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Last night I finished a notebook I've kept since 29 December 2011 (when I was in Egypt ). I've kept notebooks since I was in my t...

I shall be escaping my writing hutch next month to do some showing off. Why not come along and say hello? Saturday 16 March: Blue Box 2, ...

In the summer of 2000, when dinosaurs still roamed the streets of south London and there were only eight Doctors Who, I hefted my possessio...

A team of hardened professionals assembled in central London earlier today to make  Wizard , the fourth short film by the amazing Guerrier ...

First shown in 1978, James Burke's amazing 10-part history of science, Connections – an Alternative View of Change , is up on YouTube ...

In a British Red Cross shop, the Dr found me a lovely 1956 World Books monthly edition of Nevil Shute 's Requiem for a Wren (1955) -...

Claire Tomalin's biography of Charles Dickens is full of what George Orwell, speaking of Dickens' strengths , called the “telling d...

More of me that you can buy in shops. Next month, Doctor Who: Shadow of Death sees the Second Doctor and his chums on a remote world orbit...

A space lion from Doctor Who Adventures  #302 - pic by John Ross Issue #302 of Doctor Who Adventures , out in shops this very day, feat...

Splendid chums Nyssa1968 and Nimbos popped round yesterday for a contest of Doctor Who Monopoly , which I received for Christmas. The Dr ...

The Dr has been much absorbed by the second most festive of her Christmas presents, Inconvenient People - Lunacy, Liberty and Mad-Doctors i...

Happy new year. I resolve to finish my original novel and also blog a bit more often, but then that's what I promised last year. The ...

This week, I finished Dashiell Hammett 's The Thin Man (1932) , a gripping, twisty thriller in which a former detective comes back to ...

Earlier this month, at a lunch to celebrate my great-aunt's 90th birthday, I was surprised to learn that she'd worked in Hut 3 at B...