au weekend
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This weekend I went to Bath to see some school friends; didn't actually see much of Bath as we spent the whole time playing Trivial Pursuits and Articulate, and also we watched Stardust. I was very pleased to find I loved this film as much this time as last time, it's very traditional in some ways with the whole fantasy quest/romance plotness, but the humour and the inventiveness of the things and people they meet on the way, and how real the characters all feel gives it an extra layer of yay! right from the first bit of dialogue: "Do you want to cross the Wall?"/"Yes. Because, let's face it, it's a field."
Listened to the beginning of the Classic Serial on Radio 4, it was The Mayor of Casterbridge and I was happy giggling away at how all the characters were Marked For Sorrow etc but then we got to the scene where yer man is selling his wife and child (which I did know about in advance) and it just made me really uncomfortable and I had to switch it off. Has anyone read it? Should I have persevered? Given that I only enjoy Hardy when he's being ridiculously ridiculously overdramatic and I am mocking him?
On Sunday I made lemon cake with extra lemon and a lemon glaze in an attempt to recreate the lovely bit of cake I had last weekend on the South Bristol Art Trail, rather successfully. I also made rhubarb crumble last Thursday so my kitchen is full of yummy stuff. My brain associates rhubarb with the 1920s so this was the right time to make it. I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp on Sunday night; briefly, I thought it was funny (though most of the jokes seemed to be references to/nicked from previous episodes), the antidote sequence had me in stitches, DONNA DONNA DONNA, Fenella Woolgar needs to be in more stuff, the deaths were a bit too silly, and I guessed about yer woman's secret child and even entertained the possibility that the wasp might be it, but then went "no, that's too mad, she can't have given birth to a giant wasp". I am fairly convinced that when they got Agatha Christie into the TARDIS she woke up and didn't have amnesia at all and then they had adventures, like how H.G. Wells had many adventures with Peri and Six that time, yes? Yes. And she never told anyone because if she'd said "oh I was travelling through time and space in a police box with a woman from the future and an alien inna suit" everyone would've accused her of being mad in the brain. Then I watched the rest of the Black Orchid extras. I really wasn't expecting them to feature a Blue Peter presenter in his pants, but there you go.
Listened to the beginning of the Classic Serial on Radio 4, it was The Mayor of Casterbridge and I was happy giggling away at how all the characters were Marked For Sorrow etc but then we got to the scene where yer man is selling his wife and child (which I did know about in advance) and it just made me really uncomfortable and I had to switch it off. Has anyone read it? Should I have persevered? Given that I only enjoy Hardy when he's being ridiculously ridiculously overdramatic and I am mocking him?
On Sunday I made lemon cake with extra lemon and a lemon glaze in an attempt to recreate the lovely bit of cake I had last weekend on the South Bristol Art Trail, rather successfully. I also made rhubarb crumble last Thursday so my kitchen is full of yummy stuff. My brain associates rhubarb with the 1920s so this was the right time to make it. I watched The Unicorn and the Wasp on Sunday night; briefly, I thought it was funny (though most of the jokes seemed to be references to/nicked from previous episodes), the antidote sequence had me in stitches, DONNA DONNA DONNA, Fenella Woolgar needs to be in more stuff, the deaths were a bit too silly, and I guessed about yer woman's secret child and even entertained the possibility that the wasp might be it, but then went "no, that's too mad, she can't have given birth to a giant wasp". I am fairly convinced that when they got Agatha Christie into the TARDIS she woke up and didn't have amnesia at all and then they had adventures, like how H.G. Wells had many adventures with Peri and Six that time, yes? Yes. And she never told anyone because if she'd said "oh I was travelling through time and space in a police box with a woman from the future and an alien inna suit" everyone would've accused her of being mad in the brain. Then I watched the rest of the Black Orchid extras. I really wasn't expecting them to feature a Blue Peter presenter in his pants, but there you go.
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Date: 20 May 2008 09:42 (UTC)*nods* It's probably the most sensible way to read Hardy's novels TBH !
DT got them to cast Fenella?
Well he suggested Fenella (having worked with her in both He Knew He Was Right (which I must find time to watch sometime soonish) and Bright Young Things) - and was completely gleeful about the fact they cast her...
And his dad? Heeee. I do love DT, whatever my thoughts on Ten.
Yeah - that was unplanned - as I said, his dad was visiting and so the production team nabbed him, which amuses me to death...
I think Ten is a lot less shattered and more whole this year, thankfully. He's still not the Doctor I'd like him to be, but he's more Doctorish...
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