Pleased!!

[essayel]

Retribution is sweet! And relatively painless. Last night Paul and I went out to the cinema and watched Matrix Revolutions (ample material with that and Matrix Reloaded for finishing The Mattress tho' sadly no twins!No surprises,either, I've read Paradise Lost) and left Mike to babysit his little sister! Muahahahah! Sigh. When we got back they had eaten everything in the house but it was nice for us to get out alone for once.

I am also mildly tickled at having seen a couple of clips of the HP trailer on Newsround (who needs News at Ten when there's Newsround at 5, vastly superior and no big words). Oh, Gary Oldman, what have they done to you? I've envisioned Sirius in lots of different ways but never never as Catweazle....no, nobody know who Catweazle is? Sigh. It's a bugger getting old. Catweazle was a TV series in the 70s. He was a mad wizard magically transported into the modern era who lived in a little tumbledown shack and had problems understanding what he called 'electrickery' and...rubber...ducks...do elements of that sound familiar to anyone else? Anyway he was a mad hairy so and so in a scruffy robe - the living spit, honest.
Oh, just so you know - tomorrow the family has elected me to drive my sister-in-law to her hosital appointment in Cardiff. This goes to show how serious her state of health in that they are prepared to trust her to me because I've never driven to Cardiff, never taken my shoebox with wheels on a motorway (and say what you like a car that won't go faster than 50 miles an hour and takes fifteen minutes to get there just isn't safe on a road where everyone else is doing 70)and I tend to panic and hyperventilate in heavy traffic. This is not a good combination in a hospital taxi-driver. Paul drove me to Caridff last night with the intention of showing me how to get to the hospital, on and off the motorway safely etc. Of course some mad commuter almost drove into the side of us so his reassurance all went for nothing. Anyway - what I'm trying to say is that - if I disappear off the place of the earth tomorrow - it's because I'm either in traction or a tasteful coffin. If you think this is unduly macabre all I can say is you've never been one of my passengers!

Comments

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Why not avoid the M4 and just take the A48? Sure, it's dual carriageway, but it's not motorway and doesn't have the insanity of that bit of the M4 (which I hate too).

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Paul caught me trying to plan a route to the Heath using only A and B roads - not possible unfortunately. He pointed out that the A48 route is OK up to a point but then gets insanely complicated and I can't count on his sis for any navigational assistance. Her idea of map reading is to say "cornflakes but I prefer branflakes so I have to buy both and we never have anything other than skimmed milk and - oh that was the turn you wanted - pity, now you'll have to drive to Ross to turn round".
This way I have to get onto the M4 at that big roundabout in Newport but there will be traffic lights, the lane continues onto the Mway so I don't have to fit in and I come back off and onto the M48 almost immediately. The Heath has a nice little sliproad all of its own off that so it's an easy route - all I have to worry about is the traffic!
Thanks for the advice though - you wouldn't like to come? We could plotbunny hop while Sue's having her bumps felt.

[casfic.livejournal.com]

While I must be one of the few other people round here who does remember Catweazle, and while I do think that for the Shrieking Shack scene you might have a point, The Azkaban shot is terrific. He just looks so haunted. What's been done to Remus is far worse. No way should he have a moustache.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

OK - what we do is - pin Remus down and shave him! You kick his feet out from under him and sit on him while I work up a lather ... damn, that's another fic that needs writing! A little Marauder fic I think - pranks and prankees and a prickly revenge.

Catweazle?

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

Dear God, that's just too cruel. I may have to go find whoever was the costume designer and hurt them...badly...It took years to overcome the horrors of catweazle...

As for driving in cardiff and on the M4.. get one of your muses (or borrow one) to lean out the window and make obscene gestures at cars that get close to you. Should give you plenty of maneuvering room. But mostly just take it easy and slow and don't worry about the other cars, they will look after themselves. It will be fine.

Re: Catweazle?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

As for driving in cardiff and on the M4.. get one of your muses (or borrow one) to lean out the window and make obscene gestures at cars that get close to you.

That sounds like a plan. Whenever I get tense I'll imagine Remus holding up a sign in one window "I have been abducted by a fanficcer. I believe she may be contemplating slash. HELP ME!" and Sirius mooning out of the other. Sue will just have to wonder why I keep giggling - she doesn't understand my obsessions.

Come to think of it, have I ever followed you round the M25? The MO sounds very familiar.

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

The most marvelous thing about that sweet, sweet rewengie is that only a mother (and father) can do it.

As for the road trip I recomend you cover all bases. St. Christopher, a buddah, tuck a Koran in the glove box next to a KJV bible and maybe a Torah if you're feeling sausy.

Or you can thank your lucky stars ya ain't drivin' in Michigan, Indiana, or sweet mercy preserve us, TEXAS. Three letters: SUV.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

SUVs? I think we have something like those ...only, inevitably since I am informed by a gentleman fron San Antonio that everything in Texas is enormous, probably about half the size. The really terrifying thing about ours is that they are almost always driven by crazed females with babyseats in the back who have done the school run and are on their way to Sainsburys or Waitrose driving with their chins on their shoulder bellowing the words to "The wheels on the bus..." over the roar of the gas guzzling engine while they try to maintain eye contact with their treasure to make the journey a stimulating educational experience. They drive these tanks so their babies will be safe and sod the rest of us. People who live up mountains and could really do with such a vehicle to haul hay out to the sheep usually can't afford them and make do with knackered Fiat Unos.

Re: Catweazle slash... o.O

[essayel.livejournal.com]

you wait until your husband is asleep, then you have to kiss his penis (a quick, chaste one that is, not the whole wolfing down thing, ahem), making sure not to wake him, and then you'll have a baby

OMG...you mean that isn't what you do?

And Catweazle slash - oh, Cam! That's it...he's going in the Mattress whether he likes it or not.

But YOU...how are you doing...hows the work...how's everything? We've missed you.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

I've envisioned Sirius in lots of different ways but never never as Catweazle...

~gurgles~ I've been wondering for days who that photo reminded me of...he's not really scrawny enough to be Catweazle, though, is he?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Scrawny...hmmm, no, you're right but the ideas in my head now and PoAfilm Sirius will always be Catweazle to me. Thank goodness I have a rather more attractive version tucked away in my imagination for emergencies.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness I have a rather more attractive version tucked away in my imagination for emergencies.

I guess I'm lucky that way--the words 'Sirius Black' and 'attractive' have never been connected in my head...

[siriusstar.livejournal.com]

LOL! I am afraid I don't know who Catweazel is,
though I was around in the '70s...
I must add him to the list of people
I have heard Movie!Sirius looks like.
The list includes....
Charles Manson
Jesus
Aragorn on acid
Jack Nicholson in The Shining

I can't say anything about slash... but
I can say from this cross-gen het fan's
perspective, the appearences just don't
work! lol.