who and zoo!

Hey, guys, guys! Did any of you watch Doctor Who Confidential last night? No? Well, go watch it - at about 32 minutes in, there's a short feature on the chap who was really operating that remote control helicopter the Doctor used to entertain a bunch of children: a little, white-haired bloke. That's Lyn! That's my old driving instructor, the one who builds Daleks and used to always have bits of disassembled Daleks rattling around the car whenever he took me out for lessons! They not only caught him on camera for once, they even persuaded him to say a few words - that's a first. I saw his wife in church this morning and she said he didn't even tell her he'd been filmed.

Also, I'm pretty sure those department store scenes were filmed in the same shop they used for the one where Rose used to work...

In Other News, my Mum phoned the other day and said "we're going to the zoo on Saturday, do you want to come?" and I said "sure", so off we went to the zoo yesterday - well, not really a zoo. We went to Manor House Wildlife Park, which - how many of you Brits remember Anna Ryder-Richardson, an interior designer who never seemed to be off the telly back in the '90s and early '00s? A few years ago, she and her husband bought this wildlife park near Tenby - they've invested their life savings into the place, focusing on conservation, and have joined international endangered species breeding programmes. They don't have a huge number of animals, but those they do have all have space to roam - and some you can get quite close to, like this albino wallaby!


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who and zoo!

Hey, guys, guys! Did any of you watch Doctor Who Confidential last night? No? Well, go watch it - at about 32 minutes in, there's a short feature on the chap who was really operating that remote control helicopter the Doctor used to entertain a bunch of children: a little, white-haired bloke. That's Lyn! That's my old driving instructor, the one who builds Daleks and used to always have bits of disassembled Daleks rattling around the car whenever he took me out for lessons! They not only caught him on camera for once, they even persuaded him to say a few words - that's a first. I saw his wife in church this morning and she said he didn't even tell her he'd been filmed.

Also, I'm pretty sure those department store scenes were filmed in the same shop they used for the one where Rose used to work...

In Other News, my Mum phoned the other day and said "we're going to the zoo on Saturday, do you want to come?" and I said "sure", so off we went to the zoo yesterday - well, not really a zoo. We went to Manor House Wildlife Park, which - how many of you Brits remember Anna Ryder-Richardson, an interior designer who never seemed to be off the telly back in the '90s and early '00s? A few years ago, she and her husband bought this wildlife park near Tenby - they've invested their life savings into the place, focusing on conservation, and have joined international endangered species breeding programmes. They don't have a huge number of animals, but those they do have all have space to roam - and some you can get quite close to, like this albino wallaby!


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