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endlessraritiesI don't know why I've avoided watching the second Elizabeth film until now. I think a reviewer once said it was more like watching chick-lit than a decent follow-up to an enjoyable historical drama...
I'm watching it now, and I'm not really getting on very well with it. I was disturbed in the first film when they tried to pass off Durham Cathedral as Westminster, but now they've tried to use Eilean Donan as Fotheringay,
Aargh!!! Some Hollywood sleight-of-hands just go TOO far.
And after reading Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (which was an enjoyable read, if not exactly a barrel of laughs....), I'm not that enamoured with the twisted attitude of poor Maria Stuart...
I have additional sad news to report. After a short but happy life, 'Homer' the bread-maker has mysteriously expired (D'ough!), while trying to make a cheese and chive loaf. And guess who's lost the receipt??? We're both a bit gutted about its longevity, or lack thereof. A week's not that impressive, and Kenwood's normally a really reliable make... Meanwhile, the cheese and chive loaf has been given an emergency kneading and is now getting flung into the oven in the hope that we can salvage the ingredients...
The good news is that at long last, after much angst and consternation, Novel #3 is at last coming together...
Right. I'm going to return to my two hour game of 'Spot the Monument'... Aka Elizabeth: the Golden Age.
Oh, hang on. I've spotted something I like. The zebra....
I'm watching it now, and I'm not really getting on very well with it. I was disturbed in the first film when they tried to pass off Durham Cathedral as Westminster, but now they've tried to use Eilean Donan as Fotheringay,
Aargh!!! Some Hollywood sleight-of-hands just go TOO far.
And after reading Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (which was an enjoyable read, if not exactly a barrel of laughs....), I'm not that enamoured with the twisted attitude of poor Maria Stuart...
I have additional sad news to report. After a short but happy life, 'Homer' the bread-maker has mysteriously expired (D'ough!), while trying to make a cheese and chive loaf. And guess who's lost the receipt??? We're both a bit gutted about its longevity, or lack thereof. A week's not that impressive, and Kenwood's normally a really reliable make... Meanwhile, the cheese and chive loaf has been given an emergency kneading and is now getting flung into the oven in the hope that we can salvage the ingredients...
The good news is that at long last, after much angst and consternation, Novel #3 is at last coming together...
Right. I'm going to return to my two hour game of 'Spot the Monument'... Aka Elizabeth: the Golden Age.
Oh, hang on. I've spotted something I like. The zebra....
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Re: ::steps on soapbox::
Date: 2011-01-03 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: ::steps on soapbox::
Date: 2011-01-03 05:01 pm (UTC)I can honestly say that I put as much work into creating it as I did into writing and preparing my Ph.D. If you don't, you ain't doing it right.
Least the current one's set mostly in the present...
Re: ::steps on soapbox::
Date: 2011-01-03 05:15 pm (UTC)Absolutely. When I visited old Sarum, the woman in the gift shop tried to sell me the academic book on the site and I told her I'd read and enjoyed the book by Edward Rutherford. She poo-poo'd it as a novel, even though it was for sale there at the gift shop. I just rolled my eyes and left after buying my little gold treskillion earrings.