Hopefully

One of the libraries local to me is doing a Doctor Who day on the 7th August

http://northamptonshirelibraries.wordpress.com/ <- linky

I shouldn't bother. He's a boring conversationalist and he never offers you a drink, or even coffee and a biscuit.

Oh cool!


Well he can give you a good game of chess!!!

Mat Irvine will be there too. I wonder if he is as much of a jumped up little pipsqueak in the flesh as he is on DVD commentaries?

No, he is most certainly not. Mr Irvine was an integral part of the classic series and was forced to work twenty-five hour days for fifty-three weeks of the year, received the barest minimum of toilet breaks and had to pay for his and Matthew Waterhouse's gruel. I'd like to see "easy life" Russell T Davies do that!!!

Enjoy your day! If you're a kid and go in costume you'll be given a "treat". Not sure what lone adults in costume will get (shown the door, maybe.)

According to their website Irvine's going to be talking about "space in general"


That's a broad remit. At first I thought it was just the library putting that to tick an "educational element" tickbox* for targets or something. But it turns out he's a keen and active amateur astronomer. So, go and see if you can bamboozle him with questions about pulsars or something.

Shame about the annoying commentaries. I haven't got any of them (yet) - is it a rule that people are annoying on them?

*(Which brought to mind the Lord of the Rings costumes and props exhibition at the Science Museum a few years ago. Desperate stuff in the leaflet/poster and foyer blurbs about how it was a serious look at the "science" of movie making. Not just gawping at costumes and swords then? (It was great!) But there was a school party there when I went! I didn't have the nerve to ask which elements of the science curriculum they were researching.)