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festive fun?
Dec. 28th, 2013 08:06 pmSo that was Christmas. I think I'd have enjoyed it more only I've had the most awful cold, which seems to have been hanging around for weeks now, complete with a horrible chesty cough that I just can't seem to shake. Ordinarily I'd have used the time off to try to get stuff done - I've plenty of projects to take forward, reviews and unfinished fics to write - but instead I've mostly just laid around on the sofa covered with cats watching DVDs!
Could be worse, though - on Tuesday my poor sister and brother-in-law set off at about 10.30am to drive down here to Cardiff from Maidstone but didn't actually get here until almost 3am the following morning, 16 hours later! Their car broke down and from then on it was a chapter of accidents. They had to wait hours for the AA to turn up and take a look at the car, which was pretty much dead and beyond repair, then hours again waiting for a flatbed truck to transport them the rest of the way here to Cardiff. Then the driver only took them so far before declaring that he'd completed his hours for the day, and he just dumped them and drove off! So they had to wait for another flatbed truck to arrive...and the wretched thing went and broke down on them! The third truck finally got them here just before 3am on Christmas morning - and then they had to wait two days for all the showrooms to re-open so they could buy a new car in order to get back home again, because their old car is pretty much beyond help (it was a banger that they only paid £300 for and it would cost over £400 to fix, not worth it). Fun and games! Good to see them, though, in spite of the car chaos and the cold. They just picked up the new car today and then set off this afternoon for a 200 mile trip down to Cornwall to see Ray's family before returning to Kent, a little later than originally planned.
I saw the Doctor Who Christmas special on Christmas Day surrounded by family, which is always a mistake - my nan and great-aunt talked nonsense all the way through, very distracting. So I watched it again the following morning, alone and uninterrupted, the better to follow the plot...but didn't like it at all, I'm afraid. I did start to write out all the reasons why, in hopes it might make me feel better about it, but instead I ended up with a pages long rant and could have continued, so suffice it to say that I did not like the episode at all and can only hope that the writing improves for the incoming Doctor in his new season. But under the current regime, I'm not too optimistic.
So I went away and watched the whole of the Black Guardian trilogy to get the taste out of my mouth. Followed by The Chase, because adorable Team TARDIS is adorable and the First Doctor saying goodbye to Ian and Barbara breaks my heart in all the right ways. Now that's proper Doctor Who.
Now if only I could just shake off this cold and this cough before I go back to work next Thursday, all would be well!
Could be worse, though - on Tuesday my poor sister and brother-in-law set off at about 10.30am to drive down here to Cardiff from Maidstone but didn't actually get here until almost 3am the following morning, 16 hours later! Their car broke down and from then on it was a chapter of accidents. They had to wait hours for the AA to turn up and take a look at the car, which was pretty much dead and beyond repair, then hours again waiting for a flatbed truck to transport them the rest of the way here to Cardiff. Then the driver only took them so far before declaring that he'd completed his hours for the day, and he just dumped them and drove off! So they had to wait for another flatbed truck to arrive...and the wretched thing went and broke down on them! The third truck finally got them here just before 3am on Christmas morning - and then they had to wait two days for all the showrooms to re-open so they could buy a new car in order to get back home again, because their old car is pretty much beyond help (it was a banger that they only paid £300 for and it would cost over £400 to fix, not worth it). Fun and games! Good to see them, though, in spite of the car chaos and the cold. They just picked up the new car today and then set off this afternoon for a 200 mile trip down to Cornwall to see Ray's family before returning to Kent, a little later than originally planned.
I saw the Doctor Who Christmas special on Christmas Day surrounded by family, which is always a mistake - my nan and great-aunt talked nonsense all the way through, very distracting. So I watched it again the following morning, alone and uninterrupted, the better to follow the plot...but didn't like it at all, I'm afraid. I did start to write out all the reasons why, in hopes it might make me feel better about it, but instead I ended up with a pages long rant and could have continued, so suffice it to say that I did not like the episode at all and can only hope that the writing improves for the incoming Doctor in his new season. But under the current regime, I'm not too optimistic.
So I went away and watched the whole of the Black Guardian trilogy to get the taste out of my mouth. Followed by The Chase, because adorable Team TARDIS is adorable and the First Doctor saying goodbye to Ian and Barbara breaks my heart in all the right ways. Now that's proper Doctor Who.
Now if only I could just shake off this cold and this cough before I go back to work next Thursday, all would be well!
