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A chum has asked how I came up with June, the one-off companion in Doctor Who and the Slitheen Excursion . Figured it might be of interest t...

"Pornography in Hosptials" by Ben Goldacre in today's Guardian . The Dr encouraged me to respond: "Fascinating article, t...

Suddenly I'm quite busy. A freelance gig is now going to run pretty much full-time til Christmas, and I've a number of commitments t...

YouTube now boasts two clips from Rode Trip , the documentary made by my brother/boss following two people riding across Australia on horses...

Was going to write something about book-burning , then remembered I already had: "We pass through Bebelplatz , the square where the Naz...

This is the Monument , built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London. Climb the 311 steps to the viewing platform – as...

Ah. Have been a bit busy on other things - research and job hunting and a new on-spec novel which is currently called "The Dream"....

The Sagas of the Icelanders is a 780-page brick of a book, a selection of the best sagas from the newly translated and spangly complete col...

Have spent a lot of this last month researching bits and bobs, and have the following appeal to publishers and editors: All works of non-fic...

I am mostly spending this week interviewing people with connections to Doctor Who old and new, which is fun. I've also been interviewed ...

Those images you have been yearning to see... The cat has inspected every last detail but remains undecided on the whole business. But the n...

Since my last post , I've finished the first draft of the script and await notes from the Wise Folk. Of even less interest, I have paint...

Busy, busy, busy with a spec script that needs finishing, sorting out the flat to put it up for sale and scrabbling around for paid work. Bu...

Spent the weekend at the parents' and on Sunday morning my mum took me to Farley Mount . I've not been there since my early teens, b...

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me isn't exactly one of Roald Dahl's best, and confusingly the "Me" of the title is not the...

I've created a new companion for Doctor Who . Am also behind on a script, so must dash...

Mr and Mrs Brother-in-Law treated me to a trip to Jodrell Bank today, the whopping great radio-telescope which is a whole bucket of cool. I...

As a belated birthday present, the Dr took me to Great Missenden today and the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre . It comprises three rooms...

Got all caught up in work and real life this past month, hence the lack of blogging. But I did get through some books. Mortal Engines by Phi...