I picspammed for the first episode of the 1967 BBC Forsyte Saga over on my tumblr. Well, it was a Soames picspam not a full episode picspam. I'll widen my scope when I do episode 2, "A Family Scandal". There will be Nyree Dawn Porter spam to match the Eric Porter spam ( Read more... )

Fandom of a Number Greater Than One: Hey, forsytesaga1967 exists! I am not alone! See, somebody else has written a fannish manifesto for it! She introduces the aunts and uncles! It is perfect! Seriously, read that and see if the series is for you or not.

ETA: And you can watch the entire first episode on YouTube. Start with part one here.As you know, Soames is ( Read more... )

I shall name all the minor characters in this novel after characters in Galsworthy. Not after Soames himself, of course. And "Jolyon" is too silly a name to be used casually. But Young Nicholas is a useful name. As is Jesse Hayman (brother Giles Hayman, alas, not a useful name). Imogen! Imogen married some perfectly boring sports-mad man named Jack ( Read more... )

Tromped around Oxford today and got rained on quite hard. Saw some of the things I wanted to see. I'll have to come back to the city when my sister has gone and my husband has joined me here in London. Which he'll do Friday. There's more I'd like to see. I'd like to see it while not soaking wet. Nonetheless, we did hit a couple of touristy high ( Read more... )

More London, more theater, more galleries, more just plain walking around. I think I can write the Holmes-meets-Giles story now. I've been seeing more of it in my head, anyway. I have some feel for locations that I didn't have before ( Read more... )

Giles has a Forsyte chin.