That's my exercise for the day
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heleninwalesAs it's been dry and sunny for a few days and the front grass was starting to grow and look untidy, I got the mower out and gave it its first cut of the year. It took 1.25 hours and produced 2/3 rds of a wheelie bin of grass clippings.
Durlston Meadows
Apr. 25th, 2026 01:40 pmpuddleshark
A walk up through the nature reserve at Durlston to see the cowslips in flower, listen to the skylarks singing above the meadows by the sea.
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The usual Friday
Apr. 24th, 2026 04:45 pmheleninwalesAs usual on a Friday morning, I went to the Co-op to do the main weekly food shop. I'd also been shopping on Tuesday, so I didn't need quite as much as I sometimes get.
There was a bit of excitement as I came round the end of the shelves and turned to head up the next aisle when a small tortoiseshell cat galloped past, paws scrabbling furiously on the smooth floor as it tried to corner fast. It was being gently pursued by one of the shop assistants. She made a grab and the cat promptly vanished under a shelving unit. I have no idea whether she managed to tempt it out again. I don't know whether the automatic doors are sensitive enough to admit a cat or whether she'd just dodged in as people came or went. It's not the first time she's done it. There was a post on the local Facebook group about her venturing into the Co-op and also that she'd been seen in the park nearby. I think she lives in one of the houses that back onto the Co-op car park.
After shopping, I arrived at M's house to fine her and E (the current live-in carer) reciting "The Owl and the Pussycat". Naturally, I joined it (it's one of the few poems I know by heart). I have no idea what had spurred the poetry recitation. We did the crossword and zygolex as usual and had a chat. Then I headed home to unload the shopping and have lunch.
There was a bit of excitement as I came round the end of the shelves and turned to head up the next aisle when a small tortoiseshell cat galloped past, paws scrabbling furiously on the smooth floor as it tried to corner fast. It was being gently pursued by one of the shop assistants. She made a grab and the cat promptly vanished under a shelving unit. I have no idea whether she managed to tempt it out again. I don't know whether the automatic doors are sensitive enough to admit a cat or whether she'd just dodged in as people came or went. It's not the first time she's done it. There was a post on the local Facebook group about her venturing into the Co-op and also that she'd been seen in the park nearby. I think she lives in one of the houses that back onto the Co-op car park.
After shopping, I arrived at M's house to fine her and E (the current live-in carer) reciting "The Owl and the Pussycat". Naturally, I joined it (it's one of the few poems I know by heart). I have no idea what had spurred the poetry recitation. We did the crossword and zygolex as usual and had a chat. Then I headed home to unload the shopping and have lunch.
A new walk
Apr. 24th, 2026 04:33 pmheleninwalesOver the winter we seemed to have got into a bit of a rut with our walks. The endless rain meant that some favourite walks would be quagmires, so best avoided. However, the weather has settled and it's bright and sunny and so yesterday we did a walk that G had found after exploring the paths somewhere new.
We drove to the car park near the old bridge, just to save a boring plod along a road and then on the footpath by the bypass. As you can see, the weather was glorious.
The photo is taken from half way across the old road bridge looking towards the new road bridge that carries the A470.
The whole walk was only 3 miles, but it was 1½ miles steeply up followed by 1½ steeply down, so provided more exercise that the distance alone suggests. The path led through woodland. ( More photos here... )
Before too long we were treated to a splendid view. From here you can see the entire Cader Idris range. The air was a little hazy, unfortunately. Today is clearer, but today I had to do the food shopping.
We drove to the car park near the old bridge, just to save a boring plod along a road and then on the footpath by the bypass. As you can see, the weather was glorious.
The photo is taken from half way across the old road bridge looking towards the new road bridge that carries the A470.
The whole walk was only 3 miles, but it was 1½ miles steeply up followed by 1½ steeply down, so provided more exercise that the distance alone suggests. The path led through woodland. ( More photos here... )
Before too long we were treated to a splendid view. From here you can see the entire Cader Idris range. The air was a little hazy, unfortunately. Today is clearer, but today I had to do the food shopping.
Flowering shrub
Apr. 24th, 2026 04:18 pmheleninwales16/52 for the group 2026 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: P is for Plants
My friend has a beautiful garden and at this time of year, all the flowering shrubs are covered in flowers.
