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Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion
Hogswatch Greetings Issue
December 2019 (Volume 22, Issue 12, Post 1)
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WOSSNAME is a free publication offering news, reviews, and all the other stuff-that-fits pertaining to the works of Sir Terry Pratchett. Originally founded by the late, great Joe Schaumburger for members of the worldwide Klatchian Foreign Legion and its affiliates, including the North American Discworld Society and other continental groups, Wossname is now for Discworld and Pratchett fans everywhere in Roundworld.
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Editor in Chief: Annie Mac
News Editor: Vera P
Newshounds: Mogg, Sir J of Croydon Below, the Shadow, Mss C, Alison not Aliss
Staff Writers: Asti, Pitt the Elder, Evil Steven Dread, Mrs Wynn-Jones
Staff Technomancer: Jason Parlevliet
Book Reviews: Annie Mac, Drusilla D'Afanguin, Your Name Here
Puzzle Editor: Tiff (still out there somewhere)
Bard in Residence: Weird Alice Lancrevic
Emergency Staff: Steven D'Aprano, Jason Parlevliet
World Membership Director: Steven D'Aprano (in his copious spare time)
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LETTER FROM YOUR EDITOR
Greetings, O Readers!
We've shut up shop for the holidays at the Fortress of Wossname, so all I have for you is a couple of newsbits. The first is that next year will be known in Discworld fan-land as the Year of the Condescending Carp. The second is that Bernard Pearson aka the Cunning Artificer has made some of his famous "tales of my friend Terry" available to listen to for free:
"Hark, the herald’s podcast’s here! Episode 1 of ‘And He Said To Me’ is a Hogswatch treat for your ears from our founder, Bernard Pearson, telling festive stories of The Creator with Rob Wilkins ofterryandrob, available NOW! HAPPY HOGSWATCH ONE AND ALL!"
https://twitter.com/Discworldshoppe/status/1208679365002829824
"Although Terry left the party early, in March 2015 the echoes of the conversations we had, the jokes we shared and the drinks I brought, still rattle around in my head... Stories about great men sometimes miss out the human being underneath. Terry was a world-famous author and a genius. He also possessed a wonderful sense of humour. Sometimes delivered in the same way you wrap an iron bar in a sock. In his case, thankfully, it was often a rod of irony rather than heavy metal..."
https://andhesaidtome.buzzsprout.com/
The third is that the first Discworld play of the year arrives in mid-January:
* WYRD SISTERS IN READING (JANUARY 2020)
Reading's Progress Theatre, a wonderfully ambitious company whose wide-ranging productions have already included Mort (1997), The Fifth Elephant (2013), and Maskerade (2018), will be staging Wyrd Sisters in January! Melanie Sherwood and Liz Carroll return as Granny and Nanny, and they look perfect in their roles, as does Yvonne Newton as Magrat.
"The ever-popular (Sir) Terry Pratchett OBE makes a welcome return to the stage at Progress Theatre, in another wonderful adaptation by Stephen Briggs. If you like your comic fantasy turned up to the maximum you will be delighted with this show. The many people who loved our production of Maskerade will be delighted to see the return of those memorable characters, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, in this tale of witches and royalty, loosely based on Macbeth. Very loosely... People have travelled from far afield to see our previous productions of Pratchett's Discworld works, so book early to avoid disappointment."
When: 16th-25th January 2020
Venue: Progress Theatre, The Mount, Reading RG1 5HL
Time: all evening shows 7.45pm, Saturday matinees 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 (concessions £10), available via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/progresstheatre/e-yopdab
http://progresstheatre.co.uk/2020-wyrd-sisters
...and last but far from least, a glimpse into L-space that you can even create for yourself!
"You might have seen the words book nook popping up on social media in recent days, along with images of crafted alleyways, and structures acting as dividers on bookcases. The concept became popular on Reddit, with the r/booknooks subreddit going from zero to 7,900 members in just two days. The website defines book nooks as 'mini worlds created within your bookshelf', usually as a diorama of an alley... There are plenty of ways of making 'book nooks', but one that features most often is the aid of 3D printing. 'The hardest part was to make a 3D model suitable for printing,' said 38-year-old Konstantin Borisov, a programmer in Omsk, Russia. 'I modelled the objects and composed them in a complete scene...' He explained that his motivation to create the "book nook" came down to a feeling which may be shared by many book lovers... 'I wanted to have a door to the magic world like the hidden entrance behind the Leaky Cauldron in Harry Potter, but in the middle of my books. When I was thinking about this, I was thinking about the world of Terry Pratchett's books, medieval, full of magic and humour...'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50840434
The photo of that Ankh-Morpork alleyway: https://bit.ly/2QfXh5M
And that's it for 2019. Mind how you go, and we'll see you next year!
