And Then...

[liadnan]

Lack of internet availability at home (which continues but may be sorted fairly soon) was the main cause of my hiatus, but I'm also going through a phase of feeling I don't have anything to write about. These six months stuck out in the Channel are something of a hiatus in my life generally, and that seems to be carrying over to here.

I don't mind it here most of the time, and there are some real benefits (I think I may hop over to St Malo this weekend), though most of them involve being outside and the weather stinks at the moment. I know now that I did choose the right side of the English legal profession for me though: being a solicitor is really not my forte.

And I've run out of books again, having finished A Feast for Crows in one sitting and also run out of Frankie's care package. Well, almost: I've returned to a re-read of The Once and Future King that I put to one side in August.

I seem to be watching almost no television at all: for the last three weeks it's only been Midsomer Murders and now Jericho (which I find tolerable but not that gripping) on a Sunday evening.

Spent Saturday wandering around Elizabeth Castle in light drizzle (accessible only by boat or, more usually, ex-army Duck at high tide: Jersey has one of the most ridiculously huge tidal flows in the world and imbeciles who don't know what they are doing often find themselves caught, on one notorious relatively recent occasion with horses, which they managed to persuade up a Martello tower). The castle is huge, mostly commissioned when Raleigh was governor (though it incorporates St Helier's alleged early medieval hermitage) but pretty much continuing in use and development up to and during the occupation. The Germans built it into their own ring of massive island fortifications, so you have the vaguely incongruous sight of a seventeenth century gateway next to a searchlight bunker, with sheep grazing on top. Actually this happened all over the island: the Napoleonic-era Martello towers and the medieval castle at Gorey were all re-fortified I think.

Ho hum. Not dead yet, just resting.

ETA: Anne Rice finds God. We will all now pause for boggling. (Link via Katy.)

And while I'm doing links: new Robin Hood. One hopes the last line is a joke. I'm not entirely clear whether "The series will follow ITV's hit 1980s series Robin of Sherwood" (all pause to hum "The Hooded Man") means it will specifically refer back to that (I have a feeling the rights are tied up in an insolvency somehow) or something more general.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

yikes, I really hope that the last line is a complete and utter wind-up, because that would be too scary for words.
no idea how they could possibly 'follow' up to Robin of Sherwood, either. kind of a big gap there...

[sshi.livejournal.com]

whoops, that was me, not logged in.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

*Follow Robin of Sherwood*

*boggles*

[susumu.livejournal.com]

I think it just means "this will be the first Robin Hood TV series since that one".

[liadnan]

That was actually what I thought at first, though it's a singularly banal statement in that case. But it isn't, is it?

[liadnan]

Incidentally, I seem to remember parts of "The New Adventures..." (which wasn't bad, certainly not in comparison to its (Hercules, Zena etc) budget class, was shot in eastern Europe.

[booklectica]

We will all now pause for boggling.

I read that as "We will all now pause for blogging" which is of course also true.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*g*

[(Anonymous)]

I sent you a box of books about a week ago (the slow route). Hope they arrive soon and that even if they're not to you're liking, at least they'll give you something to do!


-Bunty

[liadnan]

Thanks. Though bear in mind something I ordered on the internet from Blackwells in Oxford arrived over a week after I was told it was dispatched.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't had great package luck of late either. Sent something overnight to Mexico two weeks ago. It's still sitting in a warehouse in Mexico City according to DHL. Actually, come to think of it, I sent your box on your birthday, but maybe you'll get it by Christmas!

-Bunty

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I would like to read something written by Rice without all that blood and gore. She might just write an entertaining novel. :)

[liadnan]

Ritu dear, she's a recently re-devout catholic planning to write a novel about Jesus. What makes you think there will be an absence of blood...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

But surely there can't be as much blood as in her Vampire series. I can handle a bit of blood and gore...

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to send another care package if useful, but would appreciate feedback on the original first.

[liadnan]

'Twere mostly very good to excellent. Was going to send you an email but thought no point until you were back from hols: will do so when I get a moment.