I am Ashley Elsdon

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Month: February 2015

Big Finish: Doctor Who, The Ultimate Adventure

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This is one of the few Doctor Who stage plays, and is the only one that I ever went to. It was back in 1989 and I’ve occasionally thought about it over the years, but when I realised that I’d inadvertently bought a copy of Big Finish’s audiobook version it all came back to me.

Listening to it for the first time brought back a lot of memories, but the most interesting thing was hearing about how the production came about and the problems that it faced. It was really interesting to find out all about how it came about and what eventually happened to the production.

Whilst it is most certainly not one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time, even though it is strangely named the ‘Ultimate’ adventure! Although I guess that’s more to do with it being produced in the 80’s more than anything else. It is part of Doctor Who history, and I guess I’m one of the few (ok, probably there would have been over 10,000 people who saw it, but against the scale of Doctor Who fans that’s small) who saw it.

Anyway, I got in touch with the two people who I went with and they both remembered it, and one even still had the theatre programme! So here it is …

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Doctor Who 3.5

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Last month I bought a Humble Bundle of Big Finish Doctor Who stories. There were some really good ones in there, and I’m just finishing off listening to them. One of the last I’m listening to is “Seven Keys to Doomsday”, and the Doctor is played by Trevor Martin, also know as Doctor Who 3.5 as he did this story as a stage play inbetween Pertwee’s Doctor and Tom Baker’s. As I never saw the stage play it’s good to hear this.

I miss my pebble

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I really do. I’m just sort of holding off until the Apple Watch arrives to see if that’s going to be good enough or better. I’m also interested in seeing what pebble can do to release a new updated version of pebble.

I like the idea of wearables and smartwatches, but so far they haven’t really done enough for me. I hope that’ll in change.

Old 4-track gives me a new idea

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I saw this the other day as I was looking for something else and had remembered that I’d bought it so I could retrieve some old 4 track tapes from complete obscurity. I had some notion that I’d revive the tracks and even add to them. Who knows if that would’ve ever worked out. However, at the time when I bought it I didn’t go ahead with the plan as this 4 track doesn’t have multiple track outs. It only has a stereo out, which kind of ruined the idea. My very first cassette 4-track was an X-15 which did have 4 outs, but sadly this doesn’t.

Anyway, as I saw it the other day I had a new idea of how to make this work. So, when I can get some time to set it up I might try and get it working.

If I do, you’ll hear about it. I it fails, we’ll never speak of it again …

Sorting out categories and tags

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I decided that I really needed to do a little more on the categories and the tags on the site to make them all make more sense. So that’s what I’m going to be doing on and off for the next few weeks, or more realistically, for a lot longer than that. Anyway, hopefully it’ll make things easier to understand and find over time. That is my aim at any rate.