Wonder what Superman and Doctor Who have done if the inventors of all things communicative had by-passed the creation of the phone box and gone straight to the i-phone?

Would Superman have had to run into the nearest Telecom office and asked to use their facilities; ducked into the first free cubicle and got changed into the ultra tight lycra costume he had hidden in the phone’s carry case.

Would the good doctor have had to squeeze himself and his companions into his sonic screwdriver?    Or, perhaps, his fez?    That’s the little red hat with a tassle on the top that appears every so often even though we saw him give it away when he and Clara arrived in London where they were trying to locate the wi-fi that was kidnapping people (When everybody thought he was a busker when he and Clara jumped out of the Tardis.)

The mind boggles at the thought of what might have been had history been different.

What would have happened if they had no credit?    Or forgot their password?   Would they be denied entry?   Would they be harassed constantly by a bored salesman until they had recharged and Superman had explained the question of why he wore his undies on the outside of his pants satisfactorily enough for the security guard on the door.   Or the good doctor had run out of physic paper and only had a SPIRAX notebook to prove who he wasn’t?

Boy, they were so lucky that the phone box was invented in a fixed point of time.

Talking about Doctor Who, I mentioned recently that Martin Clunes, he of Doc Martin fame had guest starred in Twin Dilemma along with Peter Davidson:  The correct title should have been Snakedance, of course.    Sorry about that, Chief.   In the article I also mentioned that the restaurant owner from Doc Martin has played Winston Churchill in four epiosdes along with Matt Smith.    Well here’s a little gem of a snippet about Winnie and the good doctor.  The third doctor (Jon Pertwee) to be precise.   I have no idea how you acknowledge the source of something like this so press the (British) Mirror website and it will take you to where I accidently came across it.    But please come back … I have more to tell you.

Now in the past there have been well known actors on Doctor Who including Richard  Todd who appeared along with Peter Davison in Kinda: John Cleese in City of Death:  more recently: Kylie Minogue (Voyage of the Damned) and Peter O’Brien (The Waters of Mars) both tv specials and both former stars of the first few years of the Australian tv series ‘Neighbours’.   It really is a small world when you time travel in a TARDIS.   But what prompted me to add this bit in was a character I just noticed in the credits of  Doctor Who:The Crimson Horror which has just been  screened again a day or so ago.

British actress Honor Blackman has always been a very beautiful woman, and that certainly includes the way she looked in her role in Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids opposite Colin Baker’s Doctor Who, and many years later in Midsomer Murders.   But before she played opposite Sean Connery’s James Bond in Goldfinger (Pussy Galore), she was equally well known from Patrick MacNee’s: The Avengers, a show, thanks to dvd and channel nine repeats, I still enjoy.

But she had competition in The Avengers, mainly from Diana Rigg (my favourite), and later Joanne Lumley (The New Avengers / Absolutely Fabulous).

Actually, (now Dame) Diana Rigg (Mrs. Peel) was probably everybody’s favourite and she was equally as attractive as Honor Blackman – and I thought that like Ms Blackman when she appeared on Doctor Who’s The Crimson Horror (Matt Smith) that she would still be attractive for her age,

Then ………………………………………………………now.  But … are we sure this is Make Up?

Never mind.  She’s a great actress and I really enjoyed the role she played and her character really deserved Mister Sweet.

PolyTiKhs time again:  Our beloved leader of Australia is still denying there is such a thing as Global Warming even though there is a heat wave in Britain and seeing it is JULY it means that they are in the middle of their summer.   Right on.   And that means we are in the middle of our WINTER.   Yet, although warmer winters for Brisbane are not a James Cameron Fantasy film, and we have had the odd couple of days where it got down to 5 or 6 degrees in the morning a few weeks ago and a couple more due this week coming, it basically has been warm weather for most of winter so far, averaging in the low 20s and it is not expected to get much colder over the next 8 weeks (except for next week and we can blame the sore losers from down south for sharing their snowy weather with us) before we move into SPRING.

But it has been so warm that the Queensland Weather Bureau has come across a CYCLONE on their watch for the first time in recorded history.

Although fairly rare, cyclones not too far from Australia have formed in the past, but this is the first one that an Australian Weather Bureau has recorded within their working environment in history.   Fortunately the cyclone is not going to cause us any problems, but you take that and add it to the fact that Queensland has just finished the first half of the year with the highest aggregate of warm weather ever recorded for the state, and rainfall in the north and west of the state broke more records than The BEATLES, ELVIS and PHARLAP put together.

There is a good chance that overseas countries may experience similar strange conditions in the coming months as they go through their summer .   Time will tell and I hope it tells our illustrious P.M. to be a bit more LIBERAL with his thinking.   That’s right – just like his party’s name.

