I’ve taken a bit of an interest in Dad’s Army ever since I ran a short-lived roleplaying game in the 1990s in which the player characters were members of the Home Guard, dealing with mysterious happenings which turned out to be due to a burrow of Wombles rather than fifth-columnists - although one of the Wombles was blessed with the name Berlin…

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On Sunday, I went to see Doctor Who Live: The Monsters Are Coming! at the SECC in Glasgow with qidane, who drove and selected a lunch location.

I wasn’t sure how it would stand up with an unrelated selection of monsters, and with the Doctor only appearing on screen, but I really enjoyed it.

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We get sent a lot of stuff at work that I don’t bother passing on. This is different: from Ukraine’s Got Talent (sigh), a performance using sand drawing to express the effect of the Second World War (or, more precisely, The Great Patriotic War) on the people of the Ukraine. This is worth watching.

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I didn’t. Edward Woodward started his career at the Byre.

No-one would have believed, in the first years of the twenty-first century... Hang on; haven't I started an article something like this before?

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