Given your Wind in the Willows radio adaptation, thought you might like the look of this, @tommortonsmith.com

Barb Zooka feels very 90s 40k.

GOOF looks amazing.

I also think that AiW fundamentally only works as a book. There's no real plot, it's just a series of set pieces, which are very fun but don't really relate to each other, and that make it incredibly hard to make into theatre or film.

Urgh, the shoes. It's always shoes.

We need to make thinking and imagination FUN again because it bloody IS.
Find a way to make bad music with pots, craft a surprise party for your parents, come up with all the steps to put a cardboard fort in your friend's garden, and before you know it, you can tackle ANYTHING

ART IS LIVING
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I hear Tim Davie is available.

Two things from reading this: Latitudes are an incredible idea and I am definitely stealing this for the next thing I direct.

Three days a week of nursery but a week's worth of work. Urgh yes, so real (also, children are a joy etc etc).

Isn't it. But they absolutely loved it. And then they bought Legacy for us the following year. They genuinely appreciated it on a medical level (both NHS consultants). They made themed food and wore fancy dress for a game location.

Pandemic (with my medic sister and brother in law) is a firm favourite. They weren't 'board game people" until we played it with them Xmas '19. They loved it so much they bought Legacy and played it through lockdown with their bubble friends and had themed game nights based on the game locations.

Absolutely. Very much love the kelpie crossed with mari lwyd look of these.

You can't leave the anecdote there, Tim!

Though it's like when I was watching Bake Off Final the other evening with my wife and remembered I'd met Noel Fielding (though hadn't shared cake with him which would have made it more relevant).

Oooh, fried bread was always lightly toasted bread that was then fried in the same pan as the bacon, sausages and pudding in our house.

Same, endlessly. We used to play it as a warm up game before rehearsals of our university's West Side Story. The drama when Tony killed Maria, almost brought production to a standstill.

Oh, how peculiar