Every wondered what it would be like to meet everyone’s favourite Star Trek captain, Kate Mulgrew? No?? Lee had. Find out what happened when he found himself in a bar with her: Episode One / Episode Two.

Thought the kung fu monky monk monks in Tooth and Claw reminded you of something? Perhaps it was this.

Loved New Earth but weren’t too keen on the cast? Maybe you’ll like it more this time.

From theguardian, via Outpost Gallifrey, comes the sad news that BT are dropping Tom Baker as their landline text message voice, and thus spoiling the fun of literally tens of texters.

However, the moment has been prepared for:

The service, which allowed people to send messages from their mobile phones to landlines, to be enunciated in Baker’s classic deep voice, will be changed to include both male and female voices. A BT spokesman said it wanted to give people the opportunity to have their texts delivered to landlines by a voice of their own gender.

Short of a PledgeBank-organised mass protest outside BT’s HQ – or, possibly, petitioning them with lots of text messages to their landlines contact numbers – that’s that.

How did I miss this? The Actor Toby Stephens – whom you may knowing from such TV series as Cambridge Spies and Waking the Dead, or as the villain in the awful Bond film Die Another Day – is the son of Maggie Smith and the late Robert Stephens.

Stephens, regardless of his other roles, was the evil Abner Brown in the BBC’s classic adapation of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights. And Smith, regardless of her other roles, was marvellous in Murder by Death.

First of all, it’s only fair to mention that I do like your Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream.

Now that’s out of the way, let me suggest that you’ve enacted a strategic error by making your branch on the Strand in London part of an easyInternetCafé. This allow me to complain online about your service literally seconds after being subject to it.

To be fair, the service itself would have been it OK had your staff been willing to accept a Scottish banknote. For future reference, let me explain.

1. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom.
2. The currency of Scotland is pounds sterling – the same as in the rest of the UK.
3. There are lots of people in London who don’t live there. Some have travelled from Scotland.
4. Scottish banknotes are legal tender throughout the UK and therefore people travelling from Scotland need not go to a bureau de change to change “Scottish money” into “English money”. Gosh, it’s not true. See the comments…

All I wanted was a cookie. I didn’t even particularly want a cookie, but I needed change for the slot machine to get my internet access. So you’ve lost out on a transaction and you’ve annoyed me. To avoid this happening in future, I suggest you accept legal tender currency when presented with it.

Oh, and I don’t like your Phish Food flavour ice cream.

Love,
Will