Someone on my friend's list linked to a scan of a dream sequence from the most recent issue of the Buffy S8 comic several days ago, and like an idiot I forgot to note the details. If anyone happens to know where this was I'd love to take another look...

Courtesy of very_true_thing, another meme that required a bit of work - a little research in Wikipedia this time, as I couldn't name all the MPs who've represented me without help. For the periods when I was a student, I’ve given the MP whose constituency I lived in for most of the year, not the one at my parents’ home for whom I could vote. Otherwise John Mackay and Ray Michie would have been my MP for longer, Menzies Campbell for shorter, and Barry Henderson and Ernie Ross not at all.

• 1967 – 1972: David Steel (Liberal) Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles
• 1972 – 1974: Wilfred Baker (Conservative) Banffshire
• 1974 – 1975: Hamish Watt (SNP) Banffshire
• 1975 – 1979: Iain MacCormick (SNP) Argyllshire
• 1979 – 1985: John Mackay (Conservative) Argyllshire/Argyll and Bute (1983 boundary change)
• 1985 – 1987: Barry Henderson (Conservative) North East Fife
• 1987 – 1990: Menzies Campbell (Liberal/Liberal Democrat) North East Fife (1988 party merger)
• 1990 – 1991: Ernie Ross (Labour) Dundee West
• 1991 – 1992: Ray Michie (Liberal Democrat) Argyll and Bute
• 1992 – 1993: William Waldegrave (Conservative) Bristol West
• 1993 – present: Menzies Campbell (Liberal Democrat) North East Fife

Good coverage of parties there, all four of the main ones at one point or another, and five parties in all if you count the Liberals and the Liberal Democrats as being separate parties. Personally I don’t. Also two Knights, three Barons and a Baroness, two Liberal/Lib. Dem. party leaders (although one of them only became party leader a few years after he was no longer my MP), and the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament (equivalent to the Speaker in the House of Commons).

The fun day went well. I was happy with how the stall looked, and I came home with £21.90 - the pitch cost £15, so that's £6.90 profit, better than last time, and also we got 2 falconry shows and a display of some fairly inept baton twirling from some adorable children in questionable costumes.

Mainly sold cards and the lucky bags (little bags with a card, some sweets and a toy for £1), but also sold two tiny canvases to Emily, my biggest fan on facebook, and the most amazing little girl. She came over and bought a couple of cards, and looked at the canvas. Then she wandered off, and came back again, and said 'Your stall is the best one here' and bought the canvas. THEN she dragged her mum over to point out everything she liked. I nearly cried, it was so sweet and just what I needed to hear.

I'd been really nervous and was awake at 5 (although I slept most of yesterday) and then I was close to tears when the stall was set-up. I took my paints so I did 2 small canvases, then rang Ian and asked if he could come and sit with me. He was going to have to come by taxi, because I was in the van, so I felt bad about that, but it was either that or I went home. No one had bought anything, or even looked at my stuff, and I was lonely and feeling crap. He's a wonderful husband.

The falconry was great - the woman who did it was really funny and told good stories about the birds. I'm definitely going to have to paint Ethel the white headed vulture, because her head was pink and blue as well as white. She swooped over our gazebo, and was massive. One of the other eagles flew too far off and perched on someone's roof.

Man, this Test match is just like a return to the not-very-good old days of Mike Denness or Tony Greig; watching the current England team in action is like watching donkeys led by donkeys, not that I'm taking anything away from the excellence of the Aussies. Men against boys, and high time that the whole ECB setup was shaken up from top to bottom; it continues to be dominated by clueless old buffers in egg-and-bacon ties who still think they're living in the last days of the Raj. One blogger who agrees with me is, not surprisingly, a fellow Yorkshireman; his cricket blog is here and can be added to your LJ feed at lenthekitman. It's the best one I've yet seen about the great game in general and cricket in God's Own County in particular.

I've been quiet on the subject of Coulsongate; like Fayed v Hamilton or Archer v Express Newspapers it's the kind of case where you wish both parties could lose. The most telling thing here has been the near-total silence from News Corp, which more-or-less confirms that Murdoch will indeed be backing the Conservatives at the General Election as expected. Whether David Cameron, who hired the long-standing News Corp placeman Andy Coulson after all, will develop the cojones to tell Murdoch where to stick his tabloid agenda is a matter for conjecture, though one is not holding one's breath. And yet, it's almost as if Murdoch is getting away with this scot free, as he so often does in his New York lair well away from British justice; no matter what his executives were telling the Press Complaints Commission, they were acting directly on his orders. As for Coulson, I do not believe for a moment that someone who rose to edit a national newspaper - and not just any old national paper, but the scurrilous old News Of The Screws - could possibly have been so ingenuous about News Corp's illegal phonetapping shenanigans. This is not a scenario where one can "make one's excuses and leave" like one of your hacks in a knocking shop for "research purposes". If Cameron had any backbone, Coulson would be on his bike. It's possible to become leader of your country without the support of Rupert Murdoch - ask President Obama - though sadly that hasn't happened in Britain since 1974. If there's any truth to said allegations, Coulson could be embroiled in something far more serious than McBride's emails or Expensesgate, and yet the Dirty Digger remains untouchable.

