Doctor Who Christmas Special

This is a dual purpose post.

First, I'm test-running Mars Edit, which Nick has been nagging me to use for years and years. Well, a couple of years, anyway. Mars Edit, provided I can bend it satisfactorily to my will, allows me to blog in a pseudo-word document, rather than relying on blogging in the browser. The reason blogging in the browser is problematic leads me directly to my second point ...

The Doctor Who Christmas special. The ABC, bless their cotton socks, is airing this on Boxing Day, making life significantly better for all of us for whom Christmas without the Doctor is no Christmas at all.

This means, naturally, that I'm going to be live-blogging this on Boxing Day. In my parents' living room. With my parents. And my sister. And my sister's partner. And probably my brother. And my brother's partner. And a small terrier with a foot fetish and a tendency to either attack the television if he sees other dogs and/or foreigners (I know, but I swear we didn't teach him that) or to have a panic attack if too many people are enjoying themselves.

That will be something for you all to look forward to!

But my parents' double-brick-and-plaster walls aren't great at letting through a wireless signal, so the live-blogging won't be updated every five minutes or so as usual. I'll blog it all in Mars Edit, and then update it in one hit. And then you can all celebrate Christmas by laughing at this year's equivalent to the ridiculously large Cyberman in comparatively small Thames.

Until then, Merry Christmas, delightful readers. Deck the halls, make merry, try not to let your family drive you nuts, and we'll meet back here on Boxing Day so you can all be driven nuts by my family instead.