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Oh brother, where art thou?
After a slight birthday-related interruption*, it's time to return you to your usual programme. Here's a better-late-than-never look at this week's Merlin, in the form of some thoughts on The Castle of...
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If you like it then you should have Fisher King on it
Time for a saunter down to Merlin land once again, for some thoughts about The Eye of the Phoenix:Well, last week I said that Arthur would find it hard to beat his freshly-set record for shirtlessness...
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Wherever there is danger, he'll be there
Basically, this is what happened. The lovely Benedict Cumberbatch won an award recently and reacted by saying "Oh crumpets!" This, as someone at sherlockbbc pointed out, is a very Penfold thing to say....
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Not living next door to Alice
Merlin time again. Containing an extra dose of screencap silliness, here are some thoughts about Love in the Time of Dragons:First of all, a bonus for regular readers who are aware of my serious...
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A consignment of German sausage, and other shiny things
In the course of my day job, I often have to fill up my head with facts on a range of diverse and obscure topics. The latest in this long list of subjects is contemporary jewelry design, and while...
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The joker ain't the only fool
Crikey, I wish the Merlin posse would do something about their cheesetastic episode titles. But until they do, I'm afraid I'm obliged to lead into this week's recap post by explaining that it contains...
View ArticleCaught in the middle of a hundred and five
Time for Merlin again, and it's the antepenultimate episode of the season, alas! So here are some thoughts on The Sorceror's Shadow. (Sadly there are no pics this week, because at time of posting, the...
View ArticleWe're courting a trout, I can't walk out
It's time for another daft quiz, and once again, it's brought to you by Bits Of Trivia I Picked Up While Doing My Day Job. Today's specialist subject: fishing techniques! Never let it be said that I do...
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Coming attractions
Rather later than usual, it's time for my opinions on the penultimate episode of Merlin. And since the episode titling department has excelled itself this week, I'm pleased to introduce some thoughts...
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If inconvenient, come anyway
Break out the mulled mead, prise open the pickled eggs and pass around the anachronistic vegetable canapés, because the Merlin season 3 finale has arrived. After 13 weeks of double entendre, incisive...
View ArticleNymphs and slapheads? Get away...
While the world is waiting for me to finish my latest bout of iconic scribbling (estimated time of finishedness: um... soonish?), here's another pointless trivia quiz to keep you all off the streets...
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Merlin mini-icons: the rip-roaring return!
Round up a crowd of cheering peasants and send your hottest knights outside for a cold shower, because I've finally finished a new batch of Merlin mini-icons!My first set of Merlin icons are now...
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The Case of the Notorious Knitwear
Well, the weather outside is frightful, but before I start hibernating in front of the TV, here's a very quick piece of scribbled seasonal silliness. Someone at sherlockbbc mooted the idea of Sherlock...
View ArticleCarolled and bored?
Festive greetings from the north-east of England! I hope the season has been suitably celebratory if you're celebrating, and not too crushingly dull if you're not.Before I discuss tonight's Doctor Who,...
View ArticleAn MMXI mini-icon mini-requestathon!
In the interests of New Year proactivity*, I'm now making mini-icons for the Doctor Who Christmas special. However, since those will make a very small batch, I thought I'd throw an offer open to the...
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"Much disapprobation was manifested at the close of the curtain."
While I'm making plodding progress through my recent icon requestathon, here's a little something I stumbled across on Google Books, while on yet another workcentric fact-hunt.In these days of...
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It's a pneumatically knickered One-Question Quiz!
In the absence of any proper fannish posts from me (I'm still scribbling away, honest), here's a startling visual bonbon from one of my regular trawls through the fascinating online annals of LIFE...
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I've started so I'll furnish...
For no real reason other than to satisfy my own gnawing curiosity, I'd like to enlist your help with a piece of vocabulary research. But before you jump into the nearest tickybox, please point your...
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The curse of a vivid mind
Although I am known as a purveyor of sophisticated wit and intellectual discourse to the massed minions of the internet (hem hem), I admit that my sense of humour can be very childish indeed. Those who...
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New Doctor Who mini-icons: Give me time, and a crayon
Phone the moonbase, call off the attack fleet and point the laser beams away from my living room, because I've finally finished my latest batch of Doctor Who mini-icons. And only a month later than I...
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