Eddie Izzard... missed by this much...

Seems Eddie Izzard was in the running to become the new Dr Who. I reckon he would have made a great Dr. He lost to Christopher Eccleston, who worked alongside Nicole Kidman in the film The Others. From what little I've read about it so far it seems the new Dr Who may be a lot darker and more serious than previous ones. The BBC are spending £1 million per episode -- more than they've ever spent on any drama. I love science fiction, but I've never really been a great fan of Dr. Who... though I remember enjoying the very first episodes starring William Hartnell.

It will be interesting to see how this comes off. The massive, rather obsessive fan-base risks sabotaging any attempt to breathe fresh life into the show. Oddly, they are actually attached to the string-and-cardboard sets and the two-dimensional scripts. The recent one-off movie tried to bring more flash and cool to the dusty series. I thought it did so remarkably well, but a lot of fans hated it.

surprise!!!

As you may know, there are large green tree frogs in my toilet and I often have to remove them before using it. Well today I got a big surprise. There was a large snake in the toilet, presumably eating one of the poor frogs. I described it to my Mum over the phone afterwards and she assured me that it is almost certainly a harmless green tree snake. It sure was a big one. I didn't see it all, but I estimate it to be about a meter long. It managed to squeeze itself up under the rim of the toilet and hide entirely from sight... not a very comforting ability.

I went and pissed outside. :)

Much later I absolutely had to use the toilet. I searched high and low but couldn't find the snake anywhere. The most reassuring thing was that a few items on the bench in there had been knocked over. I don't think it was in the toilet anymore. Certainly it didn't show itself, and the toilet flushes fine now.

Poor frogs.