Poetry Suggestions

Some suggestions from Poetry Day then!

First up, who doesn't want to read of Lord Byrons nightmare about the end of the world? It has less focused on rhyme or meter than most of his work so is a bit more raw - Darkness.

As I've said before, Mary Robinson's January 1795 might as well be January 2021 and most of the corruption and social inequality is still a talking point! One of Steve Atkins's favourite poets - I legit thought this was much more modern (bar the odd dated phrase) when I first saw it.

The Rescue

The Rescue (part 1)

The Powerful Enemy

In which Doctor Who meets an enemy, who is powerful.

The TARDIS lands in a gloomy and sandy place.

We see a smashed up space rocket, with its radar system going nuts. An excited young woman rushes in to tell a man lying in a bed that a rescue ship has arrived.

Hey, everyone, its Vicki!

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Dalek Invasion of Earth

Worlds End (part 1)

Been a while, hasn't it?

We start with a sign saying it is forbidden to dump bodies into the river, and then a man walks towards the river and drowns himself. Already that Terror Nation is doing a number on the nations sleep pattern.

Inside the TARDIS the Doctor does some cleaning and sighing. It being William Hartnell, this is a magical waste of 20 seconds.

The crew are delighted to find they have landed in London, but Susan is the first to twig something is up as Ian casually yells out hello. No one answers. "Probably Sunday!" he quips.

The Doctor thinks the area has been abandoned but Ian think its just a construction site.

Then Susan bashes her ankle, which causes a bridge to fall on the TARDIS, trapping them. Ian tries to lift some of the debris to no effect.

Planet of Giants

Oh yeah, apparently there's more Doctor Who. Who knew?

Planet of Giants (episode 1)

Planet of Giants

The crew are in the TARDIS when Barbara burns herself on an overheating TARDIS console. Suddenly the TARDIS doors begin to open in flight, and everyone rushes to shut them. Susan checks the TARDIS for faults but it all seems to be OK.

We then get an example of how changed the Doctor is when he immediately apologies to Barbara. "I always forget the niceties."

DOCTOR: The space pressure was far too great whilst we were materialising. The strange thing is that we all came out of it unscathed. It's most puzzling. It's a big mystery, my boy.

Says the Doctor, tempting fate...

The Thirteen Problems

 

(The cover on mums copy, borrowed from elsewhere, with its blue geranium..)

It is usually Aidan who writes reviews of crime novels. However, I was recently reading one of the early Agatha Christies, so I thought I would share my thoughts on. The Thirteen Problems pitch together a collection of short stories that Agatha Christie had written about a character named Jane Marple in the latter half of the 1920s. In the collection, a dinner party tell each other unsolved mysteries, usually involving a murder, while the rest of the party try and work out who done it. To their bafflement, the unassuming little old lady who sits in the corner works out each solution correctly. Even those that baffled the greatest minds in the crime fighting industry.