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Monday, 3 June 2013
Off he goes then...
According to the BBC website this morning, Matt Smith is leaving Dr Who. Here is their news article.
I've been in my current role now for about 12 years and there are times when I think that I've given it my all and that I should look for something else (possibly lots of people champing at my heels as well), but then something new or exciting comes along, or I realise that I need to finish a piece of work properly rather than hand it over undone. And so here I still am. Maybe there's a lesson there for people?
So it's strange really. I grew up with Tom Baker and so he was the Doctor for me. I thought Christopher Eccleston did a great job at bringing the Doctor back and David Tennant was fantastic. But Matt Smith has always played the role well, but I never warmed to him. Maybe it was the strange story lines that got in the way, it all got a bit too clever.
I'm quite looking forward to seeing who takes over. I don't think it will be John Hurt as I kind of think he's just in it for the 50 year special to find a way for the Dr to regenerate again when he has theoretically had enough now. But we shall see.
Roll on the Autumn - but can we have a nice summer first please?
I've been in my current role now for about 12 years and there are times when I think that I've given it my all and that I should look for something else (possibly lots of people champing at my heels as well), but then something new or exciting comes along, or I realise that I need to finish a piece of work properly rather than hand it over undone. And so here I still am. Maybe there's a lesson there for people?
So it's strange really. I grew up with Tom Baker and so he was the Doctor for me. I thought Christopher Eccleston did a great job at bringing the Doctor back and David Tennant was fantastic. But Matt Smith has always played the role well, but I never warmed to him. Maybe it was the strange story lines that got in the way, it all got a bit too clever.
I'm quite looking forward to seeing who takes over. I don't think it will be John Hurt as I kind of think he's just in it for the 50 year special to find a way for the Dr to regenerate again when he has theoretically had enough now. But we shall see.
Roll on the Autumn - but can we have a nice summer first please?
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Cold weather clothes and the pharmacy
On the BBC website this morning, 14th December 2011, there is an article from Manuela Sargosa which is purportedly considering the differences between approaches to dressing for cold weather between our two countries. Her perception is that the Italians prepare themselves more effectively for the cold weather than we Brits do.
However, the paragraphs that caught my eye related to the differences in pharmacies between the two countries.
"But nowhere is the contrast between British and Italian attitudes to health more evident than in each country's respective pharmacies.
In Britain, these are supermarket-style shops for personal and healthcare products. Cough medicine is stacked alongside hair dye. Vitamin supplements are two aisles up from make-up.
In Italy, pharmacies are old-style apothecaries. A little bell tinkles as you walk through the door. It smells of antiseptic. Products are stacked neatly on wooden shelves, sometimes behind glass. The pharmacist is someone consulted in hushed tones.
Manuela Saragosa
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16141184"
At this time of year as we rush out to buy Christmas cards depicting typical Victorian scenes of snowy gaslit winter streets, I was fascinated at this apparent hankering for the old way of doing things. Anyone who was captivated by 'The Victorian Pharmacy' will surely recognise that things have thankfully moved on a little over the last 100 years.
Personally I like being able to select a wide range of effective products from my local community pharmacy. I appreciate that all of the staff working in the practice have been trained to a high standard and am reassured that my local pharmacist keeps herself up to date by regular engagement with CPPE learning materials. I am pleased that I can talk with my pharmacist without feeling reverential and that there is a consulting room on hand if I were to want to talk about something with a little more privacy.
The comments lower down the BBC page show that other people can recognise the difference between our two countries as well. One respondent has commented that he went to buy some ibuprofen whilst on holiday in Italy. It cost him close to £7, compared with the 40p he pays back home. It seems like we'll have to keep working a bit harder to show that there is more to value in a pharmacy than the price tag.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Two weeks to Honk!
Well the times are finally agreed!
The show is on the 26th November 2011, with performances at 1.30pm and 6.30pm
There's a family and friends ticket available at just £25 for four people, so that makes it a real bargain.
Daniel is really excited and all the children are doing a great job at learning songs, lines and their acting. It's going to be a fun show.
The other exciting part is that it's the very first performance in the new Belper Theatre Hall. Fully tiered seating and apparently more comfortable seats. How good is that!
Please come and support them.
The show is on the 26th November 2011, with performances at 1.30pm and 6.30pm
There's a family and friends ticket available at just £25 for four people, so that makes it a real bargain.
Daniel is really excited and all the children are doing a great job at learning songs, lines and their acting. It's going to be a fun show.
The other exciting part is that it's the very first performance in the new Belper Theatre Hall. Fully tiered seating and apparently more comfortable seats. How good is that!
