Light At The End…

A random collection of thoughts

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

The Screaming Skull, by Jonathan Morris, continues with Mike Yates and his close friend, Lt Jane Lucas (Rachel Atkins) under the influence and control of Mr Rees. Captain Matheson is able to break the control using the device Professor Jensen developed back in the 60s. Sato falls into the clutches […]

The Screaming Skull, cont’d

July 21, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / U.N.I.T. tagged Charlie Sato / Christopher Benjamin / Daphne Ashbrook / Jago / Jamie Glover / Jonathan Morris / Litefoot / Mike Yates / Mr Rees / Richard Franklin / Ruth Matheson / The Vault / The Worlds of Doctor Who / Trevor Baxter / UNIT / Yee Jee Tso by Jonathan Rudderham

The Screaming Skull is the third of four parts that makes up The Worlds of Doctor Who from Big Finish Productions. Whilst the first part gave us Jago & Litefoot in Mind Games, and the second involved Counter-Measures in The Reesinger Process, The Screaming Skull involves UNIT Captain Ruth Matheson […]

The Screaming Skull

July 20, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews / U.N.I.T. tagged Charlie Sato / Christopher Benjamin / Daphne Ashbrook / Jago / Jamie Glover / Litefoot / Mike Yates / Mr Rees / Richard Franklin / Ruth Matheson / The Vault / The Worlds of Doctor Who / Trevor Baxter / UNIT / Yee Jee Tso by Jonathan Rudderham

I often use Amazon Prime for next day delivery, but some items are listed as “Expedited” because they come from further away so it takes longer to get to me. Okay, that sounds fair, but just about how far away do they come? The other week, I bought a case […]

Amazon Shipping

July 19, 2017 in Uncategorized tagged Amazon / Haribo / Phone Case / Running Cap / Shipping by Jonathan Rudderham

Gilmore and Allison take the character development course at the Reesinger Institute, which involves treatments such as immersion therapy, isolation, and interrogation. They’re kept apart except that the manage to sneak a secret rendezvous. They hear the clock chime, the one that keeps Gilmore awake at night. They believe it’s […]

The Reesinger Process, cont’d

July 12, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Counter-measures / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Counter-Measures / Justin Richards / Karen Gledhill / Pamela Salem / Simon Williams / The Reesinger Process / The Worlds of Doctor Who by Jonathan Rudderham

It’s 1964, many years after Jago & Litefoot dealt with the nefarious Mr Rees and his Mind Games, and a couple of kids are seen playing where they shouldn’t be playing. The ground beneath them is unstable, and they fall through. In the hole, they find a curious device. A little […]

The Reesinger Process

July 4, 2017 in Big Finish Audios / Counter-measures / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Counter-Measures / Justin Richards / Karen Gledhill / Pamela Salem / Simon Williams / The Reesinger Process / The Worlds of Doctor Who by Jonathan Rudderham