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BOX OF DELIGHTS PART TWO THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER
Cygnus Bazza	#241 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:24
Alpha Grade Posts: 5419 Joined: 14.06.22	Are we done? Crud Club next week, of course. Then M R James as a palate cleanser. Edited by Cygnus Bazza on 22-11-2024 08:14


M1795537OCVirn	#242 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:25
Admin Posts: 14115 Joined: 14.01.22	Can't wait! "You're not sulking, I hope?"


OneSparePart	#243 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:25
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	M1795537OCVirn wrote: ↑ AnneArthur wrote: ↑ OneSparePart wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ How well has that aged, then? Well, this old "it's dated" thing doesn't bother me. The story not being joined up did. I read the book when I was a child and really enjoyed it. I am now thinking that I would like to find a copy, and see if it makes any more sense than the TV version. Try Stoke on Trent library service. Got it at work in Newcastle ( under Lyme) library. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


AnneArthur	#244 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:27
Alpha Grade Posts: 7918 Joined: 16.01.22	Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ AnneArthur wrote: ↑ OneSparePart wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ How well has that aged, then? Well, this old "it's dated" thing doesn't bother me. The story not being joined up did. I read the book when I was a child and really enjoyed it. I am now thinking that I would like to find a copy, and see if it makes any more sense than the TV version. It shouldn't buffer so badly


AnneArthur	#245 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:28
Alpha Grade Posts: 7918 Joined: 16.01.22	See you next week for M.R. James!


Cygnus Bazza	#246 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:28
Alpha Grade Posts: 5419 Joined: 14.06.22	Goodnight, all. Watch out for the silly old buffers.


OneSparePart	#247 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:29
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	Until next week.... Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


OneSparePart	#248 Posted on 21-11-2024 21:43
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	Lol...just read that the BBC will be showing Box of Delights in the run up to Christmas. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


M1795537OCVirn	#249 Posted on 21-11-2024 22:13
Admin Posts: 14115 Joined: 14.01.22	OneSparePart wrote: ↑ Lol...just read that the BBC will be showing Box of Delights in the run up to Christmas. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ... hang on - WE WERE FIRST! "You're not sulking, I hope?"


Cygnus Bazza	#250 Posted on 21-11-2024 22:50
Alpha Grade Posts: 5419 Joined: 14.06.22	OneSparePart wrote: ↑ Lol...just read that the BBC will be showing Box of Delights in the run up to Christmas. Yes, as part of their special 'Festive Odd Sh*t' season, I believe. M1795537OCVirn wrote: ↑ WE WERE FIRST! 'Leading...Not Following' - someone in Australia's actually sending me a t-shirt with that on, believe it or not. I think it's meant ironically.


Joe Dredd	#251 Posted on 22-11-2024 07:33
Moderator Posts: 2391 Joined: 15.01.22	Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ 'Leading...Not Following' - someone in Australia's actually sending me a t-shirt with that on, believe it or not. I think it's meant ironically. "Better to run with the pack than be chased by it." - Trooper Pouthmiece.


Joe Dredd	#252 Posted on 22-11-2024 07:35
Moderator Posts: 2391 Joined: 15.01.22	M1795537OCVirn wrote: ↑ Anyone have a good posset recipe? "You young folks in this generation, you don't know what a posset is." There's a recipe given in the show, and the book of course. Though as for good, that I couldn't say, young Master Kay. Errington's "Opening the Box of Delights" points out that possets are mentioned in 'Macbeth' (Lady Macbeth poisons them), the dedication to Robert Herrick's 1648 collection of poetry (Masefield edited a more modern version of the collection), C S Lewis's "The Silver Chair", and also "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" (which I assume has wolves running in it too).


Joe Dredd	#253 Posted on 22-11-2024 07:36
Moderator Posts: 2391 Joined: 15.01.22	Perhaps this more modern interpretation is 'good':


Cygnus Bazza	#254 Posted on 22-11-2024 08:16
Alpha Grade Posts: 5419 Joined: 14.06.22	Joe Dredd wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ 'Leading...Not Following' - someone in Australia's actually sending me a t-shirt with that on, believe it or not. I think it's meant ironically. "Better to run with the pack than be chased by it." - Trooper Pouthmiece. TVM, Joe - that'll be my official Thought for the Day!


Joe Dredd	#255 Posted on 22-11-2024 08:47
Moderator Posts: 2391 Joined: 15.01.22	Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ Joe Dredd wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ 'Leading...Not Following' - someone in Australia's actually sending me a t-shirt with that on, believe it or not. I think it's meant ironically. "Better to run with the pack than be chased by it." - Trooper Pouthmiece. TVM, Joe - that'll be my official Thought for the Day! Cheers, CB. Speaking of following, I always wanted to work in the line - "Roj Blake - leader of men. Vila Restal - follower of women" somewhere. I love the symmetry of it.


Cygnus Bazza	#256 Posted on 22-11-2024 09:14
Alpha Grade Posts: 5419 Joined: 14.06.22	Joe Dredd wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ Joe Dredd wrote: ↑ Cygnus Bazza wrote: ↑ 'Leading...Not Following' - someone in Australia's actually sending me a t-shirt with that on, believe it or not. I think it's meant ironically. "Better to run with the pack than be chased by it." - Trooper Pouthmiece. TVM, Joe - that'll be my official Thought for the Day! Cheers, CB. Speaking of following, I always wanted to work in the line - "Roj Blake - leader of men. Vila Restal - follower of women" somewhere. I love the symmetry of it. Brilliant! Symmetrical AND factually accurate. Plus the lovely subtext in the 'leader of men' bit.


Joe Dredd	#257 Posted on 22-11-2024 11:27
Moderator Posts: 2391 Joined: 15.01.22	Someone - I can't recall who - once famously said, of the Sherlock Holmes stories Conan Doyle wrote after 'resurrecting' Holmes from death, that "Sherlock Holmes might not be dead but, after the Reichenback Falls, he was never quite the same man." Who knows what the earlier, unadjusted Roj Blake was like? All we have is that similar comment by Bran Foster in 'The Way (Reichen?) Back", "There's not much left of the man I knew."