Doctor Who: New Earth

With a bigger budget and a much younger actor, can Doctor Who still tell great stories? To answer that question based on "New Earth", the first episode of Series 2, the answer would be no. Can David Tennant make the Doctor his own? The answer is a simple yes, which makes it a nice watcher for the curious.

Rose and the Doctor land on New Earth, which is a more futuristic version of the old one. In New New York, a hospital large in scope heals thousands and thousands of patients of all different races. The Doctor, of course, wants to know the secret that no one is willing to tell him. Meanwhile, Rose encounters Cassandra O'Brian, whom we last saw in Series 1's "End Of The World". Tired of her existence as a mere sheet of skin, she transports herself into the mind of Rose. Meanwhile, the Doctor encounters a dying Face Of Boe, also from Series 1's "End Of The World". He apparently has a secret, but can only tell someone who is a wanderer with no home such as the Doctor.

Despite this rather flat entry in Series 2, Doctor Who allows the writers to take the show to beyond the likes of Russell Davies. With this, I hope that the critics will treat this season better than they they did the first one, as I personally thoroughly enjoyed it!

Worried about Bird Flu?

Here's the answer: Hensip. This excellent "cartoon" arrived in my inbox today. I have no idea who the artist is, but he or she has given me the best laugh of the week so far.

Hornsea Scouts Website!

Today, I took photographs of the Scout HQ in Hornsea to put the finishing touches to my new Scout Group webpage. Just some more writing to do and then the whole project will be finished. Go on take a look!

Hull City 0 - Sheffield United 1

Despite losing to a 90th minute Sheffield United winner in a five-goal thriller at Bramall Lane, City move one game closer to safety from relegation. City went 2-0 down to Blades goals either side of half time from Neil Shipperley and Paul Ifill, but turned it around with a 56th minute double substitution. Both Stuart Elliott and Darryl Duffy came on to score in the 65th and 70th minutes respectively to draw level.

Home keeper Paddy Kenny was lucky not to concede a penalty and be sent off, while he was also struggling to stay on after suffering a knock, but had to battle on as Neil Warnock didn't have a goalkeeper on the bench.

David Unsworth's goal in injury time stole it for the South Yorkshire club to make it 3-2 and keep their automatic promotion hopes on course.

Out in Hornsea!

Tonight I attended the local public house with a few of my friends who where celebrating their last night in Hornsea for the time being, I saw a few people I haven't seen in a long time which is good, unfortunately my arm is still in a sling which is not good!

Scouts!

Well tonight we had wonderful weather considering it is March, so we took the Scouts outside and had a wonderful game of rounders, on the suprisingly dry grass! Everyone involved seemed to enjoy the night which was good.

Completed series of updates on the WSJ site!

I spent the day being rather busy completing various updates to the WSJ website! In fact I uploaded a whole new template which I think looks rather good!

Dr Who is back on the 15th April!

I personally cannot wait!

Who is Doctor Who?

Also now online is an update and revamp to Who Is Doctor Who, the official tie-in website ostensibly 'written' by Mickey Smith, Noel Clarke's character in the series. The site last year featured amusing anecdotes and 'conspiracy theories' related to the Doctor's trips to Earth. I just thought I would share this site with all Doctor Who Fans!

New series of Doctor Who!

The trailer for Series Two of Doctor Who made its debut this weekend in the UK. It originally debuted at 6.58pm on Saturday on BBC One in a one-minute version, which was simultaneously put online at the official Doctor Who website and was then shown once each by BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four through the evening. A shorter version of 40 seconds debuted on BBC One! I am personally looking forward to the new series of Doctor Who, after how good the last one was and am just hoping for more of the same, but we shall have to wait and see!

Great result @ the KC for Hull City

It was good to see Hull City back to winning ways against Leeds it was Jon Parkin who rose to head home 14 minutes from the end of a passionate Yorkshire derby. Hull frustrated the visitors for long spells and Parkin, who had earlier seen a goal controversially ruled out, was on the mark to give the hosts a deserved win.

Leeds, who have now failed to win any of their last five games, appear to have lost form at the worst time. United started the game strongly though and a curling left-footed free-kick from Eddie Lewis forced Hull goalkeeper Boaz Myhill into a full-length save. At the other end, Parkin latched on to a flick-on to volley superbly into the top corner, but he was denied by the offside flag.

However, Hull always looked dangerous and, with time ticking away, Green lobbed in a good cross from the right and Parkin squeezed a far post header beyond Sullivan. Leeds poured forward, but the closest they came to grabbing an equaliser was when substitute David Healy's drilled free-kick flew just wide in the final minute.