Success with the Press Gang

So remember here I talked about the quandary of buying DVDs for tweens. Well I did send my niece the Press Gang series on DVD for her birthday, and on my recent visit I discovered that she is obssessed, not to overstate the case. She received it in the middle of May, and she's already on her second round through all five seasons. My sister told me she went into her room one night at 11.00 pm and she was sitting up watching it in bed! She quotes it, she talks about it often, she asked me questions about it (assuming I'd seen it all and remembered everything) like "what is your favourite episode", "do you remember the one where Colin dresses as a bunny?" etc etc etc. She even got on the computer when I was down there looking for the actors and for all the other movies they'd been in. So she then kept asking us random movie questions like "have you seen Star Dust?" and "did you see Chicken Run?" - the one connection being that someone from Press Gang featured in them (we finally worked this out). She has all the makings of a screen junkie that child.

I did feel like a very successful, groovy present-giving Aunty one afternoon when she listed the presents I'd given her for her birthday for the last few years (I think gifts are her love language!), with an accompanying analysis, and concluded "you give me things I've never even heard of, and they're awesome". But now I'm already feeling the pressure for next year's birthday!

Here's a picture of the lovely Lucy halfway up a tree in Sorrento.