Dave Owen

Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

My mum extolled it to me fifty years ago, but I didn’t see it until recently. Until then it was just one of Geoff Love’s space themes. I was staggered to realise that Wells was not only still living but wrote the screenplay. It’s hard for me to classify.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:13 UTC

The dinosaurs in a spaceship one, yes, of course, now what was that called?

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

The Kaleds, of course, had a bunker.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

Yes. Huckle would have had his clubs in the back of his land rover.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

Of course. That memory is hidden at right angles to the rest of the UNIT period so didn’t register when I mentally scanned.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Has golf ever been mentioned, yet alone shown, in televised Doctor Who?

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:28 UTC

Woke from a dream in which I had to skip school for a day in order to get election materials delivered and was worrying about the effect on my upcoming A levels. Over to you, Doctor Jung.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 07:25 UTC

It would finish with May, and the letters in “Y u ha e b en w tc ng” would drop off one by one in front of her.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

The 2024 general election should have concluded with a Croft/Perry/Lloyd “You have been watching” sequence of all the Tories whose antics have been diverting us, showing where they are now. Truss searching the bottom of a ballot box, Cameron in his posh shed, Rees-Mogg sobbing into nanny’s bosom.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:18 UTC

I went to see Nick Mason and friends playing Syd era Floyd two weeks ago and went by bike. No one sang it at me as I was pedalling away from the venue.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

+1

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:13 UTC

I hate anything that’s a mixture of different types of letter groupings. CAP Gemini or CLIC Sargent, for example. Either be all acronym or all word. I used to work for NCR, which then became the hugely irritating NCR Voyix.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 08:35 UTC

Yes. I had also been following the advice of Adam Ant.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

As well as being a special and brilliant author, www.ninaallan.co.uk also blogs about what she’s been reading and I look there for ideas for what to pick up next. I’m currently gripped by “Babysitter” by Joyce Carol Oates, of whom I was previously completely unaware.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:06 UTC

Every year, on my birthday, spouse consents to watch an entire C20 Doctor Who serial with me, spread out over the day. It was “Day of the Daleks” in 2020. One of the best birthdays of my life.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

I once unplugged a juke box from the wall when this came on.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

The Double Dickers.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 11:52 UTC

Yes! Yes! Black Mirror meets Twin Peaks. Captivating. Couple in front of me walked out.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:23 UTC

I’m amazed you lasted that long. The more you watch, the more the illusion wears off, the more obvious the meagre source materials become. Time and again, the shot reverts to same few stills or composites. No director would block or vision mix like this. It looks and feels nothing like television.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

This. I thought I’d affect an air of refinement at the gym by watching my next episode of “I, Claudius” on my iPad at the elliptical trainer, and it was ALL TITS AND ARSES.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

The only kind of platform I condone putting him on.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:39 UTC

The man who who has just become my new MP came 20 seconds ahead of me at the same Parkrun last Saturday. I congratulate him on both achievements, and hope he knew he had a Green at his heels.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:29 UTC

I’ve had a busy six weeks, so I’m very happy indeed that Scottish Greens have significantly grown our vote across Edinburgh and we’ve come third in several seats. We can’t win in FPTP but this bodes well for Holyrood 2026.

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