fucking arsehole stop trying to mansplain to me why you know more about doctor who than I do!!! Especially when you don't even realise I'm hugging a companion in my profile pic! Just stop!

Time to break away from the crazy in the internet and remember the good things.

It must be Monday!!!

I'm trying tumblr again. Let me know if you have one I could follow. I'm scifimel there too. Though blog is morethanjustbooks. (I have no idea how it works!)

So Bill and I have spent the past 5 months re-watching all of the X-files. It turned out there was an awful lot I've never seen before. I really enjoyed the first 4 seasons. 5 was pretty good. 6 felt like they'd totally lost the plot and I started to wonder how on Earth they could have 4 seasons left? 7 felt almost entirely like they were writing ( Read more... )

Big Finish day and Labyrinth and Reptile ( Read more... )

I don’t think I read an article about Bowie in the 80s that didn’t describe him as a “chameleon”. He embraced change in a way few other people manage. Most of us fear change. We have the same hairstyle for years, or even decades. Where the same clothes. The phrase, “It’s just a phase” is considered an insult. As if anything temporary isn’t valuable ( Read more... )

14th August 1987 Cherie and I went to see Bowie for the first time. I'd fallen in love with Bowie in Labyrinth, and listened to Don't let me down for the first time on the trip down to Portland as Cherie had bought the album. I'm the kind of person who doesn't normally enjoy a concert unless I know the lyrics to every song. But that show changed my ( Read more... )

Seeing episode VII gave me a really strong urge to re-watch the previous Star Wars movies. Started with Star Wars, which I lost count of how many times I’d seen it, (somewhere around 80 something when I was 15). It felt like home, every little noise and shot so familiar. Then Empire, which had Leia doing mostly what she did in the new movie, but ( Read more... )

2015 Year in review ( Read more... )

( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS...... )

So alas posting this from work on my lunch break means I can't add photos but Saturday I organised a bunch of people to go down and see Louise's panto in Tunbridge Wells. It was LOADS of fun ( Read more... )