arthur Dent joins the mile high club, Ford Prefect gets a well-deserved kip, Rob McKenna has his 15 minutes of fame, and our heroes meet Wonko the Sane outside the Asylum to ping a bowl that does not possess a bathroom manufacturer’s stamp. For a proper synopsis […]

This weblog doesn’t get many hits, being new and not terribly topical. But I got myself a sitemeter anyway, just because I could. So far, most of my 2 or 3 am posts are followed by those who click on Blogger’s “Next blog” button. Recently, quite a few referrals have been through Technorati searches for […]

Graffiti on Rocheid Path I Originally uploaded by framboise. Another nice day, wasted by following the final day of the Premiership on BBCi. and we didn’t even get the results we wanted. What a bummer. The day was at least salvaged by an evening walk and the discovery of some rather good graffiti along the […]