This week's theme was: P is for Plants
My friend has a beautiful garden and at this time of year, all the flowering shrubs are covered in flowers.
The Birders
Apr. 23rd, 2026 02:42 pmpuddleshark
I thought I might make the most of the easterly wind and the dry weather to walk out through the reedbeds to Swineham, and back across the damp riverside meadows.
( An unexpected obstacle on the path )
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
Reading, Listening, Watching
Apr. 22nd, 2026 04:36 pmpurplecatReading: The Crawling Terror by Mike Tucker. Twelth Doctor and Clara novel. I've only just started it but its already obvious that it's Giant Bugs in Rural England.
Listening: Just finished an episode of the Machine Ethics Podcast with which I have a somewhat frustrated relationship. It's proved very useful for keeping tabs on the AI Ethics landscape, but there are definitely times I want to shake the interviewer or interviewees, and a couple of times I've just had to nope out entirely because SO MUCH NONSENSE. This was a slightly odd episode, the interviewee had clearly reached out, requesting an interview in order to talk about/promote her biocomputing company. Clearly outside of the interviewer's comfort zone, and hard to know to what extent this was crossing the line from science communication into advertising.
Watching: Three weeks late we realise Have I Got News for You has started up again. It does what it does and we're the target demographic. I laughed a lot at Armando Iannuci's exasperation at people claiming that Winston Churchill was being replaced by a badger.
Listening: Just finished an episode of the Machine Ethics Podcast with which I have a somewhat frustrated relationship. It's proved very useful for keeping tabs on the AI Ethics landscape, but there are definitely times I want to shake the interviewer or interviewees, and a couple of times I've just had to nope out entirely because SO MUCH NONSENSE. This was a slightly odd episode, the interviewee had clearly reached out, requesting an interview in order to talk about/promote her biocomputing company. Clearly outside of the interviewer's comfort zone, and hard to know to what extent this was crossing the line from science communication into advertising.
Watching: Three weeks late we realise Have I Got News for You has started up again. It does what it does and we're the target demographic. I laughed a lot at Armando Iannuci's exasperation at people claiming that Winston Churchill was being replaced by a badger.
The Secret Garden, April
Apr. 22nd, 2026 03:31 pmpuddleshark
Weird weather. April is supposed to be changeable. All the weather - rain, hail, sunshine & rainbows - in the space of an hour. We're not supposed to have a high pressure system stuck overhead, no rain in prospect for the next week. And we're not supposed to have gale force winds blowing from the east. Proper gales are supposed to come in from the south-west, off the Atlantic, accompanied by lashing rain.
I thought it would be sheltered behind the high brick walls of the Secret Garden, but it wasn't - the flowers were all bobbing about madly, which made macro photography something of a challenge.
( Blurred flowers... )
Caught in the act
Apr. 21st, 2026 06:08 pmheleninwalesI've been hearing the woodpecker drumming for a while now. I've never managed to work out where the sound was coming from. I thought the bird was in the very tall alder that's growing just beyond the bottom of our neighbours' garden, but even with the binoculars, I could never see the bird while it was drumming.
But this morning it saw it!
I've managed to cut a path through the brambles to the very bottom of our garden and this morning I went down there to cut back some of the goat willow branches that were overhanging our bottom fence. I need to get someone with a chain saw to cut them right back, but I have cut enough to enable me to have a bonfire down there so I can burn all the brambles I've been cutting down.
Anyway, as I was standing silently contemplating the intrusive willow, the woodpecker started drumming very loudly very close by. And I finally saw it! It wasn't high up in the tree, it was much lower down and it was drumming on a wooden bird box that our neighbours had put up on the tree trunk. That explains why it's so loud. The empty wooden box is acting as a resonator.
While I'm posting...
Further to my post about the author who really shouldn't have been reading her own story, today G and I started listening to a new novel. It's being read by the author, but she's doing a good job with it. So it can be done, as long as you don't start making up weird accents and stick to only doing accents that you're capable of doing properly.
But this morning it saw it!
I've managed to cut a path through the brambles to the very bottom of our garden and this morning I went down there to cut back some of the goat willow branches that were overhanging our bottom fence. I need to get someone with a chain saw to cut them right back, but I have cut enough to enable me to have a bonfire down there so I can burn all the brambles I've been cutting down.
