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(I tried posting this last night, but thanks to a massive thunderstorm, the network went down.)

Trying to read the threads at Slashdot make my head hurt. :-(

We went up to Camerton Primary this evening, to meet the teachers and find out what's expected of us as parents when Owen starts there in september.

It's the cutest little school, this year they have a confirmed intake of three, and two more possibles. Owen's class will consist of 3 Reception age children, 8 Year Ones and 6 Year Twos. The whole school is sixty children in total. My neice's school is one of the smaller Bristol schools, and their intake this september will be about a hundred.

One of the things that got mentioned was taking the classes out for walks, and the Teacher said how she always made sure her class was the first each Autumn to walk down the track to the Conker Tree, (Horsechestnut) so that the little ones get first go at the conkers. Made me all nostalgic. (I can remember coming home from school with conkers spilling out of my coat pockets, I'd collected so many.)

But it is really wierd to think he's going to be at School in November. We're going to be ordering his uniform soon, (the school emblem is a Miner's Lamp) and I still can't get my head around the fact that he's now longer a toddler.

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One thing that's taken me by surprise is the sheer quality of the New Who fanfic thats appearing in the comms; the good stuff, at the moment, is out numbering the bad stuff. I know the bad stuff's out there, (I had a brief look over at ff.net and eek!) but it doesn't seem to be as pervasive as it normally is. Do people agree, or is my perception wacked? And if you do agree, any theories as to why?

Couple of recs...

Once Upon a Time by [livejournal.com profile] tangledwood - Jabe fic, spoilers up to The End of The World. Absolutely stunning look at Jabe, and making her death a lot harder to bear.

Breaking the Rules by [livejournal.com profile] boro_girl - Do not read until you have seen Parting of the Ways. Why Rose makes the choices she does.

And lastly [livejournal.com profile] mythichistorian has got four parts written of a Doctor Who/Buffy crossover. Go read. Now.

(Oh, and if you haven't read [livejournal.com profile] sangga's Deshabille, why not?)

Is it Christmas yet?
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Christopher Eccleston just read the Bedtime story on Cbeebies!
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More Doctor Who spam

Look what [livejournal.com profile] boji found

Captain Jack, Giles and Wesley in the same room!  Squeeee!

Can you imagine the fic? (Actually, could you please write the fic?)

Sad news

Jun. 27th, 2005 01:54 pm
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For anyone not on the [livejournal.com profile] whedonesque feed,

Cult Closes 15th July

The BBC is closing the huge cult section of it's website on 15th July. Although before anyone panics

    "PS: Don't worry about the Doctor Who site. It's safe."
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[livejournal.com profile] sangga  wrote me Doctor Who fic - Deshabille.

It's beautiful Doctor/Rose with dressing up, (or not).

Go and tell her how cool she is...

ETA [livejournal.com profile] nostalgia_lj has done a photo guide to The New Season of Doctor Who
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[livejournal.com profile] ffutures pointed out the cutest Dalek Mood theme ever. I'm seriously thinking of using it, even though it took me forever to set up my current theme.

Is it Christmas yet?
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Sorry, more Doctor Who.

This has been bugging me fore the last couple of days, but I haven't seen anyone else raise it...Question about PotW )

Also, why are people saying that's not Billie's voice?Read more... )

AlsoSpoilery GIP for POTW )

Someone in [livejournal.com profile] galactic_conman has posted a tentive list of Episode Titles for the second season, and I really didn't think it was possible for me to look forward to it any more.  Is it Christmas yet?
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I've just wasted far too much time searching for Doctor/Rose/Jack fic.  There is not nearly enough.  Spoilerish for Parting of the Ways )

I saw the Chrismas Invasion teaser on the BBC to night too. God, they're taunting us aren't they? (Is it Christmas yet?)Yes I will ask this every time I talk about Doctor Who

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One of the BBC new feeds headlines was Saudis dismiss Rice's criticism

My first thought was the Anne Rice had got bored with Jesus and was moving on to Muslims. Well, with her nothing's too batshit insane is it?

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We're going to the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park! Doug's youngest Brother had tickets for him and his wife, but now can't go, so they're giving them to us! Eeeeee! Pretty excited because I've never been to any kind of big concert before, and this one is kinda big.
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Roses fight back. I beat the bastards and they're now looking neat and tidy (ish), but they made me pay for my victory.

I just excavated a thorn from my thumb. (My arms are also scratched to buggery).

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I think parents should be awarded badges like in Brownies and Scouts. Tonight I totally won my "Getting sleeping child out of wet pyjamas and his bed stripped without waking him or his brother. I rule as a Mama!

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Still obsessed with Parting of the Ways.  I rewatched it yesterday and found myself even more emotional than I was on Saturday.  It's also been cool to see Doctor Who take over my friends list, a feat I would not have believe possible at the beginning of the year.  Is it Christmas yet?
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OH... MY... GOD...

IZ DED FROM FANDOM

You were fantastic )
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37 Minutes to go
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I will stop making icons soon...

