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Yearly archives: 2017

The sixth adventure in Big Finish‘s main range of Doctor Who audios, The Marian Conspiracy, sees the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) solo until he meets up with historian Dr Evelyn Smith (played by fan favourite Maggie Stables). The Doctor is tracing a dangerous “nexus” that takes him to a lecture […]

6. The Marian Conspiracy, episode 1

December 8, 2017 in Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Review tagged Colin Baker / Evelyn Smythe / Jacqueline Rayner / Maggie Stables / the 6th Doctor / The Marian Conspiracy by Jonathan Rudderham

The fifth adventure in Big Finish‘s main range of Doctor Who audios, The Fearmonger, uses the political backdrop of an upcoming election to introduce a new alien “monster”. The cover photo suggests some kind of politically-heavy right-wing bashing storyline but what we get is a somewhat confused meandering story of […]

5. The Fearmonger

December 7, 2017 in Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Review tagged Ace / Jacqueline Pearce / Jonathan Blum / Sophie Aldred / Sylvester McCoy / The 7th Doctor / The Fearmonger by Jonathan Rudderham

It was a cold, but at least not raining, morning when I set off to Greenwich park at 8am. The actual MoRun began at 10am, but you have to have time to get your number, pin it on, bag drop, toilet, photos, get lined up, etc…, which meant leaving at […]

Greenwich 10K MoRun 2017

November 26, 2017 in Running tagged Greenwich Park / MoRun / MoRunning / Movember by Jonathan Rudderham

The third adventure in Big Finish‘s main range of Doctor Who audios, Whispers of Terror, begins in far more familiar territory than the previous adventure, Phantasmagoria. All the familiar elements from the 80s TV series are there, complete with reassuringly familiar sound effects and background noises/music. The adventure opens with […]

3. Whispers of Terror

November 24, 2017 in Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Review tagged Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Gary Russell / Justin Richards / Nicola Bryant / Peri / Peter Miles / the 6th Doctor / Whispers of Terror by Jonathan Rudderham

Following the first episode of the second Big Finish audio production, Phantasmagoria, I’ve been listening to the remaining three episodes over recent evenings and, last night, I finished the final episode. For the most part, I’m glad it’s over. The positives are that it plays like an adventure that may […]

2. Phantasmagoria, parts 2-4

November 23, 2017 in Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Review tagged avid Walliams / Big Finish / David Ryall / Doctor Who / Jez Fielder / Jonathan Rigby / Julia Dalkin / Mark Gatiss / Mark Strickson / Nicholas Briggs / Peter Davison / Phantasmagoria / Steven Wickham / the 5th Doctor / Turlough by Jonathan Rudderham

Phantasmagoria is the second Doctor Who audio adventure from Big Finish, released in 1999, after their initial outing with The Sirens of Time. Written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Nicholas Briggs, and starring Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), with David Walliams, Nicholas Briggs, Mark Gatiss, and others. […]

2. Phantasmagoria, part 1

November 19, 2017 in Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Review tagged avid Walliams / Big Finish / David Ryall / Doctor Who / Jez Fielder / Jonathan Rigby / Julia Dalkin / Mark Gatiss / Mark Strickson / Nicholas Briggs / Peter Davison / Phantasmagoria / Steven Wickham / the 5th Doctor / Turlough by Jonathan Rudderham

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Cookie Discount

October 19, 2017 in Random Thoughts tagged Cookies / S'mores / Thomas Cookie Co by Jonathan Rudderham

This week has been a week of wins. Not only did I manage to achieve a 3rd place trophy in the Dartford Bridge 10K on Sunday but I get home from today’s 11 mile run only to find this on Facebook: Thomas Cookie Co. make the best cookies. I first […]

Second win of the week

September 27, 2017 in Random Thoughts tagged Cookies / Farmer's Market / S'mores / Thomas Cookie Co by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve entered the Greenwich Park Mo-Run on November 26th. Mo-Running raises awareness and funds for Men’s Health through supporting the Movember Foundation. Although this is a 10K run around Greenwich Park, chances are (and weather willing), I’ll be running there and back making the total distance run 34km (21+ miles). […]

Mo-Running 2017

September 26, 2017 in Running tagged Mo-Running / Movember by Jonathan Rudderham

These days, I’m on a path to try and increase my running endurance and distance. I tend to run in excess of 300km each month, and many of my runs being between 21km – 28km. My minimum “run distance” is a 10-11 mile loop around the local area. In order […]

Dartford Bridge 10K

September 24, 2017 in Running tagged 10K / Dartford Bridge 10K / Personal Best / Race / running by Jonathan Rudderham

Last night saw Channel 4 show the first in a televised series of Philip K Dick’s works, entitled Electric Dreams. The first episode, The Hood Maker, sees a cop and a telepath join forces in a dystopian future on the brink of a potential war between “normals” and “teeps”. I’m […]

The Hood Maker

September 18, 2017 in Other TV / Television tagged Electric Dreams / Holliday Grainger / Philip K Dick / Richard Madden / Surveillance Society / Telepaths / The Hood Maker by Jonathan Rudderham

There comes a time that it’s necessary to make big changes to your server. Such a time has come upon me and, over the last several weeks, I’ve been working hard to implement these changes. On TV shows and in the media, we often seen socially-active young things making a […]

Server upgrade

September 11, 2017 in Business tagged CentOS / cPanel / Joomla / MariaDB / MySQL / OpenCart / Server / Virtualmin / Webmin / WHM / Wordpress by Jonathan Rudderham