Follow That Trebuchet
After watching The Avengers' Too Many Christmas Trees for Telefantasy Time Jump's Christmas Special (out...sometime this month!! I should really check these things), I felt compelled to return to a few Christmas telly favs to try and life my mood during this week of Eternal Rain and Wind and Grey Omg When Will It End.…
Continue reading ➞ Christmas Specials I’ve Rewatched Far Too Often
"But Star Trek doesn't have any Christmas episodes," you might say. And you would be correct. Technically. But you don't need actual Christmas when you have the spirit of Christmas, and that's exactly what these Trek episodes have: the hardiest of Christmas spirits. (If you absolutely insist that it must actually be Christmas, I suppose…
I've been writing this post a lot in my head over the past few days. Partly because I very much wanted to mark the end of last year with some words and it wasn't until June that I finally accepted that wasn't going to happen. But surely if I *thought* about it enough, then that…
A couple of lovely things have been released over the past few days. First up, the Blake's 7 Bayban the Butcher set from Big Finish (that's a lot of bs....by which I mean b plural, not an abbreviation of bullshit) is out! Three stories featuring the very best of Blake's 7 guest characters, Bayban, played…
Continue reading ➞ Bayban the Butcher from Big Finish; Hammer House of Podcast Christmas Special
Once upon a time, there weren't Doctor Who Christmas episodes...well, there was one - The Feast of Steven - but it was lost, and fans used to get weirdly angry about its most awesome moment...anyway, back in the day we had to walk up a hill twice though sleet and gale to watch ten minutes…
Continue reading ➞ Doctor Who Stories of Christmas Cheer (That Are Not Christmas Specials)
...and my brilliant plan was to write a blog post every day for a month. So when the year ends, the first thing I do isn't promise myself that, yes, I absolutely will blog more this year. (Also I failed at Nanowrimo, so to cheer myself up I can fail at this too.) And, I…
I don't have to make excuses for any of this, even though the desire is strong, IT'S CHRISTMAS. And this is the playlist I listen to (a work-in-progress of MANY YEARS): 1: Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (The Darkness) - Probably my favourite Christmas song. I'm not sure how that happened, but yeah,…
Continue reading ➞ My Amazing Not the Least Bit Embarassing Christmas Playlist
Lizbeth Myles 