A post without a great deal of point

[nineveh_uk]

My parents have returned to points north after a weekend visit including a bird reserve, Stowe gardens (for autumn leaves), and Welsh National Opera's Kiss Me Kate. Obviously, I am now knackered, although in fairness to them I was knackered before they arrived. Tomorrow begins picowrimo, in which I am determined to pick up some neglected fic*.

With the clocks back it is feeling even more decidedly autumnal than it was last week, when the trees decided that they had had enough of being green and were going to burst into various shades of flame. It is still two months until Christmas, and yet it feels like it is very soon.

Anyway, have some Shakespeare (song starts a minute in).

"Kiss Me Kate - Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Michael Jibson & James Doherty" (Watch on YouTube)

*And I certainly have a choice of it.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

That sounds like a good but tiring visit. The clip was fun!

[nineveh_uk]

Good but tiring was pretty much it! I love the whole musical, but that song is very definitely Cole Porter having a lot of fun with rhymes.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I count it as a victory for consciousness raising that I used to love this song, daft rhymes and all, but now I think aargh, rape culture or what?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Damn those modern perspectives!

Perhaps you could tell yourself that they are murderous gangsters, so their ethical perspective is probably not to be considered as entirely straightforward.