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#ProfessionalUp #2 : The Work-Health Balance: The Conversation That Can No Longer Wait
26 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
in Lifestyle Tags: #ProfessionalUp, Health, Lifestyle, Time Made Of Strawberries, TMOS, women in the workplace, Work, Work-Health, Work-Health Balance, Work-Life Balance
Why employee health should be your number one priority
By Mélissa M Azombo
Let’s talk about health at the workplace…
This is the era of “self-care” and a booming health and wellbeing industry. Concurrently, our working hours and practices are commonly at odds with our health appointment scheduling, and our ability to simply get a good night’s sleep. Result: we are stuck in a dichotomy. Traditional and social media send us messages to look after ourselves, while for many of us, the only way to pay our bills and earn a living, ties us to do the opposite.
This problematic dichotomy is due in part to one thing. While discussion around work-life balance is nothing new, the conversation around work-health balance is mute.
It’s time to start the conversation about work-health balance.
In the US, 9 in 10 people go to work ill because they can not afford to miss a day of work. There, it’s simple. You’re sick, you don’t get paid if you do not go into work. Slightly less harsh is the UK. Employees are eligible for Statutory Sick Pay of £96.35 per week if they have been ill for a minimum of 7 days. So, if you’re ill for less than that amount of time, you get nothing.
So, why does this matter?
People going to work ill instead of resting can worsen the illness and increase their likelihood of taking sick days the following year by 50%, compared to their counterparts who take the time off they need, when they are unwell. The current pandemic has shown it can have adverse effects on clients and customers when contaminated, too.
With all of this in mind, here’s how you can redress the work-health balance.
- Introduce the four-day work week
One of the major constraints of the work-health balance is the rigidity of the work part. Fix it. Give your employees more flexibility to book health appointments and maintain a health routine by permanently freeing up a working day in their schedule. They don’t need to go through an entire holiday booking process, which can be arduous at certain companies. Looking after themselves is as easy as it should be. Plus, you benefit from the greater productivity that studies on the four-day work week have shown.
- Provide job security
Implement a no questions asked understanding approach to time-off requests, absences and lateness. Not all health issues come with a 48-hour pre-shift warning. To maintain work-health balance, untimely period pains, depression episodes or headaches should not cost someone their job. Neither should drinking water.
Professionalise humanity. Allow employees to hydrate themselves to stay focused, functional and to keep their vocal cords working in a job that requires lots of talking.
Be understanding of the fact your employees may be going through something they find difficult to discuss, do not wish to disclose and legally don’t have to. Show compassion by not contractually assuming lateness or absence is due to not being a worthy employee. Presume positivity. Simplify the time-off requests process. An emergency is rarely programmable months in advance.
- Pay a living wage
The work-health balance is about working to live, not living to work, and definitely not living to barely get by. But paying your employees the minimum wage will land them exactly in that last category. Yours might be one of multiple jobs they have to work to make ends meet. Even then, some parents won’t eat, so their children can eat. They simply won’t earn enough to feed everyone. Instill the work-health balance. Break this stress-inducing system.
As an employer, pay a living wage to give your employees the opportunity to work one job and have more spare time to release endorphins among family and friends. Give them the purchasing power to gift themselves enjoyable experiences and eat healthily, as well as access regular healthcare. You relieve them of the stress a minimum wage job would give them. In turn, you welcome healthier, more productive individuals by your side.
We all benefit from the work-health balance. Replace any idea that it’s a matter of profit over health, when the two are intrinsically linked. Put health where it was always meant to be – at the centre of work. Take action and start the conversation about the work-health balance.
#ProfessionalUp #1: 3 Simple Steps To Become An Expert Communicator Within Your Team
08 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in Lifestyle Tags: #ProfessionalUp, Careers, Communication, Gen Z, How to, How to communicate efficiently within a team, How to go after the life you want, International Women's Day, LinkedIn, Millenials, Teamwork, Time Made Of Strawberries, women in the workplace, workplace
How effective communication will make you unstoppable at achieving your goals
By Mélissa M Azombo
Let’s talk about communication…
In the workplace, we know it’s vital. It appears on all our job posts. It is the method by which you get the job in the first place. And it is the crux of many problems which could have frankly, been very easily avoided.
