Budding authors who want to see their opi (opu? which declension is this?) turned into film - beware! On this day in 1832 French novelist George Sand (real name Amantine Dupin) published her book Indiana. It too 143 years for it to appear in film form, with Harrison Ford (real name, Harrison Ford) in the title role.
You have been warned!
In other news ...
'It is neither fitting nor safe,' said the Bishop of Rochester today in 1376, 'that all the keys should hang from the belt of one woman.' He was talking about the bad influence of Alice Perrers, who had got her hooks into King Edward III. Where, oh where, was Rochester when the Conservative Party chose Maggie Thatcher as their leader?
Answer: where it's always been. Somewhere in Kent.
