Just heard that Tony Hart has died. There goes another little piece of my childhood. Thanks Tony for making art fun on TV and inspiring me as a child, even if you never did show my work in The Gallery, it’s OK I came to terms with it.

They just don’t make TV like Vision On and Take Hart anymore. Contrary to rumour, Neil Buchanan is still alive and well…

London agency Fallon has redesigned the suite of BBC Radio logos, old and new comparison above.

I think they’re a definite improvement, much more consistent, and I’m all about consistency! I guess it’s strange that some are plain numbers, while others have a small detail indicative of the station content such as the smile in the 7. I would have thought it would be best to either do this on all of them or none, but hey, greater minds than mine were presumably at work…

Also, check out some of the oldies…

???? Japanese Lessons…

Thought I’d post this classic Adam & Joe video in sombre commemoration of the fact that I’ve had to give up my Japanese lessons for the time being. I’ve just not got the time at the moment for the lessons, revision and homework which being any good at such a complicated language requires. It’s a real shame after two years, but I hope to pick it back up again soon. I’ve met some great people, had a laugh and even rather bewilderingly acquired a qualification! Despite all this I still have no confidence I could converse in Japan, but it will be fun eventually finding out!

Some pics can be found here:

OK, so I’m being pretty brave by coming out online as a Doctor Who fan like this, but the point of this blog is to be honest, so here it is. I do actually love Doctor Who.

I remember watching it when I was little at my Nan’s house and all of the stories and monsters seemed so vivid to me, I made a dalek out of rubbish which I was very proud of. I missed the best years, it was the 80s by the time I was growing up with it, but old repeats introduced me to the previous doctors and to this day my favourite is Patrick Troughton.

I’m really very pleased it’s mainstream viewing again, it means I don’t have to be quite so sheepish about watching it, although I must resist the temptation to buy pointless merchandise or dwell too long outside toy shop windows. The only thing I haven’t been so keen on from the new series is the logo and some of the design. They use a strange distressed typeface on all the tie-in stuff, kind of like Hector which seems a bit cheesy, and the new logo just reminds me of a taxi for hire. A shame when there was a rich logo heritage to use from the old series.

Check out the old logos from 1963 onwards…