There was a round on Pointless last week that I found a wee bit irritating (for international readers, Pointless is a rather wonderful teatime game show on the BBC that (1) has proper good questions and (2) is quite tricky to win.) It was about Great Scottish People. All fourteen answers were men. They included…
Month: January 2013
Top Five Underrated Doctor Who Monsters
There was a shiny new addition to my Very Grown-Up action figure collection a few days ago. Actually, there were several. But although I'm delighted I now have a bookshelf resplendent with Jo Grant and the Brig, my heart belongs to the third figure in The Three Doctor themed trio: a Gel Guard. This dude…
Hugo Award Nominations
It's Hugo nomination season and, for your consideration, if you’re so inclined and such, I'm mentioning the fact that Chicks Unravel Time, edited by Deb Stanish and me, is eligible in the Best Related Work category.If you're reading this blog you've probably already seen me mention this book once or twice, but just in case:…
CITV’s 30 Years of Kids’ Telly
This weekend I have the Most Exciting Plans: scheduling everything around ITV's celebration of 30 Years of Children's Television. When I first heard they were doing this, I was sceptical ("ITV?! I never even *watched* CITV. Or at least just enough to know I *hated* Children's Ward." No reflection on the quality of Children's Ward…
Verity!
I'm on a podcast now! Which is mostly quite exciting but also a little bit scary because sometimes I hear my own voice, and sure, everyone says Scottish accents are great and they are, but only when they're Other People's accents.But, yes, podcast! It's called Verity! And, yes, it has an exclamation mark in the…
My New Year’s resolution…
It's a lovely shiny New Year, a New Year full of the number 13. Lots and lots of 13s. Which is just super. It would probably be better not to admit this, but I'm not entirely comfortable with the number 13. It makes me nervous. All odd numbers are a bit suspicious, but 13 is…
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