Mitchells Fold stone circle, Shropshire

#StandingStoneSunday

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

How long have you all been using the word 'mogging' as if it was well-established in our language? When was someone going to write me a letter to let me know?

Wonderful. I remain a fan, and the McCoy era is my favourite, not least because of guests stars like her but also Andrew Cartmel. A great script editor who brought wonderful things for the show, such as befriending and networking new writers in ways the production office had never attempted before.

My favourite Bergman

The way Lemmy shouts "And don't forget the joker!" sounds like a spouse at the front door reminding you of something just as you're about to go and do the big shop.

'Tsukiji'

Ink on Bristol board, 2026

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I try every year, but I just don't like hot cross buns. Don't like the raisins, don't like the breadiness.

However the icing is a big plus.

I think it's Tristram Cary's finest score too. Genuinely frightening at times.

'Possessor'

(Brandon Cronenberg, 2020)

Front cover of 'Timequake' by Kurt Vonnegut

'You think the ancient Romans were smart? Look at how dumb their numbers were. One theory of why they declined and fell is that their plumbing was lead. The root of our word plumbing is plumbum, the Latin word for "lead". Lead poisoning makes people stupid and lazy.

What’s your excuse?'

Favourite joke.

As long as they're made with fresh cream and good ingredients.

I love this album in particular

No, because it will be shit and artless and plastic to look at, like every single AI image ever produced.

It will scream of the valueless, wasteful creative deficit that AI and the cynical cunts who espouse it all exhibit.

It was an incredibly pivotal moment for 14 year-old me when I put on my dad's Wish You Were Here CD and heard that ridiculously long intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' for the first time. I wasn't as affected by another band until a couple of years later when I heard Napalm Death.

TGIF...... and on Friday, We Dance

Your "naturally pessimistic" is a lot more appealing a character trait than "a basic mixture of both therefore whatever".

I always do tests like this, but I'm also always on the lookout for more in-depth ones that give a thorough diagnosis about why my head works the way it does in minute, conclusive and satisfying detail. No joy so far.

I'd go with Androzani, but I'd be thinking of Blink

Head and shoulders photograph of a white man stood in front of a silver-toned background. He wears glasses, has dark brown/grey hair, and wears a bright blue T shirt and dark coloured jacket. He is looking straight at the camera and smiling.

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It's strange that they are a "retired" librarian and yet their reasoning makes them sound like a petulant 14 year old.

Ah, the like button, or as I know it, the coward's repost.

#StandingStoneSunday

Ian meets the Menopteta

The Doctor and Ian wander the barren landscape of Vortis

The Doctor and Vicki are ensnared by the Zarbi

The Doctor and others trapped within the lair of the Animus, the antagonist and beating heart of darkness at the centre of Vortis. The first and one of the only wholly successful times in the show's history when the "monster" is Lovecraftian in design - utterly malevolent, alien beyond measure, and from a place of lightlessness.

Doctor Who, 'The Web Planet'

(dir. Richard Martin, BBC 1965)