Spreading the word in case any of my f-list are interested. Bletchley Park are having a day about the women who worked there during World War II on 26th July. More details at The F-Word. I have no idea whether Jane Duncan (Elizabeth Jane Cameron) will be mentioned, but I'd like to hope so. Sadly, I don't think I can make it down there myself that weekend. fawatson - if you're reading this, it may be worth a post to my_friend_jane?

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Current Mood: thoughtful

This is a test post, but I thought I would actually give it some content as well. So congratulations to Carol Anne Duffy on being appointed Poet Laureate, first woman to be appointed. One of the articles that has appeared is Carol Anne Duffy choosing poems of her favourite up-and-coming female poets, and I am delighted that that should be among her first actions since the annoucement. The article is here. I particularly like the first entry on that page, by Moniza Alvi.

And here's one I love by Carol Anne Duffy herself. ( In firm belief that posting a poem by a poet is one very good way of increasing that author's sales, because I've done that in response to poems posted by other people )

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Current Mood: pleased

Courtesy of glitterboy1 who has continued in the tradition (twice now - that's definitely a tradition) of giving me invite codes, I am now on Dreamwidth and starting to figure it out. I haven't tried importing this journal, but I probably will at some point. Same name and same default icon, plus five other icons and it was hard to have to go back to six. I am not sure who else is there, but comment if you want to be added. No doubt I'll get the terminology sorted eventually.

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Current Mood: grateful

( Not a bad result... )

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Pinched from the superb glitterboy1. ( Gently down the stream )

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Current Mood: calm
Current Music: spoon clinking in cereal bowl

Tony Hart has died.

I remember him first from Vision On and then from Take Hart, both of which I liked a lot. I knew I'd never get anything in the Gallery, but I still liked seeing what was there.

( Vision On links )

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Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Earworm: Vision On music

When you see this, post your favorite poem in your journal. If you want to.

Lord knows, I hate the favourite anything question, because of having to pick just one. And it's at its worst when it comes to literature, because it's all so fundamentally interconnected that just one (book, poem, play) by itself doesn't always make sense. Still here's a poem that answers that question as much as anything does. I first read it when doing O level English Literature as it was one of the poems in the anthology (The Dragon Book of Verse) that we studied. Although the exam syllabus only covered the landscape and seascape sections, I read the entire book, natch, because that was what I did.

( Fafnir by Stevie Smith )

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Current Location: lost in the wonder of words
Current Music: inside and out

I suspect that everything else I say has been said elsewhere, and that the done thing now is to exhibit fashionable ennui in the face of gaucherie such as further comment about Eleven (and I typed that as Elven initially, so please insert your own Pratchett related I-swear-he's-Elvish, followed up by Kirsty MacColl references, joke here), but I don't think I've seen this comment anywhere else, to wit: The new Doctor's head is markedly dolichocephalic.

(This is the kind of thing I learn from reading novels, specifically Agatha Christie's, specifically The Man in the Brown Suit, although the eponymous character's head was in fact brachycephalic, IIRC, and Anne lied about it to Suzanne in order to protect him, but Suzanne saw through that straight away - clever Suzanne!)

We ended up re-watching Human Nature/Family of Blood and Blink last night. It was Saturday night after all. Both are very good, but I think the former is definitely better than the latter - I can't remember which of them actually won the Hugo in the end so I don't recall if the Hugo-voting world agrees with that conclusion or not. ( More about Eleven, cut for being tedious )

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With love and thanks to kalypso_v who generously created this for the Sid for Eleven campaign.

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