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…
I would make the best stamps
*WARNING: PG rated DISTURBING IMAGERY ahead* Because it's Doctor Who's fiftieth birthday this year there are going to be STAMPS. Lovely stamps from the Royal Mail who're making one for each Doctor with the space vortex on them and the Doctor's head coming out of it to EAT YOUR FACE. (That's not true. Except for…
Winners of Chicks Unravel Time Giveaway
My apologies for being late - I underestimated both the effects of jetlag, and how much I had to do when I got home. But winners of the various delightful thingummies (real word, yes) to do with Doctor Who have been chosen. Randomly selected, using a random number generator I found on the Internet, and…
Chicks Unravel Time giveaway
With the competition to win a copy of Chicks Unravel Time at my fine co-editor's blog now over, you might be wondering (if you're not the winner anyway) where on Earth you can get your own physical copy of this nifty keen book. Well, it's back in stock at Amazon.com! (For the time being at…
How To Spot A Real Doctor Who Fan
After reading the recent online postings about the shocking number of fakers invading geek culture and trampling true geekdom into the dirt with their fakery ways, I've decided to do my part to fight against the cruel boot of society and defend our mighty citadel from those trying to steal the glory. Now, it's Doctor…
Chicks Unravel Time updates
It's very close to the release date of Chicks Unravel Time. So close it's actually tomorrow. And there are a couple of nifty things going on to do with the book, so here's an Exciting Update of Informativeness. Firstly, a competition! Where, by simply commenting on my rather smashing co-editor's blog post over here or…
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Okay, I'm one day late, Ada Lovelace Day was actually yesterday, but never mind. Onwards: Named after the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace Day is about celebrating and raising the profile of women in the sciences, thus I present this list of my ten favourite female scientists (half of them would be on my ten…
Chicks Unravel Time news
I'm delighted to let you know that Chicks Unravel Time is set for release on November 13th and its full table of contents is now out. So you can see all of our essayists and the marvellous titles of their essays at the Mad Norwegian website. Or here, since I'm going to write them in…
Lizbeth Myles 