Grass and Sky

I got a lot of housework done yesterday and today I spent the entire day working on the mock-up of the ganger coveralls. I am a slow worker, but I have most of the top done. All it lacks is sleeves, some sort of interface or lining for the collar, and the bits that go across the shoulders at the corners. And a zipper, which the mock-up will never get. I want to get the top done this week so I can start on the bottom next weekend.

I had some dvds playing to keep me company while I worked.

( Trial of a Time Lord )

( Burn Notice: Season Four )

Oh, and it was a banner weekend for Zoe. After being so cute yesterday morning with her toy, she has since chewed through the wires on my headphones, tried to eat my pins and sewing needles, and chewed through the usb cable for my camera (thank goodness my newly repaired laptop has a card reader). And now she is curled up on the sofa, sleeping the sleep of the innocent and adorable. Mal contented himself with pouncing on the sewing patterns and is also sleeping the sleep of the innocent and adorable.

And because I can't see my cats being adorable without taking their pictures, here are the pictures.

Can I vote for Revelation of the Daleks as the worst episode of all time? It's rambling and mostly incoherent, there are characters that make no sense, the Doctor and Peri are both at their worst/most annoying and the cliffhanger at the end of the first episode is the Doctor being crushed by a mortuary statue of himself. And the cliches! A body snatcher complaining that he's "a doctor, not a miracle worker," and the Doctor declaring, "I'm not dead yet!" The costumes and make-up are the eighties at their very worst, although I do rather like the Doctor's blue mourning cape and Kara's whole outfit. The Doctor and others are routinely felled by the slightest of touches.

It's so awful it's almost entertaining for its awfulness alone. Which, coming directly after Timelash, does make me wonder what exactly the show producers had in mind during this particular run of episodes. Were they purposefully making the show as ridiculous as possible?