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[lemonbella]

I have so much to say about the cricket, but it all just keeps coming out as a huge rant containing language of which my mother would be ashamed and eleven years' worth of repressed anger. Also, it makes me cry.

Other stuff:

1)Presents have arrived - so thank you to indian_skimmer, fringedweller and heatherbelles. indian_skimmer One of your presents might make you sob uncontrollably given current events, so you might want to ignore the note telling you which order to open them in.

2) The thing about Pratchett is that, whilst the stories scream 'adaptation', the books are for people who like reading; they're for people who like words, the games you can play with words and the way letters look on the page. Teatime and DEATH just don't work the same way off the page. However, there was one joke that did work wonderfully in visual form, one I understood when I read but didn't appreciate until I saw it: Hex's eggtimer.

3)The Iams Cat Biscuit advert makes me cry.

4)I can recommend alcohol, pyjamas and Highlander as a way to ease the crushing pain.

Comments

[fringedweller.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on Hogfather - I'm not disappointed because I knew it would never be able to compete with the one in my head, but I didn't like the voice that Teatime had.

I've always loved the eggtimer - I saw it in my head very clearly the first time I read about it.