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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek

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A Doctor Who obsessive, his long-suffering wife, their sons, Rory and Ellis and our House Dalek, Colin. 🇪🇺Thinks Brexit was a really bad idea

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · Aug 10

🧵Things are rather bleak in the world and on social media right now, so here's a thread about how a House Dalek called Colin came into our lives and looked after our kids. (We'll update each day)
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Day 1: When Rory was born, Colin quickly learnt the art of nappy changing.

Picture of our newborn son laying on a change mat with a life size Dalek holding a nappy in his plunger.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12h

Claudia - The Goth Whizbit

#TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUk #CelebrityTraitors

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 11h

Sound up!

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12h

The Third Doctor spots Time Scoop Claudia Winkleman in his rearview mirror.
#DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TraitorsUK

The Third Doctor driving Bessie in The Five Doctors.

Claudia looking like a black triangle from The Five Doctors.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 11h

Sound up!

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12h

Not ours, sadly. It's in a local cafe but it is coveted

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12h

The Third Doctor spots Time Scoop Claudia Winkleman in his rearview mirror.
#DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors #TraitorsUK

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12h

Claudia - The Goth Whizbit

#TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUk #CelebrityTraitors

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

"Get Rory a top with a 7 on it for his birthday."

Apparently, this isn't what my wife meant.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 1d

I know. I struggle with where the time has gone.

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I would imagine it's an economic decision, rather than a creative one - so many good stories still to be told, but paying for the licence, quite a big cast and sales that can't be as big as the main Who range probably mean it's not a particularly profitable line.

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If he is, we need to have serious words with him about the missing possessive apostrophe.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · Feb 16

When Dr Who was axed by the BBC in 1969, no one expected Verity Lambert and former Crossroads writers Letts and Dicks to bring it back for ITV.
Cliff Richard was grounded on earth with his faithful hovercraft, Bessie and UNIT headquarters were based under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction. #DoctorWho

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

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"Sarah and Doc" Classic T-Shirt for Sale by kryten4k

Buy "Sarah and Doc" by kryten4k as a Classic T-Shirt.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

Confirmed.

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

That's my other son.

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Redbubble. The artist has also done a Sarah Jane and Doc.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

"Get Rory a top with a 7 on it for his birthday."

Apparently, this isn't what my wife meant.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie making a face .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie making a face .

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 3d

One of Ellis' more subtle Doctor Who t-shirts. 😁

Ellis wearing a t-shirt with drawings of the characters from the CBeebies series, Sarah and Duck, but redressed as Ace and Doc.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

Dark. 😁

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

Let's hope he doesn't meet the Avon salesperson.

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

We'll stick to her CBeebies bedtime story readings for now - they are very good and she was pleased to hear Ellis loves them.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

I was promised jet packs by 2025, not the early adventures of Davros.
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Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells

BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

This afternoon at the Amex Comic-con:

Rory was using my phone to take selfies of the Pokémon cards he'd bought whilst I queued for drinks.

Ellis and Laura got chatting to the lady behind Rory.

The lady was a rather chilly Pearl Mackie!!!
#DoctorWho

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 4d

Invasions aren't cheap, so Colin the House Dalek has taken up a Saturday job collecting trolleys in the local supermarket.

#DoctorWho

Colin the Dalek pushing a trolley in the Tesco carpark.

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