I also see our Prime Mover, sorry Minister has been using the I word pretty frequently lately, this time around discussions on an Australian decision on same sex marriage.   The point here is not whether or not you believe the issue is right or wrong, the question is did we vote in a party where one man’s thoughts and beliefs dictate thow the rest of Australia has to think.

I thought, in a democratic country, we should have our own individual thoughts of acceptance or non-acceptance on such a sensitive issue, and because it relates to law issues I would have thought it should be up to the majority of Australians to say whether or not they can live with the changes (ie: referendum), but our fearless leader has a tendency to reply to media questions recently that his view is that he doesn’t believe in the need for a change – so nothing is going to happen.   Is that really democracy speaking?  Well I suppose that nothing happening is how the Polys do things anyway – so nothing is going to change.   Ah well, that’s life.

Ah, come on election time.   Maybe Mickey (Mouse) and Donald (Duck) will finally make the cut and we will get some decent leadership.

Did you know 24 of Queensland’s 27 Supreme Court judges have gone on holidays at the same time.  All taking a ‘Wooze’  break to get over their boss’s resignation.   I hope the bad guys are doing the same thing too.  Hate to see the judiciary being forced into overtime when they all go back to work.

Not trying to be critical, but I don’t think having a junior surf carnival in an area that has had two shark attacks within 500m of each other in a 24hr cycle and one of them involved a 15ft (3m) white pointer that put its intended prey in hospital with serious injuries as they have done in northern New South Wales this week.

Talking about the Australian P.M. you might want to dig up last week’s papers, if you haven’t already seen them, where pictures show him visiting a U.S. warship dressed up in his R.A.A.F. bomber jacket and silver framed sunnies.   Now, it might just be a co-incidence, but I heard the other day that Tom Cruise has been signed up to play Maverick again in a new Top Gun movie and they were casting potential actors for a role of Maverick’s dad.  So … maybe …

For those of you who never have nature’s little furry thing’s moving into your house (and life) on as a permanent fixture, you may not agree with me, with the comment I am about to make, but those that have may agree with me.

For those of you who have never heard a state-of-origin game played at three o’clock in the morning.   The sounds of a running battle thundering across the ceiling – The hissing – the fighting – and then the deadly silence before the next batgtle begins.   Then you wouldn’t appreciate the thought I am about to unveil.

But those of you who are not willing to pay a fee of $600 to have the varmits moved a mere 25 metres from the house (distance by law) will certainly agree with my reasoning.

In New Zealand they are considered a pest, but here in Australia they are a protected species, but apparently only within reason because in rural Victoria a restaraunt is delighting punters with Possum Pies.   And that sounds a much better place to me to place a possum than my ceiling.

Finally, now that Queensland have severly thumped N.S.W. into the dust in the state of origin (52 – 6) I hope they rub salt into the wounds in September making it a 1-2- 3 final finish (Broncos, Cowboys and Titans.   The thrasing (a record defeat) was so much for the N.S.W. coach he was tweeting the Ashes scores long before the footy onslaught was finished.

My god, I just love writing blogs and books.   It’s just like talking to yourself except you have to spell the words correctly … and be a bit more precise in your clarity.   Though you do have to be careful not to press the PUBLISH button too early.

No, writing blogs and books is much, much better than talking before you think.  DICTIONARY.COMand the SAVE DRAFT along with the DELETE button were invented for writing and until they create a similar thing for our tongues I will continue with my preference for the written word.

Well that it for the moment., but before I sign off, if you don’t want the poems (as per the one following my farewell please let me know.

For anybody interested the next blog should be THE NIGHT OF THE DARKNESS EP 8

In the meantime, boys and gals, have a great day … and an even better night

see ya

Tony S    (the poem follows next)

Southern Winds

by  Tony Stewart

from Love and Other Memories vol 3

Southern winds blow gently
down the mountain slopes
bringing in a freshness
brimming with new hope

For golden days
that lay far ahead
combining memories
with little things you said

The years have passed
but love’s still strong
even though we had to part
we knew then it was wrong

But life sometimes
throws us a curve
it frays the strings
it breaks the nerve

Wedding vows
would bind so tight
thoughts of freedom shattered
we both took fright

You to the sea
and lands so far away
me to the valley
so we both could hide away

Yet neither one
wanted someone new
just the time to do
what we had to do

And now the eons
have rolled their lot
we now want the things
we haven’t got

You’re coming home
I’ll meet you soon
a heavenly chorus
will sing their tune

And we will find
where we let go
we need our love
we need it so

There’s no need to cry
For an open heart
this time forever
never again to part

For a southern breeze
blows gently down the slope
bringing in a freshness
bringing in new hope