smallholdingsister's strivings

smallholdingsister · 19 September 2015 at 7:46AM

Thanks everyone.
Blog updated. Liddly today, ballet and the Plops.

edinburgher · 19 September 2015 at 7:49AM

Do you know what the offer is this weekend SHS? I.e. spend £x save £y at L1dl?

smallholdingsister · 19 September 2015 at 8:50AM

Offer? *off to look*

edinburgher · 19 September 2015 at 9:42AM

They have been giving out wee grey cards that get you a discount? Is that only Scotland?

Edit, sorry, L1dl Scotland only

smallholdingsister · 19 September 2015 at 10:48AM

Ha ha just been and discovered that!

Mrs_E_3 · 19 September 2015 at 4:16PM

edinburgher wrote: »

They have been giving out wee grey cards that get you a discount? Is that only Scotland?

Edit, sorry, L1dl Scotland only

But the new news for Oct is out today and there is a £5 off £40 again for next weekend to 4th Oct

smallholdingsister · 19 September 2015 at 4:47PM

Is that just in Scotland?

smallholdingsister · 20 September 2015 at 6:49AM

So we got everything done yesterday.
I got DD2 on the Plops and after a hairy half hour where she didn't want to dismount, got her on again off again without a drama.

Dr Who was interesting.

*nerd alert*
I think when Russell T Davies restarted the show in 2005 he successfully and with a light touch and inventiveness made it more about relationships between the lead characters.
Steven Moffatt has followed that model but with less success and a heavier hand, and maybe the casting hasn't helped - Clara has died so many times that we are left no longer caring, and there is not a spark of age-appropriate chemistry between Coleman and Capaldi.

Karmacat · 20 September 2015 at 8:24AM

I read an article a few years ago about character deterioration, especially for the women, in Dr Who - and I've never watched Peter Capaldi at all. Took me a while to warm to Matt Smith, but yes, thinking about how Capaldi and Jenna Coleman *look* together - I know its not true, but he looks like he could be her grandfather, its really an issue.

newgirly · 20 September 2015 at 8:37AM

Not seen the new episode yet, but I agree. It worked in the past having the big age gap as the older dr.s were more like grandfather figures. But after the chemistry between the newer doctors and their assistants , its now made it a little weird, its doesn't quite fit having coleman and capaldi, I'm still missing chris ecclestone and Billy piper.