And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. Official The Sky Man page at bigfinish.Summary: A more than decent gift book for Whovians, and for those who find themselves naturally drawn to Milne-mimickers.Ĭonsider the Doctor.When the sheep get sick, Anvar wonders if they've been eating devil clover from the fields.Cole gets a sheep tick from the sheep, and thinks it might be a tumour.Initial models were attempts at making survival suits, like his own. Cole constructs isolation suits - or Iso-Suits - with chronon distortion dampers, neurodampers and stabilisation fields built in.A weapon from the Time War has unleashed chronon distortion.Cole fixes their water pump, and the bridge which goes across the river.Cole wears an orange survival suit, which protects him.Anvar made it, and gave it to her on Wintertide. Elidh had a doll named Grelly in her childhood.Shabril's wife Pinsa gives birth to twins, but both are dead.Shabril and Cole play cards, and Cole loses all his money to him gambling.

He's upset that Cole rebuilt the bridge, but eventually comes around to it.

Gorrif has been the local shepherd for 26 years.

The Master has a go at running it, tending to the grapevines.

Old Farmer Klosk has a winery in the next valley.

The Master says he's always dreamed of running a vineyard.

Materialising on a primitive, agrarian world, both the strangers quickly find their place in it… until fallout from the War invades their happy paradise. When his new companion decides to save a planet, the Master indulges this most futile of requests.

Doctor Who by James Goss