Sunday 9 February 2014

dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum, ooo wee ooo

Hello my little reader friends,

And welcome, once again, to my little five minutes worth of insanity. Or should that be sanity? Well, anyway, you're here now so settle down and I'll begin.

So as you know, I have moved up to Scotland and have settled in Paisley. (If you didn't know, well, you do now. And where have you been?)

Well, as the flat is all sorted and work is going alright, it was time to start meeting new people and make some new friends. And maybe, just maybe, meet my impossible girl to go adventuring through time and space with.

Actually when I say the flat is all sorted, that isn't completely accurate. It's all sorted bar the music system. You see, my little friends, when I moved in I decided that as it's a small flat that a big sound system would look out of place. So I was looking for a small set up that could play the radio, cds and my ipod. Anyway my dad found one that would do all three and said that he and mum would get me it for Christmas (this was back in November/early December last year in case you're about to point out that's only just turned February). So having it got it down south we tried it with his ipod and it worked fine. Now, at this point, some of you are probably thinking that we should have tried my ipod aren't you?

And you'd probably have a point. But as his ipod is an ipod classic and my ipod is also an ipod classic you would think there wouldn't be a problem. After all, ipod is an ipod is an ipod is an ipod... (and so on).

So in the new year I dutifully returned north and plugged my ipod into the docking port on this new system.

You can guess what happened next can't you...

That's right, sod all.

Turns out that only certain makes and models of ipod are supported by this thing... and mine wasn't one of them.

There was a way round it though so I can still play the ipod until I can get a more up to date model.  But still.....damn you Apple!! grrrr..

Anyway, where was I?

Oh yeah, impossible girl .
Right, so you lot know I'm a bit of geek right? Yes of course you do. Either that or you've come here by mistake in which case, sit down, make yourself comfortable, and start your catch up reading.

So I've started to look for groups similar to those interests that I was involved with down south (still feels a bit weird calling an area in the vicinity of Liverpool down south but there go). So far I've found a book group and....

A Doctor Who group.

Yes, a Doctor Who group. Yay! They meet every two weeks in a pub in Glasgow city centre (what is it with science fiction groups meeting in pubs?). The train from Paisley Gilmore Street to Glasgow Central takes about ten minutes and the meeting place is only a five minute walk from there so last Sunday I took myself along to one of their meetings to see what they were like. It kicked off at around seven-ish. Meetings like this always have an 'ish' after the proposed start time. Bit like Greek holidays.

They were very nice as it turns out. Let me put it this way, there are far worse ways to spend a Sunday evening. And there were a lot of them as well. So much so that it wasn't possible to say hello and introduce myself to all of them. The good thing is that there is always a point to reference to start the conversations with? So if you ever find yourself trying to have a chat to a Doctor Who fan, just start with these questions:

1: Who is your Doctor?
2: Who is your favourite Doctor? Note: this is NOT the same as question 1.
3: Who is your favourite companion?
4: What is your favourite episode/adventure? You'll probably get two answers here: One from the classic series and one from the new show.

And there you go! You'll have a conversation going and you're now free to wander onto different topics.

So anyway, as I was saying, those that I did chat to were very nice anyway. And I'll be going back

But, I hear you all cry, was she there? Was your impossible girl there waiting for you?

The answer to that is.....

(wait for it)

I don't know. Maybe she was and maybe she wasn't. There were a few nice ladies there so who knows.

Ta ta for now