Category Archives: literature

Doctor Who by Dennis Potter

Posted on May 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

Don’t get me wrong – the current episodes of Doctor Who (Human Nature) are just the best ever, and I think David Tennant is the best Doctor ever. But in Doctor Who Confidential over on BBC Three, David Tennant says … Continue reading →

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I Have Measured My Life In Server Rooms

Posted on March 21, 2007 by blogmywiki

There we are, title for a slim volume of terse verse about working with computers. By the T.S.Eliot of the IT Crowd. I mean, he worked in Lloyds Bank for heaven’s sake…

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Get down on your knees

Posted on March 10, 2007 by blogmywiki

Both exmonkey and I have noticed this: our jeans used to wear out at the crotch and now they wear out at the knees. Changing nappies, you see. Cyril Connolly is supposed to have said ‘the pram in the hallway … Continue reading →

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Shallow age

Posted on November 14, 2006 by blogmywiki

I’m pretty sure that when I watched the TV adaptation of the Iain Banks novel The Crow Road when it first aired in 1996, I fancied the intelligent, feisty Ashley Watt (played by Valerie Edmond). Watching it again tonight on … Continue reading →

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