In which we're still here!

"For real? The camera battery is dead?"

"Shush," my person Maddy said. "Use my phone. It's just as good as my old point-and-shoot."

She is right, though.

We really haven't gone anywhere. It's just that with my person working full-time, it's been hard to find time to post. But we do intend to change that this year.

Speaking of which, my person just ran downstairs to see why the washer is starting another rinse cycle instead of spinning the blanket she's trying to wash dry.

"If she wants to, she can use the dryer in my TARDIS," the Lady Madrigal Baker, aka Maddy, said,

"You don't have a dryer in your TARDIS," I reminded her.

"Wait. Why don't I have a dryer in my TARDIS?" She looked at the Doctor, who just arrived from - I think she said Sheffield?

"Because you took it apart to make a jet pack for a Camaro," the Doctor said.

That sounds way cooler than a dryer, actually.....

"Nice kitty. Good kitty. Get out of here, kitty..." Daisy's voice alerted us to a minor crisis nearby.

"Gotcha, sweetie."

"Hey! Paradox! What are you doing out here? You're supposed to stay in the TARDIS!" Maddy hurried over, scooping up her cat. "I don't think he would have hurt you, Daisy. I'm sorry."

"No problem." Des, Daisy's rescuer, said. His lady Astrid moved here from Michigan back last March, and he followed her out here a few months later. He used to be in a band, but left just before everything went off the rails. They're both super nice.

"You didn't dye him, did you?" Astrid is a vet tech, works at a shelter, and worries about such things.

 "No, he's an Arcadian Ginsing Point," Maddy explained somewhat unhelpfully.

"He's from our home planet, Gallifrey," the Doctor added.

"Do they eat the same thing ours do?" Astrid said.

"Pretty much. Of course, Mr. Picky Paws here only likes Wild Endevour Chewy Kibbles," Maddy rolled her eyes.

"Where do you get that here?" the Doctor said.

"You know what they say. If you want it, KerBlam it."

Yeah, well, I hope there isn't any bubblewrap in those boxes.....

Our lovely Fawn is still very much here, BTW. She's currently rocking lighter hair.

These lovely ladies are Angelica (in back) and her sister Anna Miranda.

They're from a place called Dream Valley.

Angelica is almost completely blind - she can see light and shadow and some shapes. Miri is anxiously awaiting the arrival of what she hopes will be a guide fox for her sister. Yes, she said fox.

Clockwise from top is Piper, Willow, Chione (pronounced KEE-oh-nee) and Calais, Chione's brother.

Piper is technically an Ondine, not a mermaid. She's a river spirit. She is also insanely adorable.

And this is Iris. She's a chimera.

I think she also has a vlog called "Moose on the Loose."

We also have Devika, who also joined us from the Wylde Kingdom. She's currently grumbling over the sad state of this year's poinsettia.

Bonus shots....

Astrid modeling a new outfit and getting photobombed by a gerbil named Dagger

Maddy, Fawn and the Doctor about to get a shift on....

Angelica......

Anna Miranda......

And Des.

In which - Dalek!

"We should sit on the lawn. It's probably cooler," Paisley said.

"No way." Aura looked over her shoulder. "That bloody dog next door is out again. And he doesn't know to stay on his own side."

It sounded like a party next door - I don't think barbecue, since I couldn't smell anything barbecuing.

"Pardon me, ladies - has anyone seen Maddy?"

"You mean your Maddy, right?" I don't think he and my person have met yet.

"Of course. She said something about..."








"We're back!"

I don't know if it's that a Gallifreyian accent sounds British, or a British accent sounds Gallifreyian. And I seem to remember Fawn telling me about someone else who had a pet fox.

And what the heck....

"Everyone, this is the Eternal Dalek...." Maddy started, but the Doctor cut her off.

"Maddy, what are you doing? Don't bring one of those things here!"

"Doctor, stop! I'll have you know that he's my friend."

"You can't make friends with a Dalek..."

"I did with this one. If it weren't for him, we would never have gotten off of Cassinus."

"The other Daleks abandoned me. I was of no use to them," the yellow - whatever - said in a grating electronic voice.

"Really?" The Doctor looked at it - him, whatever.

"I had been captured by the Mogul. He sent me to exterminate Maddy when her TARDIS crashed on Cassinus. But she promised to rescue me instead. I had no other choice." The Dalek lowered its eyestalk a bit. "I discovered that she was my friend.