As the content creator here at Time Made Of Strawberries, I contact interviewees all the time and reach out to you about interacting with the content that I’ve produced for you to enjoy and read.
As the DISC (Diversity in Space Careers) Marketing Lead and Volunteer at UKSEDS, I connect with my fellow team mates frequently about an array of topics, to facilitate the smooth running of what it is we are trying to accomplish and ask and answer pertinent questions, so we can attain our best.
What this shows is that communication is at the heart of teamwork. It is the electricity that keeps your Tesla going, the clockwork that keeps your watch ticking. So, what does this mean?
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Well, circuits are put in place with precision to make sure you can read this post on your smartphone, laptop or desktop right now and drive your Tesla. The cogs and needles are laid down meticulously, so that you can manage your time.
In the exact same way, you need to have a specific method about how you employ communication to make your team work.
1. Communicate and receive skillset
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Find out what your team members are good at and what they want to have a go at but could use help with. Put forward your strengths and areas for improvement too. This allows your team to feel empowered via solidifying their strengths and improving in areas of interest.
Communicating and sharing your skillset is an integral part of teamwork. It is the beginning of your journey to success as a team.
2. Delegate
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Use that knowledge to play to your team’s strengths and delegate roles accordingly. Likewise, benefit from other people’s strengths and allow them to help you in producing your best work. Is public speaking not your forte? Is someone in your team an expert at public speaking? Allow them to give you a masterclass on public speaking, so that you can put together the best, smoothest running presentation.
Become proficient at lending your skills and benefiting from gaining new areas of expertise from your teammates.
3. Communicate your vision clearly and precisely.
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So, you have successfully delegated. This might mean that you will not be in charge of bringing your vision to life. You might have direct involvement with the conception stage of your project, but it is the role of another team member to present that concept and make it tangible to your audience. Make your team’s life easier.
Be precise about the work you want your colleagues to produce. You will find that making no assumptions about what your team should and shouldn’t know about the details which currently lie in your mind, will go a long way in this aspect. Providing specific details and an accurate description of your concept will make it easier for your colleagues to achieve the vision you have in mind.
Just like that, confusion about the output not matching the vision is reduced or eliminated entirely and you’ll achieve synergy.
One thing that all teams have in common is a shared goal that they are working towards. It is having all the key elements of communication in place, that will allow your team to run like clockwork in reaching your common objective. You have the tools.
So, upgrade your communication skills in team work today to make the dream work.
DOCTOR WHO: FLUX: EVERYTHING WE KNOW SO FAR
31 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in DOCTOR WHO, Entertainment Tags: CHRIS CHIBNALL, DOCTOR WHO, JODIE WHITTAKER, The Doctor, Time Made Of Strawberries
Get the lowdown on Doctor Who Series 13 ahead of its Halloween release
By Mélissa M Azombo
As the 13th series of Doctor Who materialises on British screens tonight, from casting to plotlines, here’s everything you need to know about what’s to come.
Doctor What?
“It’s coming. Be ready.” This is what The Doctor tells us about The Flux in a BBC ident. Just what is the flux? We don’t know exactly. We are aware that it involves a SWARM of creatures from Sontarans to Weeping Angels, Cybermen and Ravagers. New set photos have even been released to confirm this.
Otherwise, all we know in terms of the storyline (which is quite special already) is the first two episode titles. Episode 1 titled “Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse” will launch the series this Halloween. The following episode called “War of The Sontarans” will air Sunday 7 November. It’s safe to say this episode will feature the return of Sontarans, not seen since Doctor Who series 8, right? Their return has been confirmed since their appearance in the latest Doctor Who trailer.
The trailer also reveals an Ood and a new monster named Karvanista.
Doctor Who?
Although the writers confirmed for Doctor Who: FLUX are limited to a total of 2 – Chris Chibnall himself and Maxine Alderton (Doctor Who: Series 12: the Haunting of Villa Diodati) – a growing list of further casting details has been released. Of course, Jodiie Whittaker will be featuring in her last series in the role of The 13th Doctor. The Yorkshire-born actress made history when she was announced as the first woman to play The Doctor (within continuity) back in July 2017. Alongside her, will be Mandip Gill continuing her role as Yasmin Khan. Both will be joined by new TARDIS arrival Dan Lewis, played by John Bishop.
