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

[sovay]

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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[margavriel.livejournal.com]

5. This documentary really sounds like porn for me.

Why?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'd not heard about Four Children and It either! (To say nothing of the Lamb.) Jacqueline Wilson is huge in the UK, but I remember hearing that she'd never broken the US market, so am unsure whether you'll know her. She specializes in first-person books, narrated by children in difficult circumstances (divorcing parents, in care, bipolar mother, etc.), and she does them very well. A few of her books have a fantasy dimension, but that's not what she's known for. I'm intrigued, but fearful.

I particularly wonder whether she'll keep it in Nesbit's third person, as I've not read a book by Wilson that wasn't first-person, and I've read quite a few. I'd have thought The Treasure Seekers would be much further up her street.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

1. WHAT THE GOOD GODDAMN, THAT IS UNNECESSARY

2. Chaaaaaaaaamber opera.

a) Sherbourne Waltz. *bounces*

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

a revamp of Five Children and It.

I can't imagine why anyone would do this. With luck, it will at least not be horrible. *knocks wood*

2.

I'm glad you were given a discount, and I hope the opera is very enjoyable.

3.

I should hope they will. It sounds brilliant, any road, although I do have to quibble a bit with the implication in the article that a po'boy is a part of the torpedo/hoagie/hero/submarine sandwich family. For now, I'm choosing to interpet this as a pardonable oversimplification on the part of the Guardian's writer.

Cookiethulhu.

"C is for C'thulhu, that's good enough for me..."

5.

Excellent. I hope it's as lovely as it sounds.

Best wishes for a cessation of the cold and its associated unfestive noises.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Investigators are a sometimes food.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Feel better!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

2. Wow, I'd love to hear more about this - it could be the thing that gets me into opera at last.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Rabbit, rabbit.

What does this mean?

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear you're still not feeling well :( Regarding next week, it looks like James and I are actually going to Salem on Tuesday and staying overnight/through Wednesday. Therefore, if you are well by then and would care for a somewhat quirky change of scenery, would you like to meet up in Salem either on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon?