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Spent the weekend writing things that needed being writ. Was still tocking away on the laptop last night as we settled in to watch telly. An...

While flying across the Pacific just a month ago, I read Codename Downfall – The Secret Plan to Invade Japan . Jonathan Clements had recomm...

I been mostly working in an office and when not doing that, writing and revising a few outlines. On the whole these outlines look as though ...

As regular readers might know – and those who’ve listened to me whinging in the pub – I do not travel well. I don’t fit on buses or trains n...

I seem, touch wood, to have avoided the Dr's icky cold and yet am beset by an infection of my own. She pointed out last week that I keep...

Sir Arthur C Clarke, who died yesterday , is probably best remembered for getting his physics right. This is the bloke who, for a bit of a l...

Hooray! I was rather hoping for some James Bond news , today being today. Though I don't think Holy Week quite has MI6 in mind.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has posters all round London at the moment advertising their run of Histories - that is, the whole damn epic ...

There’s 238 days until Quantum of Solace opens in the UK. There’ll probably be quite a lot more of this sort of thing before then. It inclu...

The new issue of SFX includes a new interview with Russell T Davis and, according to the doctorwhonews.com , "he confirms that UNIT , ...

Here's an interesting (myabe) historical curio, the first outline for Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum . Benny and the Lost Museu...

Some time ago in a comment on this blog, Liadnan recommended I base my understanding of Middle Eastern history on more than a rant from one...

On Thursday, as well as being in DWM, I sat through some debates relating to International Women's Day, and then went to the pub. Saw lo...

Hooray! For the third time ever, I am in the letters page of Dr Who's Magazine. "ANIMAL CRACKERS Doctor Who has had pig people, ca...

So where were we? Oh yes, I was blogging from our hotel in the Sydney Rocks, while the Dr was exploring the roof-top hot-tub. I went up to j...

Hello from sunny but cold London. Didn't sleep on the flight (but did watch No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton and the 1966 version...

We are now in Sydney, and have had a nice time wandering about and looking at things. The Botanical Gardens (the green bit to the left of th...