Carruthers Ten Years On: December 2012

December 2012 amounted to a single post. I've just re-read for the first time in ten years and it's better than anything else I wrote for the Carruthers blog in 2012, probably longer. It articulates my disappointment that there wasn't more to write about and manages some gags along the way that I still like.

So, that's it. No more Carruthers Ten Years On posts and probably no more Carruthers posts at all. Looking back at the Carruthers blog with the distance that a decade can provide has brought a lot of things back. The frustration that we didn't manage to do more. The pride in some of the things that we did achieve. I'm enormously grateful to Andy Cartwright and Mike Everhard for all their hard work on scripts, sketches, songs etc. We had fun, but I think we should have had a lot more.

Carruthers Ten Years On: September 2012

September 2012 was when I finally lost interest in the Carruthers blog. The Riddle Of The Sands came to its natural conclusion and I managed a couple of posts using photos that I took like in the old days: Snake Bake and Charge!, neither of which were particularly impressive. I clearly intended to do more and something got in the way.

Carruthers Ten Years On: August 2012

August 2012 on the Carruthers blog. In between The Riddle Of The Sands and the terrible tats, I began to make an effort once more. Even if I was only really reposting snarky notes and comedy posters.

Carruthers Ten Years On: July 2012

July 2012 on the Carruthers blog featured terrible tattoos and the text of The Riddle Of the Sands, but frankly not much in the way of content from me.

Carruthers Ten Years On: June 2012

June 2012 saw the Carruthers blog reach 1500 posts. Sherlock, quotes from the great and the good and posts on Buffy and Angel references were the order of the day. The Carruthers blog was something I sat down to 'write' in one sitting at this point. I used to get it out of the way at the end of the previous month, which probably shows how little I was enjoying by now.

On a lighter note, here's Mike sat on a duck.

Carruthers Ten Years On: May 2012

May 2012 on the Carruthers blog. More Sherlock, more quotes tangentially related to the sketches we performed. I should have stopped this nonsense by now.

Carruthers Ten Years On: April 2012

April 2012 on the Carruthers blog continued in the same vein as March. More treading water: Sherlock Holmes, quoting luminaries and Fast & Furious, which I clearly spent a lot of time researching and have never seen a single instalment of, all because of a reference in the FistKrammer sketch.

Carruthers Ten Years On: March 2012

March 2012 on the Carruthers blog was the worst yet. I contributed almost nothing, alternating between Fast & Furious posts and quotes from various celebrated figures.

Carruthers Ten Years On: February 2012

February 2012 on the Carruthers blog featured videos of The Fast And The Furious (not that one) and its remake The Chase. I didn't watch either of them and tacked a Doctor Who video on to the end of the latter. There's also a post about X-Men references.

I quite like Love And Death and this English translation of Vin Diesel.

Carruthers Ten Years On: January 2012

January 2012 on the Carruthers blog relied heavily on Sherlock Holmes again and a trio of posts listing the references to Quantum Leap, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Spaced.

Pointy was really the only one that was worth posting.

Carruthers Ten Years On: December 2011

December 2011 on the Carruthers blog was nothing special. Here's posts about references to Blur and Doctor Who in the nineties and the twenty-first century.

Carruthers Ten Years On: November 2011

. I have absolutely no memory the photo on the left. November 2011 on the Carruthers blog was the month in which Fistkrammer finally saw the light of day. It was a surprise to all of us.

Posts listing references to the Star Trek movies and Doctor Who in the sixties, seventies and eighties.

Photos like the one below warm the cockles of my heart. The cloak was very difficult to walk in at the best of times, but one of the holes was much lower than the others and made for a very uncomfortable crouch and made walking almost impossible. I loved it.

Carruthers Ten Years On: October 2011

October 2011 on the Carruthers blog. I quite like Diversion, Napkin, Fashion Victim and £, but it must be said that the photos are doing the heavy lifting.

The Star Trek references continue with posts about Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Carruthers Ten Years On: September 2011

September 2011 on the Carruthers blog features a shameless use of my showreel and Bengal Boogie is probably my favourite.

Again, I'm quite fond of the posts tracking the references to Dollhouse, Life On Mars and Star Trek.

Carruthers Ten Years On: August 2011

August 2011 on the Carruthers blog. Yankee and Concerning Flight are alright.

I'm surprisingly pleased with these posts about references on the blog to Red Dwarf, Star Wars and Blake's 7.

Carruthers Ten Years On: July 2011

July 2011 on the Carruthers blog was pretty pathetic. It began with the Friday's Child rhyme and ended with the phonetic alphabet, which were all pretty wafer thin, with the exception of Victor.

Carruthers Ten Years On: June 2011

June 2011 saw the Carruthers blog reach 1100 posts.

There's a pretty good run of posts here: Branded, Shedloads, Borderland, Trunk, Word Up, These Are Happy Plums, The Harsh Light Of Day, Style Over Substance and There's No Other Way.

Carruthers Ten Years On: May 2011

May 2011 on the Carruthers blog was the blog's third birthday. Between Sherlock Holmes and links to the blogs of supportive people, the last of which Reader, I married her.

There is only really one worthwhile post all month: Danger Of Death.

Carruthers Ten Years On: April 2011

April 2011 on the Carruthers blog. The Tempest continued and I was pleasantly surprised by the payoff. It was replaced by Sherlock Holmes' The Sign of Four. My favourite post however is Railing Failing, the photo is funny, but the post improves on it rather than simply relying on it.

I can't imagine making a joke about rape now, even one as oblique as this.

Carruthers Ten Years On: March 2011

March 2011 on the Carruthers blog was the nadir, so far. Duel videos, music tracks used or referenced by our sketches and the text of Shakespeare's The Tempest alternating with dictionary definitions that were probably meant to be stark, but just seem facile.

The best post of probably Revenge.