Project: Torchwood: Ceri Marie Milton

As far as the pandemic is going, I think the end is in sight. The roll out of vaccinations in Scotland is definitely ahead of everyone else in the UK, and we should all be mask free by the end of the Summer (hopefully).

This month saw a sad farewell to Ronald Pickup who died at the beginning of March after a long illness. He was 80. We’ll be putting an article together in next month’s Issue.

We’ve a bumper edition for you all this month, with reviews from the world of Netflix and Amazon Prime, along with Who Reviews, a Dalek build or two and Lady Mayhurst with another brilliant chapter of her Nightmare Child series.

And because it’s John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd’s birthdays this month, we’ve got double articles from us, and from the fans who have met them over the years since Torchwood. If you would like to add your own pieces to this, do comment in the post below. We’d love to read those.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s Issue, especially to my team, who absolutely ROCK, with covers and articles.

See you all back here in April for our Easter edition. Blimey! That time again. I wonder if there will be a Doctor Who season this year???

This edition is dedicated to a good friend and companion. My dog, Kelpie who sadly died on Tuesday 2^nd March. Greatly missed.

Djak

Articles Fans of Gareth David-Lloyd

When we began putting this article together, we were a little stuck on some of the credits to add. A lot of the meetings between the fans and Gareth aren’t on Wiki, and to be fair, Wiki isn’t a reliable source of information these days, with anyone altering the data to suit themselves, so hunting for information led me only to one major source. The fans.

Naturally, if we had every fan of Gareth’s or indeed John’s fans to write a short article, this upload would last till the end of March 2022 – so we’ve just added a few for this birthday celebration article.

Here goes:

Kirsty (biggest fan)

“The first time I met Gareth, I totally fangirled. I was shy and quiet, not me at all. That lasted all of ten minutes. I am profoundly deaf as some people will know, and HATE when the batteries for my Cochlear Implant go dead. I like being able to hear, so there’s me, saying quite loudly and rudely, how unhappy I was at having to change them, just as Gareth walked past with his dogs.

Embarrassing.

My auntie was holding a charity fun day at our local vets, which she used to own.

The 2nd time I met him was at a signing for an audio book he spoke for. What was the point in that you ask? I can’t hear ... its Gareth that’s why. After waiting outside Forbidden Planet for a good few hours, (it’s a small shop), we made our way upstairs, where Gareth was signing stuff with a sharpie. Me, being my normal cheeky self, commented that the pen stinks. He apologised. Gonna take the guy a while to get used to me... After all, this was only the beginning.

I have probably met Gareth now, more times than I can actually count, because

One, he’s a Newport boy so I see him in town a few times and…

Two, I ended up enjoying Blue Gillespie music so I have been to quite a few gigs.

The first gig I went to sticks in my mind, not for a good reason. It was the second time I had ever experienced disability discrimination. Someone, who I had gone to school with as a young girl, knew I was deaf and told me, I didn’t belong there because of it.

Don’t worry it all became good after she said that (she wasn’t drunk so we knew it wasn’t the drink that made her say it) one of the guys from a different band heard this remark and wasn’t happy. Security was called and asked to remove nasty bigoted person from premises.

More gigs after that came along, some I attended with friends, some on my own. Each time I got to know Gareth even more, and found him to be a good bloke, funny too. He got used to me and my quirky ways. Got to know Gemma, his wife, more too.

The last time I saw Gareth was August 3rd 2013, the last home turf gig of Blue Gillespie. Their last gig ever was in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on August 30th.

Ooh no, tell a lie. I saw him at Newport Comic Con in 2018. He wasn’t really expecting me as I had tweeted to say I was unable to make it, so to have him come round the table and give me a massive cuddle was really nice. Always nice to have someone of his profession recognise you straight off the bat."

Katherine Pozarek

"I met Gareth at Dragon Con and I don't remember much, but he was awesome. I had a photo op and there was a mix up, not sure who screwed up, but they were able to get Gareth down to the photo area so I could get my pic and then rushed him out to a panel. I'd share that pic as well, but all my photo ops and autographs were stolen last year."

Ceri Marie Milton

"I met Gareth when he was a student living in Newport."

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