Who To The Death

Last night I listened to the last episode of the Paul McGann Eighth Doctor on BBC Radio 4 Extra. In The story the Daleks have invaded Earth again in the 22nd Century by first sending a plague from the far future with the help of the Meddling Monk (first seen on TV way back in the early years of the franchise). The friends of the Doctor include his grand daughter Susan (first seen in the William Hartnell years), her son Alex, and Lucie Miller,,played by Sheridan Smith.

Once again the Daleks want to turn the Earth into a travelling space vessel but more than that they with the help of the supreme Dalek Time Controller want to send the planet through time and space to the point in the far future where the Amethyst viruses are concentrated and turn Earth into a plague planet. This way the Daleks would have conquered time and space and become the conquerors of the universe, wiping out all other civilizations including the Time Lords.

On the Monks TARDIS, amongst all the treasures of the Earth, is a doomsday bomb, which Susan , Alex and Lucie use and steal a Dalek saucer to plunge it into the mine shaft where the Daleks have placed a space-time warp engine centred at the Earth’s core. This is against the Doctor's advice since he wants to go back to the far future to finally rid the Daleks and especially the Time Controller out of existence.

However they are successful and a rapid time vortex opens up sucking all the Dalek invasion fleet into it down into a singularity. The Daleks have killed the Meddling Monk's assistant , Tamsin Drew, and also Susan's son. The hero of the day who dies plunging the saucer into the mine shaft is Lucie Miller.

The Doctor, his daughter Susan, and the Monk remain alive (although I wished that the Daleks killed off the Monk too, played by Graeme Garden).

In the end the Doctor is travelling all alone once more, after seeing too many deaths and the death of another companion and his great grandson For contractual reasons this was the final Eighth Doctor audio drama until the resurrection of the TV series in 2005 with “Rose” where he mentions he has become the destroyer of worlds, a reference to the final Time War between Gallifrey and the Daleks.

Bongo Tastic

This was taken from Facebook. My friend Sharpie Bongo (Alice), whom is a bar maid at the Evening Star, wearing a spiffing tattoo on her back and not much else.



Sharpie is on the left of this picture.

Collecting Or Hoarding?

I have been collecting records for years, selling them, using them, particularly on the occasional DJ night, and hoarding them with subsequent pruning. So readers, what else do you hoard? Is it just records you collect? Or are you a collector of loads of things? Are you a hoarder or a constant pruner? Is it all music related? or random?

The other stuff I seem to collect is books, mainly paperbacks.

Book Two - John Keats, Everyman Poetry Library

John Keats Everyman Poet Library (Everyman Poetry)

I rarely read poetry as a genre and sometimes I wonder if I should read more. This is why I picked up this cheap collection of some of the poetry of Keats last year.

Keats is one of the principal figures in the Romantic movement. His verse can be fanciful and intensely musical and this collection gives an indication of the breadth of his passions and concerns. A very concise little paperback.

It contains two of his best known poems “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode To A Grecian Urn” as well as part of “Endymion”