Weather With You

It rains every time we go down the A12 you know. This is probably just a coincidence though, as we don't go down the A12 very often, but both times we've travelled back from visiting Richard it's poured down and the journey hasn't been all that pleasant. It took us nigh on 5 hours to get home yesterday (although we did stop at Brent Cross for a cuppa and some shopping), but we did get to listen to the whole of the Quintessential Phase of the Hitch Hikers radio series.
The new radio series's were pretty good overall. There's always a danger that when you go back to something after so long that you might not be able to recapture all that was great about it in the first place, and here we had the twin problems of the deaths of Douglas Adams and Peter Jones, plus of course the main cast being a lot older too. Somehow it seemed to work though, probably through the familiarity of the voices that felt like old friends reunited... Simon Jones still is the authentic Arthur and always will be in the way that Martin Freeman never will be. I really liked the new ending. That's not something you hear me say very often, as I'm a bit of a stickler for accurate adaptations, but I'm glad the series had the happy ending it deserved rather than the rather downbeat ending Mostly Harmless had. Maybe resurrecting Marvin was a step too far (as his death had been rather poignant in The quandary Phase) but overall it was rather good.

We had a good weekend, despite the constant rain that followed us. Richard is a very good friend. Of all the guys I met from OG for the first time almost five years ago, I really did manage to become close friends with the best of them. He's very good company, and I always forget just how silly he is... But that does mean we always have a laugh when we're together.
We laughed a lot over the weekend, even at his bad jokes! We made Crumble (sticky fingers!), drank lovely wine, watched Eurovision and Doctor Who and we even managed a trip to Iken Marshes where they filmed Power of Kroll (you see, only the best for us) despite the best efforts of Richard's Tom Tom to take us the most indirect route at every available opportunity. Steve was delighted to the swamps of Delta 4 hadn't changed a bit... Well it is still a swamp, even now!
I hope it's not another 5 months before we seem him again, and it'd be nice to go and see him when it wasn't raining!

Doctor Who was great this weekend. The Cybermen showed their might, there was a bit more Cyber-Conversion stuff (and horrible it looked too, especially when the empty helmet was dropping down...) and Mickey found his place in the Universe... Even if it was the wrong one. Itw as the perfect way for him to leave the show I think. At least the Doctor finally recognised he could be a hero too. He was much undervalued by both Rose and the Doctor. Good stuff!

Current Music: (the much missed, died far too early) Matthew Jay
Current Doctor Who: Enemy of the World
Current Breakfast Cereal: Sainsbury's Apricot Wheats