Christmas 2013 - so far!

Christmas this year seems to have spilled out either side of December...

( Here's what I've been up to so far. )

I have one more day of work (Hooray!), and then it's a reasonably full Christmas week in Sheffield - the first one I've had up here for a while.

Hope you're having a good time as well, whatever you're up to over Christmas! :o)

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Final Round

I promised I'd do one last Doctor Who evening (at least for this year!), so here it is:

Doctor Who evening: Round 11: Merry Christmas, Doctor
Saturday 28th December, my place from 4:00pm*
* Or earlier, if you're bringing Lego with you ;o)

I'm not pre-deciding the schedule this time. We'll be watching a selection of the Christmas specials, but as there's only a limited number, I'll let folks choose. Not 'The End of Time' though - It's too long and I have other plans involving that for a future evening. But that still leaves a choice of four specials for each of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors:

The Christmas Invasion
It's Christmas Eve and high above London, the alien Sycorax are holding the Earth to ransom. The Doctor must recover from his regeneration in time to save the human race from enslavement.

The Runaway Bride
A bride beamed aboard the TARDIS while walking down the aisle, killer Santas, exploding baubles, an alien spaceship shaped like a giant star - Christmas with the Doctor is anything but a silent night.

Voyage of the Damned
A spacecraft set on an apocalyptic collision course with Earth, a host of killer robot angels and an evil severed-headed mastermind - It's just another Christmas for the Doctor.

The Next Doctor
Christmas 1851, and Cybermen stalk Victorian London. The Doctor discovers a spate of mysterious deaths, and is surprised to discover anothere Doctor. Are two Doctors enough to stop the rise of the CyberKing?

A Christmas Carol
In the Eleventh Doctor's first Christmas special, he has just one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?

The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe
Evacuated from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world.

The Snowmen
Christmas Eve 1892 and a chilling menace threatens humankind, but with the Doctor in mourning, it takes old friends and an unorthodox young governess to get him fighting to save the world again.

(Before this, we can watch a trio of mini adventures featuring the Paternoster gang - Demon's Run: Two Days Later, Vastra Investigates, and The Great Detective. Because everyone knows they're the real stars of this series.)

The Time of the Doctor
If it's good enough to watch again within a week, there's Matt Smith's swansong as well. The massed forces of the universe's deadliest alien species are drawn to a quiet planet by a mysterious message echoing out to the stars.

I don't propose to watch all those; there are just too many and we won't have time. As I say, I'll take votes (although my personal votes include 'The Next Doctor' and 'The Snowmen' in particular). I will provide snacks and we can do the usual break for takeaway, although if anyone wants to bring along leftover Christmas goodies, they'll be more than welcome.

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It has also been suggested to me that Sherlock on the big screen on New Year's Day might be a good idea. So if anyone wants to come around and watch that, feel free to come round any time from 8pm (It starts at 9pm).

Hope to see you here, on one if not both days!