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Off for the weekend - which means missing K9 & company tomorrow. Thanks to Nimbos , I also now have the do-do-do-dee-do theme tune in my...

I think people should use the word "oblong" more often.

One of the Dr’s acolytes is heading back to America next week, having learnt valuable lessons as a serf. To complete her education, the Dr h...

"And his fancy that he was being followed? What of that? What of the shadow he never saw, only felt, till his back seemed to tingle wit...

While looking for something else entirely, I discovered that there's going to be a snazzy new run of James Bond DVDs . And Sir Roj has d...

89 EXT. TORCHWOOD HOUSE - NIGHT NINJA MONKS watch in awe as the wolf-ghost rises through the roof of the building, one last howl as it evap...

You know that poor Greek fella doomed to spend eternity pushing some great bouler up a hill, only to have it roll back down to the bottom ag...

... gets spoken of lots at one of my works. It means "a sense of proportion" - that is, knowing what are the important, big things...

Who knew that the police were like photocopiers, then? Having done a fair load of temping in my youth, I know my way round photocopiers like...

Projects of various flavours proceed gradually onward. (You can't really proceed any other way, can you?) This is then an aide-memoire s...

For heinous crimes committed in former lives, I studied the Reform Acts for A-level, and manage to keep unmuddled the names, arguments and o...

Just heard from my wee brother, a month in to his five-month trek across northern Australia, riding wild horses that his stars trained thems...

The Dr and I are in sunny Winchester, stuffing our faces with my dad's rather marvellous home-made croissants, and gearing up for the tr...

My father-in-law sent me a copy of last week’s Church Times , with Droo on the cover in his jim-jams and a two-page feature on how the Docto...

Went for drinkies at the Dr's work on Monday to celebrate 150 years of the Dr's work. Well, not her's specifically, but as an in...

Speaking of memes, Millennium Elephant 's daddy Richard shares his birthday with Henry Tulip. This fact reminded me to look up exactly w...

There's a comic strip I remember from years ago, a typical one-off with a twist. A bloke explains how he's been cursed for years (wi...

It's only a couple of months late for the daffodils to be out, but it seems like spring has now sprung. Well done the weather, there. In...

Spent a happy day yesterday waiting for a delivery, muttering about the great feat of inconvenience involved in said delivery, taking out my...

Last week one of the Dr's prized acolytes left for pastures new, though not without a knees-up and presents. While a fellow acolyte got ...