Quick braggy Brit-trip post

As of last night, M & I now have confirmed tickets to:

- the David Tennant/Patrick Stewart Hamlet
- the John Barrowman Robin Hood panto (where we'll be joining the meetup)
- the Derek Jacobi Twelfth Night
and
- the Rowan Atkinson/Burn Gorman Oliver. (Which is still posting that they don't know who their Nancy or Oliver are. As If I Care.)

That last took a 4am phone call, but for two single seats in the first and second row of the grand circle? *So* worth it!

When I call to confirm the hotel, I'll also confirm the status of their Internet or lack thereof; I may be semi-liveblogging this.

Gallimaufry

A wonderfully perverse vid where Nine and Ten are battling over Rose's affections. I think the reason I find it so hilarious is because it's set to "Love Stinks."

The conference has hit the big time!

Thanks to tempestsarekind, I'm totally going back to the Globe just to buy this.

tchwrtr linked to stitch markers on Etsy. I am not allowed to look at stitch markers on Etsy for the same reason I'm not allowed to preorder anything Whovian from Amazon.co.uk until after the trip - I need to have money *for* the trip! Anybody know if there's a 12-row chain-style row counter? All my projects are based on a count of 12.

And a minor knitting victory - I can now do the Yarn Harlot 1-Row Handspun Scarf stitch without looking down! I'm going to be getting a LOT of practice at that too, as am making a cotton throw in that stitch, with a minimum of 4 rows to be done nightly as a form of stress relief.

ionlylurkhere has an interesting Martha meta post. When Rose first met the Doctor, she had a sense that she wanted more out of life than she was currently getting, but no real idea how to get it. The Doctor unlocked the door to everything she could have dreamed of and a whole load more besides. Martha's problem is a step further back than that: despite the fact that she's got a good life on the surface of things, she doesn't actually know how to want things for herself, really.

She's used to sublimating her desires to those of her family, so used it to that it doesn't even occur to her to put her own views across. The initial sequence of phone calls that introduces her in Smith and Jones show her as the sensible one who has to broker deals between the rest of the family, and she seems to have a strong enough desire for everyone to get along all right that she doesn't want to add another set of competing demands into the mix.