Dr Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp

So, how many Agatha Christie novel titles did everyone else spot hidden in the dialogue.

I cracked up as soon as the professor said "Why didn't they ask - Heavens!" (Why didn't they ask Evans?")  and I think I caught about half a dozen in total.

There was 'Murder at the Vicarage', 'The Moving Finger', 'Sparkling Cyanide', 'Crooked House', 'They do it with Mirrors'

Darn it, I forgot to notice what time the young woman's train arrived.  I wonder if it was the 4:50 from Paddington?

Who caught any that I missed?

Those who haven't seen it yet, see how many you can catch!

BTW - Donna is fast becoming my favourite companion of all time!

Robins

Robins are truly gardener's bird.  There's one in our back garden at present who is remarkably tame.   He'll come within a foot of me if I don't move too abruptly.  He's been having a field day today - I've been digging out some old hellibores to makes space for another gooseberry bush this autumn and this, of course, results in lots of freshly dug soil with the resulting crop of tasty insects for him.

I've been watching him when he cleans his feathers.  He really is just a fluff ball of (mostly white when you get to the underneath ones) of feathers, balanced on fuse wire legs.  Lots of personality - robins always seem to be great characters.  He watches me with that bright little black eye of his and I always get the feeling that he knows what I'm thinking.

I feel I should introduce you to Judith's theory of robins.  You will have noticed, if you are a gardener, that robins always act as though they know you.  Well, of course, they do.  All robins are actually the same robin.  It is a basic fact of robins that you never see more than one.  Thus, it follows that the robin that acts so familiar down our allotment does so because he is in fact the same robin that lives in my garden.  When you go for a country walk, it is clear that every time you think you encounter a new robin, it is in fact the same one just following you along.  Every gardener/walker has their own person quantum robin.

This explains everything, including why it is impossible to tell male and female robins apart.  There is actually only one bird per nest, reproducing by some unique variation of parthenogenisis.  And if you wonder how the robin manages to impregnate itself, well, the males have always been nicknamed 'cock robin'!