Anyway, as I was standing silently contemplating the intrusive willow, the woodpecker started drumming very loudly very close by. And I finally saw it! It wasn't high up in the tree, it was much lower down and it was drumming on a wooden bird box that our neighbours had put up on the tree trunk. That explains why it's so loud. The empty wooden box is acting as a resonator.
While I'm posting...
Further to my post about the author who really shouldn't have been reading her own story, today G and I started listening to a new novel. It's being read by the author, but she's doing a good job with it. So it can be done, as long as you don't start making up weird accents and stick to only doing accents that you're capable of doing properly.
Audiobooks
Apr. 20th, 2026 02:55 pmheleninwalesAs well as listening to audiobooks with G while eating meals, I also listen to them while cooking, ironing, cleaning etc. It's not always easy to find things I like because I'm not buying them, I'm relying on what the library has to offer so the choice is more limited. However, it does mean that as they don't cost anything, I'm willing to try writers I've never heard of. Some work out, some don't.
The latest audiobook I tried by an author hitherto unknown to me was The Smoke and the Sea by Katie Cross. It's a fantasy and had some interesting ideas, including very small dragon-like creatures called "draguls" whose bite makes you invisible. The vital trade in jord (which seems to be their equivalent of guano) which is vital for growing food on a rocky and rather barren island. The main characters are a young woman who is a dragul keeper and Henrik, a loyal soldat of Stenberg. Now Hendrik's current stint of service is over, he is planning a couple of week's leave in order to go in search of his mother who he was separated from very young.
This all sounds fine and glancing at the Read an Extract on Amazon shows that the writing is ok. The narration, unfortunately, was not. The author was reading her own book. The American accent didn't bother me, but her attempt at doing some sort of "island" accent for Henrik and the other soldats was a disaster. It had hints of Oirish[*], so instead of rough, tough, gruff soldiers, the soldats sounded like more like sad leprechauns. Her voice even seemed to rise higher in pitch when doing Henrik's dialogue, which was the opposite to how a man would sound. So I returned that audiobook and I'm now listening toSharpe's Tiger.
Now Rupert Farley, the narrator of the Sharpe novel is doing a really good job. There's one interesting thing though. I'm pretty sure that in an early novel (which I read many years ago) it's clear that Sharpe is from London. He's also a big guy. But I remember that when they made the TV series, Sean Bean made the part so much his own that, in later books, Bernard Cornwell began to made Book Sharpe more like Bean's TV Sharpe. Anyway, the narrator of the audiobook is doing a Yorkshire accent for Sharpe's dialogue. He distinguishes the other character's voices well too.
[*] The terrible stage Irish that some people think is what an Irish accent sounds like. I mean there isn't even one "Irish" accent.
The latest audiobook I tried by an author hitherto unknown to me was The Smoke and the Sea by Katie Cross. It's a fantasy and had some interesting ideas, including very small dragon-like creatures called "draguls" whose bite makes you invisible. The vital trade in jord (which seems to be their equivalent of guano) which is vital for growing food on a rocky and rather barren island. The main characters are a young woman who is a dragul keeper and Henrik, a loyal soldat of Stenberg. Now Hendrik's current stint of service is over, he is planning a couple of week's leave in order to go in search of his mother who he was separated from very young.
This all sounds fine and glancing at the Read an Extract on Amazon shows that the writing is ok. The narration, unfortunately, was not. The author was reading her own book. The American accent didn't bother me, but her attempt at doing some sort of "island" accent for Henrik and the other soldats was a disaster. It had hints of Oirish[*], so instead of rough, tough, gruff soldiers, the soldats sounded like more like sad leprechauns. Her voice even seemed to rise higher in pitch when doing Henrik's dialogue, which was the opposite to how a man would sound. So I returned that audiobook and I'm now listening toSharpe's Tiger.
Now Rupert Farley, the narrator of the Sharpe novel is doing a really good job. There's one interesting thing though. I'm pretty sure that in an early novel (which I read many years ago) it's clear that Sharpe is from London. He's also a big guy. But I remember that when they made the TV series, Sean Bean made the part so much his own that, in later books, Bernard Cornwell began to made Book Sharpe more like Bean's TV Sharpe. Anyway, the narrator of the audiobook is doing a Yorkshire accent for Sharpe's dialogue. He distinguishes the other character's voices well too.
