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Sunday, September 9th, 2007 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI shall have to nip out and buy a birthday card shortly, for my niece Hayley's 20th birthday. I think that makes me feel older than it did when she had the baby, though I couldn't swear to it.
Very little is happening up here in Shropshire, so making any kind of coherent entry is rather difficult. I have logged on a couple of times to check my email and see what people have ben up to on LJ. Not a great deal, it seems. Or rather as it's the weekend, it is busines as usual and all the big updates will happen on Monday.
So, let's see.
Over on Facebook, I have managed to beat![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colonel_maxim at scrabulous on placing my very last letter, despite trailing all through the game and at one stage by over a hundred points. Imagine my surprise to see the idiosyncratic online dictionary allow me the words quinta and ba with my very last letter A. I must look them both up at some point. (Frankly, although I know what "quin" means, I don't know what "quint" is or are, so that's two things I should look up, I guess).
The BBC has announced that Doctor Who season 4 will be aired next year as expected, but that season 5 will not appear until 2010. David Tennant will be returning for three "Specials" in 2009 and season 5 will run for the full 13 episodes. With or without Tennant has not been announced yet. I surmise that this semi-hiatus is to allow Tenn to work with the RSC in 2008-09 as announced without having to replace him on Who. It should also allow the production team to cherry pick the scripts for season 5. If season 4 follows the ups and downs of season 3, the show will need the break while the team recharges its creative batteries.
Don't worry, I have no spoilers to add to the mix.
On the book front, I am deep into Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag Montefiore. Unlike most other boks on the subject, it concentrates more on the "fight to the last man" rearguard action by the BEF, rather than the evacuation from the beaches itself. I had not appreciated before just how culpable the French High Command was in the débacle, even allowing for their out of date military doctrine. The pre-war British Government also deserves criticism for allowing the army to go to France so badly equipped and trained. Oddly similar to current practice in the Gulf, at least as far as equipment goes.
Despite it all, though, it seems that with a little less indecision and a little more speed by the French High Command, that WW2 could have taken a far different course and Germany could have been defeated in 1940.
Very little is happening up here in Shropshire, so making any kind of coherent entry is rather difficult. I have logged on a couple of times to check my email and see what people have ben up to on LJ. Not a great deal, it seems. Or rather as it's the weekend, it is busines as usual and all the big updates will happen on Monday.
So, let's see.
Over on Facebook, I have managed to beat
colonel_maxim at scrabulous on placing my very last letter, despite trailing all through the game and at one stage by over a hundred points. Imagine my surprise to see the idiosyncratic online dictionary allow me the words quinta and ba with my very last letter A. I must look them both up at some point. (Frankly, although I know what "quin" means, I don't know what "quint" is or are, so that's two things I should look up, I guess).The BBC has announced that Doctor Who season 4 will be aired next year as expected, but that season 5 will not appear until 2010. David Tennant will be returning for three "Specials" in 2009 and season 5 will run for the full 13 episodes. With or without Tennant has not been announced yet. I surmise that this semi-hiatus is to allow Tenn to work with the RSC in 2008-09 as announced without having to replace him on Who. It should also allow the production team to cherry pick the scripts for season 5. If season 4 follows the ups and downs of season 3, the show will need the break while the team recharges its creative batteries.
Don't worry, I have no spoilers to add to the mix.
On the book front, I am deep into Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag Montefiore. Unlike most other boks on the subject, it concentrates more on the "fight to the last man" rearguard action by the BEF, rather than the evacuation from the beaches itself. I had not appreciated before just how culpable the French High Command was in the débacle, even allowing for their out of date military doctrine. The pre-war British Government also deserves criticism for allowing the army to go to France so badly equipped and trained. Oddly similar to current practice in the Gulf, at least as far as equipment goes.
Despite it all, though, it seems that with a little less indecision and a little more speed by the French High Command, that WW2 could have taken a far different course and Germany could have been defeated in 1940.