All Boomtown

1. 2. 3. 4.
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We went to Wookey Hole yesterday.  My friend Sarah had never been, and as we live 40 minutes away, I felt it was time that omission was corrected. I wanted to stay in the caves all day, the caves are a steady 11 degrees and it was so muggy outside.  It was so muggy that when we came out into the valley, my glasses steamed up.  In England.  I've never had that happen before. (For anyone who is interested, the Dalek is recovering nicely from it's kidnapping experience

My LJ Haiku )

Book Meme! Gakked from [livejournal.com profile] alicamel

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

The pile nearest is The Time Traveller's Wife and Marge Piercy's Vida, but Nice and Wifey's Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down is on the top so...

"Arnott's actually describe their chocolate as having a caramel flavour.  This all begins to make more sense when we consider that Arnott's markets the Tim Tam primarily to females between twenty and thirty-five, whereas the Penguin is aimed at the broader target of the family shopping basket.  This is also reflectedin their packaging: the individually wrapped penguin can find it's way into lunchboxes and sit alongside tills in cafes and shops, whereas the Tim Tam simply rests with its cohorts in a little plastic tray inside its oouter wrapper."
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Doctor Who third series confirmed Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  And Billie will return for the whole series two. (See icon for my reaction.) Plus the lovely BBC put the spoilers for saturday night's episode, beneath a spoiler warning and huge spoiler space.  Therefore I am still unspoiled for Saturday! Yay! *Hearts BBC muchly*

I was, earlier on in the week, feeling rather reluctant about PotW, mainly due to CE's leaving, but I'm now starting to get excited about DT's Doctor and although I know it's going to be Christmas before we get to see Ten in action properly. Still.  JUST TWO MORE DAYS TO GO.

I might have eaten a bit to much sugar tonight.

*Jumps up and polkas madly around the room*

Made a few new icons

1. Four More )

And a quick Higniffy bit before I go, I have a new OTP - Boris/The Gruffalo.  OK, so it's not series canon, but I think his blog should probably count as second level canon.  And the image of him reading The Gruffalo to a bunch of three year olds? Too cute for words. (The Gruffalo is my favourite book to read aloud to the boys)


PS I am sticking my tongue out whilst crossing my eyes at those people moaning about the newbie fans in the Doctor Who fandom at the same time as trying to establish their old skool fan cred.  Whilst my DW fannishness does not go back as far some (I was only born in '75) I have been a fan as long as I can remember (4th Doctor) complete with posters on walls (7th Doctor and Ace) and books and mechandise, and I still take great pleasure in squeeing like a school girl over the gorgeousnesss that is Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman. 'cos whilst I uphold your right to enjoy the show with your sober, indepth analysis, I also uphold my right to blather on about OT3 and be completely shallow in the face of all this hawtness. And I tell you what? I'm so going to have fun doing so. So there!
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Owen's party went amazingly well today, the weather was perfect, the kids had a whale of a time, and the adults seemed to enjoy themselves too. Plus the Cake didn't turn out too bad (I made all the fences myself /pride ).

The only bad thing was that I got interupted putting on my suncream, and forgot that I hadn't finished doing it.  I now have really bad sunburn on my shoulder and across my back.  (Normally I'm really parinoid about the sun, and wear a 5 star factor 50).  Ouch!

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Doctor Who related - [livejournal.com profile] jacinthsong is holding a mini caption contest over in her journal...

Also I'm confused. spoilers for tonight and speculation )

And did anyone catch Doctor Who Confidential? When Tom Baker, (at least I think it was he) said "Fanlove is superior to normal love, because fanlove endures."

I <3 Tom Baker.
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So how much do I want a permanent account? Although, like everybody else, I want one mainly for the hundred icons.

Speaking of which.  A couple of days ago, my sister showed me a catalogue of T-Shirts with all sorts of captions, and whilst I wasn't interested in buying anything, (because I have turned into a crabby old woman who won't pay for T-Shirts like this when she's got a perfectly good inkjet printer and transfer paper) I was going through think, "that would make a really good LJ icon."

So here you go - take what you want, credit would be nice.

1. The Madness Hamsters (Animated) 2. The Shoe of Salvation (Animated) 12 icons in total )

Is anyone planning to go to Serenity 2 in November? I've almost decided that I'm going whether I know someone or not, but it would be nice to know I'm going to find one friendly face there, and there's always the possibility of sharing a twin room to reduced hotel costs.  This would be the first convention that I've ever gone to, but I've been wanting to go to one for ages, and I finally decided that this will be the year.

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Fuuuuuuuck.  Just realised that I've forgotten to phone Mum to find out whether she can take Cullyn tomorrow whilst I help out at Owen's pre-school.  Bugger.  She's not going to be impressed when I phone her at 7:30 to check.  I hope she's remembered that I mentioned it last week.

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All the interviews and articles I've seen on John Barrowman have mentioned that he did a stint on Live and Kicking. During the period when I would have been watching it as a (semi) adult.  And yet I had no recollection of him on the show.  So I went looking for pictures and I found this. Oh My GOD. You need to watch this.  (It requires Real Player).  I would love to see some Doctor Who fic based on that.

Doctor Who

May. 28th, 2005 11:49 pm
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