Seeing as we've been going to the theatre quite a bit lately I thought it was disgraceful that we hadn't been to Stratford-upon-Avon together to see the RSC. I'd been twice many years ago and J has vague memories of a trip with his parents without a theatre visit, but with Ann Hathaway's Cottage changing it's location (don't ask) so I decided that ( Read more... )

selenak sent me this link to a very amusing poll about when exactly the BBC ruined Doctor Who. As I was going to the dentist this afternoon and needed distraction I thought I would compile my own poll on when exactly the Arthurian legends were ruined.

Poll Hic Arthur insultus partis (or when did Arthur jump the shark)And I think it's probably best to stop there before I get on to Tennyson. The dentist turned out to be ( Read more... )

This post is brought to you by the kind of stew made in my head by the announcement of the new Doctor and the reactions to it, BBC2's programme on The Greatest TV Detective which was on over Christmas and my current obsession with Merlin the Arthurian legends. I don't think it makes any coherent sense at all but it's been niggling away at me ( Read more... )