25 Hour News & The Ladybird Library
The usual weekly bulletin and an additional feature, as requested by some…
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February 14, 2015 at 9:48 am -
The ‘Victorian Giants’ is the winner! Although ‘Boring Dads’ comes a close 2nd IMO.
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February 14, 2015 at 10:13 am -
Can I suggest a few other titles:
Bikes For Dykes
Ladies Who MunchYes, I’ll shut up now, but felt these were sadly absent…
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February 14, 2015 at 10:17 am -
These book covers are wonderful, thank you. Do you remember the case of artist Miriam Elia, Penguin and ‘We go to the gallery’? Easy to find details online but here is her open letter from 4 Apr 2014
Dear all,
Good old Penguin books. After my repeated requests that the publisher show evidence they own the copyright to the original illustrations sampled for ‘ We go to the gallery,’ Penguin are still refusing to deliver. The deluge of legal waffle and threats, without any substantial evidence, makes me suspect that they do not actually own the copyright at all, and possibly sold the rights some years ago.
Given this, I am planning to take a risk and republish this book when UK copyright law changes on June 1st (it was supposed to be April 5th, but unfortunately it’s been delayed a few months). The new book will be almost identical to the original, although the Harlequin Ladybird and Key will be removed and replaced with a Dung Beetle.
To celebrate the change in UK law, I am planning an ‘infringing’ satire exhibition and ‘We go to the gallery’ shop window display in central London during June.
Sorry to say the petition won’t be going ahead, as my Solicitor informed me that Penguin can use this against me as libel. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Onwards and Upwards.
And Penguin can get stuffed.
Miriam Elia
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February 14, 2015 at 10:17 am -
I want the whole set. I still have my Famous Five & Secret Seven books. They’d look good on the book shelf beside them.
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February 14, 2015 at 10:48 am -
Made this jaded old Saxon, laff. Frankly doesn’t happen much these days.
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February 14, 2015 at 10:51 am -
Brilliant!
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February 14, 2015 at 11:19 am -
5 out of 20 related to sex, a subject that never entered the ladybird world.
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February 14, 2015 at 11:29 am -
It sells.
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February 14, 2015 at 3:38 pm -
When I was a nipper reading Ladybird books, ‘sex’ was what posh people had their coal delivered in.
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February 14, 2015 at 12:19 pm -
I laff Flaxen Saxon when I see all those lovely risk taking youths bouncing off trampolines over the garden fence, and upending motor cycles in the bushes or liddle boy cheeldren driving their battery cars full tilt into mum’s knees. A huge dog running full tilt into a small child. Or a huge plastic pool side collapsing under the weight of an exuberant prancing youth. Grandma trying to shimmy, falling over backwards into an overdecorated Christmas tree and crushing all the prezzies. Lots to laff at in this day and age of wall to wall personal digital cameras. Swallows and Amazon, Biggles and Capt Hornblower were my standards and Rupert before that. There’s a cynical thread running through that clever panel of Ladybird Books. Any explanation for the works canteen cover? Or just to show what crushing ordinariness awaits some adults at work?
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February 14, 2015 at 3:45 pm -
Ah, yes. The Works Canteen. We had one of those. Pies with more grease than a Scammell back axle, custard so thick you could stack it up in the bowl, and staff about as cheerful as a wet weekend in Wolverhampton.
After the first week, I took sandwiches.
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February 14, 2015 at 1:05 pm -
The three day week one is a bit misleading, because wasn’t it the miners NOT going down the mines what caused it?
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February 14, 2015 at 1:07 pm -
Page from the newest version of Ladybird “Shopping With Mother”
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February 14, 2015 at 2:31 pm -
These ‘alternative titles’ are, essentially, a synopsis of the 1970’s… Curious, how what may have been contraversial then is now the basic norm.
Well done!
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February 14, 2015 at 3:11 pm -
Just you wait till Harriet Harman and Jessica Ennis hear about this!
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February 14, 2015 at 3:40 pm -
The Work’s Canteen cries out for Ed Milliband with a bacon buttie.
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February 14, 2015 at 3:40 pm -
Sorry, Ed Miliband of course.
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February 14, 2015 at 4:45 pm -
You seem to have uncovered quite an explosive dossier there, Petunia. Time to call the media?
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February 14, 2015 at 6:19 pm -
February 14, 2015 at 6:23 pm -
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February 14, 2015 at 6:41 pm -
““Norfolk” and “Village Idiots”?
Same book, different cover shurely…..?”-Dioclese
You’re right of course but I could understand people who have never had the misfortune to visit Norfuck being confused. It’s the use of the plural that is the clue. Let me explain by way of a truism- “What do you call a Norfolker with an IQ of 90?-A village!”. In other words, every village in Ruralshire had at least one dribbling congenital idiot, in Norfolk however ENTIRE villages were (and still are in part) peopled by the results of hundreds of years of “maarryin’ yooor sis’er and keep tha’ in thur familie”
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February 14, 2015 at 6:45 pm -
“I’m from Norfook and I’m alroigh’, OI can” read and OI can” wri’e bu’ OI ken drive a ‘ractor”., keep meaning to get that on a T-shirt, along with “Norfolk 2015-Just dodging the Rain and Beet Lorries”
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February 15, 2015 at 11:07 am -
When it’s Friday and it’s five-to-five, do you shout CRACKERJACK?
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February 15, 2015 at 11:11 am -
Shameful secret but yes I admit I used to. Mind you even then I found the ‘Crankies’ about as ‘funny’ as toothache and on so many levels strangely worrying…
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