.you must be mad, or else you wouldn't have come here

Why should it count? Well, I'd touch it, duh!

Well, that's their opinion: in their eyes Susan is ugly and Barbara is beautiful. *shrugs* They identify with Amy, which might explain why they see Rory as their boyfriend. I KNOW, I INFLUENCED THE PODCAST IN A MAJOR WAY, EEK! As for the ponytail, GO WATCH S5 NOW! (But if you want to know beforehand, here it is.)

My retort to the Flashing Blade, which will hopefully be read in this week's podcast, is this:

Dear Tony, Jo! and Bob,
(Sorry about the "flashers" business, by the way.)

I was very flattered to discover my question about Companion Chronicles aeons ago has led to you inviting someone to review them. I agree that there's too much Big Finish around and that poor Bob would probably die of exhaustion if he had to review everything that comes his way. And don't worry, I shall continue to send my own thoughts on those as soon as I can - but I'll do my best to be a little less verbose next time, for Bob's sake, as I keep remembering how out of breath he was after reading my e-mail.

I was listening to some previous podcasts recently, namely those where you asked your listeners to come up with ingredients for a Brigadier Pizza. I have no suggestions for that beyond what was already mentioned, but I felt like I should point out that there's a dessert, originally from Brazil but also very popular here in Portugal, known as a Brigadeiro - or, in English, Brigadier. It basically consists of dough made of condensed milk, butter and chocolate and rolled into tiny balls - very fattening and absolute poison for a diabetic, I'm afraid, and also extremely addictive.
Speaking of chocolate, I had a very creepy experience recently. I bought a box of assorted mini-chocolates I've always been very fond of - and imagine my surprise when it finally hit me, after years eating the stuff, that the wrapper on the plain milk chocolate ones depicts a lipstick kiss between the words "Alô Doçura" - in English, "Hello Sweetie". She's looking for him again...

All the best,
Patricia

PS: Telling the whole world about the Mad Twins' latest bout of insanity was completely intentional. Hopefully they'll think twice before doing something like that again. Oh, and since one of the Hartnell stories you suggested, "The Time Meddler", was also on my shortlist, I think I'll go for that one next time. Today, we'll be doing a small Pertwee marathon, both because he's my second favourite Doctor, and because I want to show them "Death of the Doctor" and I feel they should know Jo and Sarah better first.

And since next week's episode of Professor Dave's Ark in Space deals with Harry Potter, I also sent them a short comment about the books, followed by a plug to Diana Wynne Jones.