The Today Programme visited Lewes for this morning’s edition to report on our local currency. Â That’s just 5 months after the Observer, and 8 months after the BBC’s own Working Lunch got the story.
I didn’t realise they’re posting video on their website now. The clip features my local butcher, greengrocer, and sadly-now-defunct-delicatessen as well as the more central but no less wonderful Bill’s and May’s.
TweetInterviewed after half an hour of building up the Eleventh Doctor, I was underwhelmed by Matt Smith. Â His two defining features seemed to be his youth and the fact his hair looks a bit like David Tennant’s. Â
Tennant is  my favourite Doctor so it’s been very sad to think we won’t be seeing him in new episodes after this year.  His extraordinary performance that built on those of his nine predecessors have made his fanboyish enthusiasm for the show particularly charming.  That’s something that Smith, who wasn’t born until well after Tom Baker regenerated into Peter Davison, is unlikely to have.  But after viewing one episode of Party Animals Matt Smith just is the Doctor.  He may be young, but he looks ageless, and alien; though I shall miss Ten, for the first time I’m looking forward to the Next Doctor.
TweetIt’s cold.
There’s about 2″ of ice on the pond. It’s barely even frozen before.
The level’s dropped so I switch on the hose from the water butt. Not much happens… the water’s frozen there too, so it’s probably frozen in the pipe. Eventually a trickle comes through and grows until I can top the pond up properly. The ice on top of the water butt stays where it is as a vacuum forms beneath it…
A few hours later I can still see the thick ice, unmelted, sandwiched between the water above and below. I can see the fish swimming below the ice, and a probably rather confused frog has come in and is swimming across the surface water above the ice. It’s finding it can’t dive, I don’t know if it understands why…
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