Meanwhile, as the government earmark yet more money for armaments despite the "recession", the unwinnable war in Afghanistan drags on and more and more British servicemen are coming back to Northolt in boxes. And for what, exactly? The time has come to pull out now. Now that he's put his head above the parapet, Clegg should be riding this one the way Charlie Kennedy did with Iraq before he was brought down (much more so by the Murdoch press than by booze, let us not forget).

Many thanks to Ryan for adding my feed to LibDemBlogs by the way. A very useful resource. For a start, it has a "mute" feature, which comes in very dandy when finding out there are allegedly "liberal" bloggers claiming that "Many women don’t have a clue about politics so they need someone to make their decisions for them and for that reason its OK for the man to decide who the woman votes"(sic). There are a few of us have been very hacked off for some time about this particular blogger's lack of Clue; for all I know he could be another party's black ops creation with his inane wibbling. For a good take on it, check out the decidedly non-inane, non-wibbling Caron here.

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Off LJ Links
Tom Baker to reprise role of the Doctor in audio book [via mandrake91]

Discussion and Miscellany
perfectchichi links to a Doctor Who fashion blog.
goodbye2pisces starts a post for people to recommend themselves as potential companions.

New Communities and Challenges
iconsofrassilon has Challenge #6 Voting.
thebadwolfeff, a new fanfiction community for Rose and Nine fans.

Fanfiction
Completed Fics
The Worldship by betawho [Eight | Not Rated]
Recuerdame by achuislemochroi [Ten/Rose | 12A]
Same as Never by rallalon [Ten/Rose | Adult]
New New Year by earlgreytea68 [Chapter 2/2 | Ten, Rose | Adult]
Reception Deception by goodbye2pisces [Ten/Donna | PG]
Damaged Goods by dark_aegis [Jack, Ten | PG | Spoilers for Torchwood's Children of Earth (Day Five)]
The Seventh Circle of Hell by wendymr [Jack, Ten | PG | Spoilers for Torchwood's Children of Earth (Day Five)]
Mr. Fix-It Not! by fansquee [Ten, Donna | G]
Walking in Eternity by scarfman [Ten, Sarah Jane, Luke | PG | Spoilers for Torchwood's Children of Earth (Day One)]
Marvellous Night For A Pooshdance by mimingdonna [Ten, Donna | G]
Charted Territory by ghraphite [Ten, Donna | PG]

Works-in-Progress
Kissing Rose Tyler II by ilianacatspawn [Chapter 3/7 | Doctor 10.5, Rose, Jackie, Pete, Jake | All Ages]
The Slow Path Home by callme_al01 [Chapter 5/? | Ten, OC, Rose, Donna | PG]
Twin Solitudes by doctorsdiva [Chapter 5/? | Ten/Rose, Jack, OC | NC-17]

Crossovers
It's only just beginning by sarah_jones [Chapters 1-10/? | Jack, Gwen, Martha, Donna, Mickey, Sally Sparrow, Ten, Rose, others | Crossover with Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Primeval, JAG, Animorphs, and Angel]
Back by camm_shenylle [Eleven/Jo | PG-13 | Crossover with Supernatural]

Icons and Graphics
boxed with 10 icons of Rose and Ten in a multifandom post.

Fan Art & Creative Endeavours
laurab1 with illustrations for several stories.

Fanvids
Smile by macfran [Doctor, companions]
Woman by yohopiratediva [Doctor/Rose]

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I'm just back from the theatre in Williamson Park. ( Spoilers ahead... )

Pocket Books' announcement is reported on trekmovie.com,

http://trekmovie.com/2009/07/10/exclusive-pocket-books-announces-2010-star-trek-books/

but for those with an interest, the rundown is behind the cut:

( hacked for lengthiness )

Left uncut as a reminder (as it was originally slated for next month, before being pushed back to March)

Spring 2010
"Seven Deadly Sins"
Series of short stories using one of Star Trek aliens (or universe) to represent each of the ’seven deadly sins’:

* The Romulans (Pride) by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
* The Cardassians (Envy) by James Swallow
* The Klingons (Anger) by Keith R.A. Decandido
* The Pakleds (Sloth) by Greg Cox
* The Ferengi (Greed) by David Mcintee
* The Borg (Gluttony) by Marc Giller
* Mirror Universe (Lust) by Britta Dennison

( again )

I had to re-repair the wiring of my bike last night - there was still a bit of a short in the remaining stub of wiring, which needed to be separated properly and covered in insulating tape -until I fixed it the bike's electrics stayed on all the time, not ideal from a theft prevention viewpoint, and drained the battery. Not the AA guy's fault, he was working in poor light and couldn't have reached the last bit without taking the ignition switch casing apart, which is a bit of a bastard. His repair got me home, which was the main thing.

