A bit of a failed Doctor Who treasure hunt:P

Earlier this week, my family and I went to a town where a lot of Invasion of the Dinosaurs was filmed, and I really wanted to look around and see them all, and take pictures.:) I got photos from the show and place-names from the locations site I found printed out (although I only did 6 out of 8 places, because my mom thought we wouldn't have time for them all), and when we finally got to drive around the locations, it didn't work out. The first one we went to was an old building that's been boarded up for years.

We looked all around it, and then realized it couldn't possibly have been the building in the show, no matter how much it had changed through the years.

The next location, we skipped, because it was only used to film a jeep driving by, and the actors weren't in the shot.:P

 

 We spent ages trying to find the third one, and we finally found it pretty much where the locations site had said, in a carpark. But on the website someone had said that it was knocked down, whereas it seems more to have just been built around, so that you can't get into it easily.:P What was confusing is that it actually seemed to be two different locations that just look sort of similar. I have no idea where the other one was, but these are the pictures of it:

That building way in the background is meant to be the same one that's far in the back of the second black and white one, but it actually isn't because it's got chimneys and taller windows with rounded tops here, but not in the other one. It's quite similar, but it's definitely different when you look closely, especially when you've driven around the other building.

This was the fourth location. We went all along the road it was supposed to be, and it really was so different it couldn't have been the right road. (At first I wondered if the old houses had been knocked down and had new ones built where they were, but most of the houses on the street, are much old than the '70s.

 This was meant to be at a certain park, but we couldn't find a tree that looks anything like the big one on the left (or any stumps), or anything similar to the wall or hedge or bank in the background. It really doesn't look like the same park at all.:P

Finally, this was the last one we looked at (sorry for all the pictures:P). It's meant to be the road going past the park, and I think it is. I'm not very sure though. It looks about right.:) On the locations site someone said that they didn't use a real bus stop, and that it was a signpost. I never noticed until I went down the street, but that big pole they're leaning on can't be a little signpost!;) I think it was a lamppost. I did find the lower half of a pole that looked like it buried in the first few feet of the park's bushes. It may not be the right place, because the pavement would have to have been changed a lot for that to make sense.:P In the first picture, though, the Doctor and Sarah are walking along a road with a suddenly curve behind them (at the bottom right corner of the photo), and I think that's the entrance to the park.:)
So, although we found a lot of places that Doctor Who wasn't filmed, we didn't get to take any photos, because the two places that were the right locations weren't accessible.:P We had a fun trip anyway, I guess, and the Doctor made it more exciting!:) (Especially with moments like when he pressed the horn trying to stretch!;))

Don't Show Your New Outfit to the Doctor

Recently, I found a lovely blue-and-white plaid, sleeveless ( I don't know if that can mean 'strapless', but it's got no sleeves from the shoulder down, but still a lot of material over the shoulders;)) romper on Ebay, with short legs that have an inseam of about 5 inches. It was at a nice price, so I bought it, and when it came, I found that it fit me perfectly, just a well as (or even better than) if it had bee made for me! I was very excited, and ran into the room where the Doctor was working on a computer, saying, 'Hey, Doctor, look!' He gave a very faint 'Hmm?' but hardly moved.
'Look what I bought!' I said, holding up my arms to let him see the romper properly. Finally, he turned around.
'It's too small,' he said plainly, and turned around again.
'No, it's not too small! It fits perfectly!' I said, a little annoyed. The Doctor turned back around.
'Oh,' he said flatly. 'Well then you're too bare for me.' ('Too bare for me' is a joke with us, because when my brother was very young, he saw my dad with no shirt on and said that, so the Doctor meant, 'It's skimpy.') I just said 'Humph!', half amused and half annoyed, and walked out of the room. The romper buttons all the way up the front, and has no holes or anything in it; it's not a halter, and a 5-inch inseam is perfectly reasonable. I don't know why he thought it was skimpy. The Doctor is just so rude sometimes! It really reminded me of the second scene in Pyramids of Mars, though, when Sarah comes in wearing that pretty dress, saying, 'Hey, Doctor! Doctor, look! Look what I found!' and the Doctor, with very little emotion, says, 'Hello, Vicki.' then Sarah asks, 'What?' and the Doctor realizes it's her, and says, 'Oh. Where did you get that dress?' very strangely. The tone he had was very similar to the one my Doctor (whichever time he's come from) did. I guess I should get used to him saying things like that. He obviously doesn't know how rude he's being. And, in Pyramids of Mars, he was thinking about how he was tired of working for UNIT, and I think he's having a similar problem now, with whatever work he's currently doing. It's meant to be computer programming, but I think it must be something to do with UNIT or something like that. He often says things that sound a lot like 'And it's about time I found something better to do than run around after the Brigadier!'