Hurrah!

I do believe I've finished my confirmation of status report (even the proof reading - I'd have been done at the start of the week if I hadn't found something horrible had hppened to the bibliography)

Hurrah! Now to celebrate with something crazy like finally washing up the stack of dirty mugs which have accumulated over the week...

Oh, and I finally got to watch 'Human Nature' last night; very much enjoyed it. And, she said shallowly, doesn't DT look good as an Edwardian M.A.? Academicals suit him. I note, too, that despite Four's punting exploits, the TARDIS seems to see the Doctor as an Oxford man. And rightly so.†

† Mind you, given that the very first scene in 1913 contained an anachronism, I'm not sure how careful the dressers were in their choice of gowns. But Oxford! Doctor is now canon (sort of), so there. I feel my Encaenia! Doctor is vindicated.

Help plz?

Can anyone recommend some good websites on life in the middle ages, aimed at re-enactors or the generally interested rather than academics, and ideally including patterns for mediaeval costumes - preferably high to late middle ages?

Family of Blood

Paul Cornell's definitely been watching The Last Temptation of Christ; except I didn't find the alt!life in LTC particularly moving, whereas I definitely had a lump in my throat at the 'one adventure he'll never have' sequence here. Possibly it's because the Doctor is a character I've loved for years, while being decidedly unconvinced by film!Jesus (who was even more emo than poor old John Smith); but it probably also has something to do (a) with David Tennant's very convincing besotted-new-dad-look, and John's need to know the children were safe before he could die, a nice touch which pointed to the decision he knew he would finally take, and also (b) the fact that alt!John Smith was not getting his end away with every woman in Galilee under the somewhat disturbing pretext that 'every woman is Mary'.† Whether that's some half baked goddess archetype, or 'all cats are grey in the dark', I"m not impressed.

†Magdalen, not BVM, thankfully - it wasn't quite that pervy.

On the subject of batshit Mary Magdalen fen: I am not inclined to buy the theory, advanced by 'The Real Mary Magdalene', which I picked up out of a sense of dread (and put down) in the town library this morning, that Luther believed that Jesus and Mary were lovers - actually, physical lovers. In fact, I'll eat a chasuble if that turns out to have any substance to it at all. If nothing else, if he'd said anything that heretical, the Roman Catholics would never have shut up about it