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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2021 14:43:43 GMT
Told you my brain wasnāt in gear yet - and probably wonāt be today. If it had been, I'd have remembered that one of my own, Jane Bradshaw, stories is based around a Civil War artefact (a genuine one incidentally): the title is "Hold Fastā. What is the artefact? Miss Bradshawe's attempts to repair a rare surviving Commonwealth Shield in Marston Church are hindered by the ghost of a churchwarden loyal to the King.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2021 14:51:32 GMT
Do .... Do my eyes deceive me? " Terrible"? *faints* It's set during the Marxist '70s. When not on strike they use the council (I assume, as authorities controlled almost everything) buses to pick up "birds". A man who resembles Adolf Hitler rages at the two awful men who play the leads a lot. Their is a disgusting works canteen where they go to prey on women, and they lust after female "clippies". In the film the child is always on the potty. Even during meals. Please share is you ever used council bus/van/car/motorbike/refuse truck to pick up dolly birds around this time. Thank you. My friend the back of the van man had a copy of the 7 disc box set going for Ā£10 the Sunday before last, but I didn't have enough. Wasn't there last week, but he'd not put many boxes out due to the rain. Will be sure to let you know if I get lucky tomorrow! To be fair, this thread is a bit grisly: On The Buses
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 3, 2021 15:16:04 GMT
My friend the back of the van man had a copy of the 7 disc box set going for Ā£10 the Sunday before last, but I didn't have enough. Wasn't there last week, but he'd not put many boxes out due to the rain. Will be sure to let you know if I get lucky tomorrow! To be fair, this thread is a bit grisly: On The BusesI can't wait. And though I would like to read that thread featuring the most revolting characters in TV history, I just remembered I have to wash my beautiful waist length hair. So I will have to pass, alas.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 3, 2021 15:29:26 GMT
Mis Bradshawe's attempts to repair a rare surviving Commonwealth Shield in Marston Church are hindered by the ghost of a churchwarden loyal to the King. Please supply full name of author. Thank you.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2021 15:44:12 GMT
Mis Bradshawe's attempts to repair a rare surviving Commonwealth Shield in Marston Church are hindered by the ghost of a churchwarden loyal to the King. Please supply full name of author. Thank you. Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986: Richard H. Fawcett, 2000)
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 16:33:32 GMT
Please supply full name of author. Thank you. Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986: Richard H. Fawcett, 2000) Fully revised reprint of the collection coming out later this year from the Occult Detective Magazine folk.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 16:37:27 GMT
Mis Bradshawe's attempts to repair a rare surviving Commonwealth Shield in Marston Church are hindered by the ghost of a churchwarden loyal to the King. The story is inspired by a genuine Commonwealth Coat of Arms discovered in Ramsey Church, Essex. This is very, very rare - they were commanded to be removed from all churches at the Restoration (it survived because it was recycled - there is a Charles II Coat of arms on the other side!).
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 3, 2021 17:58:01 GMT
It is my strong recommendation that helrunar, with his love of British TV from the '70s, such as Doctor Who with the masculine and assertive Jon Pertwee, does NOT watch this series. However there is one amusing scene in the film version with a faulty radio.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2021 18:10:10 GMT
Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986: Richard H. Fawcett, 2000) Fully revised reprint of the collection coming out later this year from the Occult Detective Magazine folk. This is great news. As I recall they had good things to say about The Angry Dead in their debut issue when it was Occult Detective Quarterly, coming up five years ago - how terrifying!
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Post by helrunar on Jul 3, 2021 18:52:37 GMT
No, I don't have time for the On the Buses films, but they did give work to some English actors I loved--can't recall which ones at the moment. Things got progressively worse for the UK film industry as the 70s slithered onwards. I don't think any of the Bus films ever showed here, either in theatres or on telly. Too refined for those demned Ameddicans, donchaknow.
