Daily Inspiration Quote by Lalla Ward

The charm here is how casually it shrinks something that’s normally staged as a career milestone into a slightly daft workplace vignette. “I enjoyed the promotion” sounds like corporate-speak, a phrase you’d expect from an internal memo or a stiff interview answer. Then it immediately swerves: “with K9.” Not a colleague, not a mentor, but a robot dog from Doctor Who. The line works because it treats sci-fi absurdity as ordinary office life, letting the fandom in on a private joke while keeping the tone disarmingly plain.

Ward, an actor whose public identity is braided with a particular era of British TV, is likely talking about the peculiar social mechanics of joining a long-running institution. “Introduction day” has onboarding energy: first day, new hierarchy, everyone watching to see if you fit. Pairing herself with K9 reads as a strategic bit of warmth. It signals: I’m game, I understand the show’s texture, I’m not arriving with self-serious star posture. For an actor stepping into an established ensemble (and a famously intense fan culture), that lightness is armor.

There’s also a quiet nod to promotional labor as part of the job. “Promotion” isn’t artistic glory; it’s PR: photo ops, press days, being packaged. Saying she “enjoyed” it is a small act of reclaiming agency in a process that can feel transactional. The subtext: the weirdest parts of the machine become bearable, even fun, when you share them with something as inherently unthreatening as K9.