Was suggested I write an introductory post to verify my account.
Hello, US fan here. I have been watching the show since my teens in the early 2000s. I completed classic who and a large portion of early Big Finish. My favorite incarnations of the Doctor are the Twelfth, First, Second and Thirteenth.
A fun fact about me is that I’m also a beekeeper!
Hey, welcome to the forum!!!
Welcome! It’s good to have you here!
Welcome to the forum @JunkTARDIS - I’ve seen you around Gallifrey Base and it’s great to have you with us over here. Do browse our threads and join in the conversation.
Nice to see another Southerner, and with good taste in Doctors too!
Haha! Welcome! Good to see you here. I think your positivity will fit right in. Some lovely conversations on here. It’s a place where disagreement is welcomed but rudeness or overt negativity is not. Loving it so far, and I’m sure you will too!
Hi there. Welcome to the site and forum.
We have TV Club Audio Club Book Club and Comic Club. They’re good places to jump into and give your spicy opinions 
If there is anything you want to know about in the site or forum, feel free to ask, and we will point you in the right direction.
I hope you enjoy your stay.
CJ
A big welcome to you.
Hope you enjoy your stay.
Welcome, fellow beekeeper!
Okay, the beekeeper in my family is actually my father. But I got to spend countless 
hours of my youth turning the crank on the extractor. That has to count for something.
That makes you a beekeeper by hard labor! I’ll count ya in the beekeeping family!
I am not a beekeeper, however I count myself as a bee-friend. I work in invertebrate ecology and conservation. Whilst I specialise in spiders, I frequently work across the invertebrate orders. I am friend to bees, wasps, flies (unsung heroes of so much!), spiders, scorpions, harvestmen… the list goes on and on. I love 'em all! And, you know what? It was Doctor Who that led me there! 
Love that you’re a friend of the bugs! Every time I learn more about you, the more fascinating you become.
So, was it the Wirrn that inspired you??
You are very kind. Thank you.
Was I inspired by the Wirrn? Amongst many many other things. Doctor Who developed within me a belief that knowledge matters and that you should not judge by appearances. I’ve always felt compelled to study the less loved taxa and to champion them where required. As a child, I loved that the Doctor always knew (or knew how to find out) about the multitudinous life forms of the universe and I genuinely wanted to be like that. The weirdness of Doctor Who was like a drug to my young mind, addictive. The weirdness of invertebrate life, therefore, felt natural to me. Strange life cycles, unique senses (did you know that spiders can taste with their feet, for example?), often beautiful and always remarkable anatomy. The ecology then drew me further (thank you Malcolm Hulke for showing me the way) and I began to realise just how pivotally important these remarkable creatures are to our very existence on this planet.
In truth, I LOVE my job… and I have Doctor Who to thank for it. I was even compelled to get my doctorate because a) researching is an unabashed joy to me but also b) because I so wanted to legitimately be Doctor! It amuses me that I was appointed to the professorship in 2019 because, well, Ace and her Prof.
Yes, I know I’m tremendously lucky. This remarkable programme of ours has a lot to answer for!
Welcome to the site! I’ve always imagined that there exists a Time Lord by the name of The Beekeeper. Perhaps that’s you?
I mean:
Definitely a Time Lord and now is canonically The Beekeeper as decreed by the denizens of TARDIS Guide.
Ahhh, Goronwy. In my mind, far and away the best element of “Delta and the Bannermen”. He’s fantastic! Love him to bits!
“…the planet that took me in, they were kind of… they were kind of posh. They’d use titles like the Doctor, or the Bishop, or the Rani, or the Conquistador… and, of course, the Beekeeper.”