El Loro posted:

Yogi, I agree re the film and it's amazing that it was a box office flop when it was first released

Yes, quite shocking that, initially, it wasn’t popular.

El Loro posted:

175 years ago today, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was published:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46378745

 

The completel title is "A Christmas Carol in prose being a Ghost Story of Christmas".

A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield are my favourite Dickens’ books.

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

175 years ago today, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was published:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46378745

 

The completel title is "A Christmas Carol in prose being a Ghost Story of Christmas".

A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield are my favourite Dickens’ books.

I would add Great Expectations and Oliver Twist to those. Oliver Twist was the very first Dickens novel I read.

A very early film version of Oliver Twist, possibly from 1907.  It's not known if the film ends as shown as it's a bit abrupt as it's quite possible that bits are missing.

Unless you know the story, this clip won't mean that much.

El Loro posted:

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

175 years ago today, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was published:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46378745

 

The completel title is "A Christmas Carol in prose being a Ghost Story of Christmas".

A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield are my favourite Dickens’ books.

I would add Great Expectations and Oliver Twist to those. Oliver Twist was the very first Dickens novel I read.

I like both of those too 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros

Hug for any night owls

*night owls* good evening gang! A much brighter day here, which was fabulous. A busy day too, I’ve been at work and up to the cash & carry this evening. 

I love the radio times no 1. Christmas movie White Christmas is in my top 5 too  

i have a first edition of A Christmas Carol! It’s a little bit battered, the poor thing, but it’s still lovely to keep on my bookshelf it was given to me by my grandmother 

I must get to sleep, so sweet dreams everyone I hope you’re all on top of things and enjoying the festive countdown 

night yogi and summer

Good morning  I thought I’d pop in early in case work is too busy later 

i hope you all slept well

can you believe the situation at Gatwick?! 

Good morning everyone

Sunny here at present though showers are likely and another band of rain forecast for tonight.

Summer, your first edition of A Christmas Carol is something to treasure even if battered.

That drone operator (unless underage) is looking at a 5 year prison sentence

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning all 

Raining heavily up here.

Summer, how lovely to have a first edition of A Christmas Carol 

How stupid do you have to be to fly a drone at an airport.

Have a lovely day, all.

Yogi, the drone operator is either doing it maliciously with the intent of disruption or it's a young person doing it without thinking of the consequences

Good morning everyone, a bright but still chilly morning here.  I think David Copperfield is probably my favourite Dickens book. Such memorable characters.  Did everyone see the portrait of him as a young man published recently?  We're all so used to seeing him as a grizzled old man it's quite a surprise

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, yes, I saw that picture on the BBC news yesterday when they had an item about the 175th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol. It was painted at that time so Dickens would have been 31.

There's a faint rainbow here. What's unusual is that it hasn't been raining here so I assume there must have been raining very near here, just not here.

Armed forces being deployed to give the police help in dealing with the drones at Gatwick. How is not being disclosed other than the armed forces have a range of unique capabilities.

squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, a bright but still chilly morning here.  I think David Copperfield is probably my favourite Dickens book. Such memorable characters.  Did everyone see the portrait of him as a young man published recently?  We're all so used to seeing him as a grizzled old man it's quite a surprise

 

Enjoy your day everyone

I missed that when it was published, Squiggle. It’s a lovely portrait.

El Loro posted:

There's a faint rainbow here. What's unusual is that it hasn't been raining here so I assume there must have been raining very near here, just not here.

Rainbows make me smile 

El Loro posted:

Armed forces being deployed to give the police help in dealing with the drones at Gatwick. How is not being disclosed other than the armed forces have a range of unique capabilities.

I hope they take it down, and get the idiot responsible 

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

Armed forces being deployed to give the police help in dealing with the drones at Gatwick. How is not being disclosed other than the armed forces have a range of unique capabilities.

I hope they take it down, and get the idiot responsible 

Maximum 5 years in prison for endangering an aircraft and/or a fine. I wonder if there's also a civil case which could be brought against the person(s) responsible for damages which could be brought by Gatwick, the plane companies, passengers. etc. If there was and it was successful, that would make anyone inclined to do something similar have a rethink.

