Garden of Thought

Congratulations! A very, very well-deserved win indeed. :-D

And I think perhaps there is quite a bit more than got nominated. I meant to nominate more than I did and then worried I would be in trouble for nominating too many fics if I did. I don't think Doctors 5-8 got more than one fic each, if that, either. Shocking!!

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Isn't it? We seriously need to get some of these neverending-flood-of-Ten folks to explore their roots. (I love it when they do that and go "uhhh? Whoa! Cool!" or something to that effect.)

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Is Classic Who cool? Bizarre and different and wonderful and wide and witty and completely daft and dull and mind-blowing and surely not just one TV show, but cool? (Oh, maybe from time to time.)

Sometimes I think I need help. :lol:

PS In return for you reading my Two Ronnies cross, see here for the sketch I most had in mind (but the scene is set in the famous fork handles sketch. I think cultural differences might baffle there, but we had a shop just like this in my town growing up. (this is another example of the crossed conversations thing I had in my head.)

I won't add any of Ronnie C's monologues!!! Hope despite British obscurity, you have a giggle. I owe you something for reading it. :-D

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Look! Liz and the Brig did it again! *looks suspiciously at icon list* Gotta keep an eye on them...

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Oh come! Surely you must admit Two winning the day in Mind Robber was uber-cool - and then there's Three's madcap multi-vehicular chase scene in Spiders... and Seven's trick with the broadcasting jazz boombox...

;-)

You've intrigued me, I'll have to go find this fork handles thingamabob.

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And having seen both of them, it not only makes perfect sense it makes me enjoy the creative twist you put on them all the more. :-D I miss shops like that, I remember them when I was a kid - closest thing we have now is an old hardware store with bins you can dig in for assorted nuts, etc. now.

This also very much reminds me of a brilliant cross-talk (sort of) Barman Sketch by Fry and Laurie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvXl2mmIFYA). XD

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Heh. I didn't know if they would be too incomprehensibly British! (But you are well-versed in 70s BBC TV after all that DW...). I hadn't seen the Fry and Laurie sketch before - very amusing. And, actually, it looks like they were deliberately updating The Two Ronnies (who were already legends in their own lifetimes by that point). Look at this one and spot the similarities!

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Ha! Very cute! I'll have to go wander a bit and see what else they have floating around out there, I thoroughly enjoy pieces that showcase comic timing like this.

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estellye.livejournal.com

That's great news, Prim! Congratulations!

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Many thanks! :-) *hugs*

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infiniteviking

YAY! Congratulations, that's marvelous! And brilliant title, too. I'm off to read it now. XD

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Congratters on winning! I shall read the story right away.

In the meantime, I've friended you back. I'm not sure how long it might have been since you friended me, and I apologize for not having done it sooner. Us Classic!Who fans must stick together. But my life has been a bit crazy these past couple of years, as you will see if you read back far enough in my LJ. Also, I must admit that ever since I joined the BPAL forum back in Jan., I've spent most of my time there, and not on LJ. *sheepish smile*

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Thanks! I agree, there's not nearly enough of us out there against the flood of NuWho, but we're scrappers.

What is BPAL?

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As I started out with what we now call Classic!Who back in the old days, *grins*, I'm certainly a long-time fan. :) But I'll watch any of it, DW, new or old, Torchwood, SJA, whatever.

But it would seem that the vast majority of Who fans on LJ are female and young and only got into Who via the new show. Of course, my judgement could be totally wrong about this, but I'm just judging by what I have seen since the Ninth Doctor started his run on the show.

BPAL is the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, a wonderful site to get hand-made perfume oils (not perfume, as that has alcohol as a carrier base). For years, I've searched through dept. and other stores looking for perfumes that I could really like. One day, on Neil Gaiman's blog, he mentioned that this company was making perfume oils (about 30-80 pure perfume oil, so a lot of bang for the buck!) based on the Stardust story that he and Charles Vess, the artist, had created. I immediately zipped over to the site, and ordered a bottle of Lady Una (honey and blackberries, amongst other notes) and fell in love with the products.

Most of the General Catalogue perfume oils one can order samples to test, for a small fee. There are also Limited Editions, mostly seasonally timed, like for the winter holidays or Halloween, that one can't test in advance, at least not via the Lab.

The oils are lovely, and since they don't have fixatives or preservatives, they can smell different on different people. All the testing is done on people, and most of the oils are vegan. Also, some of the notes are what are known as bouquets, re-creations of things like ambergris, that one would not want to use nowadays because of the way it in which it was once obtained.

The scents range from floral to incense to foodie to candy-like, and everything in-between, and all sorts of things, including some wonderful combination of notes. :) Some would say that the site is for goths, but I would say that it's more for those who appreciate literature, music, drama, poetry, the arts in general, and the way that the Lab's perfumer re-creates some wonderful things, and also in how she puts her vision of ideas into perfume. :)

The site is here:
http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com

And there is the fan-run site, that is mostly a forum that started off for folks to talk about their perfumes oils, and grew from there. There's a lot of folks over there who are into fannish things, including DW and TW. :) That's the BPAL forum that I mentioned that I was spending a lot of time on.

The forum is a good place to read reviews of the various perfume oils and other products offered:

http://www.bpal.org/

You don't have to register just to read the reviews, but of course you don't see all the forums, and you can't post.

Hope this wasn't too much info! *blushes*

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Isn't it amazing the variety of topics that a viable online community can grow out of? I still have a little box of essential oils that I used to use for perfumes because I hated all the commercial mixed florals, preferring just single/double scents to a generic basketful - used some when I went through a potpourri-making phase too. :-) I'll have to give their scents a look-see.

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Liked the story very much--it has quite the feel of a First Doctor adventure. And shippy Ian & Barbara FTW! :)

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Nothing beats the ultimate Original Ship. ;-)

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Ah, yes, the Original Companion 'ship, but what about the Doctor and the TARDIS?

Btw, I love that blue jacket--I think it's my fave Pertwee jacket. :)

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