Five Things Make a Post
Oct. 11th, 2013 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther1. In case you haven't already heard, the BBC has announced that nine previously-lost classic Doctor Who episodes have been recovered from an archive in Nigeria, comprising most of two stories starring Patrick Troughton.
The two stories, which for the last few decades had been down to only one surviving episode each, are "The Web of Fear" (The One With Yetis in the Underground, and Nicholas Courtney's first appearance as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) and "The Enemy of the World" (The One Where the Doctor's Evil Twin is a Bond Villain with an elaborate underground lair in Australia). "The Enemy of the World" is now complete again; "The Web of Fear" is still missing episode 3, the episode in which the Doctor first meets then-Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.
Here's the official announcement, and here's an interview with the chap who found them.
2. Speaking of things that turn 50 this year, the brass band had its 50th anniversary celebrations recently, with other bands visiting and a big community concert ending with all the bands combining into a single mega-band. Also there was an anniversary dinner for the band members, where several people talked about their memories of the band's early years, and several presentations were made. Two new life members were announced, one of whom was, um, me. So that was a thing that happened.
5. I started doing the "five things make a post" thing because I kept putting off posts because they didn't seem big enough on their own. Now it's just turned into me putting off posts because I don't have exactly five things to put in them. I think I'd better think this out again.
The two stories, which for the last few decades had been down to only one surviving episode each, are "The Web of Fear" (The One With Yetis in the Underground, and Nicholas Courtney's first appearance as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) and "The Enemy of the World" (The One Where the Doctor's Evil Twin is a Bond Villain with an elaborate underground lair in Australia). "The Enemy of the World" is now complete again; "The Web of Fear" is still missing episode 3, the episode in which the Doctor first meets then-Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.
Here's the official announcement, and here's an interview with the chap who found them.
2. Speaking of things that turn 50 this year, the brass band had its 50th anniversary celebrations recently, with other bands visiting and a big community concert ending with all the bands combining into a single mega-band. Also there was an anniversary dinner for the band members, where several people talked about their memories of the band's early years, and several presentations were made. Two new life members were announced, one of whom was, um, me. So that was a thing that happened.
5. I started doing the "five things make a post" thing because I kept putting off posts because they didn't seem big enough on their own. Now it's just turned into me putting off posts because I don't have exactly five things to put in them. I think I'd better think this out again.
