mrwaverly:
Given to me by my brother as part of my birthday gift. Nice.
mrwaverly:
Update: All drunk, and all delicious. Just thought you'd like to know...
I have just watched the new episode of Doctor Who again. At the end, a very odd female character is introduced. She wears Victorian clothes, and, indeed, resembles Mary Poppins. She is in a beautiful, formal garden. She introduces herself as 'Missy'. Now this set me thinking, and what I thought might require a bit of a leap of faith to accept. I think that...
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I have just cooked myself a snack. I fear that it may incur the wrath of the day staff here, but as I will not be at work for a few days, that's a risk I'm willing to take. So, what did I cook? Something really old fashioned: Kippers. If you don't know what they are, they are Herrings that have been smoked, and they...
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I have just watched the first episode of the new season of 'Doctor Who', which now stars Peter Capaldi. It was excellent, and simply from this one episode, I can say confidently, that Capaldi is quite superb in the role. There were, to my joy, lots of little bits of dialogue and business from previous Doctors. I knew that it would be okay. Not sure...
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mrwaverly:
There is a very wee figure that comes with this sticker, too.
mrwaverly:
I love these, but always feel that the 6th Doctor, in this form, strongly resembles Harpo Marx...
mrwaverly:
The temptation is very great...
mrwaverly:
In 1964, when this show was being made, each sixty minute episode cost around £25,000. There were 32 episodes. Money well spent. Every few years, a new generation of kids discover it, and love it. It is ageless (apart, possibly from the characters smoking). A work of genius. Ignore the appallingly crappy movie of a few years back. The show is getting a reboot, made by people who know what they are doing. I'm looking forward to it.
mrwaverly:
From 'UFO' (1970) Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation. Â A brilliantly pessimistic, dark show.
mrwaverly:
From the BBC TV show 'Dad's Army' (1968-1977), which was about the 'Home Guard', who were a mainstay of the defence of the UK mainland in the last war. These were men who were either too old, or too young to be conscripted. The show was, and is, brilliantly funny, but with the underlying knowledge that these misfits would have fought to the last man, if need had arisen. The character on the shirt is Lance-Corporal Jones, an old soldier of  the Boer war, and the First World War. He was a great believer  in the use of the bayonet. Which is where the quote comes from.