Doctor Who Tag.

Seeing as Doctor Who returned to our TVs on Saturday I decided to do the tag, I wasn't tagged by anyone and I probably could have done it before now, but I'm pretty hopeless with uploading at a reasonable time...

1. When and why did you start watching Doctor Who, and what made you become a fan of it?
I started watching it when it returned with Christopher Eccleston, I absolutely loved it and have been obsessed since. I’m not sure what made me become a fan but I watched it every weekend and if I missed it, I made sure I caught up, it just grew as something I loved and couldn’t miss I think?

2. Favourite quotes?

Soooooo many! I guess ‘We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one!’ stands out. These could have a blog post of their own! Haha

3. Favourite theme songs?

This is the worst question for me to answer, I absolutely adore the whole of the Doctor Who soundtrack and am in awe of Murray Gold as a composer, so my top five in no particular order are; ‘Amy’s Theme’, ‘The Pandorica Suite’, ‘The Enigma of River Song’, ‘The Majestic Tale (of a Mad Man in a Box)’ and ‘The Impossible Girl/Clara’s Theme’.

4. Favourite episodes and scenes/moments?

‘End of the World’ stands out as one of my favourite episodes, one of my favourite small characters was in that episode as well (Jabe from the Forest).

‘Blink’ was another episode that I absolutely loved! ‘School Reunion’ – the who’s better battle between Rose and Sarah Jane was brilliant, and the goodbye the Doctor gives her is so much more meaningful now. ‘The Sound of Drums’, ‘The Shakespeare Code’ and ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’ are up there in my favourites too.

5. Least favourite episodes?

I haven’t been a big fan of Moffat’s writing?! I didn’t enjoy many episodes of Matt Smith’s era as the doctor unfortunately, but I loved Matt and Karen Gillan as the Doctor and Amy (and I liked Rory and River) – so that just about made up for it. Yeah it probably be one of those. I didn’t really like Fires of Pompeii either..

6. Favourite doctors (or do you disagree with idea of having favourite doctor and like all of them equally?)

I didn’t even know people would like the doctor’s equally? They all have different characteristics? Erm, William Hartnell because he started it all off and I thought he set a good standard, Tom Baker – not sure why I just loved him as the doctor and David Tennant – but he stands out as my all time favourite.

7. Favourite companions?

Sarah Jane, in old and new episodes. Rose Tyler, because the connection between her and Ten just made the story lines even better. Donna Noble because she added humour to the episodes.

8. Least favourite companions?

I wasn’t a massive fan of a lot of the early companions (in Classic Who) they irritated me too much, from the recent series’ I’d have to say Martha? Her character was a bit whiny?  

9. Characters you relate to most?

That’s a tough one and I’m not sure I could actually answer that one! Hah

10. Favourite villains and villains that frightened you most?

Another tough one to choose, favourite villains? They tend to be the ones that frighten me the most – because they live up to the Doctor Who scare factor… Weeping Angels, Clockwork Robots, Silurians ( I think the actors did an amazing job at being lizardlike etc.)

11. Least favourite villains?

Not a big fan of the Dream Lord, and I thought the Snow Men were the worst villains in the new who, the visuals were fake and awful and the story line was poor.

12. Funniest moments?

Donna and Ten’s moment between the windows seeing each other again makes me laugh everytime. Strax as a character makes me laugh so much as well, so most of his ‘funny moments’. In the episode ‘End of Time’ the Doctor locks the Tardis like a car and at the time, it was hilarious!

13. Moments that made you cry?

Ten before he regenerated… ‘I don’t want to go’.

14. Saddest episode?

‘The End of Time’ because of the quote mentioned above.

‘Doomsday’, I don’t think there is a better Doctor-Companion combo then Rose and Ten.

15. Favourite friendship?

The obvious Rose & Ten (unless you want to call them a couple) but I love the friendship between Strax, Jenny, Madame Vastra, known as the Paternoster Gang with the Doctor. (One of the good things about Moffat’s writing.)

16. Favourite couple?

Ten and Madame de Pompadour. It was only one episode but they were one couple that should have lasted and imagine them travelling through time and space together.

17. Favourite actor?

I would clearly have to say David Tennant, but other than the Doctor, I thought Bernard Cribbins was brilliant in the episodes he was in. John Simm has been great as The Master as well.

18. Favourite Actress

I think there have been better actresses in Doctor Who than actors through the years, Elisabeth Sladen, Billie Piper, Alex Kingston, Jenna Coleman, Karen Gillan and Catherine Tate.

19. Favourite writer?

Russel T. Davies without a doubt. Richard Curtis did a great job with ‘Vincent & The Doctor’ though, Helen Raynor wrote a few solid episodes as well, following Daleks and Sontarans.

