That two girls are too many, three's a crowd, and four you're dead
My sleep schedule has gone so far off the rails, I'm not even sure what time zone I'm in anymore, but I don't think it's the one I live in.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
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moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.
P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
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moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
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Still counts for purposes of data! I need to re-read The Whispering Mountain. I remember liking it, but almost nothing about the plot except Wales.
My paperback copy has photos from it (Anna-Maria trapped in burning building on the front, assorted period urchins on the back) and I remember singing Denzil's song while wandering the playground, to what your link confirms is their setting.
Oh, that's neat! I grew up with a paperback edition with a very '70's Gothic cover I can't find on the internet (it more or less fell apart and I replaced it eventually with this one). I take it this was your copy?
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Sapphire and Steel! I have many fond (and more recent) memories of that series. I wish it would suddenly reappear again like Twin Peaks, but I think that's unlikely.
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I just gave in and am re-reading it.
(IIRC I have this copy because I started reading it in a used bookstore, didn't have time to read it and couldn't leave it behind).
Makes perfect sense to me.
The idea of the carpet press is something I'm never going to forget...
Yes. This book probably was my introduction to Why Child Labor Laws Are a Good Thing.
I wish it would suddenly reappear again like Twin Peaks, but I think that's unlikely.
There are radio plays, but since they don't feature McCallum and Lumley, I'm not sure how I feel about them! Even with David Collings.