As announced during the last Doctor Who Comic Con at Home Panel, Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson will be starring as series regular, Vinder. Talking about playing his character during the panel, Anderson revealed “Not only did I get to go on the TARDIS & press all the buttons & levers but I got my own ship.” His own ship? Is Vinder a Time Lord? Only time will tell.
Featuring alongside the principal four, an array of guest cast throughout the six-part story. Robert Bathurst and Kevin McNally of Downton Abbey, The Irregulars’ Thaddea Graham, Blake Harrison from World On Fire and Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty) will all enter the world of Doctor Who throughout the following six weeks. Although full character details have yet to be confirmed, some interesting character images have been released. In the mean time, it’s a waiting game to find out who will be played by Sara Powell (Unforgotten), Britannia’s Annabel Scholey & Gerald Kyd, Penelope Ann McGhie (Harry Potter), Rochenda Sandall (Line Of Duty), Sam Spruell (The North Water), Craige Els (Ripper Street), Steve Oram (The End of the F-ing World), Nadia Albina (The One), Jonathan Watson (Two Doors Down), Sue Jenkins (Coronation Street) and Paul Broughton (Brookside).
All cast have been directed by Jamie Magnus Stone (Doctor Who: Series 12: Spyfall) on episodes one, two and four with the remaining episodes directed by Azhur Saleem and produced by Pete Levy. Azhur Saleem’s directing venture on Muse made the Official Sci-Fi London Film Festival Selection.
As in series 12, Doctor Who: FLUX had Chris Chibnall and Matt Strevens as executive producers, while being co-produced by series producer Nikki Wilson.
Doctor When?
The hit sci-fi TV show returns for its 13th series tonight, Sunday 31 October at 18h25 GMT (UK). Doctor Who: FLUX will be available for streaming from Monday 1 November at 6h20 AEDT and broadcast at 19h30 AEDT (Australia). To American audiences, the show will air on Sunday 31st October at 20h00 EDT (USA). The series continues with Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans the following week.
Doctor Where?
Doctor Who will be broadcast in the UK on BBCOne, in Australia on ABC iview and ABC TV Plus and in the USA on BBC America. Details for other countries are yet to be confirmed.
Doctor How?
The series will be broadcast over six one-hour episodes, which will also be available to watch on the BBC’s catch-up streaming service BBC iPlayer.
Doctor Why?
The return of Doctor Who tonight brings an end to the 10-months hiatus Whovians have endured since the New Year’s Day special Revolution of the Daleks aired on 1 January 2021. Although past Doctor Who seasons under the current Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall have been known to have fewer episodes than their predcessors, Doctor Who: Flux suffers an even more dramatic episode count cut from Chinall’s standard 10 to just 6. He confirmed during SDCC’s Comic-Con at Home 2021 Panel in July this year that pandemic filming influenced the story telling.
“You could go we’re just gonna do lots of tiny episodes, in one room, with no monsters, or we could throw down the gauntlet and go we’re gonna do the biggest story we’ve ever done and we’re going to all kinds of different places, have all kinds of different characters and monsters, and it’s all gonna be part of a bigger whole,” Chibnall explained. Doctor Who: FLUX, set to be one epic six-part story, will be Jodie Whittaker’s last series in the coveted role of The Doctor, although she will also feature in 3 more specials across 2022: The New Year’s Day Special airing on 1 January 2022, an Easter special airing early 2022 and the BBC’s centenary special set to air in Autumn 2022, which will be Jodie Whittaker’s final episode as the 13th Doctor.
Chris Chibnall will join Jodie Whittaker and exit his role as showrunner after the BBC Centenary Special. Previous showrunner Russell T Davies will reprise this former position and succeed Chibnall as showrunner for at least the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary and series 14.
