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[doyle]

1) The things you learn while making last-minute changes to your Yuletide sign-up: a Noel Streatfeild book I haven't read, White Boots, features a character called Lalla Ward. Imagine my disappointment when I remembered how many years ago it must have been written and that it couldn't possibly be strange Doctor Who RPF. (ETA: okay, my final requests were two f/f and two m/m. I pruned some of the fandoms I wasn't certain I'd be able to come up with a story for but have a feeling I'm going to regret rashly offering 'any' for RPF - Historical. Eep.)

2) A cultural difference that has me stumped: we're watching Sex in the City and Carrie is moaning about having to move because her building is becoming a co-op. Assuming she hasn't been bought out by the UK supermarket chain, what's she on about?

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[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

I loved White Boots. Not as much as Ballet Shoes, obviously, because I'm not sure I love anything as much as Ballet Shoes. But it's the same basic ingredients only with ice skating, and there's one particular bit about making a skating skirt which I seem to recall pestering my mother about. The Lalla thing passed over my head at the time, sadly.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ballet Shoes! I haven't thought of that book in years. I used to read it over and over when I was a kid. (Yes, I did ballet for 11 years)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

When I was very very young (8) I wrote a fan letter Noel Streatfield. Bless her heart, she wrote me back - on airmail stationery, which, back then, was like blue tissue paper.

I still have it, 36 years later :D