So having charged the battery overnight I took it out for a test ride, and ended up at my school's summer fete, where I wasted two quid on the bottle tombola (and failed to win any wine but won a small pot of face cream, which I gave back), spent a pound on the toy tombola and won a bear for elder grandnephew and a penguin for the younger one, and four quid on the books and DVD stall which got me a book and episodes 1-5 of Walking With Dinosaurs, episode 2 of Walking With Beasts, the movie of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the final season of Battlestar Galactica. The latter was a quid, and still sealed in its original packaging! Really can't believe my luck on that one, it cheered me up immensely.

Supposed to be heading over to a friend in Twickenham in a couple of hours, but the weather's a bit naff and I'm not 100% sure I want to risk using the bike outside central London, so I'll probably end up taking the train. So it goes...

A while ago I made what I thought was the modest proposal that the Wilson and Heath governments in that decade between 1964 and 1974 were actually something of an aberration in post-war British history, because they were both generally libertarian in tone as opposed to the centrist, authoritarian ideology that has driven both Labour and Tory governments from Attlee to Brown. This roused some backlash from people who read it as an attack on Attlee (not so, I still regard Attlee's as the best government we have seen, but that doesn't alter the fact that I think his government was centrist in its thinking), and led among other things to someone saying I obviously knew nothing about British history

Well, from the depths of my ignorance I toss another grenade into the discussion. This is a passage from The Socialist Case by Douglas Jay, first published in 1937 and republished in 1946 when Jay was a member of Attlee's Cabinet, so we can assume that the ideas it expresses are not too out of line with those of the government he represented.

[T]he gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves ... economic freedom - the freedom to buy or sell, to employ or refrain from employing other people, to manufacture or not manufacture - is a secondary freedom, often approaching a luxury, which can and should be limited in a good cause.

What do I do now? Anya is asleep with her head on my hand! Isn't there some story about Mohammed cutting of the sleeve of his shirt so as not to disturb his favorite cat who had gone to sleep on him? Send help; I'm writing this one-handed on my phone.

Not really spoilery but ( cut anyway )

So, what happened has happened, but in a muted way that means I can't actually tell you what it is that I've been all tensed up about. Bollocks.

Some of you who move in the appropriate circles will be able to read between the lines, but...

At least I can go to bed now.

The viewing figures are impressive, AIUI:

Day One- 5.94 million
Day Two- 5.6 million
Day Three- 5.9 million
Day Four- 6.2 million

Those are the overnights and will rise when folks recording it etc are taken into account.

5.9 is about the same as Ashes To Ashes in the same slot. 6.2 is more than A2A gets.

Well, that Jossed pretty much every bit of post S2 Torchwood fanfic ever written...

Not much else to say really.

SPOILERS IN COMMENTS

Well, not an RTD kitchen-sink finale after all!

Overall, still an 8/10, and it's very hard to see where the series can go from here, on a number of levels. I guess that was the intent though, since on BBC1 it's renewal will be more at the mercy of the (impressive!) audience figures.

( definitely spoilers this time )

But overall, yeah, this is Torchwood as it should have been all along.

But what am I going to watch now that it's finished? All right, there's Psychoville and The Wire, but then sod all till The Waters Of Mars, whenever that is.

sweetheartwhale is in tears over it all (as she was last night too)- thinks its the most harrowing thing she's ever seen on TV.

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Off LJ Links

Update to Forever Janette comic.
IDW Preview: Doctor Who Ongoing #1.
Big Finish at Bad Wolf.
New short story on BBC website.
Review of The Company of Friends.

Discussion and Miscellany

kyrina has Part 2 of the Partners in Crime picspam.
shatterfry discusses speculation for the Christmas and New Year's specials.
sorakirei wonders about a tendency of RTD's. [CoE spoilers]
chloris67 has speculation on Waters of Mars.
acciochocolate gives information on costuming at Dragoncon.

Challenges/New Communities

whochorus reminds of the due date for their current challenge.

Fanfiction

Completed

Bad Timing by calapine [ Martha, Ten, Tom | G | CoE spoilers ]
Always in Sight by loves_glamour [ Doctor, Donna | G ]
Her Tears by doctor10_crazt [ Ten/Rose | PG ]
Lost and Found (Small Deaths Remix) by boxed [ Martha, Donna, Ten/Rose | PG-13 ]
Show Me the Stars by sue_denimme [ Ten, Christina | G ]
Voicemail Dooms Us All by mkejenkins [ Nine/Rose | G | CoE spoilers ]
Burn by ghraphite [ Donna | G ]
Understanding by whollyuncertain [ Ten/Rose | K+ ]
Companions with Benefits by 10_point_5 [ Ten/Rose | Adult ]
The Button by obviouslyspiffy [ Ten/Rose | NC-17 ]
Lost and Found by the_10thdoctor [ Donna, Ten | PG ]

Works in Progress

A Hand To Hold (5/?) by time_converges [ Donna, Ten | PG ]
Solid Skies (9/?) by veldeia [ Ten, Martha | PG-13 ]

Crossovers

It's Complicated (24/30) by sgteam14283 [ Ten. Martha, SGA & TW casts | PG-13 | SGA & TW crossover ]

Icons & Graphics

boxed has a few Ten and Rose icons in a multifandom post.
jessikacast has icons from Blink.

Fanart & Creative Endeavors

snowgrouse has done voice narration of reasonabsurd's comic.

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