Saturday, 7 February 2026

Hidden Bonus #dreamdiary 215

We arrive saddled up on a t-rex and slide down its tail to the bottom of the structure. There’s a great big blue wall that we have to climb to reach the pool at the top. We know that at the top of this, there’s a big pool indented at the surface with waterslides and it’s surrounded by sunbeds. It’s like a pyramid, only steeper. It’s made of cobbled tiles. In the centre there’s a big green map of the world, but it also looks like slime. My only goal is to get my niece there. We give up trying to climb the structure. It doesn’t look very safe if we were to slip and fall. We’d certainly break a bone. Instead, we walk up the west side which is a slope ridden with grass. We wonder why we didn’t get our dinosaur to stop so that we could jump off at the top.

Thursday, 22 January 2026

For Better or Worse? #dreamdiary 214

I’m down at the other end of the supermarket. Someone has opened their own version of a store that’s the same brand as our own. This store is absolutely thriving. Customers are everywhere and there’s one queue to serve them all from. The christmas lights are being put up right in front of me by people on ladders above screens hanging down from the ceiling. The room that they have to operate is double the space of what we have. There’s space to rest items on benches behind shelves that are prepped for promotional items. And they have lots of staff. They’re all young and are willing to fetch stock but no-one is wearing a headset. They’re being led by an ex-colleague of mine. I’ve made a purchase with my staff discount which requires a signature but my receipt is taken off me and is signed by a colleague. I’m about to tell him that’s not how it works but I can’t be bothered as this is my time and I’ve only just discovered this place.

Tuesday, 6 January 2026

Over-Purposed #dreamdiary 213

I’m in a corridor that’s pasted with yellow vertical curvy walls in brick tiles. The floor and ceiling are both painted cream. My colleague has just brought a pallet of beer into the room. I’ve had to move backwards so that he can push a corner of it into a corner then rotate it round to place it at the end of the room. It seems a very strange method for storing things. There are hundreds of these corners all over the stockroom. It’s anew storage system to reduce theft by keeping everything as far apart from each other as possible and delegated to as few people so that trends can be identified. I’m on the fifth floor waiting for my delivery to be pulled in but there’s nowhere to put it away. There’s a lot of hanging around nowadays. I walk around the wall and there’s a window looking at a multi-storey car park opposite. Our building is in a square that surrounds it.

Monday, 29 December 2025

Tardis Flip Wallet Phone Cover

I loved the idea of this phone case. I’ve actually ordered two of these over the years (technically three as I had to quickly cancel one as I ordered the wrong size). It’s a box for a phone, but it also travels through time and space! You can even watch the Tardis on the Tardis! The cover has a magnetic fastener which makes a satisfying click as you close the lid. It’s got the full unblurred information panel, though it’s the windows that let it down as you can tell that it’s a picture. There’s large stitching which holds everything in place and it’s camouflaged into the design. The plastic shell perfectly aligns with all the holes needed for button and camera access and there’s even space opposite to hold a few cards in the black leather. Over time, it did get a bit grazed and battered, but it lasted longer than the phone.

Sunday, 28 December 2025

Three Go Wassailing

It certainly looks that way. We’re standing in the snow with carol sheets belting out tunes into the cold air. We’re only there to entertain the little ones. Some have given up on the activities and they’re just there to pose. They’ve built a tiny little fence to keep us out. Maybe they hope that taller people will have more sense to stay away or at least attempt to stop them from stealing the giant bows. The deer could step over it too to charge the humans if they wanted. There’s more brown stuff on our side, whatever it is. But their side looks much neater. I wonder what else the forest behind can knit. It doesn’t look like there’s much left of it. And it’s hard to work out if the red branches behind me are painted or natural. It might even be a torch to light up the deer at night.

 

Saturday, 27 December 2025

The War Between the Land and the Sea

This was an interesting series apart from the name; I wonder if it’s going to be a series of spin-offs with UNIT at the helm. The protagonist was involved through the strangest of blips and it’s astonishing how far along he infiltrated considering that this was a military operation. It’s a shame that we don’t get to see much of their world, especially during the descent. I would have expected that the vessel used for this would be more of a craft rather than a giant yo-yo. There were lots of special effects, but I felt that it was a bit drawn-out at the end with character development. It also wasn’t clear as to what Barclay has been injected with, and he could be the virus. There’s vague attempts at humour, but it’s sometimes too serious. It’ll be interesting to hear about what the Doctor has to say of this encounter and whether he’ll have to battle Stewart to save humanity.

Friday, 26 December 2025

The Dummy

Do we really want to lick this tree? Its tongue might be soft but it’s probably not a great idea in terms of hygiene in the current circumstances. It’s also not clear what you’re dropping in the drum. Is it the map sheets? I’m also worried what comes out when you put something in. It doesn’t exactly look child-friendly. The panel that the message is written on looks like a skanky skirt. The drum might be the little thing past in its ass on the right-hand side. I like how the arm above it seems to be pointing to a safer alternative. The smaller one looks like she’s seen thins sort of thing before. Maybe she knows that the claw on the lefthand side of her is going to sneak up and steal her away from our society. Perhaps a hollow door has already opened up to suck them inside the tree.