Stellar return: Award-winning writer Russell T Davies from It’s A Sin will take the role of Showrunner from Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary onwards
Meanwhile, this is John Bishop’s first series, which he joins as Dan Lewis alongside Yaz (Mandip Gill) and The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker).
DOCTOR WHO: FROM DOCTOR WHEN TO DOCTOR WHERE?
21 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in DOCTOR WHO, Entertainment Tags: #WhereIsDoctorWho, CHRIS CHIBNALL, DOCTOR WHO, Entertainment, FLUX, JACOB ANDERSON, JODIE WHITTAKER, JOHN BISHOP, Mandip Gill
Inside the tensest 24 hours in Doctor Who fandom as fans ask #WhereIsDoctorWho?
By Mélissa M Azombo
Last Friday evening, the official Doctor Who website and social media accounts disappeared from cyberspace in what proved to be the greatest marketing stunt of the century.
On Friday 8 October at 18h00, Doctor Who fans asked #WhereIsDoctorWho as they noticed the hit sci-fi TV show was nowhere to be found online. With the series in the midst of a hiatus with an unknown release date, Whovians had grown accustomed to asking “when is Doctor Who?”. This was the day it got replaced as the most popular question in the fandom. One by one, reports came in of the show’s official Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts being inaccessible. Soon, the same was shown to be true for their website.
While the official Doctor Who Tumblr page run by BBC America reportedly remained active, all social media accounts managed by BBC Studios through Falcon Social Media stayed inactive well into the night. It was unclear how long this would go on for or if Doctor Who would ever return to the internet at all. Their last tweet: “CAN YOU HEAR ME?” gave no clues.
By the morning of the following day, Doctor Who remained offline and those who had previously wondered if it was just a technical issue began to wonder if it was actually a marketing strategy instead – in which case, many questionned it.
It was on Saturday 9 October that the show’s lead character, The Doctor, seemed to make a breakthrough in communications via none other than the Telegram app, where she explained she had been banned from the internet. Yikes!
Clearly The Doctor was in some sort of trouble, struggling to get through. So, she did what she does best – called on humans to stay vigilant and let her know if we’d seen anything suspicious. Liverpudlians were invited to call the phone number 0800 678 3110 displayed on electronic billboards. Phoning led to The Doctor’s answerphone (she’s a busy woman!) where fans were encouraged to leave a voicemail if they had seen anything suspicious.
Well, they didn’t disappoint, though how many phone calls and voicemails came into the line within just the first hour, by the end of Saturday and to date, is anyone’s guess. Time Made Of Strawberries has contacted the BBC Press Office for further information on this but the Doctor Who team has not responded at the time of writing. An update will be posted as soon as it’s available. Regardless, the excitement was alive on Twitter as fans posted recordings of The Doctor’s voicemail greeting. The phone line is no longer active but it was all the buzz when it was.
If anything, this shows the hype that going offline generated for Doctor Who. So, it was time to complete the marketing strategy and make the much-awaited comeback to cyberspace that fans had been eagerly waiting for.
The official Doctor Who social media accounts returned in style. With a darker, more autumnal shade of orange in their logo and a “DOCTOR WHO: FLUX” header and name change, they graced fans with a teaser of the upcoming series.
Doctor Who: Flux will be the thirteenth series of Doctor Who. Starring Jodie Whittaker in her last adventure as The Doctor, alongside Mandip Gill (Yaz), John Bishop (Dan) and Game Of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson (Vinder), it will feature 6 one-hour weekly episodes.
All episodes are written by Chris Chibnall except for one, which is co-written by Maxine Alderton (Doctor Who: Series12: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati).
This will also be Chibnall’s last season as Doctor Who Showrunner, with alum Russel T Davies announced to be reprising this role for at least the 60th anniversary and series 14.
Taylor Swift may have invented clearing your social media for a new era but Doctor Who just stepped it up one level and invented completely disappearing for another era.
The new era of Doctor Who starts with “Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse” on Halloween (31.10.2021) on BBC One at 18h25 GMT/ 19H25 CET. The following episode’s title has been confirmed to be “Chapter Two: The Sontaran War”.
Check out the trailer of what’s to come, originally premiered on The Graham Norton Show on Friday 15 October 2021 with Jodie Whittaker.
