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This is my birthday present from Amanda.



Basically, in the war of The Diddy Things, she wins. Although Sara’s comment was, “You are both as bad as each other.”



It made not be as blindingly obvious to everybody as it is to me that these are the heroines of Code Name Verity. It all arrived in the mail yesterday and it was like the scene in A Little Princess where they open The Last Doll. The room was in CHAOS as we unpacked everything. “Oh!” cried Ermengarde, darting forward, “she has got an opera glass in her hand - a blue and gold one!” … only in this case it was a gas mask, or a pair of aviator goggles, or a row of hairpins on someone’s tiny pajama pocket, or seamed stockings…



I can’t possibly do any of it justice in a couple of photographs but I do need to point out that the coats and flying jacket are FULLY LINED, and the gas mask bags are exact replicas of the 1940 ones I bought for us off eBay, and there are pockets in the coats, and their duffle bags are printed with their surnames. Beneath their clothes they are wearing tiny undergarments which I won’t show you. (Bear in mind that Amanda is the woman who once made me a John Constantine doll complete with earring, packet of Silk Cut cigarettes, and a tattoo of a tree on his bum).





Amanda says she found the patterns on eBay and etsy… then she had to go and do all the same research that I did about the ATA and the WAAF and the Special Operations Executive. As a result of this project her 5 year old daughter now has Barbies, because as Amanda’s partner pointed out to her, “You can't play with them and not let her…” And she adds that there are some scary people out there if the websites for 1/6 scale war time items are any indiciation. "There are all these WAR men dolls and websites for grownups... that is where I found the goggles and the map bag.”

Comments

[sovay]

Have you seen it? What a WEIRD FILM.

I have, although it's the Powell and Pressburger I liked less than I was expecting to. I love the dual layer of afterlife fantasy and scientific explanation (which crosses in the character of Dr. Reeves) and the endless escalator from one world to another, and there are great moments of strangeness like the camera obscura or the goatherd on the beach, but it felt more like their riff on Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) or "The Devil and Dan'l Webster" than their own mythos.

You should see A Canterbury Tale (1944), if I haven't praised it sufficiently.

Have you seen these?