Ha ha - I've got my DVD going - now I can watch it twice, although with about 15 minutes time distort.
Hi, Anne. Sorted your lessons out yet?

Yep, swelling is almost gone. :-)

Rather better this week, thank you - the assignments turned out to be quite well done when I marked them on Thursday, and the students were reassured that, on this showing, they would have passed the exam. But the two students I am really worried about weren't there - one was ill, but the other seems to have just dropped out, which is worrying.

Only if it takes your numbers below the funding threshold!

Only if it takes your numbers below the funding threshold!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6??? um one is missing. Six isn’t a very high number to count to, you’d had a thought one of them could’ve counted that high.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6??? um one is missing. Six isn’t a very high number to count to, you’d had a thought one of them could’ve counted that high.

Here in Australia they'd be passed anyway. No-one fails; everyone wins a prize; elephant stamps all round.

Counting is hard. I was once asked to count down from 8, and missed out 7. My friend/teacher told me to do it again, and I did. 8,6,5,4,3,2,1.

Excuse me, SHE is on screen....

Golly I wish I’d gone to those classes.

What do you teach AnneArthur?

Golly I wish I’d gone to those classes.

I teach Old French language to MA students in Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Medieval History. It's one of a number of language options, with Latin, Old English, Old Norse and Arabic.

What do you teach AnneArthur?

What on earth is an elephant stamp??

Say it Jenna. Guilt like Blake's isn't rational.

I teach Old French language to MA students in Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Medieval History. It's one of a number of language options, with Latin, Old English, Old Norse and Arabic.

Just a stamp of an elephant that teacher can put on a kiddies school work when they’ve done well.

Might be worth a try, Anne? Motivational, and all that.

How does Arabic manage to be linked with that bunch of languages? Old Norse is an interest of mine.

It occurs to me now that Servalan's long white dress might have been influenced by Princess Leia's in Star Wars - it's a sign of how much she made it her own that I'm only just thinking this now.

Failing that, the perennial gold star.

I teach Old French language to MA students in Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Medieval History. It's one of a number of language options, with Latin, Old English, Old Norse and Arabic.

Surely Star Wars wasn't released until after they'd started recording this?

It's a language spoken and written in the Middle Ages. It's a fairly recent addition, a sign of the university trying to become less Euro-centric.

It's not the usual combination, though. I remember in a Medieval Studies course I did doing an assignment where it was obvious that the only reasonable sources were all in Arabic. Gave me the irrits so much only using secondary sources that I wrote a note saying what a dumb topic it was to set without us having Arabic. Little did I know that I'd be living in the Middle East studying Arabic only a few years later.

So Blake admits that Travis is the better strategist, and leader of men. And possibly a better shot, since Blake didn't kill Travis. Good to know, Blake.

I think I remember seeing Star Wars in the summer of 1977 - this was aired in the spring of 1978. How much earlier would it have been filmed?