Here There Be Dragons

[denny]

The Chinese New Year celebrations are on Sunday Jan 25th this year. I've been meaning to go to this for about 5 or 6 years now, since I found some old photos of it from when I was a kid, and I've managed to miss it every year through sheer bad memory. This time I'm going. Anyone care to join me?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/cny2004/programme.shtml

As festivities start late morning, which is usually the earliest I manage to get up, I'll put in a bid for crash space for Saturday night too... only in my case, it has to be kind of mattressy crash space, due to the broken leg, so I won't be hurt if no-one's got room for me.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Can offer crash space.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Excellent - thankyou :)))

Not interested in coming to see the lion's dance?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'm going to pretend that I meant that apostrophe, as in "the dance of the lion", rather than admit that I just put an apostrophe in a plural.

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

*Images of a big burly man weilding the Sword of Grammarian a la Beowulf.*

And of COURSE you meant it - you were just being eloquent, weren't you?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

you forgive him that, and I'll forgive you taking Beowulf in vain?

The point of (at least the first part) of Beowulf is that he isn't that burly really; he is incredibly strong, but doesn't much look it; we're told that nobody thought much of him in his native land, and even when he arrived to rid Heorot of Grendel, he gets the piss taken a bit!

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

*Hides from the scorn of somebody who knows their subject SO well, when I, blatantly, don't.*

*Grin*

I must admit, that my anglo-saxon knowledge is limited - I tend to stick to Classical - and that I haven't read Beowulf in YEARS.

*Offers wrist for slapping.*

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Heh. You could probably run rings around me on the Classical stuff - the myths I'm pretty handy on, but the history is just 'a bunch of people who end in '-us' and '-a' as far as I'm concerned!

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

It's the classical myths that I tend to be handy on as well, mostly cretan and pre-hellenic stuff, but the classics seem to flow on from the mythic.

The history I'm more sketchy with too.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Could do, I suppose. I do like Chinatown.