I have my amazon parcel! It arrived yesterday and someone had hidden it downstairs. Which is just as well because when I rang them up they promised to look into it and get back to me, which they never did. So I have now watched the whole of the Robot commentary and am now on Glastonbury, which is on BBC3, BBC4 and 301 - I feel spoilt for choice, I've never had digital while Glastonbury's on before. Now if only I'd ever heard of any of these bands...

While I was away I read the BBC Doctor Who book Wolfsbane, which was the last one (of three) that exists with Sarah and Harry in. And there was a very interesting bit about Harry's feelings for Sarah in it on page 137 that I copied it out:

But ingrained so deep that it was not merely a belief but part of him, he knew that women were the fair sex, to be protected and placed on a pedestal.

[...]

If someone were designing Harry Sullivan's perfect woman, they would pick a charming young lady, a bit, but not too helpless, who hung on to his every word. She would be pretty, a bit fluffy, but not silly; a sweet little woman.

But sometimes designers get it wrong.

Harry was half in love with Sarah Jane Smith, and he didn't even know it.

Or perhaps he did know it, but had pushed the idea so far to the back of his mind that it no longer registered. They had a close and special friendship, but ultimately he was like the faithful family friend, and even more ultimately than that, he knew she found him a bit irritating.

But she was his ideal. And she'd spoilt him, because he judged everyone else against her without realising it.

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