I'm not sure that I've seen this before - but nice.


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So how far do I get into my first day of study leave before the first phonecall from work? 12.15pm.

A successful first day, although not quite as productive as hoped because I had to jar pickle and make bread rolls. It was also 9.05 before I sat down to Close Encounters of the Third Kind - I confess to using the faster function to fit it into the ( Read more... )

( III: Oliver Postgate and Naomi Linnell, Becket: An Illumination of the Life and Death of Thomas Becket )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/quiz/2008/dec/09/oliver-postgate-hot-topic

5/5 - easy peasy.

I knew that Postgate has been ill for some time, and he was 83 or so, but it's still a shock to hear that he has died. His father was a prominent historian of the working classes and he was related to politicians - but Postgate made an indelible mark on several generations of British children. Certainly the earliest sf I saw (excluding Dougal and ( Read more... )