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Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


( Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

When my sister came last week we started going through a pile of stuff we had bought up when we sold our parents' house. I'd started in on an initial triage and was explaining my reasoning - why I'd put this aside for more consideration, why I was fairly sure I didn't want this, and so on. My sister found this all a bit overwhelming and eventually we agreed that I'd keep everything for a while until we could set aside a day or so to talk through it properly.

It came up that one thing I was stumped on were Granny's diaries. She kept a daily diary from 1969 to 1986, but having dipped into them I was pretty sure I would never read them all. 17 years of the mundane details of life are not that engaging. They might be of interest to a social historian but I wouldn't know how to find the right one. We agreed that maybe we needed to "Marie Kondo" them. Thank them for their service and then throw them away. However, I feel I want to do a bit more than that - or perhaps that thanking them for their service requires capturing at least the flavour of them somehow.

Maybe, I thought, I could post random entries here for a bit - pick a year and post the relevant entry for that year for the day I'm writing here. A snap shot of her life without it being too overwhelming. So today I picked out the earliest diary (1969) and turned to today's date - 20 July.

MOON-DAY!

Apollo 11 with American (2) crew landed on the moon 9.18pm. Unbelievable event. About 3:30am Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and stayed for 2 hrs. Sat up to see all this. Bed at 6am

So, not that mundane. If anyone wants to nominate a year and a date, I'll transcribe it on that day, otherwise I'll just randomly post stuff as and when. At least for the next while until we have strength to dispose of them.