20. Actor you’d have liked to play 12?

Erm, either Rupert Grint or Amy Adams – purely for the ginger aspect and I think Amy Adams would have done a good job as a female doctor I think.

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Doctor Who? - Exactly!

When it was finally officially announced that Peter Capaldi was to be the 12th Doctor, I admit I had to google him to realise who he was… AAND I admit I was one of those Whovians that didn't totally agree with the choice… I have watched him in things previously and yes, he's a good actor (the first person with an Oscar to be appointed as the doctor…), but I just couldn't see him fitting number 12. However, I've become a lot more open to the choice and I'm excited to see his take on the Doctor. 

Still, to the people saying 'I wish it was someone I actually knew', let's be fair, you probably didn't know who Matt was when he was announced as 11, and I'm sure you love him now... 

Hopefully, Moffat will sort out some good story lines for Capaldi, after all isn't that what a show is about, the actual underlined storyline OR has it been so 'fandomised' the actors are supposed to be young, good looking and fit the mould? Well to be honest, I think it's a nice idea to get an older person to play the Doctor,  he's the same age as the first Doctor - William Hartnell. 

To others talking about him 'already being in Doctor Who in Fires of Pompeii' so have many others. In fact, the sixth doctor appeared on the show and arrested the fifth doctor before he was announced as the doctor, Karen Gillan was also in 'Fires of Pompeii' before she was Amy Pond. Freema Agyeman appeared as Adeola before she was Martha... And Gwen from Torchwood has appeared in DW as a different character too, to name a few others… 

Also, pointed out by someone else…  Peter Capaldi looks like an aged Arthur Darvill… 

But, the main thing that's annoyed me… He's STILL NOT GINGER. 

7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

Pretty good week :)

Monday, I didn't really do much, I stayed up late to help promote some specific musicians with A LOT of music that day...
Tuesday was insane, spent the day asking ex-prisoners questions and hearing about their time in and out of prison... Some stories were sad, others were funny. Changed my mind about how prisons and the justice system works...
 Wednesday, normalish day at sixth form, fell asleep as soon as I got home and then ended up staying at my gran's for the night :)
Thursday, spent my evening doing work that made no sense and not having a clue what I was doing.
Friday, busy day, sixth form, youth club and then babysitting (whilst watching tennis!)
Yesterday, chilled and cooked cottage pie with dad, which turned out to taste pretty good!
Then today, day helping people, chiling in the sun, playing badminton with the sister, wearing flip flops (which like never happens) and a BBQ. Oh and watched the WImbledon Mens' Final, nice one Murray! Well deserved, surely he's gotta be Sir Andy Murray now?

Music of the Week... 

Sinners - Lauren Aquilina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzu1g-S0fI

The War - Josh Record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWUMiWQCAQ

Biblical - Biffy Clyro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrbMNBNMksk

1st July 2013: a good day for music.

2nd July 2013: spending the day with ex-prisoners...

3rd July 2013: change of plans.

4th July 2013: spending 3 hours on work that makes no flipping sense.

5th July 2013: another change of plan.

6th July 2013: summer (maybe one day my name will be on a coke bottle :P)

7th July 2013: BBQ, badminton, bare feet and a win for murray.

evan. :)

28th April 2013: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Monday 22nd April: songs and skinny jeans.

Tuesday 23rd April: happy st. georges day and happy birthday shakespeare!

Wednesday 24th April: i survived cricket training... just!

Thursday 25th April: rooftops, clouds and a sunset.

Friday 26th April: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'.

Saturday 27th April: doctor who, hail, cooking and coursework.

Sunday 28th April: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Well this week has been pretty full... It's seen a 3 month counter to my birthday, 6 months til Kenya, a return to cricket after avoiding it for a while, some of my most popular photos of the day being taken and lots of other random stuff :)

You know when you have one of those weeks that you do lots in and it feels good? I've had one of them, however, there's other things that I've let annoy me so much, a perfect example of this is an email I got today, normally it wouldn't have bothered me, but I think the fact that I've been trying pretty hard in the past few weeks made it that little bit more annoying. Still, this email was fine until the end when I got told 'a lot of work still to do but you maybe shouldn't have left it so long!!' ok, so the fact that I'd emailed said teacher nearly 3 weeks before today, with a draft, and it took until Friday, for her to give me any feedback, my coursework is due in next Friday? And I have two mocks this week, much appreciated, thanks!!

Still, onto the better things :) helped out with one of the boys cricket clubs this week at school, which was good. Returned to cricket, went to training on Wednesday, which wasn't too bad, although still not better from being ill in the past two weeks and that obviously showed... Today's match didn't go very well, we lost... I went in to bat 2nd, faced a few balls and then got out for 2... Safe to say my head still isn't quite back into it. My bowling was pretty good though, and I got a wicket, which is always a plus :)

Next week could be a challenge... But hey, how bad can coursework, two mocks, three cricket sessions, three sessions with 'challenging' young people and a few other things really be?

