Mia

I don't know, to be honest!

Same here! I only drink water, and I have to use a straw or else I try and gulp it down too fast and choke myself.

I read ...She Devil at college and enjoyed it, but I haven't read any of her other books. I also enjoyed the TV dramatisation (I vaguely remember Dennis Waterman, Julie T Wallace and a lighthouse being in it!), which I saw many years before I read the novel, so of course when I did I imagined the characters looking like Waterman etc.

Those two made me laugh out loud, especially no. 23!

I've caught this a couple of times and thought it was quite funny! I liked the bit where the girls were doing their presentation to convince the school to let them have a formal - hilarious! BTW Cassandra - nice avatar!

I totally agree: Dark Angel, American Gothic, Angel, Firefly, Futurama... When you think of some of the crud that runs for about 15 series. Bah.

I read SFX - a genre mag to do with all things sci-fi and fantasy (books, TV, film etc). I used to read Woman and Woman's Own but they changed them so that it was mostly celebrity gossip, which I hate and have no interest in whatsoever so I stopped getting them a few years ago.

Yes, and I rather liked Logan! Michael Weatherley, I think his name is... He's rather attractive! I'm not sure which episode was shown today. I think it was a fairly early one, but perhaps not one of the first, as Logan knows what Max is, and I don't think she told him straightaway.

Laramie, I love Dark Angel! It's one of my favourite programmes of all time. Are you under the impression it's a brand new programme? It's actually a few years old - I first saw it on whichever UK terrestrial channel was showing it, and I loved it so much that I bought the boxsets! Sadly, it only ran for two series before being cancelled. It was created by James "Terminator" Cameron. I actually watched an episode on E4 this morning too! I just happened to notice it was on. There was an earlier showing at around 8am this morning, but I don't know if the 10.40 am showing was a repeat of the earlier one, or a different episode. The one I saw was where her well-meaning friends got rid of her Tryptophan and then everything went pear-shaped! I don't fancy having Max's problems, but I must admit it would be great to have her skills!

Not at the same time, I hope!

Same here!

Ah, so it's your fault we had to do this for O Level - obviously your school turned it down so they allocated it to mine instead. It was absolutely terrible. It's only a few years ago that I managed to read Pride and Prejudice, but I found it quite hard going. I think, like you, I've been put off Austen for life. I wish we'd had some interesting books; some fantasy, or Oscar Wilde or GB Shaw. All the books we did for O and A Level were boring, depressing or (mostly) both.

Trivia from today's paper: Russell T Davies saying that the Doctor won't regenerate into a woman when DT leaves, because he wants to spare dads having to explain to their kids about the, er, change in genitalia.

I think what I said was just rumour... at least I hope so! DT does strike me as the kind of guy who'll say that he doesn't want to get typecast, and is keen to try new projects. I hope he stays.

Yes, especially as I read that there'll be the Xmas special, then 3 specials in 2009, and then David Tennant will be leaving!!!

Ah thanks, I was thinking that it meant Donna and was more metaphorical. I'm glad it wasn't literal and no-one close to the Doctor died (it was depressing enough!).

Sounds like my nana - she got half-fare on the buses until she was 36! Even then, she only started paying full fare because she thought she'd better, not because she was ever challenged.

I'm looking forward to Moffatt being in charge, as some of my favourite stories have been his (Blink, The Girl in the Fireplace, the one with the kids wearing gas masks). I forgot to say yesterday that I too loved the Daleks speaking German! I think they were even more scary than Daleks speaking English! The Daleks have always been my favourite baddies and the only ones that really scared me when I was a child. Can someone answer me this? The prophecy "everlasting death for the most faithful companion" got me very worried that someone was going to die. But everyone survived didn't they? So who/what does this refer to? Or did I miss something? Louise - how could you go and put the tea on for the last ten minutes?!!

Gutted because of the episode! Though now you mention it, gutted because it was the last one too. I just feel so, so sad about Donna. The way she'd done so much, been the most important woman in the universe, saved the universe at least twice... and now she's back to her old, humdrum life, without knowing just how great she was/could be. How will she achieve her potential now? Chances are, she won't. Still, as my mum pointed out, she seemed happy in her old life. Also, I guess it would be worse for her if she remembered everything but could never go back to it. But the bit where she begged the Doctor not to wipe her mind... And the bit at the end where she didn't know him and dismissed him casually as some stranger... And then where the Doctor was alone in the Tardis... *sob!* Conversely, Rose's (second) goodbye didn't affect me in the slightest, even though I was in floods of tears when she first got separated from the Doctor. I just had no emotional attachment to her this time, and her lisping voice was really getting on my bloody wick. On the plus side, the Doctor "regenerated" into David Tennant! Two David Tennants!! One of them briefly naked!!! (Although the camera angle was a little too high for my liking.) I don't really understand why the Doctor is always reluctant to kill - he castigated his other self for getting rid of the Daleks, but surely it had to be done? They were going to destroy every other lifeform in all the worlds! Surely a timelord would see that it was necessary to save everything else? Anyway, it was a good episode, but I found lots of it very sad. And now I'll have to wait until Xmas for more David Tennant. :(

What Janet said. I'll write more when I'm feeling less upset.

I don't use the library - I like to have my own copy to keep. 99.99% of my books are bought new - I only buy second hand if it's out of print. That's because I'm very fussy about the condition of the book, and can't bear turned down corners etc. And that "new book" smell - mmn! I keep nearly all my books. Only recently have I felt able to get rid of books that I truly didn't like, but that's only to make room for more books I do like! They usually go to the charity shop or to friends, but I've managed to get a whole box full that I'm considering trying to sell at a car boot sale.