Old Bakehouse Antiques

If you follow my musings, you’ll know I am a big fan of any Narnia Doctor Who connections. Well done, then, the Northants Herald & Post for their TARDIS / Narnia piece on a fascinating antique shop. The shop is The Old Bakehouse Antiques and the article (compete with TARDIS) is: Welcome to Northampton’s own Narnia – a hidden Tardis-like…

One Last Christmas thought

A thought ahead of Last Christmas — everyone has focussed on the seasonal elements, the elves. the resemblance to The Thing (from another World) / Alien but I just wonder something. What if this is another Narnia retelling? Let’s remember the less than brilliant The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe. Back in 2011 there were lots of great…

The Writer, the Box and the Time Lord (elsewhere)

Just a mention for an article I wrote on Doctor Who for the Church of England Newspaper. Title The Writer, the Box and the Time Lord it was published on November 22nd 2013 which is the 50th anniversary of the death of CS Lewis and, of course, the day before the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. The picture…

Christmas Special 2011

Christmas is definitely coming! So this years Children in Need gave us the trailer for the Christmas Special 2011 – The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe. Yours truly is feeling very smug at this as only as recently as here I made the point that the TARDIS shared literary roots with the wardrobe to Narnia…

Who is the Doctor?

While we wait for the next season or so for Mr Moffatt to answer the question ‘Doctor Who’ [see my review for the Wedding of River Song here if this mean nothing to you) I thought I would upon the same question from a literary perspective. I’m not sure how useful this is, but that…