Today’s News
Well, by the time this gets posted it will be yesterday’s news, but isn’t everything? Reminds me of an old joke: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Kylie. Kylie who? That’s show-biz! A bit unfair to Kylie, but you can change the name to anyone, and that was how it was first told to me. Anyway… Along with some more photos of St George’s beach, as promised, here is today’s news from me.
I have been told that the official Greek premiere of ‘The 13th‘, which will be held on Symi, is now to be on the official opening day of the Symi Festival 2017, on Monday 24th July. Still up in Horio at the sports hall complex. There should be announcements and a programme before long to concrete that date and possibly time. I say ‘possibly’ because the festival events are usually subject to a bit of leeway when it comes to venue and time. They usually start at 9 pm, and an announcement during the day lets everyone know where they are to be. Last I heard, the screening will be the sports complex, and I guess at nine at night.
Also in ‘The 13th‘ news… (Backers will be receiving an update about this and other things in due course)… It has picked up some monthly awards at the Calcutta International Film Festival: Outstanding Achievement in the Horror category, Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Best Editing for Daniel Webb, Best Sound Design and Best Supporting Actress for Wookie Mayer – who has a house on Symi. It will now compete for the ‘Golden Fox’ award at the festival’s climax in October. Each month leading up to that event the festival gives out awards, and the winners of those then compete for the top place in each category. So we could be up against 12 others in each category. But still… It means that now ‘The 13th‘ has 13 festival/awards laurels, and there may be more to come. It has been entered in over 50 festivals, and so far the company (1066 Productions) has only heard back from a few, Calcutta being the latest one.
In home news, Neil is off to Rhodes this morning for some shopping and things, and I have just commissioned a new cover for ‘Remotely’. This is because I am working on a series of ‘Miss P shorts’ and need a cover design that can be adapted for each one as they come out. Something which immediately says, ‘This is a Miss P story.’ My designer, Diogo in Portugal, hopes to get some mock-ups back to me by the end of the week. The first short in the series, ‘Honestly’ is being proofed, and I hope to have it set and ready in a month or so.
Meanwhile, I am beavering away on ‘The Witchling’ again after taking a rest break over the weekend. I am up to 50,000 words now, and about halfway through the first draft. As per a few requests, I’m now going to have a dip into my Dictionary of Kentish Dialect for you. Just a couple at random, and I can’t remember what I’ve already told you, so apologies for any repeats.
I am 54, so on page 54 we have:
Feetens. Footmarks, or footprints, makes sense to me.
Fenny. Let’s hope your cheese is not fenny, it means mouldy or dirty.
To fickle: To put something, like an idea, into someone’s head – in a rather bad way. ‘He fickled me the thought.’ Or rather, ‘’E fickled the thought a me.’
Fild – or Feld – or Fill. I have used Feld in The Saddling and The Witchling, it’s a word for a field. So, if you read it there, it is not a typo! (Unlike many words you rad on this blog. (See what I did there?))
And my favourite of the day, an expression used as to any person or anything lost: Fill-Nor-Fall. If you paid attention, you will now (and again) that a fill is a field, but a fall is a portion of underwood ready to fell. The expression would be used as in, ‘Neil went a Rhodes Wednesday, and I ain’t ’eard neither fill-nor-fall of ’im.’ Hopefully not the case.
If you want to see some of these words in action, head over to ‘The Saddling’ and treat yourself to a good, mysterious read.
