Last night, cashing in on the new movie about P.L. Travers and Walt Disney, the BBC gave us the documentary version, presented by Victoria Coren- who is now calling herself Coren-Mitchell. I could have done without the dodgy green screen shots of Coren-Mitchell flying in on her umbrella but the content was interesting. P.L.Travers was an engagingly peculiar person with a steeliness that verged on the inhuman. To her credit she fought Walt to the last comma of the Mary Poppins script. She hated how he had to add sugar to everything- which is something I hate about him too. If she'd won the battle (which was never going to happen) Mary Poppins would have been a very different film- dark chocolate not milk chocolate. I've never read the books. I think I'd like them.
Bonfires And Brollies
Last night, cashing in on the new movie about P.L. Travers and Walt Disney, the BBC gave us the documentary version, presented by Victoria Coren- who is now calling herself Coren-Mitchell. I could have done without the dodgy green screen shots of Coren-Mitchell flying in on her umbrella but the content was interesting. P.L.Travers was an engagingly peculiar person with a steeliness that verged on the inhuman. To her credit she fought Walt to the last comma of the Mary Poppins script. She hated how he had to add sugar to everything- which is something I hate about him too. If she'd won the battle (which was never going to happen) Mary Poppins would have been a very different film- dark chocolate not milk chocolate. I've never read the books. I think I'd like them.
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On a tombstone in an AI image I made a few months ago appears the name Goya Harmless. I know how it got there- with AI putting together two words I…
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Hastings Death Cafe
They're opening a Death Cafe in Hastings and three of us who had been involved with The Eastbourne DC went across to their first meeting to offer…
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Picture Diary 86
Picture Diary 86 1. The end of the affair 2. Off Road 3. Mellow Yellow 4. Coo-Coo-ka-choo 5. Finita la commedia 6. Disco
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Oddments
On a tombstone in an AI image I made a few months ago appears the name Goya Harmless. I know how it got there- with AI putting together two words I…