But, when they should transform to newts, are naughty and erratic

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Yesterday I felt optimistic enough about this cold to go out and meet ratatosk for lunch at Dave's Fresh Pasta and then hang out until the evening, trying not to cough on anyone too badly and mostly succeeding. (He has two books of Walter Garstang. I got to watch a puppet feed a cat. It was great.) Today I am back to drinking soup and sounding like a TB ward. Rabbit, rabbit. Other less festive noises. Links.

1. I didn't know anyone had written a revamp of Five Children and It. Can someone who isn't me read this first and tell me what on earth it's like?

2. I have tickets next week for Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse at the Boston Lyric Opera. I've never heard the opera, but it's based on the mystery of the Flannan Isles light (and I got a discount for being an ex-Opera Boston subscriber). I am looking forward.

3. I hope people do come to refer to this work, academically, as the Whoopensocker Dictionary.

4. cucumberseed: Cookiethulhu.

5. This documentary really sounds like porn for me.

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Why?

Because if I can't live by the Atlantic coast all my life, at least I can stare at it for sixteen hours and yearn.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

As coastal porn, 'Coast' is pretty soft core. It's a TV series, and I've only watched odd instalments, when it's been about somewhere I'm particularly interested in, or has puffins in it - but it's one of those shows where they are afraid that you'll find the subject matter boring, and have to keep distracting you with lively young presents.

[selidor]

Coast has been showing here for (?) three seasons now. It is soothing, and there are some lovely bits: the hidden sea-cave full of technicolour corals that noone but marine biologists ever see, that can only be visited on two days a year; the sculpture of ten thousand statues on the long lonely strand-beach, all looking half-lost out to sea; the place where the cliff has fallen into the sea for two thousand years, leaving a hilltop-fort half suspended; the grotto-altar built by a odd nobleman, carved almost inaccessibly into a cave in a seacliff.
But this is interspersed, as shewhomust says, by Bright Young Things doing experiments on which beach's sand is best for making sandcastles. It's a little frustrating, but worth it for the moments that feel like they walked straight out of a Susan Cooper book.

(I am personally more addicted at present to Ancient History of Britain. You have the same archaeologist presenter, with his charming accent, and he's solo presenter. It's one of the most joyful archaeologist shows I've seen, & as beautifully shot).

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the hidden sea-cave full of technicolour corals that noone but marine biologists ever see, that can only be visited on two days a year; the sculpture of ten thousand statues on the long lonely strand-beach, all looking half-lost out to sea; the place where the cliff has fallen into the sea for two thousand years, leaving a hilltop-fort half suspended; the grotto-altar built by a odd nobleman, carved almost inaccessibly into a cave in a seacliff.

See, that sounds lovely, and so does anything that reminds of Seaward or Greenwitch. Maybe it will turn up on Netflix and I can watch just the good parts.

It's one of the most joyful archaeologist shows I've seen, & as beautifully shot).

Hmm. I'll have to look for that.

Thank you!

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Glad! I hope Netflix makes it so.
Oh, and Ancient History is followed by Celtic History of Britain, which starts screening here this weekend. *excited bouncing*

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Oh, and Ancient History is followed by Celtic History of Britain, which starts screening here this weekend.

Please report back!

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Do they show or talk about St. Govan's Head on the Pembrokeshire coast? My husband and I visited it while on our honeymoon and it was one of the best parts of our trip.

[selidor]

I haven't seen all episodes from all 6 seasons, but I don't recall it. Wikipedia does not list it in the show descriptions. They are currently making a season 7 though!

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but it's one of those shows where they are afraid that you'll find the subject matter boring, and have to keep distracting you with lively young presents.

That seems really silly. Who's going to sign up to watch a show called Coast and expect not to spend hours staring at sea, sky, stone?