Quote of the Week: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'. This is what I'm trying to live by at the moment especially as I'm going into 'exams season'. It's an important thing to remember with everything you do really, just the fact that the more you try now, the more you'll gain when you get to the end. 
  
Music of the Week: 

Born To Die (cover) - Daisy Guttridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVMCnAN3Ms 

Panic Cord - Gabrielle Aplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdTcr98fSs
 This is definitely one to chill to in the sun :) 

Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADP65wbBUpc
Just love this song, listen to pretty much every day, definitely a feel good song for the summer :)

Twitter of the week: Lots went on this week, Daisy Guttridge favourited, RT'd and tweeted me quite a bit and followed me back, Jenna Louise Coelman (Clara from Doctor Who) favourited one of my tweets, Colton and Zara, MLICOfficial (Brady Szuhaj from Late Nite Reading) and The Natterjacks followed me... and no, I didn't ask any of them :) 

I'm now off to have a hot chocolate, do some PE revision for my mock tomorrow, and then get some sleep :) 

evan. :) 

21st April 2013: summer, shorts and stuff.

Monday 15th April: last day of being remotely sane for a while.

Tuesday 16th April: back to sixth form and tired.

Wenesday 17th April: a walk along the river.

Thursday 18th April: i like rainbows.

Friday 19th April: 'i feel sorry for sausage dogs'

Saturday 20th April: 'not everything ends'

Sunday 21st April: summer, shorts and stuff.

So, I don't have a clue why I called each entry what I did, but hey ho! I went back to sixth form this week, had a limited amount of lessons due to certain teachers being off, had a 'challenging' lesson with the Year 7s, and some confusing lessons for me, especially in PE...
Started mind mapping my notes for revision, and also starting to get slightly apprehensive about my upcoming exams... considering they're around 3 weeks away.

Didn't really do much during the week, but this weekend I've been shopping and got some t-shirts and 3/4 length stuff for the summer and probable things to take to Kenya, actually went out in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday because the weather was so nice. Although, I ended up putting a hoody on shortly after cos my arms got too cold :(

Started thinking about the final two fundraising events I'm hoping to sort out with few others for our trip to Kenya. It's scary to think it's just over 2 months til all our money has to be paid in, then the crazy summer of sorting everything else out! I keep having moments where I think how insane it's going to be out there, and how stunning the sunsets and stars are going to be, then how we're gonna be helping kids and communities out there and seeing different lifestyles and yeah I could go on...


I also finished the book 'Wonder' by R.J.Palacio, it's a really well written book, I read it in about 2 days, obviously with time in between for work, but it's a page-turner. On the front is a precept (word I learnt from the book) which says 'you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.' Definitely a good read, no matter what age, except maybe not like junior school age?!

I haven't spent as much time as I usually do listening to music this week, but I've been listening to some 'classics' this week, so two of the following are just summer sing a long feel good songs and the other is from a guy I saw support Gabrielle Aplin a month ago (which is crazy).

Place Your Hands - Reef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihoNRc8GDQ

Sweet Disposition - Temper Trap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8e7nNLZNs

This Year - Andreas Moe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vfbcsj_bUk

Twitter of the Week: BBC One favourited one of my tweets :) Jess Revell who plays Elektra in Tracy Beaker Returns & Dumping Ground followed me, and Lem Knights (the guy with the fro on Team Jessie on the Voice) followed me too :)

Quote of the Week: 'everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life'. - August Pullman, a fictional character.

Highlights of the Week: Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer was released!! It's looking soooo good!! Also, Doctor Who, was actually pretty good this week, I thought the classic ghost story was pretty nice but the twists in it were good too, first one I've properly enjoyed and found a bit creepy this series, The Voice was ok this week, I sort of get bored with the auditions process so hopefully when the battle rounds come round it'll pick up a bit.

There we go for another week :)

Thank youu

evan. :)

7th April 2013: 'give me a star to reach for'

soooo, I have had a nice week off, and plan to enjoy next week too... I don't really know how to form these blogs really? I don't know whether you want like a blog about what I did each this week, about the photos I took, do you want me to put all the photos from this week on this blog or eurgh I dunno, so this is an experimental entry, so if you only like certain bits, send me a comment on what you enjoy from it on my facebook page, which I'll link at the end :)

So...

Monday was a good day...

Spent most of it at my grandparents house and then came home and didn't do much else.

( By the way, this photo is a close up of my grandparents wallpaper, just cos I hadn't done many like this on my photo a day thing...)

