I wasn't concentrating and read "mechanical Starveling" and imagined a kind of Return to Oz TikTok character, which I thought was amazing.

Just the first half of that sounds impossible enough.

The one that gets me is the inevitable email from that company that says "some people don't have fathers, so can find fathers' day tricky or upsetting, shall we email you about fathers on fathers' day?". Feels like the horse has bolted already there....

Or buy something online without creating an account with that company first.

They look like thick pogs.

Not at all but I have the crew neck so don't have anything against the neck. I love them. They're incredibly well made.

Have two of CC's jumpers. They're lovely things, beautifully, and locally, made.

Given your Wind in the Willows radio adaptation, thought you might like the look of this, @tommortonsmith.com

Barb Zooka feels very 90s 40k.

GOOF looks amazing.

I also think that AiW fundamentally only works as a book. There's no real plot, it's just a series of set pieces, which are very fun but don't really relate to each other, and that make it incredibly hard to make into theatre or film.

Urgh, the shoes. It's always shoes.

We need to make thinking and imagination FUN again because it bloody IS.
Find a way to make bad music with pots, craft a surprise party for your parents, come up with all the steps to put a cardboard fort in your friend's garden, and before you know it, you can tackle ANYTHING

ART IS LIVING
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I hear Tim Davie is available.

Two things from reading this: Latitudes are an incredible idea and I am definitely stealing this for the next thing I direct.

Three days a week of nursery but a week's worth of work. Urgh yes, so real (also, children are a joy etc etc).

Isn't it. But they absolutely loved it. And then they bought Legacy for us the following year. They genuinely appreciated it on a medical level (both NHS consultants). They made themed food and wore fancy dress for a game location.

Pandemic (with my medic sister and brother in law) is a firm favourite. They weren't 'board game people" until we played it with them Xmas '19. They loved it so much they bought Legacy and played it through lockdown with their bubble friends and had themed game nights based on the game locations.