♟️NEW EPISODE!♟️ It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders. We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

We've got 5 (count them!) new episodes coming Monday to Friday next week, looking at #DoctorWho New Adventures, with the Alternative Universe Cycle. Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.

This has worrying echoes of Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series) in 1989: 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.'

Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...

I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁

Those 'let's post a biography of someone, but with the photo of a different celebrity who amusingly not-quite-resembles them and who people will reognise, and chortle chortle, we'll all be in on the joke' things are getting a bit wearing now. I think it's time to find a new meme...

Don't Tail Back In Anger

I was in Manchester Piccadilly yesterday during the afternoon travel bedlam, and I have to say how incredibly helpful the very loud and clear on-platform announcers with the booming portable microphones are. They keep platforms 13 & 14 from descending into chaos and confusion...

A National Year of Reading is a good idea, but a government commitment to ensuring every school has its own library and a state-funded local school library service, to keep that library's stock fresh and engaging in the longterm, would be an even better idea. #KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure

I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.

It's a weird coincidence that two perky commercial girlband trios, a generation apart, both had a member who was a little spicier and more enigmatic than the others, and who left to go off in a more quirky art-rock kind of direction -- and that they were both called Siobhán.

You know, when they get the Pope results we've got to remember those are just the overnights and we'll have to wait a week for the consolidated... That joke started out feeling like it was going to be quite good but I lost heart halfway through.

If the Conclave ends in a dead heat, do they have a dance-off or sing-off?

When you're thinking about shots from 1960s 'Doctor Who' which are still astonishing even today... Many candidates, but this came to mind. #DoctorWho

Apparently 9m people in Sweden watch Great Moose Migration on TV every year and they're about to start Season 7. I bet they don't have a Facebook group dedicated to moaning how it was better in the old days, they preferred the colour of the old moose herds, the new producer should be sacked, etc.

I assume B*witched, Craig David, one of Girls Can't Catch, the least famous Sugababe, the guitarist from The Feeling, Eliza Doolittle and the drummer from Lawson are being lined up for 'Doctor In Distress 2025'. The Sun will run a campaign with virtual stickers. Pirate Radio 4 returns as a podcast.

The best kind of emails you get as an author are from accounts teams at schools you visited once about seven years ago, letting you know they’ve changed their invoicing process. Really warms the cockles.

I think he's more than right of centre 😁

Why is it 'We Are Detective' and not 'We Are Detectives'? And why is it 'I Eat Cannibal' in the lyrics but 'I Eat Cannibals' in the title? Do any other 80s songs do weird things with singular and plural?

These reality TV contestants' names are getting weirder every year.

Our #eurovision song is all right but I don't think all the gear-changes do it any favours. Maybe they'll do a great live performance and prove me wrong.

1) I have yawned my way through quite a few of the Historicals. Even more so where they only exist as recons. 2) Even with all the fascinating academic discourse around it, I still find it hard to take 'Kinda' seriously. 3) Gallifrey stuff bores me.

#DoctorWho fans will do a double take at the protagonist's name here... www.waterstones.com/book/the-lis...

Enya has clearly seen both 'Horror of Fang Rock' and 'The Leisure Hive'.

I was quite enjoying 'Patience' until they just rocked up to the DI's son's school and started chatting to him in the playground, no visitor laminates, no signing-in, no safeguarding, nothing... 🤔 #Channel4 #patience

Were all of us straight 90s indie boys absolutely besotted with Harriet Wheeler? Oh, to be young again...

Strong 'female Doctor' energy on this video. Especially the bit where the Argolin Recreation Generator creates an army of multiple Enyas. #DoctorWho #Enya makeagif.com/gif/enya-any...

The family are watching some Sportsballing or other. Apparently this happens on Boxing Day. I am entertaining myself in other ways.

I like the darker ones best.

Every now and then a #DoctorWho fan will commit a labour of love so extraordinary. She's animated four missing episodes! İn a unique and endearing style! Wow. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Apparently one of the things which could be wrong with my pump is the 'impeller'. I've only ever encountered that word in one place before and it doesn't exactly reassure me.

Stocked up at Sainsbury's.

Escaping to the coast. Not easy when you live in Sheffield! #whitby

When they're out of stock, they're literally out of stock! I use this all the time in vegetarian chillis and haven't been able to get it from Tesco for weeks on end. #firstworldproblems

Nobody talks about how *rubbish* the GIF search algorithms are on social media, compared with, say, Google Images. Look up 'Sir Humphrey Appleby' and you get 1001 GIFs of Humphrey *Bogart* and 500 of random people saying 'Yes, sir!' If you try 'Yes, Minister', the first 600 GIFs are of Liz Truss.

'I can't believe we're still unpopular! Get out there and punch a voter.'

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

The 'Marxism Weekender' promoted at my bus stop promises some 'Smashing Sexism'! Can't wait, mate! Super!

Post you from a different era

The production subtitles on 'The Sensorites' remind me that, although William Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford are playing grandfather and granddaughter, he was 56 and she was 24 at this point -- about the same gap as between me and my daughter, give or take a few months. #DoctorWho

I mean, there must be someone left in the world for whom it will be their first time seeing this piece of utter genius. I envy you. #Mastermind www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMi...

#Mastermind question about the genius Two Ronnies 'Mastermind' sketch! We have come full circle.

Making a starter pack for authors who do school visits, so schools can easily find us. This starts off one for primary schools go.bsky.app/5u2ArqX but I'll also do one for secondary. Let me know if you do school visits and you want to go on the list - and whether you do primary or secondary. Thanks.

I’m heading in to Skybridge

I'd just like to put it on record that 'Excel Parking Services' are indefensible, unscrupulous robbing bastards.

Starter Pack.

It gets chopped off after that but I assume the text goes on '...run screaming from the room.'

I've been here just for a few days and so far I seem to have posted mainly about crime dramas, 'Doctor Who' and girlbands, with the odd terrible pun. I'd like to say I'll be about more than that on here, but I can't promise.