In which there are gift horses, iron horses, and successfully flogging dead horses
- I can't decide whether trying to freecycle desirable stuff is capitalist society's way of punishing us for attempting to be decent human beings, or if freecycle recipients are a plague sent by the old testament god to destroy us through increased landfill. /no plan survives contact with the enemy freecyclers
- Catch Me Who Can, a replica of Richard Trevithick's 1808 steam locomotive, which was the first steam loco to haul fare-paying passengers when it was set up as a fairground attraction in Bloomsbury - yes, like in Pratchett's novel Raising Steam, although without quite the same results.... ;-) Website for the Catch Me Who Can replica.
- I saw Love and Friendship the film based on the epistolary novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen. It was a witty and pertinent adaptation, including meta-jokes about the costume drama industry. In one street scene they showed road-menders breaking rocks, which was a surprising level of detail until a later scene revealed strategic piles of rocks placed in front of inconveniently modern street furniture, lol hydrants. The cast all gave good solid performances but were consistently outshone by their FABULOUS costumes (designed by Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh). As this is one of Austen's earlier works, and has distinctly more of a rollicking Georgian than polite Regency sensibility, they'd chosen pre-Empire line cuts with Our Heroine even wearing a relatively old-fashioned design of stomacher at one point - a perfect detail as she's in at least her thirties and perhaps not wealthy enough to be wearing the very latest fashions. There was one brief outdoor scene in which the two actresses sported a ripped hem and a ridiculously crooked bodice but it was only one scene so wardrobe was presumably off sick that day. (4/5 COSTUME PORN)
Lady Susan, the Austen original, on her best friend's husband: "My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die."
- /random Doctor Who and not at all related to the above quote, obv. ::shifty::
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- Catch Me Who Can, a replica of Richard Trevithick's 1808 steam locomotive, which was the first steam loco to haul fare-paying passengers when it was set up as a fairground attraction in Bloomsbury - yes, like in Pratchett's novel Raising Steam, although without quite the same results.... ;-) Website for the Catch Me Who Can replica.
- I saw Love and Friendship the film based on the epistolary novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen. It was a witty and pertinent adaptation, including meta-jokes about the costume drama industry. In one street scene they showed road-menders breaking rocks, which was a surprising level of detail until a later scene revealed strategic piles of rocks placed in front of inconveniently modern street furniture, lol hydrants. The cast all gave good solid performances but were consistently outshone by their FABULOUS costumes (designed by Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh). As this is one of Austen's earlier works, and has distinctly more of a rollicking Georgian than polite Regency sensibility, they'd chosen pre-Empire line cuts with Our Heroine even wearing a relatively old-fashioned design of stomacher at one point - a perfect detail as she's in at least her thirties and perhaps not wealthy enough to be wearing the very latest fashions. There was one brief outdoor scene in which the two actresses sported a ripped hem and a ridiculously crooked bodice but it was only one scene so wardrobe was presumably off sick that day. (4/5 COSTUME PORN)
Lady Susan, the Austen original, on her best friend's husband: "My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die."
- /random Doctor Who and not at all related to the above quote, obv. ::shifty::
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