March 5, 2007 by dafyd
According to the Radio Times, our quarter-final match against Edinburgh will be broadcast next Monday (12 March), 8pm, BBC2.
Be there, or be square.
Mind you, we’ve not heard from Granada or the BBC that it’s actually us playing that week… but I seem to remember us being the second quarter final, so it makes sense.
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March 5, 2007 by dafyd
Newsweek has a fun article about the effect Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will have on summer holiday camps: [via TLC]
Peter Kassen of Maine’s Hidden Valley Camp is issuing a gag order for his faster readers. “We as a community will be sworn to secrecy,” he says. “We want to make sure the surprises aren’t spoiled for the younger kids.” Kleinman is ordering dozens of books for counselors to read aloud to campers, and they’ll be using the book for clout. “Getting them to bed is always a challenge, but we’re going to tell them we aren’t reading until they get in bed.”
Eleven-year-old Jake Kern, the camper whose father requested a midnight run, was satisfied to know that counselors will read the book aloud, but when he gets his own copy, he’ll read it straight through, neglecting even archery and baseball if he must. “Once I start it, I probably won’t put it down until I finish it,” he says.
I know that when the last Potter novel was released, I saw a couple of dads of boys I knew at Waterstone’s, at midnight, buying copies for their sons, who were leaving for Scout camp the next morning.
When Order of the Phoenix (book 5) was released, I was in the Hague, of all places. I picked my copy up at Schiphol airport, read it on the plane and train home, and was in Waterstone’s selling the book, bright and early on the Sunday.
This year, I’ll be in Canada. Which means I’ll have to make do with the Canadian edition. Which, I’ve just discovered, is exactly the same as Bloomsbury’s UK edition. Now I’m happy. I can’t stand the US editions. Too cartoony. And American books always feel cheap. Something about the paper. Anyway, rant over.
137 days to go, by the way. Have you pre-ordered yours yet? £8.99 from Waterstone’s and Amazon… Pre-order it from ‘Stone’s and you even get a free book…
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