Still got legs..

"But it was, it was a better life. I don’t mean all the travelling
and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don’t matter. The
Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You don’t just give
up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say ‘no.’
You have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs
away!” - Rose Tyler

The Doctor always has a companion and more often than not it's a hot British girl, even when they're American they're really British (Peri) You need a companion in a show like this, the companion asks the questions that the viewer wants to ask, it's a way of moving the story along and tying up lose ends. My favourite ever companion was Sarah Jane Smith, she was companion to Doctor's three and four and played by Elisabeth Sladen who sadly died in 2011.  Before she died however she made a come back in Doctor Who alongside Doctors ten and eleven.  She also had her own spin off show "The Sarah Jane Adventures" It has been wonderful knowing that my children loved Sarah Jane as much as I had when I was a kid. 

G is for Girl. 

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"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.” - The Doctor 

My very favourite thing about Doctor Who is watching it with my children.  It is the one time in the week when we all sit together, all feeling exactly the same emotion at exactly the same time.  However my daughter is now sixteen and my son is ten and they are no longer as scared as they used to be and they certainly aren't scared of the same things anymore.  My daughter was eight when The Empty Child aired on t.v and she still hasn't watched it again.  My son will not watch any episodes with Weeping Angels. We all have different fears and that's what makes life interesting.

F is for Fear

Egg, eggs, eggster....

Exterminate.

"Tracked you down with this. This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow" - The Doctor

The Daleks are almost as much a part of British psyche as Red Telephone Boxes and Buckhingham Palace.  I'm pretty sure if you show anyone a picture of a Dalek they can tell you what it is and I'm pretty sure that without any prompting they will say "exterminate" I have blogged about them before see here

So we reached the end of week one of the April A to Z blogging Challenge...I definitely feel like I have cheated somewhat, using photo's as the main part of my post and only a little writing...ah well I'm doing though, I'm really doing it.  Well done everyone and enjoy your Sunday off.

E is for Exterminate.

Two hundred in...

 

Doctors

“The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.” - The Doctor

You may be wondering why I have turned my Doctors into the number 200, well if you will recall in my first A to Z of the month I said I was going to be combining my two blogs, the other one being blipfoto where you post a photo a day, well over on that blog it's my 200th blip and on this blog it's the letter D, so in my strange geek head this seemed to make perfect sense...

D is for Doctors

Chameleon Circuit

Camouflage

"It’s camouflage. It’s disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first NANOSECOND of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a 12-dimensional data map of everything within a 1000-mile radius, and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment. And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963" - The Doctor

Everyone knows that the Doctor's TARDIS is a 1960's British Police Box, when we hear the word TARDIS that is the image that appears in our head.  However it wasn't meant to look this way, not permanently anyway.  The Doctor stole his TARDIS from Gallifrey,  it's a now obsolete Type 40, mark 1 and very early on in their travels the part of the TARDIS that creates the camouflage, The Chameleon Circuit, broke leaving it stuck in this shape. What I find absolutely amazing now is that if you show a child a picture of a police box they know that it is a police box...they know that it is a TARDIS, if it wasn't for Doctor Who, this is a piece of British history that would be long forgotten.  You would show a child a picture of a Police Box and they would say "what's that" but Doctor Who, this long running, science fiction show has kept the Police Box alive in our memories.

So there's also a band called Chameleon Circuit  listen here 

C is for Camouflage

Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring...

Banana phone.

"Always take a banana to a party Rose, bananas are good" - The Doctor. 

The Doctor (David Tennant) said the above line in the episode titled "The Girl in the Fireplace" a brilliant story involving period drama and some fantastic clock work monsters that were terrifying.  There's a scene with a horse and a mirror that is truly amazing that made me cheer like my home team had won a cup and  of course there are the scenes that made me sob like a toddler who has lost their teddy. In my opinion if you do not laugh, cry and cheer throughout an episode of Doctor Who and preferably experience all these emotions at the same time then it's not a proper episode.  

Click here to listen....

B is for Banana

The fat just walks away...

Adipose

So today is the first day of the April A to Z Challenge....I love blogging, I just love lots of other things too especially my kids and I just never have time for everything. I completed the A to Z Challenge in 2012, I wrote a blog post every single day for the entire month...all based on Doctor Who (if you look back through the posts you will find them all) then I tried again last year and managed one post before life smacked me in the face....I have got massively into photography over the past couple of years and am already particpating in a 365 Challenge...a photo a day for an entire year over on blipfoto see here so thought I could combine the two.  So if I don't have time to write I will just post a photograph that I can use on both blogs. That's the theory, let's see if I can put it in to practise.  I'm not sure that every post will be Doctor Who themed so apologies to my wonderful geek followers...some will be of course, it would be difficult for Doctor Who not to play a part in this as it is such a big part of my life.  

So here you are my first post in the April A to Z Challenge is Adipose. Adipose were little aliens that appeared in the episode of Doctor Who called 'Partners in Crime' it's in this episode that the Doctor (being played by David Tennant) is reunited with Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) it has some brilliant comic scenes in it, my favourite being the scene where they first spot each other.  Apparently Russell T Davies had not written much direction apart from that Donna would need to mime her greeting to the Doctor and Catherine Tate improvised on the day of filming....it's clear to see that she is an accomplished comedian.  

A is for Adipose