DOCTOR WHO ANNIVERSARY ROUND-UP
29 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in DOCTOR WHO, Entertainment Tags: Christopher Eccleston, DOCTOR WHO, Jenny, Sacha Dhawan, The Doctor's Daughter
Whoniverse Events On the 16th Anniversary of the show’s return
Big Finish Doctor Who Freebies
Did somebody say “Doctor Who freebies”? Until 28th March 2021 at 23:59 GMT/ 29th March 2021 at 00:59 CET, Big Finish is letting you download Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter: Stolen Goods completely free. Delve into the sonic adventure by grabbing this audio drama without having to pay a single penny, today.
Sacha Dhawan Limited Online Signing With
The Time Meddlers
People of the Doctor Who fandom, please attend carefully. Sacha Dhawan who has taken the role of The Master by storm since his 2020 Spyfall introduction, will be signing autographs via Doctor Who retailer, The Time Meddlers.
The online signing is taking place via pre-order between Friday 26 March 2021 at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 CET and Wednesday 1 April 2021 at 23:59 GMT/ Thursday 2 April 2021 00:59 CET. During this time, fans can order an autograph on the Time Meddlers website to be signed by Sacha Dhawan, himself on an officially licenced 10×8” BBC print.
Autographs cost £24.99, with the option of having Sacha personalise the autograph for you with your first name only for an additional £5. After pre-orders close, autographs will be signed and should be shipped mid-April.
Don’t miss out and grab your Sacha Dhawan autograph today!
Christopher Eccleston Returns As The 9th Doctor in
New Audio Adventure
The Doctor’s back in brand new audio drama Ravagers 1 starring Christopher Eccleston this May.
To celebrate 16 years since Doctor Who’s return to TV, Big Finish released the trailer to this set of 3 brand new adventures on 26 March.
It’s available to pre-order now on CD & digital download. Limited edition vinyl releases will also be up for purchase, which you can pre-order now.
New Release: Doctor Who Season 12 & Season 19 Blu-Ray Box Sets
Doctor Who Season 12 & 19 will be newly released in standard Blu-Ray packaging from 31 May 2021.
Season 12 is Tom Baker’s first series as The Doctor and includes stories The Ark In Space and Genesis of The Daleks, with companions Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter). The standard Blu-Ray box set part of Doctor Who: The Collection will include identical content to the Doctor Who: The Collection Limited Edition release. It will contain a standard, plastic Blu-ray case inside a slipcase, with a condensed, standard-printed 12-page booklet featuring disc-breakdowns, as well as selected illustrations.
Meanwhile, the Season 19 box set will introduce fans to Peter Davison’s first season as The Doctor, with companions Tegan (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse).
Both will be available from multiple retailers at RRP £49.99, though currently £37.99 at Zavvi & HMV are available to pre-order now.
Doctor Who: Daleks! Nominated for Shorty Awards
Doctor Who five-part animation “Daleks!” has been nominated for a Shorty Award in the category of Best Use of Animation.
The ten-minute episodes were uploaded to YouTube in weekly instalments late last year, as part of the Time Lord Victorious multi-platform saga, pulling together all of Doctor Who’s biggest licensees.
If you enjoyed it, you can vote for the series on the Shorty Awards website. Winners will be announced in April.
DOCTOR WHO CHILD STARS : WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
27 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
16 years since the shows return, where are these child stars?
By Mélissa M Azombo
Today marks 16 years since Doctor Who made a triumphant return to our TV screens, so where are its youngest actors now who were so integral to its storylines?
From CAL (Charlotte Abigail Lux) in series 4 episodes Silence in the Library/ Forrest of the Dead to Amelia Pond in series 5 episode The Eleventh Hour, find out what the child stars of Doctor Who are now up to 16 years later.
Since appearing on our screens as little Amelia Pond in Doctor Who series 5 episode The Eleventh Hour, Caitlin Blackwood went on to feature in many more episodes, including series 5 finale The Big Bang and Doctor Who Series 6 opener Let’s Kill Hitler. Did you know Caitlin had actually been suggested for the role by her cousin Karen Gillan who played the older Amy Pond? 
