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In [[2010]], [[Mike Yates]] told [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] about [[Tom (Happy Endings)|a man called Tom]] shortly prior to the [[wedding]] of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]. Mike gave the Brig a [[jar]] of [[honey]] that he and Tom had made. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Around the same time, sometime after his adventures with [[Eustace (Image of the Fendahl)|"a skull from the end of time"]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] took up sojourn in a town in [[Sussex]] called [[Nest Cottage]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') | In [[2010]], [[Mike Yates]] told [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] about [[Tom (Happy Endings)|a man called Tom]] shortly prior to the [[wedding]] of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]. Mike gave the Brig a [[jar]] of [[honey]] that he and Tom had made. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') Around the same time, sometime after his adventures with [[Eustace (Image of the Fendahl)|"a skull from the end of time"]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] took up sojourn in a town in [[Sussex]] called [[Nest Cottage]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') | ||
The Doctor began to investigate a string of murders that were caused by [[stuffed animal]]s. The animals came from a taxidermy factory, run by a passionate taxidermist called [[Percy Noggins]]. Upon meeting the Doctor, Percy sent a small army of stuffed animals to kill him, since he had deemed him a threat. The Doctor discovered the stuffed animals and Percy were being controlled by the [[Hornet]]s, an alien race that wanted to take control of the Doctor's mind. The Doctor lured all the Hornets towards Nest Cottage, where the TARDIS' [[dimensional stabiliser]]s put up a force shield to prevent them getting out and taking over the world. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') | The Doctor began to investigate a string of murders that were caused by [[stuffed animal]]s. The animals came from a taxidermy factory, run by a passionate taxidermist called [[Percy Noggins]]. Upon meeting the Doctor, Percy sent a small army of stuffed animals to kill him, since he had deemed him a threat. The Doctor discovered the stuffed animals and Percy were being controlled by the [[Hornet]]s, an alien race that wanted to take control of the Doctor's mind. The Doctor lured all the Hornets towards Nest Cottage, where the TARDIS's [[dimensional stabiliser]]s put up a force shield to prevent them getting out and taking over the world. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') | ||
The Doctor later travelled to [[1932]] [[Cromer]] to investigate previous incursions of the Hornets on Earth, where he found a dancer called [[Ernestina Stott]] stealing some ballet shoes with the remains of feet inside them, owned by Mrs [[Fenella Wibbsey]], curatress of the Cromer museum, both under the influence of the Hornets. Upon discovering the significance of the ballet shoes in his investigations, the Doctor learned they were the ballet shoes of a dancer called Francesca, just like Ernestina, and they were being used by the Hornets as a hive for their dormant swarm, which Mrs Wibbsey had been taking care of for years. The Hornets attempted to use Mrs Wibbsey to shrink the Doctor and Ernestina down, putting them inside a [[doll's house]] filled with deadly [[peg doll (The Dead Shoes)|dolls]] animated by the Hornets, but the Doctor escaped and found a way to bring them back to normal. | The Doctor later travelled to [[1932]] [[Cromer]] to investigate previous incursions of the Hornets on Earth, where he found a dancer called [[Ernestina Stott]] stealing some ballet shoes with the remains of feet inside them, owned by Mrs [[Fenella Wibbsey]], curatress of the Cromer museum, both under the influence of the Hornets. Upon discovering the significance of the ballet shoes in his investigations, the Doctor learned they were the ballet shoes of a dancer called Francesca, just like Ernestina, and they were being used by the Hornets as a hive for their dormant swarm, which Mrs Wibbsey had been taking care of for years. The Hornets attempted to use Mrs Wibbsey to shrink the Doctor and Ernestina down, putting them inside a [[doll's house]] filled with deadly [[peg doll (The Dead Shoes)|dolls]] animated by the Hornets, but the Doctor escaped and found a way to bring them back to normal. | ||
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The Doctor put an advertisement in a magazine to invite [[Mike Yates]] into his investigation of the Hornets. After the stuffed animals in the Nest Cottage came alive and both Mike and the Doctor were forced to retreat into the cellar, the Doctor decided to keep him up to speed, by telling him about all his encounters with the Hornets. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') However, the Doctor later claimed that he couldn't remember putting the advertisement in the magazine. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Sting in the Tale (audio story)|A Sting in the Tale]]'') | The Doctor put an advertisement in a magazine to invite [[Mike Yates]] into his investigation of the Hornets. After the stuffed animals in the Nest Cottage came alive and both Mike and the Doctor were forced to retreat into the cellar, the Doctor decided to keep him up to speed, by telling him about all his encounters with the Hornets. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'') However, the Doctor later claimed that he couldn't remember putting the advertisement in the magazine. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Sting in the Tale (audio story)|A Sting in the Tale]]'') | ||
