Obligatory Post Named After A Jazz Song

I have my Spotify Daily mix 1 playing as I type, this list is very much swing era based and opens with Woody Herman's Orchestra playing "At the Woodchopper's Ball" which was pretty much their signature song. I called in at the Kynn the other day and a chap at the bar got us all …

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The Power of the Sandman

Still no real word from Sian, not sure if this is because she is still recovering from major surgery or if she has washed her hands of me thanks to my albeit brief relationship with Rachael. I have two opposing views on this, Katherine thinks it was pretty c**tish of me whereas Zizzy thinks quite …

The Snows of Terror

That seems to be the headline theme running across the British News at the moment what with the Beast from the East and Storm Emma hitting our shores (don't them sound like they are part of a WWF Tag Team?) and what has resulted in mass hysteria across parts of the UK.... mainly because so …

A Week in the Life

First up an embarrassing incident involving birthdays. Now last year I belatedly discovered that February the 16th was the delightful Sian's birthday and was determined to remember to send her a birthday greeting, which I did. However I did manage to completely forget that Monday was my Birthday until checking Facebook at the end of …

Some Words of Wisdom from the Doctor

From: Doctor Who- Planet of the Daleks by Terry Nation Daily Prompt: Courage

As Time Goes By

I finished Ghosts of Empire and I enjoyed but I felt the ending was a bit rushed and confusing with a lot of stuff crammed into a few short chapters. So after enjoyable pulp fiction I decided to go at a classic: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Well I am three chapters in and I …

I Am Sure It Would Have Made Sense at the Time.

Back in my school days, particularly between years 5 and 8 (ages 10-13) I fancied myself as a scribe and would fill up excercise books up with various stories about... well anything... I think at one point I even wrote a "Carry On" about an inventor and his hapless lab assistant, though it wouldn't have …

The Time of Angels

Of Stephen Moffat's most successful venture as a scribe for Doctor Who was the invention of the Weeping Angels, which first appeared in third series of NuWho. The episode was what was called the 'doctor-lite' episode, episode which were double banked with another to accommodate the Christmas special (I assume, feel free to correct me). …

Soundscape

Daily Prompt: Atmospheric One of the most successful elements of classic Doctor Who was the atmospheric sound effects which were provided by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, which was a very experimental unit for electronic music and special sounds. Mostly the sound effects on the show were done by Brian Hodgeson during the sixties and early …

Time-Flight

I haven't updated properly in a while, my feet are ok again but still having an issue with them getting too cold for reasons I don't now. After much procrastination I finally got around to seeing the new adaption of Stephen King's It! and it isn't too bad and is a bit a slow burner …