[*] The terrible stage Irish that some people think is what an Irish accent sounds like. I mean there isn't even one "Irish" accent.
Website Updates Completed
Apr. 19th, 2026 03:23 pmleesa_perrieI've finally finished my updates! All artwork should now have an internal link, and all links should now a) work and b) be safe to use.
If you do find something that isn't working, or is linking to imgur, or to a dodgy site, please let me know, but I'm fairly sure it's all been sorted now.
https://leesaperrie.neocities.org/
If you do find something that isn't working, or is linking to imgur, or to a dodgy site, please let me know, but I'm fairly sure it's all been sorted now.
https://leesaperrie.neocities.org/
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Folly to the Dorsetshire Gap
Apr. 18th, 2026 03:42 pmpuddleshark
A fine fair morning, the sun pleasantly warm, and the wind sharp enough to encourage you to keep walking. A perfect day to go following green April paths, up onto the hills looking out over the Blackmore Vale, down through the bluebell woods to the Dorsetshire Gap where all the paths meet.
( New sycamore leaves, wild garlic paths, curious cattle... )
She floats!
Apr. 16th, 2026 11:11 pmbunn
primer, paint, varnish all done, I've unjammed the autobailer, and I've been for a little row (Turns out I remember how to row, though I did catch a couple of minor crabs).
Getting her down the hill and into the water was a breeze. Getting her back up was probably no harder than moving the canoe: the Mirror is heavier, but not as long, and the trolley is a lot better designed than the canoe one.
I went for a paint colour that is described on the tin as 'cream' but it's a very rich and buttery sort of cream.
Just need to sort the rigging, and the rudder uphaul. oh yes and find some rope for a painter, and a bailer sponge. Then I get to find out if I've forgotten how to sail...
Boat refurbishment websites are full of people with ridiculously high standards and apparently unlimited time and tools. I keep telling myself: she's a battered old Mirror Dinghy from 1972. It doesn't matter if the varnish isn't perfect, the paint has the odd run visible, the rubbing strake has lost a small chunk at the back of the skeg, or that there are scrapes and stains from her chequered history (as long as they aren't bad enough to be unsound, which I *think* they aren't. And if they are, I'll learn!)
The point is to get the boat to the point where I can go sailing this year, not to somehow erase 50+ years of dings and stains.
I saw two sets of mirror dinghy sails (2x main and jib) advertised on Facebook marketplace locally, so I bought them. The sail numbers are from boats from 1970, but the sails don't look very used, and the sail numbers are not the original vinyl, so either the numbers have been replaced, or the whole sails are newer - though I think they must be from before 2007, since sails newer than that are a slightly different colour. I thought it would be handy to have spares.
I wondered what happened to the boats they belonged to, but the person who was selling them didn't know: she'd bought them to make garden shades out of, and then decided they were too small.
We have another foster kitty, Star. She's been helping with the renovations. The smallest adult cat I've ever seen, I think but she has no difficulty at all jumping up into the boat. She came from a bad situation and has had some immune system issues, which is why she has that scar on her face. We think it's healing up, but it's not a quick process.
Website Updates Done So Far
Apr. 16th, 2026 11:11 pmleesa_perrieAll Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Stargate SGU, The Sentinel, Misc Fandoms and Non-Fandom artwork that requires a link should now link internally and not to imgur.
In White Collar, the headers and picspams have also been sorted, but the wallpapers and other artwork still needs new links doing. It may take a day or two to fix these, as there is a lot of artwork to sort out.
I am also going to check out pages that contain links to other sites, to make sure that a) they still work and b) they don’t link to dodgy sites – but the artwork is my priority at the moment, so be careful of anything that links to other sites for now.
I’ll post a new update when all the artwork is sorted, then another when I’ve finished checking out the links and making any other alterations I feel need to be made.
And then, maybe, I’ll amuse myself with some new icon making...
In White Collar, the headers and picspams have also been sorted, but the wallpapers and other artwork still needs new links doing. It may take a day or two to fix these, as there is a lot of artwork to sort out.
