So today's big news...

[john_amend_all]

... is that I seem to be able to dismantle a ballcock, change the washer, and (this being the important bit) put it back together again afterwards well enough for it to work.

(Of course, having announced this to the entire Internet, I'll no doubt be woken at four in the morning by the sound of the cold water tank falling through my ceiling...).

My perceptions of how long somebody should be the Doctor were, unfortunately, formed between 1989 and 2005. Consequently, I expect tenures on the order of 8 years, and am constantly surprised when they stop after three or four. Still, at least this time the showrunner can't have the foreshadowing go on and on and on with hamfisted prophecies in every episode and twice in specials.

Also, seconding whoever suggested Gillian Anderson.

One other unrelated thought: In Johnny and the Dead, Johnny muses that a child can get away with asking almost anything if it's "for a project". It seems to me that there are adults who think the same way about "it's for a tender".
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