Saturday 15 December 2012

Come Back Sun! (Whatever we did or said, we're SORRY!)

The only way to describe the weather in Kirkwall today is the noise "UUUUUUUUURRRRRRGGGGHHHH!"

How wet, how cold, how windy, and dark. Not even the reappearance of our flock of waxwings outside the window can lift our soggy, water-logged hearts.

Thank goodness for Stromness library's wonderful advent calendar then which has been filling our days with cosy, Christmas cheer and reminding us of classic children's serials such as The Box Of Delights and The Children of Greene Knowe.

We therefore humbly remind you dear readers of the1988 BBC adaptation of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe which is the final member of the holy trinity of Children's Christmas shows.


We don't have anything to do with this C. S. Lewis classic in the archive but we do have the screenplay of Margaret Tait and Peter Hollander's documentary of Perugia entitled The Lion, The Griffin and The Kangaroo as well as some lovely snapshots taken by Margaret Tait when she was living in Italy.


























Screenplay ref: D97/9/6, Photographs ref: D97/29/14

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention. Quite unbelievably, before reading your post, we had just posted a Margaret Tait poem on the advent calendar! http://stromnesslibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/advent-17th-december.html

    Serendipity at work :-)

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  2. Indeed! A lovely poem too, which I don't remember reading before. Keep up the good, festive work...

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