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November 21, 2018

Kerblam! review

Synopsis: the Doctor gets a delivery from Kerblam!  However, when it comes with a note saying “Help me!”, the gang head off to the company warehouse to see what’s happening. HERE BE SPOILERS. ...


I made root beer pulled pork the other day.  I’ve been threatening to for a while now, so just decided to go for it.  It’s OK, but the recipe called for an entire bottle of BBQ sauce.  Sooooooo ...


November 15, 2018

Deal or no deal

They say a week is a long time in politics.  Over here, we’re discovering just how true that is. Tuesday, it was announced that there was a draft of a deal between the EU and the UK concerning ...


November 14, 2018

Demons of the Punjab review

Synopsis: Yaz convinces the Doctor to take the TARDIS back to the day of the Partition of India so she can find out more about her grandmother.  This, as it turns out, may not be the best of ide...


November 13, 2018

Exelsior!

Don’t worry, I will be reviewing the latest episode of Doctor Who later. Stan Lee.  Man, this one hurts.  Not as much as Lis Sladen did, he was 95 and in poor health after all, But, it still hu...


November 06, 2018

Tsundoku

Tsundoku is a Japanese word for book that you buy but don’t read.  Yup, definitely have a lot of those. Decided that it was about time that I made my ridiculously simple BBQ rib recipe again.  ...


November 05, 2018

The Tsuranga Conundrum review

Synopsis: after accidentally detonating a sonic mine, the Doctor and companions are rescued by a hospital ship.  Then, somewhat predictably, things go wrong. Here be spoilers. . . . . . ....


November 02, 2018

Ungrumped

Last night, I drank lager, watched Blackadder Goes Forth, some MST3K and The Good Place then crashed. Today, I went into town and in half the time I was out yesterday got everything I was after...


November 01, 2018

Grump *EDIT*

Today is payday, so I got up early to head over to Stockton.  I had a list of things I wanted to get: the second issue of the MST3K comic (the reason I was heading to Stockton, the only comic...


October 31, 2018

That keeps us star gazing

Hey there folks?  How’s you? Friday I went to a live broadcast of a political radio show.  It was quite interesting, apart from the idiot on front of me who decided it’d be the ideal time to he...


October 30, 2018

Arachnids in the UK review

Synopsis: the Doctor finally gets Graham, Yaz and Ryan back to Sheffield, but what’s happening with the spiders in the city? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sigh. I’ve finally ...


October 25, 2018

When Batman cries

Where did I get my entry title from?  Glad you asked: There.  That’s a thing you now know exists.  You may wish you still didn’t know it existed but, hey, if I have to suffer with this knowle...


October 22, 2018

Rosa review

Synopsys: The TARDIS takes the Doctor and the gang to Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.  Why is their atron energy all over the place and what does it have to do with Rosa Parks? Spoilers ahead. . ...


October 21, 2018

We’ll follow Mr Spoon

I’m being monitored!  All the time! I think I’ve mentioned before that I do online surveys for a company called IPSOS.  Recently, they asked me if I would be willing to download and constantly ...


I used that image because it reminds me of something what I wrote about in a previous entry, where a newspaper ranted about students being taught that the monster may not be the bad guy in the b...


October 15, 2018

The Ghost Monument review

Once again, here be spoilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Synopsis: You tell me , we’ll both know.  This is not a good thing. Let’s start with the good: The new open...


Today is Mental Health Awareness Day.  To honour this, our esteemed Prime Minister announced the creation of the position of suicide prevention minister.  So, as is par for the course when May a...


So, this is something new I want to do here.  The plan is to review every new episode of Doctor Who.  Naturally, there’ll be spoilers. . . . . . . . . . . Synopsis: A mysterious thing...


October 07, 2018

Makes me smile

Influenced by the way I ended my entry yesterday, here’s some stuff that made me happy and realise there is still good in the world: A cathedral holds a service in memory of a diver who single ...


October 06, 2018

Arty farty

This weekend is the Middlesbrough Art Weekender.  It’s not been going long, in fact this was the second time it’s been run. There was one thing I was interested, something called SONIC Crossing...


(This pic is indicative of nowt but my sense of humour.) Now, you may have noticed that my last entry was entirely bereft of mentions of my new piercing.  That would be because the piercing fe...


October 03, 2018

ISO 3103

Seriously, look up ISO3013.  You can thank me later. As you can see, I did dye my hair. I’ve been getting a fair bit of writing done.  I’m writing at least once a day.  It’s going well. As I ...


Pic is a close up of my ear.  Yup, that be the new piercing.  When I get the bar changed, I’m going to get a closed hoop put in place instead.  It’ll be more noticeable and what’s the point of h...


September 25, 2018

Saucy!

So, something I did while I was away from ODland was make my own pasta sauce.  I tend to make pasta and sauce when I’m really short on cash, simply because it’s cheap.  I decided to try making m...


September 21, 2018

Holey, holey, holey

(The caption on that picture is “Larva Lamp”) So I’ve been thinking about getting a new piercing for a while.  I wasn’t particularly fussed what kind of piercing, except it wouldn’t be a nipple...


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