Doctor Who: 10 Weird Things The Doctor Keeps In His Pockets
8. Spoons
Musical as ever, the Seventh Doctor was often seen tapping out a jaunty tune with a pair of spoons. A party trick of Sylvester McCoys, the spoon is never far from his hands. In his first story, Time and the Rani, he plays them up and down himself and even his co-stars body. Kate OMaras long-suffering face is priceless. Eagle eyed viewers of his antics on the set of The Hobbit movies will have seen him using wizards, elves, dwarves and catering staff as surfaces for his spoons, too. Go to a convention where he is holding court and he will no doubt do much the same. More recently, the Twelfth Doctor refused to use a sword in a duel against Robin Hood (Robot of Sherwood) as he opted for the humble spoon instead. Sylvester would be proud.
Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire.
Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions.
He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum.
Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.
