You'll know this was life and time

[sovay]

I categorically refuse to do the research required to write it, but spatch agrees with me that a fossilized forest discovered near a holiday camp is a Sapphire & Steel/Hi-de-Hi! crossover waiting to happen.

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[cmcmck]

The Beeb had some pics of the forest and it is truly amazing!

[sovay]

The Beeb had some pics of the forest and it is truly amazing!

It is!

[watervole]

I'd read it! Though keeping that slowly building of creepiness that S+S requires might be a touch tricky...

[sovay]

I'd read it! Though keeping that slowly building of creepiness that S+S requires might be a touch tricky...

Thank you! I've written for Sapphire & Steel. I haven't actually seen that much Hi-de-Hi! spatch has been watching it.

[watervole]

enjoyed the stories, thanks for the link!

[sovay]

enjoyed the stories, thanks for the link!

You're welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed them!

[thisbluespirit]

Good morning campers! Strange echoes of a long dead forest over the tannoy at Maplins? More likely than it seems!

XD

That is amazing, and not so far from where I grew up! (I have a petrified forest under me now; apparently there was a fossilised one on the shores nearby me when I was small. These forests get around... I wonder if there's one near Aberystwyth to complete the set?)

[sovay]

Good morning campers! Strange echoes of a long dead forest over the tannoy at Maplins? More likely than it seems!

Thank you!

(I have a petrified forest under me now; apparently there was a fossilised one on the shores nearby me when I was small. These forests get around... I wonder if there's one near Aberystwyth to complete the set?)

Oh, I hope so. I love the idea of forests in waiting for you.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, I hope so. I love the idea of forests in waiting for you.

That sounds worryingly sinister now you put it like that! XD (It would not surprise me re. Aber, though. All things are possible with Aber.)

Btw, I do not know if you are yet in a condition where you can look at gifs, but for whenever you are, I finally got around to doing a little tumblr "Films Watched" gifset for Glorious 39, which I went on about last summer: https://www.tumblr.com/thisbluespirit/744687082559176705/films-watched-glorious-39?source=share

Whoops, sorry, and also I giffed the dramatic jacket moment that made me laugh (not while watching, but because it looks so very misleading in the trailer, but it's the only dramatic thing that Jeremy Northam does in it, so they had to): https://64.media.tumblr.com/85d38eaa1ca79946f73a500fe997e682/d1cd98cb1956701d-ff/s1280x1920/836e3cd54208ffd9f043998704ffe78b3a95bedc.gifv

[sovay]

That sounds worryingly sinister now you put it like that!

Deep time can go either way!

Btw, I do not know if you are yet in a condition where you can look at gifs, but for whenever you are, I finally got around to doing a little tumblr "Films Watched" gifset for Glorious 39, which I went on about last summer

Thank you! It remains on my list of films to track down. (All that and Christopher Lee.)

Whoops, sorry, and also I giffed the dramatic jacket moment that made me laugh (not while watching, but because it looks so very misleading in the trailer, but it's the only dramatic thing that Jeremy Northam does in it, so they had to)

Rarely have I seen a jacket removed more dramatically!

[thisbluespirit]

Rarely have I seen a jacket removed more dramatically!

I mean, he murders several people but only by audio and implication, so jacket removal it is. XD

[radiantfracture]

Trees before trees. Why is a very ancient sign so productive of joy? But it is. Now I will blissfully imagine Somerset covered in low twiggy fern umbrellas, transforming the landscape as they grew.

[sovay]

Trees before trees. Why is a very ancient sign so productive of joy? But it is.

I think it is because deep time itself is a joy, which is what we're all doing wading through it.

Now I will blissfully imagine Somerset covered in low twiggy fern umbrellas, transforming the landscape as they grew.

I like your image.

[movingfinger]

The happy holidaying campers had no idea that the shuffleboard could shuffle them...

[sovay]

The happy holidaying campers had no idea that the shuffleboard could shuffle them...

Precisely!

[pameladean]

Oh, I love that forest SO MUCH. P.

[sovay]

Oh, I love that forest SO MUCH.

It makes me happy, not only that such things exist, but that they can be found.

[asakiyume]

This is so cool. Forests everywhere--even in solid rock.

[sovay]

This is so cool. Forests everywhere--even in solid rock.

Yes! The roots of the world.