Please come and support them.
Saturday, 10 September 2011
3rd September - another cracking episode
Well firstly let me say sorry that it's a week since I watched this episode and it's taken me until now to blog about it. Ok, got that out of the way.
So, wow, how much fun was that?
For me this was an excellent episode (cracking as I said above) and it was one that was deliciously back to the scary and creepy Dr Who days - to the point where at least one of my friends planned on not letting the children watch it just based on the trailer from the week before!
It had so many of those little fears in it, all made real - being sucked into the black bin bags, the lift out of control and something in the cupboard that was scary!
Shrinking everyone down to the doll's house was great (did you guess that was where they were?) and the dolls who turned you into one of them were really creepy.
And of course, as a father, I was over the moon that it was the dad's love for his little boy that brought them all through in the end.
Wonderful episode, thoroughly enjoyed it. And so good to see that Amy appears to be over not having her baby now...
Presumably that's because she knew that she grew up with her all along?
So, wow, how much fun was that?
For me this was an excellent episode (cracking as I said above) and it was one that was deliciously back to the scary and creepy Dr Who days - to the point where at least one of my friends planned on not letting the children watch it just based on the trailer from the week before!
It had so many of those little fears in it, all made real - being sucked into the black bin bags, the lift out of control and something in the cupboard that was scary!
Shrinking everyone down to the doll's house was great (did you guess that was where they were?) and the dolls who turned you into one of them were really creepy.
And of course, as a father, I was over the moon that it was the dad's love for his little boy that brought them all through in the end.
Wonderful episode, thoroughly enjoyed it. And so good to see that Amy appears to be over not having her baby now...
Presumably that's because she knew that she grew up with her all along?
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Saturday 27th August
Wow what a great return for the new series, even if it was one that had Sue and Daniel repeatedly asking me what was going on - and me telling them to be quiet as I was busy trying to keep up with it all myself!
It was great to see a new stage in the development of River Song and see the pivotal moment that turns her from being the trained assassin of the doctor to becoming the love of his life. But the big question for me is how she could wear a lipstick that would kill the doctor, had no known antidote, and not be affected by it herself. Surely if something has no known antidote, then you can't actually wear it yourself as a lipstick, especially when that's the device that has been chosen as the route of administration. Is it me?
So anyone who can come up with some answers for how that happens, I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Even the ideas that I had about her always wearing some film over her lips (lovely lips of course) so that she could put the drug there doesn't quite work since she'd be forced to lick her lips at some point. Hmm. Please share your thoughts!
My current understanding then is that Melody, having been raised by the one eyed lady and had a few regenerations - at least one of which was in the alleyway that we saw right at the start of the series? - decides to go and live near Rory and Amy to have some of the childhood that she should have had and to be near her parents. But this is really a ploy to find out more about the doctor and because she knows that one day the doctor will come back to Amy and she can strike. As we saw.
The Hitler stuff and the clever little constantly changing justice machine offers yet another approach by which the Dr may be saved (perhaps he gets hold of that one and that is what gets shot - gives another reason for why the fire was needed).
So for me it was a fun episode, even if it was just a little disjointed without a good narrative flow throughout. Still it fills a gap in the underlying story. Looking forward to next week now!
It was great to see a new stage in the development of River Song and see the pivotal moment that turns her from being the trained assassin of the doctor to becoming the love of his life. But the big question for me is how she could wear a lipstick that would kill the doctor, had no known antidote, and not be affected by it herself. Surely if something has no known antidote, then you can't actually wear it yourself as a lipstick, especially when that's the device that has been chosen as the route of administration. Is it me?
So anyone who can come up with some answers for how that happens, I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Even the ideas that I had about her always wearing some film over her lips (lovely lips of course) so that she could put the drug there doesn't quite work since she'd be forced to lick her lips at some point. Hmm. Please share your thoughts!
My current understanding then is that Melody, having been raised by the one eyed lady and had a few regenerations - at least one of which was in the alleyway that we saw right at the start of the series? - decides to go and live near Rory and Amy to have some of the childhood that she should have had and to be near her parents. But this is really a ploy to find out more about the doctor and because she knows that one day the doctor will come back to Amy and she can strike. As we saw.
The Hitler stuff and the clever little constantly changing justice machine offers yet another approach by which the Dr may be saved (perhaps he gets hold of that one and that is what gets shot - gives another reason for why the fire was needed).
So for me it was a fun episode, even if it was just a little disjointed without a good narrative flow throughout. Still it fills a gap in the underlying story. Looking forward to next week now!
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