Buying things
Jan. 28th, 2004 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietI am a bad human being. Not only did I spend 10quid on yarn in John Lewis on Monday (but it was all in the sale! It was really good value!), but I also bought 2 knitting books I've been after from Amazon yesterday (one about knitting things in the round, one about designing stuff). However, the books came to almost exactly the same amount of money that my parents gave me for my birthday (25quid - they also got me a couple of books, & took me out to lunch), so that Doesn't Count. Ahem.
Snow has stopped again. Bah. Also, the fox woke up, wandered around the decking for a bit, & buggered off again. But she (it transpired to be a she) was very cute while she was there.
Went to see the first half of the "His Dark Materials" stage version on Monday, with Pete,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitty_goth, & shadow_jess. And very fine it was too. They used puppets for the daemons (with puppeteers dressed all in black, including having their face covered, moving around the stage with the daemons), & the armoured bears had their heads on one raised arm & a rake-like long curved paw on the other. It was, unsurprisingly, fairly stylised (for want of a better word) - but I am quite happy using the appropriate level of imagination to ignore the puppeteers & fill in the rest of the bear-shape :-) And it was extremely effective. The stage set was fantastic - lots of bits turning round & raising up & all sorts. Pete (ex-techie) dribbled copiously about it all the way home... Lyra was *excellent*. Really, really good. As was Will, although we didn't see so much of him (it finished with the scene on the tower where the use of the subtle knife is demonstrated). I'm very much looking forward to the second half, which we're seeing in a couple of weeks.
Last night was quiet: stayed in, knitted, watched a documentary on the miners' strike.
Snow has stopped again. Bah. Also, the fox woke up, wandered around the decking for a bit, & buggered off again. But she (it transpired to be a she) was very cute while she was there.
Went to see the first half of the "His Dark Materials" stage version on Monday, with Pete,
kitty_goth, & shadow_jess. And very fine it was too. They used puppets for the daemons (with puppeteers dressed all in black, including having their face covered, moving around the stage with the daemons), & the armoured bears had their heads on one raised arm & a rake-like long curved paw on the other. It was, unsurprisingly, fairly stylised (for want of a better word) - but I am quite happy using the appropriate level of imagination to ignore the puppeteers & fill in the rest of the bear-shape :-) And it was extremely effective. The stage set was fantastic - lots of bits turning round & raising up & all sorts. Pete (ex-techie) dribbled copiously about it all the way home... Lyra was *excellent*. Really, really good. As was Will, although we didn't see so much of him (it finished with the scene on the tower where the use of the subtle knife is demonstrated). I'm very much looking forward to the second half, which we're seeing in a couple of weeks.Last night was quiet: stayed in, knitted, watched a documentary on the miners' strike.
