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Fandom is a strange yet wonderful phenomenon. Some professed “fans” of Agatha Christie are content to read the occasional Christie novel once in a while, when they have the time. Other fans feel compelled to read every book that Christie ever wrote. Still other fans seek out every movie and television adaptation of Christie novels ever filmed. Some fans with the time and money to travel actually visits locations from Christie’s life and novels. Then, there are fans like me, who want to help preserve, perpetuate, and polish Christie’s legacy.
Ever since the first film adaptations of Christie ...
- Posted 2 September 2009 at 1:45p.m. GMT
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Before writing this I have read through your replies to my last blog. Quote, “Hi Mathew, Could you please tell me about your grandmother....” Well, Malou, how long have you got?
The feelings that remain uppermost in my mind at the end of October, 2008 are how different she was to so much that is going on around us now. No cheap, sensationalist, lewd or self-serving entertainment for her. Good solid hard-work, good solid entertainment, modesty, self-effacement, love and respect for family and decency, respect for country and professionalism allied to a huge sense of fun and enjoyment. I think ...
- Posted 3 November 2008 at 10:23a.m. GMT
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If you were to ask me what I thought was the most important Agatha Christie thing that was going to happen in the next year, I would say the reopening of Greenway, Nima’s [my grandmother's] lovely house in Devon, now owned by the National Trust. To me, Greenway means all kinds of childhood things – cricket on the lawn, a loving family, cream teas which Nima drank from a mug called Don’t Be Greedy (an admonition she never obeyed) and watching the Dart steamers steam past with her in the boathouse (read Dead Man’s Folly).
For you ...
- Posted 17 September 2008 at 9:19a.m. GMT
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