My worst Christmas present was the news on Christmas Eve that Disney and Walden Media had had a parting of the ways and that the future of the movie adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was in doubt.

Several weeks later... and the news that Fox have come on board instead is a much welcomed late present.

Of course, it's Fox... but at least ( Read more... )

Some years back a friend bought me a bottle of rose petal vodka for Christmas. I asked her where she'd got it from (so that I could buy more when it ran out), but direction giving is not one of her skills. Having tried two or three times to figure out what she meant from the instructions she'd given, I'd pretty much given up on ever finding the ( Read more... )

I fear it may be a Nano-lite night tonight. My PC's DVD player still hates Disney DVDs apparently, but I have discovered that if I insert the accursed silver disk and remove it again often enough, about one time in ten it will actually see it and play ( Read more... )

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Oh, my poor Nano word count. I didn't write anything on Thursday, because of a prior appointment with Leonard Cohen at the O2 (excellent show, terrifically accomplished band and on-form performer, great sound quality, woefully inadequate toilet facilities) and then nothing on Friday either because I was too pooped after getting home late and then ( Read more... )

play.com has a status of "Packing" for my Prince Caspian DVD.

I wonder if that means it's going to arrive before the release date? :-)

ETA: Bah. I got an "your order has been posted" email, but it was for Doctor Who season #4, also due out the same day. How very disappointing. I suppose it'll be better for my Nano chances if there's no prospect ( Read more... )

Apparently this drabble lark gets easier with practice. Who knew?

Title: Royalty
Author: Muridae (muridae_x)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (movieverse)
Characters: Caspian, the Pevensies
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine. At this point I'm channelling about one-third C. S. Lewis, one-third Walden Media, and one-third unwritten personal meta.
Summary: Drabble ( Read more... )

I am suffering terrible, terrible withdrawal symptoms.

My guilty little secret all summer has been my Prince Caspian obsession. I saw the movie on the night it opened in the UK, I saw it again a week or so later with a friend who was also interested in seeing it, and then I spent the rest of the summer going back on my own at random intervals to ( Read more... )

Having finished Half-Blood Prince I'm apparently on a children's book kick right now, because I've been trawling the internet and finally stirring myself to buy some old old favourites that have become moderately available again in the past few years.

Girls Gone By Publishers are the answer to all my prayers. They started off as an offshoot of a ( Read more... )

In honour of the fact that I re-bought five of the Narnia books yesterday. The other two will follow shortly, probably on my next excursion to a bookshop. But my editions from childhood are in a state of advanced disintegration, and it was high time I did the replacement job.

Update: the website of the meme in question has gone walkies now, but ( Read more... )