Hello!   Its been a while.   I suddenly had an urge today to see if anyone is still listening, and possible say hello to some of the members here who I've not spoken with in a long time.

I've finished work today and am looking forward to doing not too much over the next week and a bit. Maybe just some jobs round the house now and again.

General news..  Kids are 9 and 6 now.  For the first time this year we all sat together to watch the new series of Doctor Who on telly.   It was great seeing the kids hiding behind cushions and screaming now and again!

Following this, we've been watching a lot of other post-2005 Who.  Mainly Tennant.   Been really enjoying those.     I've also started buying Thomas some Character Options DW figures.   I do have fair few myself, but they're still nicely packaged and minty!   So I've been mainly buying bundles of 'used' figures for him (and me!) to play with.    I've bought him the 11 Doctors box set for Christmas.  Surprisingly it was still the same price as when it came out (About £50).  Sounds a lot, but its a cheap way to buy most of the Doctors and all have their sonics, etc.  'Used' figures tend to have 'lost' them somewhere in time and to buy a replacement can cost more than the figure was new!

I only found out the other day that they also did a '13 Doctors set' a couple of years ago.  But this was a limited edition and expensive then and even more so now. (13 as it included the War Doctor.)

Thomas has been drawing pictures of the Tardis.  He's also written to Santa asking for a 'Real Tardis'.  And keeps telling me that he will be getting it because he's asked Santa.   

A few weeks ago we did go to Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings nearish to Birmingham.  They have a Kiosk Museum there which includes a Scottish style 'Metropolitan' Police Box.   You can go inside when the attendant is there.  Plus all the telephone kiosks have working phones and you can phone one from another.  Kids were dialing away for hours!    The light on the top of the Police Box flashes too when the phone rings.  We were all amazed at that!  I'll try to attach a pic.

In other news.  This last two to three years my interest in Marvel comics has resurfaced.  Recently been reading through Amazing Spider-Man.  Surprising how good the older comics can be.

Doctor Who TV Comics.   The next 'book' planned isn't a book. It will hopefully be a recreation of a folded Mighty TV Comic.  This is so that the A3 strips can be done without the centre disappearing into the gutter. Unfortunately cleaning the colour Troughtons is a painful job and I've had to have a rest for a while from cleaning.

As I wont be doing too much over the hols, I'll pop in here now and again.. just in case.

Have Fun and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Til next time.

Ian General Bod-Wongspillagetray