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Sleeping with Spiders

I was going to post this now, but I think instead I’ll schedule it to post while I’m sleeping:

I’m going to fall asleep listening to the audiobook of Terrance Dicks’ Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders. It is a nov­el­isa­tion of a Doctor Who tele­vi­sion story. The original show features Tibetan monks and a race of alien spiders. You can read more about it over on Wiki­pedia, here, or by doing a little light Googling (there is a vast amount of inform­a­tion about Doctor Who avail­able online). I don’t remember it being a scary story, but alien spiders (or were they giant alien spiders?) sound a bit scary. Hope­fully I won’t get nightmares.

Create Your Own Island

Today my internet wan­der­ings led me to a lovely guide to making your very own Kirrin Island. If you ever read one of Blyton’s stories (The Secret Seven novels were my favour­ites) and then dreamt for weeks (or for the rest of your life) of exploring aban­doned island forts, uncov­ering buried pirate treasure, and con­fronting wicked smug­glers, the instruc­tions will bring back memories. The guide also reminded me of the episode of Blue Peter in which one of the presenters (I forget which) showed millions of children how to make a mini­ature (but fully oper­a­tional) Tracy Island (amaz­ingly, the instruc­tions for that are still avail­able for download from the BBC).