Author: Paul B

  • Between The Lines

    You can discover an excellent new addition on the BBC Doctor Who website – in the form of some fine pictures to colour in. The set includes individual characters – like the Doctor and Martha – as well as a couple of hectic action scenes that should keep the children (and open-minded adults) engaged for…

  • Colour Complexities

    This article picks up on an issue I have noted before – the trademarking of colours. It would seem T-Mobile has claimed magenta, within the confines of the tele-communication industry, while my previous bugbear on this relates to the Post Office’s trademark of an admittedly very specific shade of the colour red (presumably within whatever…

  • Napoleon Complex?

    While I’d rather avoid spoilers, I can never seem to help myself – and in this case I’m happy to have given in to the urge. The Sontaran featured in the wallpaper here shows promising development away from both the original potato head and the possibility of looking like a Judoon. Yes, I can’t help…

  • Struggle

    I’m struck by a dichotomy of purpose in the mornings… and I really have to get it sorted. On the one hand, I like to get up in the morning, have breakfast, drink some coffee, check messages – that sort of thing. Well, I actually don’t like the getting up part much, especially as my…

  • Feed Me

    Now that I have taken the leap into the 21st Century, I have the chance to flood my page with content from other sites as well as my own. So, not only do you have the chance to read my drivel here, you can read it from my other blogs – like Renegade Time Lord…

  • New Look… Hang On…

    I have taken more than four-and-a-half years to make this decision, but in the end I had to… I have a few blogs to juggle here and the old format made it difficult to handle. Now I can see what I’m not posting all over the place – and keep this journal up to date…

  • Early Warning System

    I am really gagging for more news about the second series of Torchwood, especially because I tend to be the last one to know. I just don’t watch enough TV to catch the adverts or read enough newspapers to see the preview articles. If I got any less media savvy, I’d best move into a…

  • Never Never Maybe

    I’ve been listening to ‘Neverland‘ on the way to work – another excellent 8th Doctor adventure from Big Finish. The Doctor and Charley have to face up to the reality of their situation – Charley should have died when the R-101 airship crashed in the 1930s. The Time Lords intend to make the Doctor answer…

  • Linear Plots and Onionskins

    A warning… I fear that in this post I sound like I’m just thinking outloud. As a result, it may come across like senseless babble! I have been mulling over the essential elements of a Doctor Who plot while reading through an old FASA role playing scenario, ‘The Iytean Menace‘. As common in the game,…