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Landed back in Blighty yesterday, stumbled north like a slowly freezing zombie and collapsed into bed mid-afternoon. Then woke up spluttering with icky cold symptoms this morning. JOYOUS.

But twas totally awesome convention-time and Disney-time, even though I did pick up a teeny wee bit of a bug thing. Possibly most relaxing convention have been to? Fantastic, anyways. And that British pub did actually do pretty decent fish and chips, which was quite nice.

Matt Smith's favourite Doctor is Troughton. I think that's v important info. Or it make me ridic happy, anyway.

LOVE TO YOU ALL YOU WERE ALL SO AWESOME. I saw lots of people. And I judged a masquerade using my Awesome Skills of Judgeyness. There was an Unexpected Giraffe at Animal Kingdom that just snuck up like a scary thing though it was a giraffe and they don't eat people so actually it was okay.

More Nytol and sleeps now maybe, yes.

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[calapine.livejournal.com]

In the UK, if you grew up in the nineties, it was v easy to never have seen.

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

Did they not do reruns? (I know UK TV doesn't work the same way, so it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't do reruns of Doctor Who.)

I grew up mostly during the 80s, and it was practically impossible to have never seen Star Trek. It was everywhere, even before TNG came on. I always figured it was like that for Doctor Who-- it's such a part of the culture that even if you didn't follow it, you had seen some episodes and had some knowledge about it.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Not really, no. The Beeb put a couple of stories on BBC 2 in the early nineties and UK Gold would sometimes have it on once a week, v early morning, but that's about it.

Despite that, it'd be tricky to find a Brit who wouldn't recognise the TARDIS, a Dalek or The Guy With The Long Scarf as that stuff got absorbed into pop culture.

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

Hooray, then, for the fans who kept it alive while it was off the air!