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Me, making the pilgrimage.
So farewell then
Ianto's shrine
Created as a
So farewell then
For Ianto
Your show was dark, wild and sexy
Now you're a risk to health and safety
On TripAdvisor
You were #43 in Things To Do In Cardiff
Now Cardiff is down to
Only 42 wonders.
Got 2 and a half, maybe 3 hours' sleep last night. Nursing another cold. Painful spot growing on my face. What delights.
Just cleaned her eyes again and she's complaining bitterly to her reflection in the mirror on one of her toys. I'm glad she's found a sympathetic ear.
Baby's eyes have been really gunky all weekend. We took her to the doctor this morning, and naturally they looked like there was absolutely nothing wrong with them. Gunk again by the time we got home.
a vintage Indonesian sticker of "Jean Picard" from Star Trek
Ok, this week has started incredibly well as we've just stumbled across a website that collects, curates & archives "vintage Indonesian labels and stickers – presenting the archipelago’s lavish visuals and their significance as knowledge and reference materials."
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grafisnusantara.com
A screenshot of an email inbox showing 7 emails from Pinterest with 'obsessed' in the subject line in the space of 6 days. Honestly, that's been a bit of a slow week.
I don't know, Pinterest. I'm starting to think *you* might be the one who's obsessed.
I do, but it doesn't seem to have adapted yet after the latest browser update.
A woman in a bright red jumper and a man with floppy grey hair, wearing a mustard yellow polo shirt. They seem to be in a pub.
This advert keeps playing on my Facebook and every time I scroll past it there's a fraction of a second when I think it's a trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
The strait of Hormuz opening times are getting worse than the Whipple.
One for the Cambridge people there.
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
me doing cross country in year 7
Honestly, the moustache-based dénouement to episode 5 was one of the most delightful things I've heard in ages.
Now Rassilon found the Eye of Harmony, which balances all things, that they may neither flux nor wither nor change their state in any measure. And he caused the Eye to be brought to the world of Gallifrey wherein he sealed this beneficence with the Great Key.
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Not just for writing, but for a lot of other things: food, beverages, art, comedy. The word "content" distills everything down into something that seems like it's too easy to be taken seriously, and as a way to cheapen the efforts of the person doing the work.
It's the cuteness. It's their superweapon and there's no defence against it.
An almost identical Aragorn minifigure, but it's clear on this one that the tunic is revealing the dark tan of his undershirt, not the flesh-tone of his crotch.
The official Lego one that this is a knock-off of is almost exactly the same and yet somehow doesn't look like he's up to something dodgy. I think it's just the very slight difference in the tan colour of his undershirt.
A knock-off Aragorn minifigure that looks like he's got his trousers undone and is wearing fishnets and no pants underneath. He has a little half-smile that says he's very pleased about this and thinks you are too.
Ah yes, representing that famous scene where Aragorn unzips his fly and reveals he's wearing fishnets and nothing else underneath.
A Guardian photo of Stewart Lee dressed up as a werewolf or something. Basically he's in a huge fur outfit. He looks like Garron in Doctor Who's The Ribos Operation.
The Ribos Operation (1978)
Wife, who's not really watching but is sitting next to me on the sofa just said 'Avon's so cute, isn't he?'
I'm really not sure what to make of that.
The greatest silver face-paint actor of the 70s.
This very much feels like the one where everyone's watched Star Wars. Especially Cally.
Lovely use of tinsel as set-dressing in this seedy planet too.
A man dressed in Regency costume and painted silver.
The same man wearing black, but still painted silver.
Watching Blake's 7 - Gambit, which is particularly good for well-known Doctor Who actors. Nice to see the Controller from Day of the Daleks again. I can only presume he only takes roles where he's painted silver.
The baby just vomited on to my mouth then had a minor meltdown because I wanted to get up and wash it rather than letting her carry on drawing patterns in it and massaging it into my beard.
A Guardian photo of Stewart Lee dressed up as a werewolf or something. Basically he's in a huge fur outfit. He looks like Garron in Doctor Who's The Ribos Operation.
The Ribos Operation (1978)
A bit of a journey now as I've lived in a village outside the city for some years now. But before that, yes, it would have been an easy walk.
I know that church! Just round the corner from Forbidden Planet, which also had a TARDIS once upon a time.
Doctor Who finished when I was 5. Between then and the 30th anniversary I only had the vaguest awareness of it and an even sketchier understanding of who actors were.
Which is why aged c. 6-7 I thought Sylvester Stallone played the most recent Doctor and that nobody liked him cos he was American.