Nice photo, Princess.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2021 11:55:39 GMT
Randomly selected covers of James Darke's Witches series (no, they really are). These are in the hall of f(sh)ame for the most unsuited cover ever. What was Sphere thinking? Nothing spells 17th century better than (at the time dying) MTV? We don't have the budget to do period pieces or commission artwork so why bother? These novels are awful crap commissioned by the outgoing regime who owed James a favour, and the word from high is to bury this as fast and quietly as possible and spend nothing on marketing?
I wonder what good old LJ thought of it. I guess seasoned pro he was he just shrugged and had a good tale to share in the pub with his friends about thankless publishers, considering that he was one of the architects who put them on the map.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 4, 2021 12:23:49 GMT
Randomly selected covers of James Darke's Witches series (no, they really are). These are in the hall of f(sh)ame for the most unsuited cover ever. What was Sphere thinking? Nothing spells 17th century better than (at the time dying) MTV? We don't have the budget to do period pieces or commission artwork so why bother? These novels are awful crap commissioned by the outgoing regime who owed James a favour, and the word from high is to bury this as fast and quietly as possible and spend nothing on marketing?
I wonder what good old LJ thought of it. I guess seasoned pro he was he just shrugged and had a good tale to share in the pub with his friends about thankless publishers, considering that he was one of the architects who put them on the map.
Do you think if they were dressed (unlikely event I know) on the covers that as well as '80s hairdos they would sport cutting edge '80s clothes? Such as shoulder pads, or puffball skirts? Perhaps it is due to Crystal ball gazing into the future? In which case 17th century witches had very bad taste. Perhaps this is how the big hatted men in black witchfinders did their wicked work back then: they picked out the village Tina Turner lookalike.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 5, 2021 16:54:36 GMT
John Whitbourne - No Truce With Kings: ( Biscombe Tales, 1989). Mr. Disvan and the patrons of The Duke of Argyll sponsor the Biscombe Scholarship whereby two of their offspring are admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, to continue a long observed village tradition. Vladimir Bretwalda, bigger even than his man mountain of a father, acts as minder to Oliver Cromwell's head while Jeremiah Thurlow ensures the Lord Protectorate is kept abreast of current affairs by reading to him from every daily newspaper. Mr. Oakley, again deemed worthy of the Biscombites confidence, is taken to meet the greatest of all Englishmen, whose triumphant second coming draws near. Something tells me David Rowlands will also have written something in this line?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 5, 2021 17:15:26 GMT
Strange news from the north: the ghost sightings used for political gain over 17th century Yorkshire. "One pamphlet, published in London in 1659, reported on āThe five strange wonders in the north and west of Englandā. It revealed that an āExhaliaton in the Airā had been sighted with two fiery pillars visible at noon over Marston Moor, near York, glimpsed as far away as Doncaster and Halifax. Between them āintervened several armed Troops and Companies in Battail arrayā who exchanged volleys. The Northern army it states vanquished that of the South." Details taken from this site: museu.ms/article/details/111072/strange-news-from-the-north-the-ghost-sightings-used-for-political-gain-over-17th-century-yorkshireThis article originally appeared on Culture24.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 10, 2021 11:14:06 GMT
"They believe that the sacrifice of a witch finder is the one that pleases Satan the most." Arthur Winston - Dance With The Devil: ( Web Terror Stories, April 1964). Their road across the witch-infested moors led straight into the jaws of doom! Summer, 1645. George and Elizabeth Darcy, and their serving girl, Amy Osborne, share a carriage journey to Bath with a dour Puritan stranger. Some folk are too garrulous for their own good, and questioned by Amy, the stranger admits to travelling on witch-finding business. As they cross Salisbury Plain, a thick fog descends, and the loss of a wheel decides the party to put up for the night at the nearest inn. The landlord is glad of their money but none too welcoming on account of his wife, Mogala, is "a high priestess of horror," who suspects poor George Darcy of extreme Matthew Hopkins tendencies. The Coven first abduct Amy, then lure the Darcy's to the stone circle for bloody sacrifice. Previous Web Terror Tales to have stayed with me - Victim Wanted - Female is a hoot - have invariably involved mild/ not so mild S&M action, cheap thrills for sure, but nothing to frighten the horses. Dance With The Devil is altogether nastier.
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