I am also going to check out pages that contain links to other sites, to make sure that a) they still work and b) they don’t link to dodgy sites – but the artwork is my priority at the moment, so be careful of anything that links to other sites for now.
I’ll post a new update when all the artwork is sorted, then another when I’ve finished checking out the links and making any other alterations I feel need to be made.
And then, maybe, I’ll amuse myself with some new icon making...
Excitement in town!
Apr. 16th, 2026 06:14 pmheleninwalesA film company was filming in town yesterday and today. It's not a TV company. It appears to be a feature film starring Anthony Hopkins. Apparently it is based on a story by Dylan Thomas and will be called "A Visit to Grandpa's".
We knew that some streets in town would be closed during the filming, but what we hadn't been aware of was that the cafe where we meet every Wednesday to chat in Welsh would also be closed. Late night emails flew around informing everyone and we decided to move to a different cafe, Y Sospan (The Saucepan).
( More photos here... )
The shop fronts had had old-fashioned signs erected over their normal shop fronts. All except for one. I actually laughed out loud when I zoomed in on the photo and saw that Siop Hughes was completely unaltered, apart from the items in window display, which were slightly more old-fashioned than usual.
I could have done with this a few weeks ago when the weekly alphabet theme was "Jalopy"!
I made my way round the back streets to the entrance to Y Sospan and looked inside. None of our group were seated at any of the tables on the ground floor, though by then it was past 10 a.m., our nominal start time. I climbed the steep and rather uneven stairs (it's a very old building) to the upper floor and found myself surrounded by extras in costume!
I made my way back outside and, after hanging around for a few minutes, met a group member who said that she couldn't join us but that M was now in the cafe. We ordered our pots of tea and took them upstairs where, ignoring the extras, we bagged a table at the far end. So it was rather a surreal meeting. There were six of us sitting around a table chatting in Welsh while extras came and went, summoned by youths with walkie-talkies and taken off somewhere, only to return to help themselves to a drink and snack later.
Then when it came time to leave, a youth wouldn't let us out through the door until we heard the word, "Cut!" issuing from his walkie-talkie.
Today the local Facebook groups were full of photos of Anthony Hopkins who was shaking hands and having his photo taken with people. But as I said, we were walking in the forest, so missed all that.
We knew that some streets in town would be closed during the filming, but what we hadn't been aware of was that the cafe where we meet every Wednesday to chat in Welsh would also be closed. Late night emails flew around informing everyone and we decided to move to a different cafe, Y Sospan (The Saucepan).
( More photos here... )
The shop fronts had had old-fashioned signs erected over their normal shop fronts. All except for one. I actually laughed out loud when I zoomed in on the photo and saw that Siop Hughes was completely unaltered, apart from the items in window display, which were slightly more old-fashioned than usual.
I could have done with this a few weeks ago when the weekly alphabet theme was "Jalopy"!
I made my way round the back streets to the entrance to Y Sospan and looked inside. None of our group were seated at any of the tables on the ground floor, though by then it was past 10 a.m., our nominal start time. I climbed the steep and rather uneven stairs (it's a very old building) to the upper floor and found myself surrounded by extras in costume!
I made my way back outside and, after hanging around for a few minutes, met a group member who said that she couldn't join us but that M was now in the cafe. We ordered our pots of tea and took them upstairs where, ignoring the extras, we bagged a table at the far end. So it was rather a surreal meeting. There were six of us sitting around a table chatting in Welsh while extras came and went, summoned by youths with walkie-talkies and taken off somewhere, only to return to help themselves to a drink and snack later.
Then when it came time to leave, a youth wouldn't let us out through the door until we heard the word, "Cut!" issuing from his walkie-talkie.
Today the local Facebook groups were full of photos of Anthony Hopkins who was shaking hands and having his photo taken with people. But as I said, we were walking in the forest, so missed all that.
Tŷ Brics (Brick House)
Apr. 16th, 2026 05:23 pmheleninwales15/52 for the group 2026 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: O is for Oddity
Buildings made of brick may be the norm in many towns and cities, but I think this is the only one where I live. It's name is Tŷ Brics (Brick House). All the other buildings are of stone, or, if modern, of breeze blocks with a rendered finish.
