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John and Scott Tie the Knot
Surprised nobody has mentioned this, but congratulations to John Barrowman and his partner Scott, who made it official in California yesterday and thanked the Supreme Court for making it possible. They had a civil partnership ceremony in Cardiff a few years back but this obviously means the world to them, so let's wish them both every happiness.The Update
I wanted to say thank you to everyone who replied to my last, unhappy post. It's good to know there are such kind people out there, even when LJ feels like an echo chamber most of the time, a shadow of its former self. I guess there were a few things other than a silly old TV show that brought us together ( Read more... )Misery
I’ve been having a horrible time at work lately. Not due to work colleagues, I hasten to add. It’s about the working environment and many of them share the same issues and stresses. But it’s taken its toll, and it hasn’t helped that I’ve had a number of health problems lately. I may need surgery to correct a long-established problem, I had ( Read more... )So, where have you been?
Husband checked our five-day weather forecast on Google last night and whooped "That's more like it!" as he saw a run of sunny days ahead. Daughter, with a weary sigh at parental incompetence, leaned over and gently pointed out he was looking at the wrong Manchester - New Hampshire, rather than the rainy North of England ( Read more... )Why we must save MOSI
In Manchester, where I am proud to live, there is a museum incorporating the track where the world's first passenger train ran in the 1830s. Now it is threatened with closure.
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Sometimes the Doctor can't save us, and we just have to do it ourselves
( Read more... )The future of Doctor Who - my predictions for what they're worth
Been having a think about The Name of the Doctor and where all this could be headed - some pretty radical ideas ( Read more... )(Untitled)
My thoughts on the current state of Doctor Who (includes one slightly spoilery image from Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS:
There is an exchange between Sammy and her boyfriend which should perhaps be hung on every show-runner's wall: 'You remember, it was when I was in a wheelchair and you were an alcoholic.'
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey ( Read more... )Thoughts on Broadchurch (spoiler-free)
Whodunits never normally remember to make you cry at the end, even if they did so at the start. The first series of The Killing, to which Broadchurch has been much compared, got so wrapped up in its over-elaborate plotting it forgot to make us care about its histrionic finale. But then, also, The Killing didn’t have Olivia Colman in its cast, an ( Read more... )Open Letter to Boston (and beyond)
This began as a comment on eearlgreytea68 s journal - many of you will know and love her as the creator of the Chaosverse and more recently, some equally warm, witty and entertaining Sherlock fic ( Read more... )Sleepless Night (A Topical Fic)
This started out funny, and then it sort of wasn't any more. It's also the first DW fic I've written for a very long time.
RATING: Gen
CHARACTERS: 10.5/Rose
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The icon is from a 2008 post-crash cartoon by the incomparable Steve Bell
SPOILERS: None, unless you haven't got as far as Journey's End
"It's not about that. It's about ( Read more... )