Tuesday, the weather was really nice, at last. Didn't really do much, slept in until like 12, and then I sorted all my work notes out kinda properly, and then that was the day nearly over, I watched Step Up 3 with my sister too to finish it off :)

(This photo was the sunny evening behind some rooftops in my road)

Wednesday, I had to get up early to be in for a revision session at 9, so I went to that which last 3 hours... Then I came home, sorted those bits of revision out, had an afternoon sat listening to music and discovering yet more new people...

(This photo was my favourite from the week, I took it in the evening because I'd been sitting looking out of my bedroom window watching the evening come, and thought it made a kinda nice photo)

Thursday was a weird day, it snowed heavily but nothing really came of it, if that makes any sense? I looked after my sister in the afternoon and we looked through some old photos of when I was little... she couldn't believe how ginger I was?!

(This photo, was again taken from my bedroom window, I liked the snow/rain drop thing on my window with the garden and field in the background)

Friday, I was supposed to have gone in again for another revision session but I hadn't got to sleep properly til about 2 that morning, and wasn't feeling great so decided it was best not too. Still I felt a bit more alive and cheerier in the afternoon so went out with my Mum, Sister, Grandma and Great Aunty for lunch, which was pretty nice and then spent the evening watching doctor who with my sister :)

(This photo was taken from outside my house looking at some trees with a pretty cool cloud formation?!)

 Saturday, was a lovely day, I went to the beach with some of my family, I even walked along the beach with my Mum without a hoody, it was that warm! Had a nice meal out, and even the car journey there and back was nice cos me and my sister, plugged into my ipod and just chilled to some music and watched some Toy Story Toons, which I must say are pretty cool :P Then when we came home I went out to do babysitting :)

(This photo, I sort of wanted to experiment with a bit, it was shot at the beach, that's kinda obvious when I read over that... But yeah and I thought the sea looked so calm and it's just quite a chilled feel about it?)

Today has been pretty good, got up at a reasonable time... Watched Gabrielle Aplin and Carrie Hope Fletcher on Sunday Brunch... I then started to sort out my photos for my best of video for this... You'll find out more about that in June/July... The rest of the household went for a walk, so this gave me time to sort out some more work and revision notes, then I started to sort out my tickets, old posters and old school books, many of which I need to chuck out. Still, I then went for a walk round the back and along the river, and met da peeps at the pub/restarant and had dinner :) So a rather nice finish to my first week of the holidays... Today's photo was taken with the sun setting (again) and silhouettes :)

 Highlights Of The Week: The sunsets, as you can probably tell... also I got to see the stars quitet a bit this week because of clearer evenings and nights, which always puts a smile on my face :) and finally getting down to my favourite beach and being able to go for a walk along the front.

Quote Of The Week: 'take from today what you got.' - I've had a rather quotey week and this one came from my step-dad on the way home from the beach, and I guess it's an attitude people should take more often, if you've had a good day, take from it a smile, if you've had a rubbish day, put the 'rubbish' in the bin and forget about it :)

Song Of The Week: This is a tough one as I've been listening to literally hundreds of songs over the past week, but after his song Thrift Shop... I quite like Wings by Macklemore... It's a simple song and it's where the name of blog came from...I'll put a link at the end :)

Twitter For The Week: I got followed by Pop Tarts!! My life was made when that happened, I also got a follow from Lauern Aquilina and Ash Morgan (the first person to audition on The Voice this series...) and a few tweets from Frank Hamilton and Natty Holmes.

So there we go, let me know what you liked and what you didn't like as much on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/onedayatatimeevan

Wings - Macklemore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3uMlNyHA

Thank You, and thank you for the 3,000 views I've now got... :D

evan. :)

30th January 2013: a mad man in a blue box.

Nice sunset this evening, had a pretty chill day to be honest, only had two lessons, and did some work. Got some photos together, did a bit of filming, searched YouTube for some new music to obsess over, that barely anyone will have heard of :)
I cooked dinner tonight, cheesy pasta with some ham and broccoli, then for pudding I had vanilla angel delight and mixed berry coulis stuff, was soooo good!
Now some of you might now already, but I'm a massive whovian... Ordering another t-shirt tomorrow, which'll be my 6th I think?! Anyways, some of the cast got announced for 'An Adventure In Space and Time', including David Bradley (Filch from Harry Potter), Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife) and Brian Cox (unfortunately not the professor). David Bradley will be playing William Hartnell, which I think fits really well :) Looking forward to Easter so I can see another episode because my Saturday nights aren't that full of geekiness at the minute :/ Had a great conversation with my Mum about politics this evening and my conclusion is, I should run the country basics. Anyway, onwards and upwards, merry christmas and enjoy your mince pies, I'm off to bed becaus I'm insanely tired.

Goodnight!

evan. :)