This week's theme was: O is for Oddity
Buildings made of brick may be the norm in many towns and cities, but I think this is the only one where I live. It's name is Tŷ Brics (Brick House). All the other buildings are of stone, or, if modern, of breeze blocks with a rendered finish.
Reading, Listening, Watching
Apr. 15th, 2026 08:47 pmpurplecatReading: Still These Old Shades. Not to rehash last week's discussion. It is fun enough, especially later on, but it has bought into the idea that Nobility Will Out and its heroine also seems somewhat naive given her age and background.
Listening: A lot more of 13 Minutes on the Artemis mission, interspersed with various podcats of Doctor Who fans watching no longer missing episodes.
Watching: We managed to get to the end of an old series of Taskmaster before the Sparrow left, this being what we mostly watch when she is around. And missing Doctor Who episodes, of course.
Listening: A lot more of 13 Minutes on the Artemis mission, interspersed with various podcats of Doctor Who fans watching no longer missing episodes.
Watching: We managed to get to the end of an old series of Taskmaster before the Sparrow left, this being what we mostly watch when she is around. And missing Doctor Who episodes, of course.
My website
Apr. 15th, 2026 01:51 pmleesa_perrieJust to let people know that my website has moved to:
https://leesaperrie.neocities.org/
It seems to be working, though I'm changing the 3rd party artwork links to internal links, which will take time. This is because imgur content is no longer viewable in the UK, and now that I have more space to work with, I'm doing it all via my website and not risking another image hosting site doing this to me!
So if you're in the UK, the larger artwork will, eventually, be viewable to you. I'll update when I've finished this rather monumental feeling task!!
https://leesaperrie.neocities.org/
It seems to be working, though I'm changing the 3rd party artwork links to internal links, which will take time. This is because imgur content is no longer viewable in the UK, and now that I have more space to work with, I'm doing it all via my website and not risking another image hosting site doing this to me!
So if you're in the UK, the larger artwork will, eventually, be viewable to you. I'll update when I've finished this rather monumental feeling task!!
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Doctor Who Missing Episodes
Apr. 14th, 2026 07:36 pmpurplecatLate last year, maybe early this? Toby Hadoke asked various people he knew what 17 missing Dr Who episodes they would pick if they were the only 17 left to be found. It now transpires he almost certainly knew, at that point, that 2 episodes of The Daleks' Masterplan had been found, but it got me thinking. My list is something as follows:
1. & 2. The Tenth Planet episode 4 and The Web of Fear episode 3. These both complete stories and are significant, in the first case for the regeneration of William Hartnell into Patrick Troughton and, in the second, for the first meeting with the Brigadier.
Then I have a string of picking one episode from any story for which no episodes exist so.
3. Marco Polo - there are three episodes in contention for this: episode 3 (which features Ping-Cho giving a storytelling performance something not attempted elsewhere in Doctor Who, or much at all these days), episode 5 which features Tutte Lemkow who is mildly (in)famous for having been in Doctor Who three times, none of which survive and having provided choreography for a fourth episode which also doesn't survive, and episode 7 (which is believed to have good fight scenes which, obviously, don't survive well on audio). I'm going to go for Marco Polo episode 3 for the storytelling - alas poor Tutte Lemkow.
4. The Myth Makers episode 1 - the choices here were episode 1 which sets the scene or episode 4 which pivots from farce into tragedy and introduces new companion Katarina. Doctor Who rarely enough does outright comedy that I've picked the introductory episode and it also features Tutte Lemkow so yay!. Also, with the recent returns we have 3/5 of Katarina's episodes and I've no real desire to see more.
5. The Massacre episode 4 - on the other hand, I'd rather see the conclusion of this one, which seems to have been pretty grim throughout, but I'd be interested to see how the Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve portrayed via woodcuts worked in practice. It does mean we miss out on William Hartnell's turn as the Abbot of Amboise however.
6. The Savages episode 4 - Episode 4s are tempting in and of themselves, but in this case we get Frederick Jaeger's impersonation of aspects of the first Doctor - seems well worth it.
7. The Smugglers - lots of choices here. Episode 4 once again has a lot of fighting that doesn't work well on audio, but I'm going to go for The Smugglers episode 2 where Polly convinces the stable boy that she can do voodoo.