The Doctor wanted to finally defeat the Hornets by neutralising their queen. Therefore, with the help of Mike Yates and Mrs Wibbsey, he used Francesca's ballet shoes and his TARDIS' dimensional stabiliser to shrink themselves, so they were able to enter the hive of the Hornets, which happened to be a stuffed zebra housing the Hornet Queen herself. During the expedition into the hive of the Hornets, Mike had become paranoid and suspicious of Mrs Wibbsey, leading to his handcuffing her and directing her to the centre of the hive, resulting in a confrontation with the Hornet Queen. It was during this confrontation that the Hornet Queen revealed she had taken possession of Mike. | The Doctor wanted to finally defeat the Hornets by neutralising their queen. Therefore, with the help of Mike Yates and Mrs Wibbsey, he used Francesca's ballet shoes and his TARDIS's dimensional stabiliser to shrink themselves, so they were able to enter the hive of the Hornets, which happened to be a stuffed zebra housing the Hornet Queen herself. During the expedition into the hive of the Hornets, Mike had become paranoid and suspicious of Mrs Wibbsey, leading to his handcuffing her and directing her to the centre of the hive, resulting in a confrontation with the Hornet Queen. It was during this confrontation that the Hornet Queen revealed she had taken possession of Mike. | ||
It was this revelation that the Doctor realised that it must have been the control of the Hornets that forced him to put that advertisement in the magazine, using what knowledge she had taken from the Doctor's mind so she could draw Mike to Nest Cottage, believing him perfect to take control since he had so many negative experiences. Since the Hornets were no longer restrained by the force shield, they took their opportunity to return to the Hornet hive, so the Doctor threatened all the Hornets by burning the whole hive. However, the Doctor realised that he could use the Hornet Queen's desire for the Hornet's royal jelly that they produced against her. He achieved this by filling Francesca's ballet shoe with royal jelly, and the Queen, overcome with the desire for the jelly, drank it out of the shoe. | It was this revelation that the Doctor realised that it must have been the control of the Hornets that forced him to put that advertisement in the magazine, using what knowledge she had taken from the Doctor's mind so she could draw Mike to Nest Cottage, believing him perfect to take control since he had so many negative experiences. Since the Hornets were no longer restrained by the force shield, they took their opportunity to return to the Hornet hive, so the Doctor threatened all the Hornets by burning the whole hive. However, the Doctor realised that he could use the Hornet Queen's desire for the Hornet's royal jelly that they produced against her. He achieved this by filling Francesca's ballet shoe with royal jelly, and the Queen, overcome with the desire for the jelly, drank it out of the shoe. | ||
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What if that was the way he could return to Doctor Who? As a storyteller sitting comfortably by the fire…? Unwinding macabre tales of terror like infinite strings of multi-coloured wool…? | What if that was the way he could return to Doctor Who? As a storyteller sitting comfortably by the fire…? Unwinding macabre tales of terror like infinite strings of multi-coloured wool…? | ||
That sounded like just the sort of thing I’d love to write, and so that is more or less what I wrote.|[[Paul Magrs]]<ref>[https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2019/04/ten-years-of-nest-cottage.html Ten Years of Nest Cottage]</ref>}} | That sounded like just the sort of thing I’d love to write, and so that is more or less what I wrote.|[[Paul Magrs]]<ref>[https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com/2019/04/ten-years-of-nest-cottage.html Ten Years of Nest Cottage]</ref>}} | ||
* Magrs elaborated on [[Gallifrey Base]] that, while he was obligated by the franchise to "nominally [place] the Wibbsey years" in the Doctor's timeline – in ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'', the Doctor referenced some stories from [[ | * Magrs elaborated on [[Gallifrey Base]] that, while he was obligated by the franchise to "nominally [place] the Wibbsey years" in the Doctor's timeline – in ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'', the Doctor referenced some stories from [[Season 15 (Doctor Who 1963)|seasons 15]] and [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|16]], suggesting that the Nest Cottage stories might be set between ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'' and ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'' – he left it ambiguous enough "to allow for the odder, more mysterious possibility that the Doctor's incarnations might have some kind of afterlives in retirement…"<ref>[https://gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/hornets-nest-theory.204998/#post-8312866 Gallifrey Base: Hornets' Nest theory]</ref> | ||
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