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Yay!  I’ve off on holiday, see you all on the 16th.

Off to France, to Le Mans.  

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What HAVE they done to this poor Tomcat???!

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Pictures after the embarrassing Mondeo and before other embarrassing mods.

Dickheads.

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I’m currently settling for an evening of football (go Spain!) with a glass of wine having just finished a bit of Salmon, corn on the cob and potatoes. After that it’s yet another weekend over - but just four more days before I’m off to France for my hols.

And it’s been a good weekend, not done anything exciting - had a night in the Elephant and Castle on Friday with chaps from work. Yesterday I was at my parents watching over my sister while my parents were watching my uncle’s choir at Liverpool Cathedral, I took a few photos and then watched Doctor Who (see my last post). Picture-wise, I took a few of the garden and of my cat, Tuesday:

Oh, and here’s a nail:

Today I decided to go for a walk along the canal. I went in one direction for about 40 minutes - and was surprised that it takes some time to reach anywhere that feels anything like detached from the town itself which was disappointing. More disappointing though was the fact it began raining about 10 minutes in to the walk - so I ended up getting soaked:

This also meant I couldn’t get too many photos as obviously I didn’t want my camera getting wet. Thankfully the case itself has a waterproof cover.

When I got back I showered to warm up then headed out to Morrisons to buy the salmon, wine and other essentials. When I got back I started watching the third Pirates of the Caribean which Tufty has currently got from “Love Film”. As is the law of sods, the sun decided to show it’s bright little face once I had committed to a house-bound afternoon. Curses!

Anyway, that’s my weekend in a nutshell - the footy has started so I’m off!

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What a cliff hanger!

I’ve just watched penultimate episode of the current series of Doctor Who - titled ‘The Stolen Earth’ in which the Earth (and 26 other planets) have been re-located as part of some yet-to-be-revealed diabolical Dalek plan hatched by none-other than Davros himself.

As is Russell T.Davies way, the episode had something of the ‘epic’ about it; it was an adrenalin-fueled roller-coaster which stretches beyond where Doctor Who might normally go - giving the impression that “nothing will ever be the same”. It was fun, but as we know Doctor Who works on the basis that it’s grounded in a recognisable ‘Earth’ so there’s no option but to push the reset button so any lasting changes don’t make the Doctor Who universe too different to the real world - as far as modern day Earth is concerned. In the last series we had a fantastic build up with the Master’s return in ‘Utopia’ and ‘The Sound of Drums’ - but ultimately the ending was somewhat disappointing in ‘The Last of the Time Lords‘. I expect something similar may happen with this one.

Fantastic seeing Davros and I think they’ve done an excellent job of bringing him back - as they have with all of the big bad villains revived in the new series.

One really nice touch, and I guess not everybody will pick up on it, was in the scene with ‘The Shadow Proclamation’. They were first mentioned in the very first episode when Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor confronted the Autons - and have effectively replaced the Time Lords as the Police force of the Universe. This is where the little flashback to previous Doctor’s encounters with his own people came in - as The Shadow Proclamation demand he lead them in battle the Doctor dodges the responsibility handed to him just as he dodged the Presidency of the Time Lords on several occasions.

Now, how is Davies going to come back from the Doctor having begun to regenerate; given we already know Tennant has filmed the Christmas special…

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I’ve not been on form the last few days - been ill (cold, bad throat) and not sleeping because of it - culminating in my brain operating particularly slowly. Tuesday I was barely able to get a sentence together; so much for never getting ill.

Not all bad though, including York on Sunday, I’ve also probably got out of the house more in the past fortnight than I have in some time. Friday, went out to Manchester with Marc, Goot, Bool, Si and a mate of Goot’s (name, forgotten):

went to Dukes 92, had pizza then on to tv21 - which was the target destination which was just as well, as for some reason no where wanted to let Goot in.

Tonight I’ve been to Warrington for Slick’s 31st - went to Jenerics all-you-can-eat Chinese and then on to the Barley Mow. Caught up with friends and bumped in to a few old faces I’ve not seen in several years. As it happens, one of which has Kelly who’s recently posted some old Carlton photos from sometime around 1996 on Facebook. Apparently there are more she’s scanning in which will be posted some time soon - argh.

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