Caitlin clearly found a talent she wanted to use, as she has continued acting since Doctor Who. Also found on convention circuits (in pre-pandemic times), she starred in 2015 TV series Cops & Monsters as Alexis and reprised her role as little Amelia Pond in The Raggedy Doctor video created as part of Emily Cook’s Doctor Who Lockdown series. Most recently, she played Clara in Lost At Christmas. It’s fair to say, Caitlin is very much still into acting and may be appearing on our screens again, soon. 
It’s the second half of the Doctor Who Series 6B two-parter and we’re all on the edge of our seats as a little girl regenerates before our eyes with no explanation. She is later confirmed to be a young Melody Pond AKA River Song. But she had a link to the world of Doctor Who before playing Melody Pond, as Sydney had starred in Marchlands as Amy Marchland, the daughter of Helen Maynard played by Alex Kingston, who you may remember as River Song AKA the older Melody Pond. Since Sydney Wade’s last appearance as Melody Pond in Doctor Who, the actress has gone on to other roles. 
She appeared in Sherlock episode The Reichenbach Fall in 2012 as Claudie Buhl who instantly screams when she sees Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch). She featured in children’s TV shows Rocket’s Island as Jade Hollis and Wolfblood as Emilia Covaci, more recently playing Jessie in the TV series Creeped Out in 2017. At present, the 18-year-old is out of the limelight, however it is clear she remains very much in the acting industry from her agent profile. Here’s hoping she lands some more work soon. 
Pretty soon within the Doctor Who series 3 Human Nature/The Family of Blood two-parter, Tim Latimer became the key to keeping The Doctor hidden and safe from them, as he got his hands on The Doctor’s pocket watch. This was not just any ordinary pocket watch, though. It contained The Doctor’s Time Lord self, after he had used his chameleon arch to rewrite his biology into that of a human. Any viewer would be on edge every time Tim Latimer opened the watch, as it brought the family of blood one step closer to tracking down The Doctor. Thomas Brodie-Sangster who portrayed Tim Latimer proved numerous times across the two-parter the extent of his acting abilities. The actor has since not shied away from using them, as his glowing CV shows. 
From feature films Nowhere Boy (2009) where he played Paul and The Maze Runner (2014) where he starred as Newt to TV series Game Of Thrones (Jojen Reed), Thunderbirds Are Go (Pirate Tracy, John Dobbs) & The Queen’s Gambit (Benny Watts), the 30-year-old’s career doesn’t look due to halt anytime soon. He even recently took part in an interview with Heat magazine. 
Also from the Human Nature/Family of Blood two-parter, is actress Lor Wilson who played Daughter of Mine in the form of Lucy Cartwright. We recently heard from Lor during the Doctor Who Lockdown tweet-along of The Family Of Blood where she joined in, talking about her experience on the show. Lucy Cartwright is supposedly 6-years-old, a shocking age at which to shoot the headmaster, after her body has been taken over by Daughter of Mine. 
So, what has Lor Wilson been up to since Doctor Who? Well, more Doctor Who, for one. She took part in Doctor Who productions Dark Legends and Resurrection. Outside of this, she played Beth Ward in 2016 TV series Today’s Detectives and Veronica in the 2019 short film Veronica. 
There’s nothing more magical than a Doctor Who Christmas special. Back in 2011, Laurence Belcher starred in A Christmas Carol as the young boy version of Kazran. He becomes integral to the plot when The Doctor attempts to save the day by rewriting Kazran’s past. Aside from giving us a very cool interaction between young Kazran and adult Kazran, following a Doctor Who Lockdown tweet-along of a Christmas Carol, what has Laurence Belcher gone on to do? 
Today, he is still an actor, represented by leading talent agency Curtis Brown. His credits since Doctor Who include X-Men First Class, where he played Charles Xavier and Diana where he played Prince William. More than actor, Belcher is also an Oxford University graduate, having studied Classical, Ancient Mediterranean, Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology there. 