"He rescued LaMarr and got her back to the TARDIS. She was the one who knew how to evade the Mogul's defenses. I wouldn't have gotten off Cassinus without her - or him."

The Doctor's eyes went even wider. "You escaped his Time Lock Beam?"

She nodded. "LaMarr knew how it worked. It locks onto your dematerialization frequency and overrides it. But if you randomly hop between frequencies, it can't lock on, and you can escape."

"I didn't think you could do that."

"You can. You aren't supposed to, but you can."

"I'm just glad you're all right, old girl. We're the only ones left."





















"She hasn't told him?" Paisley said.

"Not yet," The Dalek replied. "I don't think she can yet. She said something about a fixed point in time."

I hope she decides to tell me, though.

















Bonus pic: Maddy and Tonio, her pet fox.

In which we have a tea party.....

 It was a nice afternoon for a tea party....


Until..........

"Excuse me, have you seen a blue box around here?"

"A blue box?" I was a little confused.

"Yeah, blue, has a light on top, says "Police Call Box" on it..."

"Wait, do you mean...." John started, but was interrupted by a very peculiar wheezing, swooshing, grinding-type noise...

 "There! That!"

Why does nothing that happens around here surprise me any more?

"Excuse me - is this Zarvos?"

"No, it's Earth, Doctor," the stranger replied.

"Missy? What are you doing here?"

"The same thing you are, apparently..." As she spoke, the box vanished with the same noise, only to reappear nearby on level ground.

"You always pick the worst places to land."

"Maddy? I thought I said...."

"Yeah, yeah. Stay in the TARDIS until we know it's safe. Which it is," she replied with an amused smile. "And it's also not Zarvos. It's Earth."

"And Missy? What are you doing here?"

"The same thing you are, apparently."

"Not exactly. I'm not recruiting Cybermen," Maddy replied.

"Neither am I. Now. I'm on vacation. Can't a Time Lady go on vacation without having her motives questioned? Besides, aren't you the one who's friends with a Dalek?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Friends with a Dalek?" The Doctor looked at her, wide-eyed. "What else weren't you going to tell me, old girl?"

"Well, if I told you it would spoil the surprise, now, wouldn't it?" Maddy said.

"What's a Dalek?" I had to ask.

"Pepper pot type thing. Nasty. Full of hate," the Doctor said. "It's all they know how to do."

"Well, not all of them. You haven't met the Eternal." Maddy looked at him.

"Yeah, he's pretty cool for being a mutant in a tin can." The speaker was...

"Kilbey?" This somehow explained a few things.

"Indeed. And this is the Lady Madrigal Baker, from Gallifrey, and her friend the Doctor."

"We're Time Lords, all of us. Missy, too," Maddy explained.

"At one point I believed us to be the last of our kind," the Doctor said.

"Not really," Maddy said, then whispered to me, "Long story. I'll explain later."

"What are you doing here?" I said.

"Lost, as usual," Kilbey said.

"Kilbey, we're not lost. We're on Earth," Maddy scolded. "We're actually supposed to meet my sisters here." She took out her phone - or what I guessed was a phone, anyway.

"This is Sigourney. She's the oldest next to me."

"This is Bowie..."

"Is that a publicity still?" The Doctor looked over her shoulder.

"No. I took this one." She looked at me. "My sister's a singer. Or she was, anyway, back on Gallifrey. I wish they'd stop saying we Patrexians never do anything useful. Isn't making others happy useful?"

"I should think so," The Doctor said. "But you know how they are back there. Nothing but logic and reason."

"Yeah, well, I know where they can stick that," she said.

"And this is Swan...."

"I know her! Only I thought she was a deva...."

"She has a gift of communication. She's been posing as one," Maddy said.

"And this is my youngest sister, Alcyone."

"And I just realized you're a doll," the Doctor said, looking at me. "Which means, if we're the same size..."

"We'll have to talk to Swan," Maddy said. "That's what we're here for, remember?"

Well, that and tea.....

In which - Happy Birthday, Tom Baker! (The fourth Doctor (Who,) that is!)

"Uh, Doctor...." The Lady Madrigal Baker, better known as Maddy, looked around in bewilderment. Although really, given the steering on the Doctor's Type-40 TARDIS, she should have expected something like this. "This isn't Bellemar."

"So it isn't." Even the Doctor had to admit that he's been expecting sun, sand and beaches, not buildings....

Starring Paisley as the character my person's screen-and-nickname comes from, the Lady Madrigal Baker, and the fourth Doctor as himself...

Happy birthday, Tom Baker! Here's to many more!