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Hope your Christmi were as splendid as ours, brimming with red wine and roast goose. In amongst the exciting haul of goodies from yesterday,...

“‘ People like to read about someone who is deeper in the shit than they are,’ [Bernard] said. In fact the real reason for his popularity wa...

Our Bumper Book of Daleks is just reaching people, a hair's breadth prior to Christmas. Hooray! As a special bonus, you can read online...

Entertaining, boozy meet with chums in Paddington last night, where I may have veered into ranty. Sorry, R., who will be reading this. Much ...

Escape is a fixture in escapist fiction. Our heroes look sly and resourcedul when they can break out of cells, baddie bases and countries us...

(Just switched to Beta Blogger on the promise of all kinds of cleverness. Hope it doesn't not go snafu.) Okay, I admit that I read 1599 ...

Codename Moose summed up our feelings in those six words. Pan’s Labyrinth is another wondrous strange creation from Guillermo del Toro: mes...

Terrific concern this afternoon that we might be in work a bit later, as a result of Mr Blair going to see Mr Knacker . "Look... I real...

The Dr is out tonight having tea with a friend, and I’ve been left lonely and plotting. My thinking cap sits at a rakish angle following a c...

Well what else would the headline be? My chums at B7Media have announced their thrill-packed new Blake’s 7 audio series , which has just fin...

On Saturday I attended a glittering soiree on the occasion of a very first birthday. Gorged on fizz and finger food, which included a New Ze...

Spent today mostly playing with virtual building blocks. Anchor tags don’t seem to work across pages, but that may just be a thing with the ...

Fun night out at the special NFT preview of “The Ruby in the Smoke” last night. Many of the cast and crew were also there, and after the sh...

How things change. A mere 17 years ago today, I was a little into my third year at school – Class 3’s room on the ground floor of the main b...

Ha ha! This blog is also available in French .

The Big Finish website has been updated with all kinds of thing I’ve been up to and many things still yet to come. I’ve got a new Bernice Su...

Nimbos rang last night with the awful news that Craig Hinton has died. The web has since caught up with facts and people’s memories . The s...

"Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Blurb for "The Ruby in the Smoke"...

It has been a while since I was last in Lewisham. The stalls are filled with Christmas tat and the reek of new-caught fish. Somewhere deep i...