Oh, Vienna!

[poliphilo]

It's very windy this morning- but warm. We had a lie-in- as we sometimes do on Sunday mornings because the neighbours don't wake us up with their alarm clocks and shouting.

I dreamed Cliff Richard was driving his bus on a huge expanse of beach. He had a very young boy with him and a teenager who was acting as chaperon.

John Rentoul has a piece in the Indy pointing out that Thatcher was in continuity with her predecessors. Frank Cottrell Boyce has a piece in The Observer saying she hated Britain. Peter Hitchens has a piece in The Mail saying she wasn't really a conservative because what exactly did she conserve?

I enjoyed part 2 of the first Arne Dahl mystery. I was sorry the best-looking male detective and the only female detective had to wind up in bed together. I thought it was unprofessional of them.

Yesterday evening's Doctor Who was a bit Pertwee-era- featuring Soviet submariners and nukes and a defrosted Ice Warrior. David Warner  had a supporting role as a ditzy old Russian scientist with a thing about Ultravox.

Comments

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I thought Who was a vast improvement on the last couple of weeks! David Warner was great to see, if a little underused: a wee bit Doctorish himself.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was a lot like an old-style Dr Who story- the main difference being that in the past they'd have spaced it out over several episodes.

I love David Warner. I saw his Hamlet, y'know.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it too. Pertwee and Alien - a curious combination.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not a classic episode, I think, but entirely acceptable.