El Loro posted:

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

Armed forces being deployed to give the police help in dealing with the drones at Gatwick. How is not being disclosed other than the armed forces have a range of unique capabilities.

I hope they take it down, and get the idiot responsible 

Maximum 5 years in prison for endangering an aircraft and/or a fine. I wonder if there's also a civil case which could be brought against the person(s) responsible for damages which could be brought by Gatwick, the plane companies, passengers. etc. If there was and it was successful, that would make anyone inclined to do something similar have a rethink.

I hope they throw the book at them

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros

Hug for any night owls

Can you believe I’ve never read or seen David Copperfield?!  

a very, very busy day here. Only 2 more to go, ho ho! 

Sweet dreans everyone  

night yogi and summer

Good morning everyone

Very dark clouds here though less rain than recent days in the forecast.

Summer, although the book David Copperfield is worth reading I havent seen a film version which is to the standard of the Lean versions of Great Expecatations and Oliver Twist and the classic Scrooge. Of film adaptations of other Dickens books either version of Nicholas Nickelby are worth watching,

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone

Weather is dry atm but the sky is grey.

Heading out soon to Morrisons.

Have a good day, all

Good morning everyone  

Wet and windy here. However, it may get a little better as the day goes on 

Happy shopping Yogi 

Have a great day everyone 

With the greatest of respect to my Scottish friends, I have just watched haggis being made. Definitely not for me 

Good morning everyone, still very windy and cold with menacing clouds gathering but no rain so far.  It is forecast to be dry today but I doubt it with the way the sky looks.  There was a fantastic TV version of David Copperfield a few years ago which I really enjoyed. This one I think https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092335/     Moonie I feel the same and about black pudding too.

Enjoy your day everyone

Yogi, I hope your shopping goes well and that Morrisons isn't unbearably crowded

Moonie, many years ago I had to attend the stocktake of a company which, amongst other things, produced pork pies. They would have been top quality pies but I've never eaten one since. So I understand that watching haggis being made could be offputting for some

Squiggle, I agree with you that the BBC adaptations of David Copperfield tend to be really good  The one you linked to was good as was this earlier one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327277/
That had a very strong cast with Ian McKellen as the older David Copperfield in a very early role for him.

Squiggle, I can just about manage black pudding 

El, I like pork pies and I have seen them made too 

You might have seen a recent advert from Huawei. This is the full length version which you probably haven't seen.

I recognised the young girl, Maisie Sly, from the Oscar winning short "The Silent Girl" which has been shown on BBC.

The actor Donald Moffat has died, he was 87.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-46647730

He was in quite a lot of films and television programmes but I remember him from the short lived TV series based on Logan's Run (1977-8). He played the part of Rem, an android.

El Loro posted:

The actor Donald Moffat has died, he was 87.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-46647730

 

He was in quite a lot of films and television programmes but I remember him from the short lived TV series based on Logan's Run (1977-8). He played the part of Rem, an android.

Wasn’t Jenny Agutter in Logan’s Run El? 

Moonie posted:

With the greatest of respect to my Scottish friends, I have just watched haggis being made. Definitely not for me 

I love haggis 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Hug for any night owls

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

With the greatest of respect to my Scottish friends, I have just watched haggis being made. Definitely not for me 

I love haggis 

Yogi19 posted:

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Hug for any night owls

Nitey nite, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi  

  for the night owls 

night yogi blinkin internet been playing up lately -terrible tonight night moons and summer if you pop in

Good morning everyone

Fairish weather here today, tomorrow looks to be another wet day.

Ros, I hope your internet issues get sorted out soon

Moonie, the original film version of Logan's Run does start Jenny Agutter and Michael York. The character Rem (Donald Moffatt) isn't in that film, just the TV series. There was the possibility of a film remake a couple of years ago but I don't know if that got any further than the drafting of a screenplay,

I hope everyone has a good day