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Snowflake Challenge
As I sorta accidentally volunteered to help the mods, I thought I'd better try to do the challenge this year, perhaps get a little further on than before.
In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm Gill, mid-60s, living in the English Midlands in a small town with a big castle. I used to teach English and drama, but after some MH issues I left teaching in 2011 and since then have been a serial student, doing MAs at our nearest universities, Warwick (English) and Birmingham (Shakespeare and Theatre at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.) As a result I am an even bigger Shakespeare and Early Modern theatre fangirl than ever. I don't as yet write in the fandom, though, apart from academic essays, because treading on the turf of the Greatest Ever Writer seems a bit cheeky. I've been involved in a Zoom reading group of plays from that period since June, and it's been a real support in these strage times.
I do write in the BtVS/AtS universe, with an emphasis on Spuffy. You can find most of my fics here on DW/LJ, on Elysian Fields and AO3. I'm mildly fannish about a whole range of other shows: Doctor Who (I saw the first episode in 1963), Staged, Green Wing, Good Omens, and lots of books. I am a Literature Nerd.
I have two married daughters, one of whom has a daughter and a son. I miss them terribly in this bizarre plague time when even meeting your own family is dangerous. I am lucky to have been married to my Dave for 42 years and counting.
In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm Gill, mid-60s, living in the English Midlands in a small town with a big castle. I used to teach English and drama, but after some MH issues I left teaching in 2011 and since then have been a serial student, doing MAs at our nearest universities, Warwick (English) and Birmingham (Shakespeare and Theatre at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.) As a result I am an even bigger Shakespeare and Early Modern theatre fangirl than ever. I don't as yet write in the fandom, though, apart from academic essays, because treading on the turf of the Greatest Ever Writer seems a bit cheeky. I've been involved in a Zoom reading group of plays from that period since June, and it's been a real support in these strage times.
I do write in the BtVS/AtS universe, with an emphasis on Spuffy. You can find most of my fics here on DW/LJ, on Elysian Fields and AO3. I'm mildly fannish about a whole range of other shows: Doctor Who (I saw the first episode in 1963), Staged, Green Wing, Good Omens, and lots of books. I am a Literature Nerd.
I have two married daughters, one of whom has a daughter and a son. I miss them terribly in this bizarre plague time when even meeting your own family is dangerous. I am lucky to have been married to my Dave for 42 years and counting.
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I'm Midlands born and bred. I was genuinely born in Cannock Workhouse, which had been turned into a maternity home by then, and lived all over Staffordshire as a child - ten houses by the age of fifteen. I have Welsh and Black Country ancestry.
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I also have Staffordshire and Cheshire ancestry as well as Welsh although I was born and grew up in Kent where my grandad Snape (there's a good local name; he was from Stafford) went to work the pits.
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I was very lucky to be able to see my girls a little over the summer. There was a slight reduction in lockdown and we were allowed to visit. Haven't seen either in person for months now, and Zoom is better than nothing, but still pretty tough. Funny how being relatively close makes it actually harder, isn't it?
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I kind of accidentally volunteered as well, I was just going to help out with some ad hoc commenting but it kind of grew from there, lol. Luckily I love doing Snowflake and always have fun. It's something to look forward to after Christmas, especially as we've been plunged into lockdown again. Here's hoping that these vaccination roll outs combined with the lockdown will do what they say on the tin!
How amazing to be able to immerse yourself in Shakespeare like that. My mother always loved Shakespeare and I was introduced early to his works. My first Shakespeare play was, aged six, when the friends my father made when he was posted to South Africa during the war visited us. My parents took them (along with me) to Stratford and to a showing of Titus Adronicas, not really the thing to take a six year old to but apparently I loved it!
I loved Dr Who as a child, John Pertwee was the first Doctor I remember watching and he remains my favourite, although I didn't mind Tom Baker or Peter Davison. I wasn't so keen on Colin Baker and that's when I stopped watching, mind you, that could have also had something to do with my age as I would have been 18/19 by then!
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I saw the first episode of Dr Who, when I was not-quite-eight. I loved Troughton and Tom Baker most, I think. I hated the carelessness with which the Colin Baker/Sylvester McCoy series were written.
I'm as fed up with lockdown as everyone else, and angry that the gains of the first one were frittered away, but we just have to grit our teeth and get on with it. I don't plan to do any of that clapping nonsense this time, though.
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Yes, one or two bad Doctors and I've never watched it again I loved the early years of the show.
I don't understand all these people who say lockdowns don't work, they do, the problem is all the people going mad when restrictions were lifted. I wanted to scream at them around here, crowding into Primark, to the Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk beaches, etc. Hardly surprising the infection rates went up again. The same with the lockdown in November, all the idiots crowded into the city Christmas shopping as sign as it was lifted, then got together with other people over Christmas and had new year parties (a local church in this area was broken into and desecrated when 300 people had a new year party) and they wonder why we're now in lockdown again.
Key workers don't want us out clapping, the number of posts I saw in Twitter and Facebook from medical,staff saying that they don't want us out clapping, they want us to stay in and stay safe and help them by staying out of Hospital!
We will get through this, but as they say, it's a marathon not a sprint!
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I think more people are having to go into work rather than work from home, I know my best friend has had to, although court staff are classed as key workers. But she had a laptop at home last time but has been told no this time. They have also taken on more staff and nobody is bothering to even try and social distance. I really don't know how they get away with it!
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Hee! It's great to get to know you better.
You probably guessed that I was once in the BtVS fandom, too. *g*
Good Omens was such a fun show!!!
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Your username does sorta imply it. :D
I loved the book Good Omens, and Neil Gaiman made a really good job of translating it to TV. PTerry would have been proud.