The daughter of Walking In The Air singer Aled Jones showed she too, had inherited some amazing singing skills when she starred as Merry Gejehl in Doctor Who series 7B episode The Rings Of Akhaten. Aged only 8 when she filmed this episode, the young actress seemed to act and sing effortlessly across her scenes opposite Clara, The Doctor, The Vigil and other characters. 
Today, the 19-year-old starlet continues to act, most recently in the film Coda. She has also starred in Locke & Key as Kinsey Locke and taken to the stage as Joan in Far Away. 
Aged only 8 at the time, John Bell made his acting debut on the set of Doctor Who series 3 episode Utopia. He played a young boy called Creet who was calling out names to try to reunite people with their families in time for the ship they were on to launch, allowing them to fly away from the menacing Futurekind. Bell had won the role through a competition on children’s television programme Blue Peter. 
A reference to his character was made in Doctor Who the series 3 finale The Last Of The Time Lords, where it was revealed that the spheres The Master had called the Toclafane were actually humans from the future who had gone back in time to annihilate their ancestors. The paradox was maintained by The Paradox Machine The Master had turned the TARDIS into. Since Doctor Who, Bell, now 23 has worked on further productions including Tracy Beaker Returns and Outlander. 
We can’t finish this trip down memory lane without mentioning William Hughes who played the Young Master back in series 3 of Doctor Who. On the run from The Master (played by John Simm) in The Sound Of Drums, Martha, The Doctor and Capt. Jack Harkness manage to find a hiding spot. There The Doctor describes life on Gallifrey to a montage against Murray Gold’s score of This Is Gallifrey (Our Childhood, Our Home). William Hughes’ Master appears as The Doctor explains “As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the untampered schism. It’s a gap in the fabric of reality, through which can be seen all of the vortex. You stand there, 8 years old, just a child. Some would be inspired, some would run away, some would go mad.” 
Hughes later played a character called Alex Grainger in the Torchwood episode Sleeper. Aside from this, he continued boxing, which he had started at the age of 9. He won a British Championship at the GB Amateur Boxing Championships for Wales back in 2011. Using his talent, he fought in a charity boxing match to raise money for charity. Going on to study Finance at Queen Mary University London in 2017, he joined its Elite Athlete Program and won gold with the University at the British Universities and Colleges Sport championships. After living an active life, William Hughes sadly passed away at age 20 while on holiday in Greece. He had gone on the trip to celebrate end of his first year exams but on the last night, was found unresponsive. Unfortunately, Mr. Hughes could not be resuscitated at hospital and his cause of death was later confirmed as suicide, upon investigation.
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DOCTOR WHO ROUND-UP
28 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in DOCTOR WHO Tags: DOCTOR WHO, Doctor Who Lockdown, Emily Coo, Sylvester McCoy, Time Fracture, Time Meddlers
Highlights from Around the Whoniverse
By Mélissa M Azombo
DOCTOR WHO LOCKDOWN FINALE
This Sunday 28 February, Vote Saxon during the Doctor Who Lockdown three-parter finale. Doctor Who fans around the world will simultaneously watch The Doctor Who series 3 finale episodes Utopia (18h00 GMT/ 19h00 CET), The Sound of Drums (19h00 GMT/ 20h00 CET) and The Last of the Time Lords (20h00 GMT/ 21h00 CET). Fans should tweet their reactions with the hashtag #YANA to join in the online watch-along.
Doctor Who Lockdown was started by Emily Cook of Doctor Who magazine in 21 March 2020 with a watch-along of The Day of The Doctor. As it gained popularity, Emily organised more watch-alongs. These involved tweets from special guests, such as show cast and crew Steven Moffat, David Tennant & Catherine Tate. Extra content was also created alongside the watch-alongs on the Doctor Who Lockdown website or YouTube channel.
Today, Doctor Who Lockdown, at least for Lockdown 3.0, comes to an end. So, fans should get their episodes ready to watch on BBC iPlayer, Netflix, DVD or whichever platform they wish to use. Then, tweet along while you watch along one final time.
SYLVESTER McCoy TIME MEDDLERS SIGNING
The Seventh Doctor himself, Sylvester McCoy will be signing prints exclusively via The Time Meddlers website. The signing will take place via pre-order online from Friday 26 February 2021 to Monday 1 March 2021 at 23: 59 GMT/ Tuesday 2 March 00:59 CET.
