FYI - I'm not a writer, just an aspiring (procrastinating) one!

If those pastries are soft they'd go well with hot chocolate, and if they are crunchier they'd go well with tea. Decisions, decisions...

Yes! My day is always made better when I think about Mulder and Scully.

I love how the first line has the witnesses distancing themselves from those (conspiracy theorists?) people who believe in flying saucers. No, we definitely saw something! We definitely saw a bird...or something and "definitely not a flying saucer". We're not like those folks! We saw something!

I can confirm this is a feeling women know very well. I hoped I would experience it less as I got older, you know, wrinkles indicating some form of life experience, a CV indicating professional experience...but no.
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Football. Beard. Adverts. That woman he had an affair with but somehow in the press it was all his wife's fault. His famous wife. Lots of kids. I resent knowing that much about him, and I can't imagine how that makes a doc.

It'd be more fun having my Mum explain the condition of her toenails.

I couldn't agree more. The final scene in 'The Six Napoleons' when he nearly makes Jeremy Brett's Sherlock cry is amazing, it very nearly gets me crying too!

He's what I think of when people use the phrase 'character actor'. His performance in Hitchhiker's Guide is perfect, he's on screen for less than 10 minutes and it is etched into my memory!

In some parallel universe the effects are being felt and cannot be overstated.

However, I can't help but think that if I paid more attention in science lessons my understanding of things like parallel universes would be far better.

In some parallel universe there is a version of me that..

And in some of these places Blofeld put a lot of expense into these properties (e.g. that bloody volcano), and he always died a failure with his evil lair looking like a trashed holiday rental. Spare a thought for Blofeld, he got sod all achieved before he died...over and over again.

If you ask me, that is the worst kind of healthy paper...

This 2008 interview gave me a real insight into Sian Reynold's work as a translator. It's a two part intervew, and I'd recommend a read if you're interested in crime fiction, translation or you're fan of Fred Vargas' work.
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Is this an example of inspiration for novels popping up everywhere? If we can answer how, there might be 80,000 words there...

It went live on Saturday. Don't know how I missed your comment for 4 days! As a bitesize episode it's different in style to the 'Alex' episode, but my pronunciation hasn't improved! My episode this Saturday is a Fred Vargas crime novel, so I keep trying. Hopefully, I am failing better every time!

I took a deep breath, I engaged my brains cells and...I saw what you did there!

I reposted your poem after sharing a post to a Book Trust Christmas campaign for children, and your poem really spoke to what I was thinking about when I saw that campaign. We need the 'ghosts' of these stories in our minds. They make us more empathetic. Thank you for writing it.

Ah, well two things:
1) Clearly, I can't spell and I can't comprehend. Hopefully, that is just a result of having a busy week at work, and my brain giving up.
2) I take back everything I put in the previous comment! However, I'll leave it there as a lesson to really use my brain cells next time.

She was in a (sadly unsuccessful) ITV adaptation of Sparkling Cyanide with Oliver Ford Davies, and their central relationship was wonderful. It was warm and playful. She just brought life to every role I saw her in, plus I regularly quote that line from Shirley Valentine after hearing BS!