Ten random facts about me.

(Originally a Tumblr post)

1. I ran the least successful Doctor Who Appreciation Society local group ever. One meeting (which was a disaster due to the hotel cocking things up, never happened to the Star Trek group) with maybe ten people attending, four of whom were my friends.

2. I (seemingly) was in tears in the middle of the street in Aberdeen because I had to choose between seeing Empire Strikes Back or The Black Hole at the cinema. To be fair, I was only seven at the time. I chose Empire, which was likely the right choice.

3. The first videotape we rented from a videoshop when we got a Betamax VCR in 1982 was...The Black Hole.

4. I was interviewed about Doctor Who for a show called Earshot on BBC Radio Scotland in 1991. All I remember saying was that the last season had been a massive improvement and al lthe rumours about a movie and stuff were a bit silly.

5. I can be heard as part of the crowd screaming and chanting in the Big Finish audio Shadow Of The Scourge.

6. The first musical artist I saw live was Jean-Michel Jarre on Bastille Day in Paris in 1990. I've not gotten to see nearly as many bands live as I'd like to. I've seen Front Line Assembly, The Shamen, Echoboy and best of all was right at the front for Elastica on their last tour.

7. I'm mentioned in the thanks section of a Doctor Who book.

8. I edited,published (and wrote three-quarters of a Doctor Who fanzine called Build High For Happiness. Despite my best efforts, nobody else bothered writing anything for the second issue and the pressure got to me and I gave up. The person I feel sorry for is a lovely bloke who provided some fantastic artwork for issue two which never got published and I lost contact with him so have never been able to send the artwork back.

9. The first videogame I ever played was Astro Blaster by Sega in 1981 while on holiday. The second was Williams' Defender. Dad complained it had "too many bloody buttons". Thirty two years on and I am still not really any better at Defender.

10. The only fan letter/e-mail i have ever sent was to Andrew Probert, who designed the Enterprise-D, Airwolf and Street Hawk as his website was one of the first I found when I got proper internet. I got a nice reply back.

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Am dying due to the heat, 31'C today with no breeze. Got windows wide open despite seagulls being noisy little gits and making me miss lines in The Fellowship Of The Ring.

I got some stuff today, best of which was the extended LOTR trilogy blu-ray set. Even better, it turns out I haven't actually seen the extended versions of any of them. I thought I'd seen the first, but there was too many bits I know I would have remembered. I did burst out laughing once or twice due to thinking about the Lego version.

That's all the cutscenes from the game, so kind of the LOTR:Lego Abridged Edition. I'm already all set to return to the Lego game or as it became after finishing the story, Arwen & Eowyn's Excellent Adventures to go for 100% completion.

I also got a golden beckoning lucky cat which is now waving away on the top of the DVD shelves. I'd been after one for ages but never got round to getting one.

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I'm working on a bit of a backlog of posts and comments, so apologies for any confusion caused by replies to things posted more than a week ago. :)

Also...anime and toys.

I have switched to watching anime on my tablet when it's quiet in the shop (which is every day really) so been fairly rattling through the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, at episode 20 of 50 right now and a few more characters I'm a wee bit familiar with due to encountering them in Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 have shown up. I wish the Gumdam toys/kits weren't so expensive, I'd love a couple to stick on the shelf.

Having said that, hopefully I will soon have my boxes of toys here which will be fun as I keep remembering stuff I have like the wee plush Totoro, the wee plush Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service and the wee plush Godzilla. You may be seeing a pattern here. Also the not so wee plush Haruko Harahara from FLCL.

I almost bought a Planet Of The Daleks style Dalek today to sit next to my Power version, but I've got a £15 Amazon voucher due soon so will likely get one with that.