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Much excitement round at Nimbos ’s last night as we ate pizza and watched Doctors Who . Delighted by the wealth of gags and continuity and i...

As followers of this blog might have noticed, I read – and probably write – a lot of trashy, melodramatic hokum. Adventures where the barest...

For your delight and entertainment, here are a few recent search terms that suffer people unto this blog. Beowulf kit off Regretably, there ...

A sizeable chunk of the stalagmite of wanna-read books are those by my colleagues and playmates. The loyal and supportive thing is to buy th...

In lieu of rent, Codename Moose is due to take the Dr and I to see Beowulf in 3D at the Imax . I am a little excited about this and may have...

On Saturday, I went to see Paul Cornell in Faringdon , about 17 miles out of Oxford. There was quite a lot of lager and a furious game of Sp...

As I noted in last year’s post about Casino Royale (the novel) , Commander James Bond of MI6 earned his licence in the Second World War. He ...

As a special treat, the Dr took me to Brixton last night to see “Elizabeth II” , also known as “The Golden Age”. We had to wait nearly 40 mi...

I’ve spoken before about my concerns with writers’ biographies – that they tend to place too much emphasis on the Real Events and Real Peopl...

Despite the slings and arrows of outrage loosed by the Dr and Codename Moose, last night I watched Imagine. Many and various designers spoke...

I am currently writing a sticker-book. This is a first for me, and can be added to the great and peculiar range of things wrought that are n...

I have the signature of Nimbos to corroborate that what follows is my joke, and not at all that of Señor Will Howells . Polly from Doctor ...

A long day yesterday in the fens, cobbling together research. There's this thing I've got in mind that needs me doing some reading. ...

On Friday night, having spent the afternoon with young actors and Lance from Doctor Who , the Dr and I made our way to the Institute of Arch...

One of the many questions asked by Jeremy Paxman in his book “The Political Animal” is what effect standing for Parliament has on the lives...

I have blogged my enthusiasm for George Orwell before ( his views of politics and the English language ; his time in Spain during the civil ...

The new Doctor Who site Tardis Travels has posted up an interview with me . Leslie McMurtry grills me about the Doctor Who short story compe...

I’ve made a start on the great stalagmite of books assigned as “quite like to read”. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas was one I picked up for t...

Alex Fitch's Benny show has been aired, and is now available to download . Odd listening to the rambling, nasal, awkward bloke that is, ...

The fifth Doctor Who will be meeting the tenth Doctor Who in "Time Crash" , Steve Moffat's special little Droo episode for the...