Hookland 10/1/21 0:08:26

@GNutsofHorror Transparency allows us all to judge intent, to judge honesty. It is the cloaking of conflict of interests that provokes nullification, not necessarily the conflict. Trust the audience to be smart enough to work stuff out always, so wear the damn conflict openly is my approach.

Hookland 10/1/21 0:10:42

@Tom_Pleasant As a journalist I worked on the principle that not every affair by a politician needed printing, unless they banged on about family values and denying marriage to gay community etc.

Hookland 10/1/21 0:33:49

For some of us, football is ritual magic. Sacred turf, a symbolic globe and a space defined by lines and circles. This makes the players magicians, in our case the sort of shoddy mages who can‰Ûªt summon a shot on goal. – Barry Mee, manager of Ashcourt Rovers #Football

Hookland 10/1/21 1:13:20

@AlboStep The gothic paintshop which is Hookland also has shades which show of the black wonderfully. Also, it’s tongue-in-cheek as the moment Little Grey rabbit has to cut off her tail to pay the owl … pure horror.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:19:04

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo My reading of her diaries allowed me to take away her complexity, her absolute grit and her joyful wonder in the universe that was wide enough to encompass quantum physics and faeries. If she is savage with honesty, no-one gets both barrels more than herself.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:22:13

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo The article paints a somewhat unfair take on the diaries in my view because the headline equivalent of children’s author nasty’ is easier than ‘woman who loved nature, science and weird things didn’t suffer fools gladly and faced sexism with a fierce spirit’.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:27:45

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo My understanding is they didn’t like it each other. She had a vision of her stories and Margaret Tempest wasn’t always delivering that vision, but rather her own vision, so there was professional conflict on both sides.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:30:36

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo You can label Uttley’s insistence that things should look a certain way as controlling or fiercely pursuing her vision as author. I take a profoundly different approach when working in collaboration with artists, but the sheer power of an author’s vision can cause conflict.