Order Only: Birthday at the sanctuary
Jan. 28th, 2010 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_kingsleyBenjy let slip to the assembled masses here that yesterday was my birthday (I'll get him for that), and there was quite a fuss made. Apple crumble at dinner, and then Danny set up the projector, and loaded up one of those, what-d'ye call 'em, movees that's apparently one of the children's favourites and we all watched it, as a special occasion. It's a highly ridiculous thing called 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' None of us Players had ever seen it before, and we were just about doubled up with laughter through the whole thing at the Muggles' ideas throughout the story of what magical folk are like.
Victor's showed me a book he found a couple of years ago when scavaging in one of the local houses, and he and Benjy and Caradoc and Danny and Frank and me have all been poring over it together. It's called The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, and it has everything you could ever possibly want to know about shipbuilding and navigation. Wood's fairly scarce on the island, which is a problem, but of course, we can do a good deal with Transfiguration, using the book as a guide. So we're laying plans.
The children are a delight, but they've been wearing us out a bit. We've plenty of experience putting on plays for children in the camps before of course, but kids there are rather different. They're more beaten down with all the work they have to do, not nearly so bold or curious. Benjy not entirely joking when he swears that Colin's and Alec's questions will be the death of him.
Victor's showed me a book he found a couple of years ago when scavaging in one of the local houses, and he and Benjy and Caradoc and Danny and Frank and me have all been poring over it together. It's called The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, and it has everything you could ever possibly want to know about shipbuilding and navigation. Wood's fairly scarce on the island, which is a problem, but of course, we can do a good deal with Transfiguration, using the book as a guide. So we're laying plans.
The children are a delight, but they've been wearing us out a bit. We've plenty of experience putting on plays for children in the camps before of course, but kids there are rather different. They're more beaten down with all the work they have to do, not nearly so bold or curious. Benjy not entirely joking when he swears that Colin's and Alec's questions will be the death of him.
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Date: 2010-01-29 12:16 pm (UTC)I hadn't realised your birthday was approaching: you seem to have kept your secret well over the years. It is, however, now noted down in my little black book of important dates. You've been warned!
And I see that our Alice has a birthday just ahead on the 31st. I should think that day would be quite a festival at the Sanctuary! I'm so glad you are there to celebrate it with her this year.