Les Environs De Lourdes

I just noticed that the classic John Denver & The Muppets "A Christmas Together" currently available on CD is missing three of the original songs, including "Little Saint Nick". I imagine it's the result of a steaming load of legal Bah Humbug rather than an artistic impulse. But when my laptop gets fixed I can make you a copy of the original version, so it's not the end of the world.

Brought the nephew Jarod belated presents last night for his second birthday. I got him a John Deere cup/bowl/plate set from Illinois and a talking Viewmaster. He regarded the talking Viewmaster as indigenous folk regard the Great Metal Bird - interested, but wary of bad juju. I just noticed that the "religious" section of the Viewmaster website offers 3-reel sets of "Les Environs De Lourdes" and "St. Anne de Beaupre". Jarod might have to share the Viewmaster with Uncle John.

I've finally reached the section of Jane Eyre that features St. John. I thought he would be a bearded, longhaired man given to fits of spiritual passion - an anchorite of the moors wearing a burlap sack. He sounds more like a Star Trek Vulcan; English country pastor who won't cut loose, his greatest thrill is walking his dog Bongo, no I think the dog's name is Carlo. But at least he let Jane Eyre crawl in out of the rain and gave her a teaching job. Now she's teaching the "gaping rustics" at the country day school and having mad dreams of Rochester whom she left sobbing on his couch.