Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 29th September, 2020.

29th September, 2020.

Right … 

This is getting silly … 

I have a chap asleep on my doorstep!

And yes: he’s still here, at what’s now eight in the morning!

He seems pleasant enough: and is going to be moving on: “… in a minute.”

He’s been there since four in the morning.

I minute is taking a long time … 

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With lines from Dune going through my head, about the sleeper awakening … ?

I notice there‘s news.   There’s always news.

However?   It seems the Government is planning to offer fully funded a-levels from April.

To help those of us without a job, find one.

I might just have to think about that.

Assuming I get — say — an O-level, or GCSE, in a helpful subject, first.

It’s something to think about.

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Coraline: Just For Kids … ?

26th May, 2013

You know, I’ve a very old friend who — when I mentioned, by SMS, what I was watching, tonightª — raised an interesting point.

“If you’re going to start watching films based on the work of Neil Gaiman, why start with what’s basically a kids film?”

There’s possibly a couple of good answers, there.

1)     When I rented it from iTunes, Coraline was the only adaption of Gaiman’s work that I knew about: frankly, I wasn’t going to faff about looking for another, unless I had more time.

2)     The other answer, the one I just thought of, making a cocoa while I was mulling over this post?   Was simply that we expect kids to start with kids films.   Some of which can be scary, if they’ve not been too Disneyfied‡.

I’m thinking, here that Coraline might well not be as scary as — say — The Wizard Of Oz* or The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey†.

But certainly isn’t Disney … !

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