23 May 2020

elisi: Fussy bookseller (Aziraphale)
I blame BuggreAlleThis, because they inspired it. ;) Sort of a prequel to the Elfland one. One-shot, 1475 words.


A Pilgrim’s Progressive Panic

Summary:

AZIRAPHALE WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Put down The Pilgrim’s Progress and step away from the Bunyan!

(Or: Finding reasons why Aziraphale declined Crowley’s proposal through his reading materials.)
elisi: (Six)
I'm just going to keep editing this post, hope you don't mind.



This is the actual thing, not a trailer:



ETA: OK, it is DELIGHTFUL! Full marks, will listen again! :D If you ever wondered what would happen if ALL the Doctors got together... This is the answer. So much love. ♥ ♥ ♥
elisi: Edwin holding a tiny snowman (Default)
I'm just going to keep editing this post, hope you don't mind.



This is the actual thing, not a trailer:




ETA: OK, it is DELIGHTFUL! Full marks, will listen again! :D If you ever wondered what would happen if ALL the Doctors got together... This is the answer. So much love. ♥ ♥ ♥
elisi: And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square (Nightingale)
Re. today's news, then the parody account of No 10's cat is doing a better job than our Esteemed Leaders:



~

Otherwise:



So I give you:



From the presenter's comments at the end:

The Fifth premiered here at The Royal Albert Hall in June 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Sir Adrian Boult (sp?) was listening in on the radio and afterwards wrote to Vaughan Williams that 'the Symphony's serene loveliness is completely satisfactorily in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.'

(Although please don't skip the comments at the start!)

And from the comments on youtube:

More even than The Lark Ascending or the Tallis Fantasia, when my psyche needs repair this is the piece I turn to. In the thirty-seven years I've known it, it has never once let me down.