Author: ashleyelsdon

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The problem with power

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For a while now I’ve been having issues with my iPhone 5’s. Basically the battery life has been getting progressively worse over the last few months until now it will barely last a whole day with minimal use. This is not good. I know that battery life on these devices is never ‘good’, but this is moving along a path to unusable. The device is over a year old, and I suppose you could say that I’ve used it pretty heavily over that year. So maybe it’s just to be expected. I don’t know.

What I can tell you is that my current solution is to use a portable battery for my iPhone. Apparently this battery should last me for about 4 or even 5 charges. That’s what it says it’ll do anyway. My plan is to test it tomorrow and see how both devices get on with each other.

Doctor Who: White Ghosts

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Another excellent story in the 4th Doctor adventures from Big Finish. It picked up from the last episode and kept the pace going the whole way through. It’s a classic story type for Doctor Who as well. Thoroughly enjoyable. Every minute of it.

And then Dark Eyes 2 arrived

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I only recently listened to the first Dark Eyes again and I loved it. I do find it interesting just how different the 4th and 8th Doctor stories are. So I’ve been waiting for Dark Eyes for some time now and here it is. Running at just over 5 hours of content which includes an hour and a quarter of behind the scenes stuff too.

It’ll be great to get into it. I’ll tell you how it goes.

4th Doctor: The Energy of the Daleks

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Another great story from the first series of fourth Doctor stories from Big Finish, and I can barely remember it from the first time around. I listened to it yesterday and it’s awesome. A classic Dalek romp.

I hadn’t realised that Leela had never done a Dalek story. In fact, the fourth doctor didn’t do many either. Primarily Genesis and Destiny of the Daleks. Neither of which contained Leela. So this story is very significant indeed.

Journey to the far side of the sun …

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I remember this film although not very well, and as a big Gerry Anderson fan I thought I’d give it a try. It’s a very leisurely film with so many Gerry Anderson touches I almost thought I was watching UFO or Space 1999, and of course there’s nothing wrong with that at all.

Anyway, overall the film didn’t really live up to either my recollections or my expectations. There’s nothing wrong with it as film of its time, but it isn’t really a classic, not in my book anyway.

4th Doctor: Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

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I’m really looking forward to this. Two stories, a six part and a four part. I love the longer and more involved stories and with Philip Hinchcliffe it’s going to be excellent.

Big Finish really are awesome and are putting out some truly awesome content these days.