– Annie Mac, Editor
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The End. If you have any questions or requests, write: wossname-owner (at) pearwood (dot) info
Copyright (c) 2019 by Wossname for the Klatchian Foreign Legion
Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion
Hogswatch Greetings Issue
December 2019 (Volume 22, Issue 12, Post 1)
********************************************************************
WOSSNAME is a free publication offering news, reviews, and all the other stuff-that-fits pertaining to the works of Sir Terry Pratchett. Originally founded by the late, great Joe Schaumburger for members of the worldwide Klatchian Foreign Legion and its affiliates, including the North American Discworld Society and other continental groups, Wossname is now for Discworld and Pratchett fans everywhere in Roundworld.
********************************************************************
Editor in Chief: Annie Mac
News Editor: Vera P
Newshounds: Mogg, Sir J of Croydon Below, the Shadow, Mss C, Alison not Aliss
Staff Writers: Asti, Pitt the Elder, Evil Steven Dread, Mrs Wynn-Jones
Staff Technomancer: Jason Parlevliet
Book Reviews: Annie Mac, Drusilla D'Afanguin, Your Name Here
Puzzle Editor: Tiff (still out there somewhere)
Bard in Residence: Weird Alice Lancrevic
Emergency Staff: Steven D'Aprano, Jason Parlevliet
World Membership Director: Steven D'Aprano (in his copious spare time)
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
LETTER FROM YOUR EDITOR
Greetings, O Readers!
We've shut up shop for the holidays at the Fortress of Wossname, so all I have for you is a couple of newsbits. The first is that next year will be known in Discworld fan-land as the Year of the Condescending Carp. The second is that Bernard Pearson aka the Cunning Artificer has made some of his famous "tales of my friend Terry" available to listen to for free:
"Hark, the herald’s podcast’s here! Episode 1 of ‘And He Said To Me’ is a Hogswatch treat for your ears from our founder, Bernard Pearson, telling festive stories of The Creator with Rob Wilkins of
terryandrob, available NOW! HAPPY HOGSWATCH ONE AND ALL!"https://twitter.com/Discworldshoppe/status/1208679365002829824
"Although Terry left the party early, in March 2015 the echoes of the conversations we had, the jokes we shared and the drinks I brought, still rattle around in my head... Stories about great men sometimes miss out the human being underneath. Terry was a world-famous author and a genius. He also possessed a wonderful sense of humour. Sometimes delivered in the same way you wrap an iron bar in a sock. In his case, thankfully, it was often a rod of irony rather than heavy metal..."
https://andhesaidtome.buzzsprout.com/
The third is that the first Discworld play of the year arrives in mid-January:
* WYRD SISTERS IN READING (JANUARY 2020)
Reading's Progress Theatre, a wonderfully ambitious company whose wide-ranging productions have already included Mort (1997), The Fifth Elephant (2013), and Maskerade (2018), will be staging Wyrd Sisters in January! Melanie Sherwood and Liz Carroll return as Granny and Nanny, and they look perfect in their roles, as does Yvonne Newton as Magrat.
"The ever-popular (Sir) Terry Pratchett OBE makes a welcome return to the stage at Progress Theatre, in another wonderful adaptation by Stephen Briggs. If you like your comic fantasy turned up to the maximum you will be delighted with this show. The many people who loved our production of Maskerade will be delighted to see the return of those memorable characters, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, in this tale of witches and royalty, loosely based on Macbeth. Very loosely... People have travelled from far afield to see our previous productions of Pratchett's Discworld works, so book early to avoid disappointment."
When: 16th-25th January 2020
Venue: Progress Theatre, The Mount, Reading RG1 5HL
Time: all evening shows 7.45pm, Saturday matinees 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 (concessions £10), available via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/progresstheatre/e-yopdab
http://progresstheatre.co.uk/2020-wyrd-sisters
...and last but far from least, a glimpse into L-space that you can even create for yourself!
"You might have seen the words book nook popping up on social media in recent days, along with images of crafted alleyways, and structures acting as dividers on bookcases. The concept became popular on Reddit, with the r/booknooks subreddit going from zero to 7,900 members in just two days. The website defines book nooks as 'mini worlds created within your bookshelf', usually as a diorama of an alley... There are plenty of ways of making 'book nooks', but one that features most often is the aid of 3D printing. 'The hardest part was to make a 3D model suitable for printing,' said 38-year-old Konstantin Borisov, a programmer in Omsk, Russia. 'I modelled the objects and composed them in a complete scene...' He explained that his motivation to create the "book nook" came down to a feeling which may be shared by many book lovers... 'I wanted to have a door to the magic world like the hidden entrance behind the Leaky Cauldron in Harry Potter, but in the middle of my books. When I was thinking about this, I was thinking about the world of Terry Pratchett's books, medieval, full of magic and humour...'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50840434
The photo of that Ankh-Morpork alleyway: https://bit.ly/2QfXh5M
And that's it for 2019. Mind how you go, and we'll see you next year!
– Annie Mac, Editor
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The End. If you have any questions or requests, write: wossname-owner (at) pearwood (dot) info
Copyright (c) 2019 by Wossname for the Klatchian Foreign Legion
