Rest room

(As in a room to go and rest in, British meaning, not the US meaning of a toilet)

Was reminded by a post today on Facebook from a uni friend about the “rest room” in Dundee University’s main Tower building basement, that was an enormous help to me during my postgraduate studies and during the year I was working as a research assistant as well part-time. I was battling my progressive and worsening neurological disease, and it was an enormous help to be able to go into this dedicated room with reclining chairs where I could have a lie down for an hour or so. It’s a little known facility but is especially useful for disabled or long term ill students who don’t otherwise have somewhere quiet to go. I used to always ask at the Tower front desk (usually Muriel!) for the key. But later I got my own key to keep and use. Long since returned.

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

I missed a lot of Doctor Who things in the 1990s, even missing somehow the 1996 Paul McGann TV movie. And also this from 1999, which we’ve just boggled at. It’s ridiculously silly, and over stretches lots of the jokes terribly. But Jonathan Pryce especially is having a whale of time, “I’ll explain later” was very funny, as was the Master’s extremely wobbly TARDIS time rotor. And yes it does make you wonder what new Who would have been like if Hugh Grant had accepted the role of the Ninth Doctor he was offered.

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