Anyway, this isn’t about your favourite Doctor, but about you – our very own Time-poor Lord, who despite being able to work the word ‘busy’ into every sentence, has still managed to give us all an essential first-stop during our sneaky ‘just-arrived-at-work internet surfs’ for the past 4 years.
Your cartooning reached astonishing heights with the Monster Mash series of years past – that gorgeous artwork still deserves a wider audience, especially given all the time and effort it must have taken, (although you always make it look effortless). Likewise, the hand-drawn typography you created for banners surely earns a type designer’s licence – seriously, I’d happily pay to use some of those ‘fonts’ (or convince my managers to pay, at least).
Even your dreaded photoshop banners really hit their stride with the recent ‘12 days’ series – with many providing genuine LOLs which suddenly made those ‘work-time peeks’ less sneaky.

As brilliant as all this was, it was really only window dressing for a massive enterprise which has kept probably more people than you’ll ever know entertained, amused, informed, challenged and even occasionally wound-up. As light as the tone is, I know that you think and plan it all carefully. I remember you fighting your corner so well when I once pointed out that you may have upset someone with a remark on the blog, that I actually ended up agreeing with you.
So well done Sir, you should be proud. The Blog arrived and departed with the Tenth Doctor but has given us all so much more, at a time when it’s been near-impossible to enjoy fandom without wading through side burns, trainers and a long coat first.

And Death in Blackpool. Yes… I listened to it on Christmas Eve and really needed that yuletide alcohol and sugar to revive my Festive spirit from its near-total system shut down. Cheers, Mr Barnes.

Happy New year everyone!

At this stage, it looks like I’ll be back in NZ in the second half of next year and look forward to catching up with y’all. I also am very aware of how backwards my personal blog is, but I will be updating it with the remaining three Doctor Who exhibitions I attended…it will happen – maybe not overnight, but one day I shall update it, until then go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me…ah, don’t worry. Just google ‘The Foo Files’ and you’ll find it!

One another note – yes, didn’t Nabil Shaban come across as completely bat$hit bonkers! I then had to look up the Clive Swift interview and my mouth hung open as I digested his words of wisdom. I kept thinking he was just taking the pi$$ but he ends up coming across as a right twit. I suppose when you get to a certain point (age) you no longer have to care what others think, but wow.

Anyway, 2010 will be a great year with a new Doc to boot. Hope this year is brilliant, fantastic and whatever Matt Smith’s catch phrase will be.

Thanks for the fun!

Foo