On and on...

"People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something" - Steve Coogan 

X is for Xerox 

Any of you pricks move....

 

"When you're dealing with a store like this, they're insured up the ass. They're not supposed to give you any resistance whatsoever. If you get a customer, or an employee, who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. Everybody jumps. He falls down screaming, blood squirts out of his nose, nobody says fucking shit after that. You might get some bitch talk shit to you, but give her a look like you're gonna smash her in the face next, watch her shut the fuck up. Now if it's a manager, that's a different story. Managers know better than to fuck around, so if you get one that's giving you static, he probably thinks he's a real cowboy, so you gotta break that son of a bitch in two. If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he wears ladies underwear. I'm hungry. Let's get a taco"- Mr White 

W is for Weapons

I don't wanna be the same as everybody else...

“In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed. A twanging noise like a wooden ruler being plucked over the edge of a desk, a dazzling refraction of light, and suddenly the stars have all been stretched out thin and it's gone. This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scooter. And you didn't have the special rainbow effects. And it probably wasn't going at more than two hundred miles an hour. And instead of a pulsing whine sliding up the octaves, it just went putputputputput ... VROOOOSH. But it was exactly like that anyway.”- Neil Gaiman.

V is for Vespa.

Cow go moo...

“His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.”  - Terry Pratchett, Good Omens.

U is for Udder. 

Only trees...

“

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

―George R Martin, A Dance with Dragons

T is for Tree

A ball! my favourite thing...

“This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”  - Dean Koontz

 S is for Springer Spaniel

Taken...

 

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you" - Bryan Mills (character)

R is for Ransom

Curiouser and curiouser

“Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’
‘I’m seven and a half exactly.’
‘You needn’t say “exactually,”’ the Queen remarked: ‘I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.’
‘I can’t believe that!’ said Alice.
‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll

Q is for Queen

Blossom...

“We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him.
” Jarod Kintz, My love can only occupy one person at a time.




P is for Pink

Silence.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”

- Mario Puzo, The Family

O is for Omerta

o·mer·tà

[aw-mer-tah; English oh-mer-tuh] Show IPA

noun Italian.

secrecy sworn to by oath; code of silence.

There's no place like home..

"Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” - Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss



N is for Newcastle upon Tyne.

Judoon you say...

 

“Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic strap over my head, adjusted the fascia to my cheekbones and glanced again at the mirror. The acid in my tummy had gone. Masked I am me. Masked I can do anything.”    -Chloe Thurlow

M is for Mask

New Life...

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
―Kobayashi Issa, Poems.

From these tiny flower buds, apples will grow.  Ain't nature brilliant?

L is for Life

Donuts.....

So my youngest child has been poorly since Friday so I'm back blogging (is that even a term) I'm also painfully aware that this photograph is such a cop-out, however it's either this or nothing so this it is...

K is for Krispy Kreme.

p.s they were delicious.

These are not the droids you are looking for...

"For my ally is the Force – and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you: here. Between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship" - Master Yoda.

J is for Jedi.

Infinity

 

"Your mobile telephone. I bring you to a paradise planet two billion light years from Earth and you want to update Twitter" - The Doctor

I've been trying reallly hard to keep up with the Doctor Who theme, I'm just not sure I'm going to make it this year.  Especially as the main part of my blog post is a photo I take daily, and I didn't want to just take photos of Doctor Who figures/toys that relate to that letter. 

I is for iPad.

"Smart bunch Time Lords, no dress sense, dreadful hats, but smart" - The Doctor

H is for Hat

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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. 

Hide...

 

"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