Ok, who hasn’t seen The Green Death? Go and get the DVD. You’re seriously lacking some Doctor Who mythology.

Meanwhile, to catch up. In 1973, The Doctor and Jo came to Llanfairfach where they battled an unscrupulous chemical company and mutant maggots in the abandoned coal mine. Jo was at one point trapped down the mine with a local miner called Bert who, because there was no such thing as political correctness in 1973, and because the Green Death has some shameless stereotypes of Welshmen in it, called her Blodwyn. Later, Bert died of the mutated disease and Jo was very upset. Meanwhile, Clifford Jones was working on the production of an alternative to meat made of fungus.

I was in a supermarket, discussing the possibility of a new companion for The Doctor and Rose with my daughter, Brandon. We had decided that she would be a teenage tomboy daughter of Jo and Cliff and I had initially decided to call her Myfanwy, nicknamed Miff, because Myfanwy is a lovely Welsh name and Miff would reflect her habit of sulking. With the Bert story in mind we changed it to Blodwyn, Wyn for short. Which being a name meaning ‘flower’ would not please a tomboy very much. Meanwhile we had reached the burger cabinet and Brandon casually mentioned that Quorn, the well known brand of meat alternative IS actually made of a sort of fungus. In other words, EXACTLY what Clifford was looking for in the 1970s. But instead of it feeding the Third World it had become a quite expensive commercial product. From that I had the idea that Clifford and Jo became the owners of a successful food processing company, Wholewheal, built on the site of the old Global Chemicals, giving employment to the former miners, and, because they are both old hippies with high ideals, much of the profits ploughed into Third World projects.

Well, why not? Jo and Cliff are a blank page. Nobody knows what really happened to them. And it is all perfectly plausible.

So here we meet up with them again, all those years later, back in Llanfairfach, an ordinary Welsh village, NOT. And things are going strange. Things that directly relate to that incident with the giant maggots that the teens of Wyn’s generation think is just a scary story their parents tell them to stop them exploring the old mine. Throw in Mr Steevens and the rest is inevitable. I did, originally intend Steevens to be a good guy in this story, but in the end, having him still susceptible to control by thinking machines worked out better.

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