Let's call today: 'Thursday, 8 September 2005'
pirategirl 
wrote in the notebook:
Curse the gremlins
Hello my little lemmings and apologies for being offline so long. for some reason best known to the little gremlins that live in my house the phone line to the officey part of the rumpus-room decided to die.
That same day we had a power outage and the household alarm system went off for no reason... when it wasnt even armed.... whilst i was still asleep.
curse those gremlins.
Fact of the moment:
Despite the more popular image of a gremlin being the nasty things that evolve from furry Gizmo if he eats after midnight, and multiply when wet, the term 'gremlin' was invented by Mr. Roald Dahl himself. Dahl wrote a book during wartime which told about little monsters called gremlins that sabotaged fighter planes, and were responsible for the planes going down instead of enemy hits as everybody thought.
Disney was going to take his project up as a full colour storybook, and a number of them were made, but soon they dropped it after moving on to bigger things. Dahl speculated that since his story concerned the British war efforts rather than the U.S one, Disney lost interest in it quickly, it being a 'foreign' concept.
...Bet Disney wishes he'd gotten onto the Dahl bandwagon now.
Matilda with Mara Wilson & Danny DeVito,
James and the Giant Peach with Joanna Lumley and a bunch of cool voice over personalities including Susan Sarandon and my favourite: David Thewlis (also known as Prof. Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban),
The BFG with David Jason (the funny man from Darling Buds of May),
The Witches with Angelica Huston,
Danny Champion of the World with Jeremy & Samuel Irons,
Lamb to the Slaughter (which was my absolute favourite short story of Dahl's) by Alfred Hitchcock,
You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery (surprised me too)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory x 2 with the delicious Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter & Australia's own Noah Taylor (and Gene Wilder 1971),
and...
i'm so excited about this...
Fantastic Mr Fox is to come out in 2006!!!
I love that book! I'm wetting myself in anticipation.
I want George's Marvellous Medicine, and The Twits to make it to the screen.
Perhaps that can be left to me...
Newsagents have a new series of kid's collectors mags out, like the Horrible Histories one, but all about Dahl and his characters. I'm most tempted to waste $6 a week and go buy them.
Teeheeeheeeeee
It's all this man's fault I wanted to become a writer.
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