Judith Proctor's Journal

I've just had an absolutely hysterical phone conversation with kerravonsen who kindly phoned me from Australia and cheered me up no
end. I think we spent half the time laughing.

How she survived a conversation that was entire whistles and recorder playing on
my end, I shall never know, but I enjoyed it immensely (the recorder helps stop
the lips cracking with too much whistling).

The bit that I didn't manage to convey (as she didn't recognise the tune) is
that she should go and borrow a video/CD of Iolanthe. It's one of Gilbert and
Sullivan's better operettas and I think it would provide some funny ideas for
the story she's working on at present. I rather like the idea of Avon as the
King of the Fairies... And G+S worked out a way of doing it...

My local library has most of G+S available for loan - even though they have to
get many from other branches. I'm working my way through them at the moment.
I've just finshed Rudigore, and plan to have the Mikado next. I suspect she can
probably borrow from a library or from one of the places on the web that loans
DVDs.

If anyone else rings, we seem to have settled on one whistle for no and two for
yes. All other sound effects have to be guessed at - grin. Actually, half the
fun is trying to think of interesting sound effects, and the other half is
playing 'guess the tune'. (especially when the person at the other end doesn't
know it!)