the write stuff

i took today off work to do work of another kind. not that i really consider writing work, well at least not at the moment. i have to get draft 2 of the script finished in the next couple of days (i did want it by the end of june but i didn't make it). since i have this grand plan for this year to get out drafts of a feature, a novel and the outline of a tv mini-series i need to work to deadlines. so far i'm on target. go me.

since i tend to do my writing first thing in the morning i was up my regular time and sitting in starbucks by 7.30am. stuff got decided and worked on and i have two possible endings now, but as i like plan A better, i'm sticking with that for the time being.

later in the afternoon i found my way back to my old tv and more doctor who. remember this is also "research".


tom baker's state of decay with companions romana and adric. i thought i had escaped the fetish of the day when revisiting yesterday, but no, vampires make an appearance here as well. but of course, they were overcome.


the ark with william hartnell was interesting. i hadn't seen this before, nor had i come across steve or dodo as companions. it's been an interesting voyage travelling back in time with the doctor.

when the evening came i hightailed it across town to abbotsford and the aviary for dinner with jenn, jamie and tim.

bbbbrrrrmmmm...

fun film. over 3D.

more viewing pleasure

it's taken me a little while but i've now succumbed to the sarah jane adventures -there's a few seasons ahead so that makes me happy. i'm putting it under the heading of "research" for the novel. ha!

farewell to dave who's heading off into the great wide world for a bit. bon voyage my friend.

weekend starter....

i tripped across the taco truck walking distance from my home - oh yeah!! and it was tasty too.

caught up with alex and chris at the thornbury theatre for the croxton high school assembly. a fun evening of comedy and music and silliness.

an addiction

i was forced by my library to collect and watch the city of death in the same day since they did the most fabulous job of retrieving it from another location for me. i just could not let them down, honest. this episode was written by douglas adams, yes the douglas adams of hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy fame, under a pseudonym. adams actually script edited all of season 18 of doctor who. i had seen this before, a lifetime ago and it was a trip through paris which was fun.


either david bowie got his dress sense from skagra the baddie in this episode or vice versa. very glam rock, but i guess it was the era for it. this episode wasn't televised at the time, nor completed. pieces of it were used in three doctors (i think) and it's been cobbled together here with tom baker narrating the missing sequences.

introducing k9

and there's a different companion, leela. the abc must have been quite current in the screenings of doctor who in the late 70s as i remember pretending to be leela in the playground in 1978. i recall even then wishing i could've been dr who, i would've been great. anyway, this episode was first televised in october 1977 in the uk. and leela was only in the show for the 77-78 seasons. see all these fun facts you're learning about doctor who??

in this episode clones of leela and the doctor have been shrunk and injected into the real doctor's brain where the invisible enemy is lurking. the invisible enemy, when it becomes visible, looks like a giant prawn. hilarious. k9 joined the tardis crew in this episode as well. watching him being resurrected in the 2006 school reunion episode was super fun.

i'll leave you with the words, "i only hope he's tardis-trained"...

number three

my library has a number of doctor who dvds for my viewing pleasure. yah! when the titles started i got all excited. jon pertwee is the first doctor i remember watching (in reruns i'm sure), though it's true i do tend to see strains of worzel gummidge in him as well.

an interesting episode where chronos, the time monster in question, has taken the shape of a silver bird (which really means a man dressed in wings and helmet) and when summoned flies around the room squawking. hilarious. i also got reintroduced to jo as the doctor's companion. perhaps i shall undertake a study of which companion annoys me the least. she is not one of them. i would have thought that the early seventies woman would have a little more gumption. fainting, bah!

friendly friday

pretty perth

views from south perth and kings park. before lunching with sophie at ecu.


northbridge for a couple of hours before meeting melis and 'lope for a discussion on the portrayal of women in media.

birthday one

happy happy first birthday to flynn.

wha...!!

a day of friends and family

a walk up the road to wild poppies for breakfast. mmm...





a trip to the toilet was a little cultured. i had to take pictures.



best bud marija. yah!!


then it was off in the little white hire car to waikiki and my mum. splendid to see the lovely lass. we were joined later in the arvo by ains and rissa. there are no photos. what??

last of the blue skies

breakfast with marija and stu at moore & moore's in fremantle. an awesome cafe-gallery in the back streets. i attended a winter music festival there a few years back and it's a great venue. marija and i wandered around talking and looking.















mid afternoon found me with the gang at little creatures until it grew dark and very brrrr-ey.