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the best come from Marks and Spencer.  I don't trust the Haribo ones.
---another tip from Visiting England.  :)

Two themes of our England Trip:
Sherlock Holmes. Visited the Holmes museum.  They have lovely high-quality deerstalkers for which you should budget 45 pounds (80 bucks).  I couldn't bring myself to buy but totally should have.
--St. Bart's is about three blocks from St. Paul's.  How surreal to stand there and look up to where Sherlock was standing on the roof. They filmed on location and it is really weird to be right there.  The ambulance stand is exactly as portrayed in s3.  wow!
--Dartmoor.  Didn't really know where to go but stayed in a lovely place called the Castle Inn near Lydford Gorge.  The gorge is a spectacular hike of stunning natural beauty (not involved with the moors at all).  But the funny thing was the full size portrait of ACD on the wall at the Inn, and the little pic next to it of Tom Baker playing Sherlock, and standing in that very spot!!!!
Tom Baker was kind of the other continuing theme, as my souvenir from the Who Experience was a print with his postage stamp and his autograph on it!
And, at a book store, we found a book by Tom Baker, the Boy who Kicked Pigs, no idea yet whether it is any good or not.  :P

In Cardiff there was a souvenir shop at Roald Dahl Plass that had great pins. The ones I chose said:
May the 4th be with you, plus one with stripes like the famous scarf
I CAN simply walk into Mordor
High Functioning Sociopath and Sherlock Lives and
Do what I do: hold tight and pretend it's a plan

yoinked from bleodswean

1. Your main fandom of the year?
I was more balanced between Doctor Who and Supernatural this year.  Also, I did consume a whole lot of Sherlock, both BBC Sherlock and Elementary, but I have yet to write anything more than that one SuperWhoLock about CumberLock and John.  :)  JLM just continues to impress.  :)

2. Your favourite film watched this year?
I enjoy the big blockbusters but it's usually smaller films that I love.  Top of my list for this year would Song for Marion, aka Unfinished Song, with With Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave.    I watched this movie for Chris, and he did not disappoint, but Terence Stamp won my heart with this amazing performance.  Just a stellar, beautiful movie.
Also great were:
Kinky Boots, the original movie with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola.    We saw this at the AFI Silver and it was so good.  I can't help but suspect it is probably better than the Broadway show? Nothing against Cyndi Lauper, but the songs used in the movie are all time classics like "What Lola Wants" and "These Boots are made for Walking" and "In these Shoes"  which really can't be beat. And Chiwetel Ejiofor is just such a fantastic actor.
Beginners, with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer.  I think I actually saw this last year, but I love Ewan and he always does such good movies.
Another great movie was Wajda, a film about a young girl in Saudi Arabia who wants to win a bicycle, directed by first female Saudi film director, Haifaa Al Mansour. A very beautiful and complex movie, a look inside a society that is literally hidden from view.
Oh yes, and Joss Whedon's real triumph this year, Much Ado about Nothing, with the amazing Amy Acker as Beatrice, Alexis Denisoff as Benedick, and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) as Don Leonato.  Also Simon Tam  (Sean Maher) as Don John (nicely played) and Capn Mal as Dogberry.   Is it funny that I now think of Amy Acker primarily as a Supernatural alumna (she played Andrea Barr in SPN1.3, Dead in the Water) rather than as Fred/Illyria on Angel?

3. Your favourite book read this year?
Allie Brosh's book Hyperbole and a Half will probably end up being one of my favorite books EVER.  So happy she got it out there in book form.  If you are at all a fan of her blog, the book is even better.
I'm part of  a non-fiction by women book club.   We read a lot of fantastic books.  Three of my favorites this year were:
Wild:  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed.
The Red Leather Diary, by Lily Koppel, about a young woman living in New York City in the 1930s.
and Life List, a Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile (a biography of Phoebe Snetsinger, who saw more than 8500 of the world's 10,000 bird species in her lifetime).

4. Your favourite TV show of the year?  Supernatural.  Fandom contribute so much to Sherlock and Who, but Supernatural gives and gives.  What a great show. I'm so proud to be a part of the whole Supernatural epoch in my little fannish way.

5. Your favourite online fandom community of the year?
all.  Fandom is fantastic. Sherlock fandom has so many great writers.  AO3 is bursting with material.   And the different iterations -- movie, ACD, BBC and Elementary, plus Grenada, all bring so much life to the Sherlock fandom.    With SPN, the cast and crew of the show seem almost to work hand in hand with fandom to deliver a superior product.  Despite persistent predictions that the show will get tired or old, for me it never does.  s9 is still rocking it!  And of course with Who, this year was the 50th Anniversary, so there was miching mallecho.  My OTP, Nine/Rose, didn't see a lot of action this year, but at least season 7.5 had some quality to it.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
 I don't think I broke any new ground this year....

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Agents of Shield.  Work harder Joss!

 8. Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Jonny Lee Miller. His mannered and eccentric portrayal of Sherlock nonetheless feels very real to me.

9. Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Lucy Liu.  I have loved getting to know her as Watson.  She has really earned my respect over the course of a season and a half.

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Return to Supernatural of Sheriff Jodie Miller.  Squeeee!

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
Wouldn't you know it? I still crave Jim and Blair.  sigh!  (That's The Sentinel for any whippersnappers out there!)

12. The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?
That's not me.  I don't crave fantoms in advance....

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
BBC Sherlock!  new ep ready to view, oh yeah!!!

some enterprising soul has edited together on youtube a short "impression" of Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, starring our two Sherlocks, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. 

I dearly hope the National Theatre will release this excellent piece on DVD or digital release.  It is a shame to reserve it only for showings at select theatres.

I saw the version of the filmed play  with Cumberbatch as the Creature.  He is amazing with the physicality, and JLM is an excellent Victor.  They took this adaptation all the way into the heart of Mary Shelley's great work.  I spent a huge chunk of my life studying the Shelleys, and I approve of Danny Boyle's adaptation.  :D

I can't believe I actually managed to write an episode reaction to a show the very first episode without even missing part of it!!  Usually I only watch a show like two or three years after it was first made. :P

Anyway, I was pretty interested in watching this new Sherlock adaptation starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. 

( spoilers )

ps, I saw two very familiar faces on the show leading in, "Person of Interest" with Ben from Lost and Amy Acker.    Only the scenes with the two of them were any good.  It looks like a terrible premise.  And oh, Miles from Lost was also there, and I like him, but that other guy was Not a person of interest.  Urgh.  it was a slog, sadly.  Ben from Lost, you can do better -- you and Amy both, you are terribly overpowered for this level of work.  And btw ?   AMY ACKER, you are a fantastic actor!!  You were so 3D in that 2D role! you go girl!!!

[45, 46, 47] Sherlock s1

[48] Movie: Gone in Sixty Seconds

[49] Classic Who: The Ark in Space (Four, Sarah Jane, and Harry)

plus The Borrowers and a Space Station Rat

( more from the media log )


Last but not least : the Walk Five Hundred Miles Challenge. 
So a while back the host of the dt_sexy_off was apurplepatch and she proposed that with David being so fit he might be good inspiration for a Walk Five Hundred Miles challenge.  I decided to give it a go!  I am walking every day, and in February I walked 13 miles, but I have already walked that far again in March.  It's about a mile and a half / half an hour of walking each day during the week, and more on weekends.  Let me know if you'd like to take part in the Walk Five Hundred Miles challenge -- I reckon I'll finish by the late autumn if not sooner!!  and then I can get started on Walking Five Hundred More!!