Weekend hangover....

....is what I'm currently suffering from at this very moment. Dearie, dearie, me! Had a heavy night at Escape in Soho last night with Gustavo and his pals which was totally brill but am now suffering the consequences...too many red bull and vodkas, white wines, oh and a tequila shot too. Well...it WAS Friday. And Gustavo got a nice bonus at work after all his recent hard graft so he deserved to celebrate...

Anyways the weekend is here, it's lovely and sunny outside and if I can actually drag my carcass outside I might get to soak up some rays at some point...ohhhhh, not sure if I can manage that...I actually haven't felt this bad in quite a while! But not so bad I can't type eh.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, there's been another BBC Press release for Season Four of Dr Who, with this (above) accompanying publicity still. As some of my fellow bloggers have already noted, Catherine Tate is looking remarkably serene and sedate. I like her hair and top too. There's a kind of new softness about her whole aura. Does this mean that the screeching fishwife of "The Runaway Bride" will come back a changed, more mellow woman? I hope so. My own personal theory is that like the Dr and Professor Yana, Donna is actually in possession of an antique pocket watch, in which her real Time Lord (Lady) persona resides. "Donna Noble" is actually a fictional invention she has adopted to avoid detection on planet Earth. In the first story of the new season, the Dr happens upon the watch and opens it, ridding "Donna" once and for all of her chavvy persona. For the rest of the season Ms Tate plays the part of Donnavoratrelundar, a sophisticated, highly intelligent Gallifreyan, who makes the original Time Lady Romana look like, well, Donna Noble. She's the Dr's intellectual equal and together they have many thrilling adventures in time and space.

Well I can dream can't I?

If you want to know more about the new season, try here. Amongst other things, the Dr is due to have an encounter with Agatha Christie. As Timewarden has commented, there does seem to be a recurrent pattern with each respective series of the new Who i.e. in every season the Dr meets a well known historical figure from the past! We've had Charles Dickens, Queen Victoria and William Shakespeare. This does seem to smack slightly of tokenism - shoving in a "meet the famous person" story as some kind of conscious gesture. Having said that the Christie story could be really good if done properly - a kind of murder mystery maybe? I would prefer it if RTD didn't write it though.

Thanks to Timewarden for the photo by the way!