Fans can order officially licensed limited edition 10×8 signed prints, with the option for a personalisation upgrade so their name can appear beside the signature. Select from 2 image options for the price of £19.99. Signed prints will be shipped the first week of March.
With conventions and in-person signings momentarily a thing of the past due to the ongoing pandemic, this is a fantastic opportunity to get your hands on Sylvester McCoy’s autograph! Don’t miss out! Time’s running out…
TIME FRACTURE POSTPONED
Time Fracture, an immersive Doctor Who experience as part of the Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious multi-platform saga has been postponed once again due to the ongoing pandemic.
The first performance will now take place on Wednesday 26 May 2021 at 18h00. Time Fracture is currently booking until March 2022.
Doctor Who: Time Fracture is an immersive theatre experience which throws Whovians right into the world of Doctor Who.
Set in 1940, at the height of the Blitz, fans have been recruited by UNIT to find out what is going on at the heart of the time fracture, a rift in space time created by a weapon of unknown origin, as it destroyed a small corner of Mayfair. The fracture is now at out of control and UNIT has come close to defeat. Help them find out who or what is behind the time fracture for your own Time Lord Victorious adventure.
Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious (TLV) is a multi-platform saga following The Doctor and his fight against the Kotturuh. TLV delves into the dark times, an era at the beginning of the time war, across comic books, audio dramas and immersive theatre to name a few.
Fans who experience a Time Fracture show are set to be part of an epic adventure. Due to the postponement, Time Fracture has reassured fans they will communicate with those who have already booked tickets through them and ask other ticket selling platforms to do the same. They will also reallocate customer tickets to new dates.
They confirm via their Twitter page “If you cannot attend your rebooked performance, you will be able to contact the Box Office to select a new date for Doctor Who: Time Fracture, or alternatively, you can cancel and receive a full refund.”
How To Fix “Taskbar And Start Screen Disappeared” in Windows 8.1
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Fix your blank start screen issue in Windows 8.1 within a few simple steps
Resume your workflow without having to turn it off and on again
By Mélissa M Azombo
Has your start screen been replaced by a blank purpley-blue screen and no matter how many times you click or right-click, nothing happens? Has your taskbar also mysteriously disappeared, leaving you with no other way to access your open programs than via Task Manager? Stay tuned to find out how to relaunch your productivity without having to restart your computer.
It seems that whenever we have a to-do list as long as a monthly shop till receipt, our tech just does not want to co-operate with us. If you have been haunted by a disappearing taskbar, start screen and desktop this Halloween, fix this issue and get back to smoothly checking off your tasks within just a few simple steps.
1. Launch Task Manager
The Windows security screen in Windows 8.1 which appears after pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del together, from which Task Manager can be launched. Image credit: By Microsoft – Shot by Codename Lisa (talk · contribs), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24113438
Press the 3 keys most likely engrained in your brain as the life saver keys when it comes to tech issues “Ctrl + Alt + Delete” simultaneously. On the next screen that appears, click on Task Manager.
2. Run New Task from Task Manager
Above: Run new task via Task Manager window
Once your Task Manager window opens, click “More details” at the bottom of the window. It will extend and a top menu will appear. In this top menu, click File > Run new task. This will allow you to make your taskbar, desktop and start screen reappear by launching them as a new task from the dialog box that appears.
3. Launch the Taskbar, Start Screen and Desktop
Above: Run explorer to launch taskbar.
In the dialog box that appears after you have selected File > Run new task in the Task Manager window, you will see a text box where you will need to enter the name of the program you are trying to launch. Type “explorer” and click “OK.”
Your taskbar will appear. You can now click on the start icon in your taskbar or press the start key on your keyboard, and your start screen will appear with all the icons it usually has. You can choose to search for a program or click on “Desktop” to navigate back to the desktop which will again, have all of the icons you normally have on it.
Crisis averted! You can finally get back to running your empire, being a boss, blogging or simply watching Doctor Who: Blink on Netflix in peace.
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