Two communities

Two communities which came to my attention this week, and which I thought might be of interest:

fancycle: "modeled after the Freecycle Network (TM) [...] Fancycle is all about and restricted to giving away fannish stuff".
Thank you msmanna for the link!

my_friend_jane: "a community to discuss the novels of Jane Duncan". Discussion has just started on My Friend Muriel, and the list-owner fawatson has made a series of wonderful posts containing images of covers of some of her books.
Thank you katlinel for the link!

Voice from the past

"They tell me you haven't been co-operating."
"No? What's the matter? Did I bleed on the wrong bit of floor?"

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Wow, my Blake's 7 tapes are playing back amazingly. Here's their history. My brother taped them off-air in 1980/1981. He looked after them meticulously, hardly ever watched them, treated them with great care and love, etc. etc.

I inherited them sometime in the late 80s, whereupon I watched them constantly, did that special fannish thing of rewatching over and over the SPECIAL MOMENTS, dragged them up and down the country, let people have the key to my room at college so that they could watch them and rewatch them constantly (doing the SPECIAL MOMENTS thing), then got the tapes (twice), then the DVDs, and left them to languish for a decade in a box under the stairs near a wall which barely kept out the elements. Then I dragged them out today and gaily shoved them in VCR which turned out to have absolutely filthy heads.

And they have repaid me tenderly, with LOYALTY AND LOVE beyond all call of duty. They are like Avon to my Anna. There is a bit of drop-out on 'Rumours of Death' but WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? That too, is a sign of the great love there has long been between us. Bless you, my beloved tapes. You, at least, are not going in the bin. Or, if you do, we'll be going hand-in-hand. Just don't shoot me.

MY GOD, though, you should hear the BBC announcers in 1981! They are unbelievably posh! And see the special Paul Darrow CEEFAX face! I want it on an icon!