8. The Power of the Daleks episode 1 - the other side of the regeneration of William Hartnell into Patrick Troughton.
9. The Highlanders episode 2 - in which the Doctor repeatedly bangs a man's head on a desk in ruse to convince him he is ill with a headache.
10. The Macra Terror episode 1 - because it includes the scene in which the Second Doctor is neatened up by a machine - which was cut from the animation.
11. Fury from the Deep episode 3 - which ends with Maggie walking out into the sea.
So now I have 5 left.
12. The Space Pirates epsiode 5 - The Space Pirates is not much loved but people hypothesise this is because the only episode we have involves the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe stuck in part of a disintegrated space station for the whole episode. So let's have another and I've picked one that features the character Dom Issigri because no one seems to know what he looks like.
13. The Power of the Daleks episode 4 - for no other reason that it would be nice to have a later episode of this, after the Doctor has ceased to be quite such a stranger to everyone, and episode 4 of 6 seems as good a place as any to stick the pin.
14 & 15. Marco Polo episode 7 and The Smugglers episode 4 for the aforementioned fight scenes.
16 & 17. The Daleks' Masterplan episodes 4 and 12 for the deaths of Katarina and Sara respectively.
1. & 2. The Tenth Planet episode 4 and The Web of Fear episode 3. These both complete stories and are significant, in the first case for the regeneration of William Hartnell into Patrick Troughton and, in the second, for the first meeting with the Brigadier.
Then I have a string of picking one episode from any story for which no episodes exist so.
3. Marco Polo - there are three episodes in contention for this: episode 3 (which features Ping-Cho giving a storytelling performance something not attempted elsewhere in Doctor Who, or much at all these days), episode 5 which features Tutte Lemkow who is mildly (in)famous for having been in Doctor Who three times, none of which survive and having provided choreography for a fourth episode which also doesn't survive, and episode 7 (which is believed to have good fight scenes which, obviously, don't survive well on audio). I'm going to go for Marco Polo episode 3 for the storytelling - alas poor Tutte Lemkow.
4. The Myth Makers episode 1 - the choices here were episode 1 which sets the scene or episode 4 which pivots from farce into tragedy and introduces new companion Katarina. Doctor Who rarely enough does outright comedy that I've picked the introductory episode and it also features Tutte Lemkow so yay!. Also, with the recent returns we have 3/5 of Katarina's episodes and I've no real desire to see more.
5. The Massacre episode 4 - on the other hand, I'd rather see the conclusion of this one, which seems to have been pretty grim throughout, but I'd be interested to see how the Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve portrayed via woodcuts worked in practice. It does mean we miss out on William Hartnell's turn as the Abbot of Amboise however.
6. The Savages episode 4 - Episode 4s are tempting in and of themselves, but in this case we get Frederick Jaeger's impersonation of aspects of the first Doctor - seems well worth it.
7. The Smugglers - lots of choices here. Episode 4 once again has a lot of fighting that doesn't work well on audio, but I'm going to go for The Smugglers episode 2 where Polly convinces the stable boy that she can do voodoo.
8. The Power of the Daleks episode 1 - the other side of the regeneration of William Hartnell into Patrick Troughton.
9. The Highlanders episode 2 - in which the Doctor repeatedly bangs a man's head on a desk in ruse to convince him he is ill with a headache.
10. The Macra Terror episode 1 - because it includes the scene in which the Second Doctor is neatened up by a machine - which was cut from the animation.
11. Fury from the Deep episode 3 - which ends with Maggie walking out into the sea.
So now I have 5 left.
12. The Space Pirates epsiode 5 - The Space Pirates is not much loved but people hypothesise this is because the only episode we have involves the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe stuck in part of a disintegrated space station for the whole episode. So let's have another and I've picked one that features the character Dom Issigri because no one seems to know what he looks like.
13. The Power of the Daleks episode 4 - for no other reason that it would be nice to have a later episode of this, after the Doctor has ceased to be quite such a stranger to everyone, and episode 4 of 6 seems as good a place as any to stick the pin.
14 & 15. Marco Polo episode 7 and The Smugglers episode 4 for the aforementioned fight scenes.
16 & 17. The Daleks' Masterplan episodes 4 and 12 for the deaths of Katarina and Sara respectively.