Things Can Only Get Better
So, all was not completely lost. My darling girl helped me to find the lost story when she got home from uni. Although I had started retyping it by then, and had actually changed it some, but it was a relief to know I hadn't actually lost the story, because ... that was just freaking me out. How can you lose a story you saved? @_@
Also helping to brighten my day, I won a 2 DVD collectors edition of Picnic at Hanging rock, on eBay. This is the movie my current icon is taken from, and I have one or two others too courtesy of nomnomicons
Movie Blurb:
St. Valentines Day, 1900. On a beautiful summers day a party of Australian schoolgirls from an exclusive finishing school giddily prepare for an excursion to Hanging Rock, a magnificent natural monument drenched in a mysterious atmosphere. Among the white-gloved pupils of Appleyard College are senior boarders Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith.The girls gain permission to explore the upper slopes of the rock. Edith takes a nap and wakes to discover that the other three girls have removed their shoes and stockings and have resumed their trek as if in a dream, disappearing into a passageway in the rock itself. Mathematics mistress Miss McCraw goes to investigate, but neither she nor the three other girls are ever seen again. They have vanished without a trace. Based on the classic novel by Joan Lindsay, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is both sublimely spooky and majestically beautiful. Boasting visually hypnotic photography by Oscar winner Russell Boyd, a haunting score by Bruce Smeaton and the timeless ethereal beauty of Anne Louise Lambert as Miranda, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" helped revive the Australian film industry and established Director Peter Weir as a major International talent.
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
I grew up in Victoria in an area not far from Mt Macedon and this story was a part of the "Mythos" of my childhood. There is often debate about whether the events described in the novel or in the movie actually happened, but as far as I know, they were true events, although I think the book and movie both took a bit of poetic license.
Certainly, when I was growing up, the picnic grounds were still there and open to the public but access to the top of the rock, where the girls and their teacher disappeared was not allowed.
Seems a little bit of a harsh measure to take if it was not true?
So I am looking forward to watching this movie, which is, as I recall haunting and beautiful with mild lesbian undertones.
And to top it all off?
I made the BEST curry for dinner!
Things are feeling right with the world again.
Namaste
Also helping to brighten my day, I won a 2 DVD collectors edition of Picnic at Hanging rock, on eBay. This is the movie my current icon is taken from, and I have one or two others too courtesy of nomnomicons
Movie Blurb:
St. Valentines Day, 1900. On a beautiful summers day a party of Australian schoolgirls from an exclusive finishing school giddily prepare for an excursion to Hanging Rock, a magnificent natural monument drenched in a mysterious atmosphere. Among the white-gloved pupils of Appleyard College are senior boarders Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith.The girls gain permission to explore the upper slopes of the rock. Edith takes a nap and wakes to discover that the other three girls have removed their shoes and stockings and have resumed their trek as if in a dream, disappearing into a passageway in the rock itself. Mathematics mistress Miss McCraw goes to investigate, but neither she nor the three other girls are ever seen again. They have vanished without a trace. Based on the classic novel by Joan Lindsay, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is both sublimely spooky and majestically beautiful. Boasting visually hypnotic photography by Oscar winner Russell Boyd, a haunting score by Bruce Smeaton and the timeless ethereal beauty of Anne Louise Lambert as Miranda, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" helped revive the Australian film industry and established Director Peter Weir as a major International talent.
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
I grew up in Victoria in an area not far from Mt Macedon and this story was a part of the "Mythos" of my childhood. There is often debate about whether the events described in the novel or in the movie actually happened, but as far as I know, they were true events, although I think the book and movie both took a bit of poetic license.
Certainly, when I was growing up, the picnic grounds were still there and open to the public but access to the top of the rock, where the girls and their teacher disappeared was not allowed.
Seems a little bit of a harsh measure to take if it was not true?
So I am looking forward to watching this movie, which is, as I recall haunting and beautiful with mild lesbian undertones.
And to top it all off?
I made the BEST curry for dinner!
Things are feeling right with the world again.
Namaste