The Spirit of the Stairwell

I don’t let my day job entrude on the pages of this blog very often but this is such a well put together film, the performance is brilliant and the impact it could have on the lives of the world’s poorest people so immense, I couldn’t resist it.

Please take the time to watch it, it’s more than entertaining enough to fill three minutes of your life and it offers a concrete and very real way you can take a small action that could change the world.

Chris Fosten writes:

It’s here. The Ood Cast: Episood 1. (That’s right, we’re busting out puns right from the get go – that’s just how we roll.)

The most important thing we want everyone to know before we start (and we say it on the podcast too) is that we love the show. Utterly. Even when we are disappointed by what we see, we love it.

Even, it seems, when we have quite large, uber-geeky reasons for never wanting to see that hour of TV again, we still do. And we still go and buy the DVDs.

Because, to us, Doctor Who isn’t something we can take or leave. It’s almost the thing that has been with us since we were wee bairns in the highlands. Or small children from the south of England (delete according to the way you wish to think of us).

In the words of countless Mitchell characters in Eastenders (so I’m told), “It’s family”. And it is.

Chris has said on this very blog that the Doctor has had a massive effect on the way he chose to do things (I’m still a little unsure about the blazer and the celery in the lapel, although I’m sure we’ll all get used to it), but for the three of us who make up the male contingent of the podcast, it’s something that rings a – cloister – bell. (Ha! See what I did there?! Oh, never mind)

Laura brings a fresh and sharp view to proceedings to prove that we are just old school idiots sometimes. And that sometimes we do have a point. But not all the time.

We would readily admit that we are sometimes critical. But it’s simply, and only, because we love the show and like to sit around daydreaming about what we’d like to see happen next, or how something should be done.

That could be just me.

And sometimes, life really doesn’t come to any harm if you ask a few questions about things.

Join us for our little journeys through (limited) Time and (cramped) Space. We’d all love you to.

This song is ending, but the story never ends … I’m kidding, that was a terrible line.

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1. Write this blog more.

2. No, seriously, I’m going to write this blog more.

3. Change every part of my life that is annoying, dangerous, stagnant or similarly lacklustre.

4. Change every aspect of my personality that isn’t how I want it to be.

5. Learn to do the following – ski, sing, improvise better, play the ukulele, rock climb, use Adobe Design suite, Final Cut Pro and Aperture, use a digital SLR properly and ventriloquism.

6. Create stuff I’m proud of – edit my novel, write a musical, direct a film, produce a podcast, design a website.

7. Excel at my job.

That just about covers it I think.

There’s a whole world of culture out there, tear your eyes away from Britain’s Got Talent for a few seconds and look out the window. Can you see a cinema or a theatre or a little pub with a music venue upstairs that showcases independent music?

Okay I guess that was a bit of a long shot … but I’m trying to paint a picture here, a world of possibilities where people are funny or wise or profound. Where art teaches us something or at least makes us think a little. It’s a world of trial and error, crazy collaborations and singular experiences.

It isn’t presented by Ant and Dec.

Welcome to the Spirit of the Stairwell.