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burntcopper:g: Merry yuletide midwinter fest, everyone.
(I have this theory that is only reinforced that little bit more each year that the UK at least is slowly but surely reverting Christmas back to Midwinter Fest - feasting and presents and lights and greenery without all this icky mid-eastern religion stuff - and it only took us a little over a thousand years. Seriously, try to find any stuff about a Jewish politician in most people's homes. Definitely difficult in ours, being a family of staunch atheists.)
Woke up 8am - was supposed to wake up at 8:30 to get up in time for Snow Queen - a new BBC version that promised not to update it to the present day. Am such a sucker for the Snow Queen tale. (little boy taken off to the North Pole by the Snow Queen, little girl that is his best mate goes after him, has adventures, eventually gets there, melts the shard of ice in his eye that's keeping him in stasis with her tears, then they get back home. In the original that Hans Christian Andersen wrote, they've been gone so long that they're grown up by the time they get back home. Not many adaptations keep this in.) This was sweet, kept it to the time period and setting that it's written in, Netherlands in the 18th or so century, and did a good bit of setting the scene, including Gerda's mother played by Juliet Stevenson taking Kay in off the street in the winter. Most of the background was CGI, and it was specifically done so it was very dream-like - lots of fuzziness and so on. Also liked that they had Kay being accepted as dead and his sled being found in the river in the spring, so Gerda doesn't go off after him straight away. The adventures went through a little quickly, but very well done - especially loving the Robber Girl, who is so Faith in training it's not true. (and yes, I was drooling. Shut up. Have thing for Romany and so on. It's not my fault.) Also the Old Woman and the Laplander, who were done very well. Snow Queen this almost mirage of a being, made up of darkness and stars and snow. Gorgeous. Not all I wanted it to be, but rather sweet.
Shower. Brekkies. Present attack. Also got the 'And Heather is sporting the Christmas Gypsy look today'. Got :
Wagamama cookbook - see dad pounce.
pashmina to match the dress
truffles
Twentieth Century Blues - Noel Coward Tribute cd (currently listening)
Black Books 2
Finding Neverland - was so not expecting this from cousin
Mr and Mrs Smith - squee, Taz!
Broadway collection - immediately told 'we want copies' from mates.
bag
draws-set for sewing stuff
scarf
Conina miniature from Brian
Pride and Prejudice dvd
The haul was good. :g: Have eaten too many truffles (stocking) and nibbles (neighbourhood party, at which there was carolling and songsheets for the first time, and was way too much fun. Also all the bloody baritones drown all the girls out on things like Good King Wenceslas - there's also the adlib version of Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, where people add comments on teh end of each line. Disturbing to be the only descant on O come all ye faithful. Now going to read all the fic I didn't get to read last night due to computer freezing about five times.
(I have this theory that is only reinforced that little bit more each year that the UK at least is slowly but surely reverting Christmas back to Midwinter Fest - feasting and presents and lights and greenery without all this icky mid-eastern religion stuff - and it only took us a little over a thousand years. Seriously, try to find any stuff about a Jewish politician in most people's homes. Definitely difficult in ours, being a family of staunch atheists.)
Woke up 8am - was supposed to wake up at 8:30 to get up in time for Snow Queen - a new BBC version that promised not to update it to the present day. Am such a sucker for the Snow Queen tale. (little boy taken off to the North Pole by the Snow Queen, little girl that is his best mate goes after him, has adventures, eventually gets there, melts the shard of ice in his eye that's keeping him in stasis with her tears, then they get back home. In the original that Hans Christian Andersen wrote, they've been gone so long that they're grown up by the time they get back home. Not many adaptations keep this in.) This was sweet, kept it to the time period and setting that it's written in, Netherlands in the 18th or so century, and did a good bit of setting the scene, including Gerda's mother played by Juliet Stevenson taking Kay in off the street in the winter. Most of the background was CGI, and it was specifically done so it was very dream-like - lots of fuzziness and so on. Also liked that they had Kay being accepted as dead and his sled being found in the river in the spring, so Gerda doesn't go off after him straight away. The adventures went through a little quickly, but very well done - especially loving the Robber Girl, who is so Faith in training it's not true. (and yes, I was drooling. Shut up. Have thing for Romany and so on. It's not my fault.) Also the Old Woman and the Laplander, who were done very well. Snow Queen this almost mirage of a being, made up of darkness and stars and snow. Gorgeous. Not all I wanted it to be, but rather sweet.
Shower. Brekkies. Present attack. Also got the 'And Heather is sporting the Christmas Gypsy look today'. Got :
Wagamama cookbook - see dad pounce.
pashmina to match the dress
truffles
Twentieth Century Blues - Noel Coward Tribute cd (currently listening)
Black Books 2
Finding Neverland - was so not expecting this from cousin
Mr and Mrs Smith - squee, Taz!
Broadway collection - immediately told 'we want copies' from mates.
bag
draws-set for sewing stuff
scarf
Conina miniature from Brian
Pride and Prejudice dvd
The haul was good. :g: Have eaten too many truffles (stocking) and nibbles (neighbourhood party, at which there was carolling and songsheets for the first time, and was way too much fun. Also all the bloody baritones drown all the girls out on things like Good King Wenceslas - there's also the adlib version of Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, where people add comments on teh end of each line. Disturbing to be the only descant on O come all ye faithful. Now going to read all the fic I didn't get to read last night due to computer freezing about five times.
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Date: 2005-12-25 06:09 pm (UTC)didnt manage to see this bbc version sadly but im sure itl be repeated!
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Date: 2005-12-25 08:03 pm (UTC)BTW, did you notice that Gerda - Sydney White - did the female soprano on the soundtrack? And point for the other comment - don't know about repeats, but the DVD is available (http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=718889&p=57&g=72&pa=sr).
Ah, Broadway - nice. Have you seen that they are showing a series about Broadway on BBC2 at lunchtimes this week? It was previously on BBC4, and is also out on DVD (http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=681284&p=57&g=72&pa=sr).
And yay for the new Doctor! (Or should that be Doctor Strikes Back?) But I'm still not convinced about the flying tardis - a fun idea and nicely executed, but not sure that it really makes sense to me. One other point - I've never met pyjamas that you can be that active in without having a wardrobe malfunction. Oh, and did you catch the trailer for Life on Mars beforehand?
:looks at watch:... think it's time for some exercising - bah, humbug :-(
- x -
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Date: 2005-12-26 12:15 pm (UTC)My squeeing about Life on Mars was only rivalled by the Dr Who.
And you've obviously never worn the right pyjamas. I've seen someone dance the whole night away in them, been to pyjama-themed discos (in which someone did indeed come as Arthur Dent), and seen people trek across fields in them. As long as the drawstring or elastic holds up, you're fine.
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Date: 2005-12-26 02:05 pm (UTC)The most I could come up with about the Metz advert is this - worth a click just because it contains a link to view the advert itself (http://www.glassworks.co.uk/search_archive/jobs/metz_judderman/). But no obvious link to Snow Queen.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge of night clothes though. Personally, I blame my mother for buying cheap pyjamas. Of course, that was a long time ago. Nowadays, I don't wear pyjamas :ahem: