Classic book to tv animation

I missed the lead up to this one. The BBC has made a Bottersnikes & Gumbles tv series. I read all of S.A. Wakefield’s books, and have a paperback copy of the first – “Bottersnikes and Gumbles”.

Bottersnikes and Gumbles are fictitious creatures in a series of children's books by Australian author S.A. Wakefield and illustrator Desmond Digby (who died in April this year, Wakefield died in 2009). Four books were published between 1967 and 1989. The series is a classic of Australian children's literature.

Deep in the bush live some very strange creatures ...

Bottersnikes live in rubbish heaps along dusty roadsides in the lonely Australian bush. They have green wrinkly skin, cheese grater noses and long, pointed ears that go red when they are angry. Which is most of the time.

Giggling Gumbles live in the bush, too. They are cheerful little creatures who can be squashed into all sorts of shapes, but cannot pop back into their proper shape unless helped. This makes the friendly Gumbles useful to the lazy Bottersnikes, who have some very nasty plans ...

The Bottersnikes may have some tricks up their sleeves, but so do the resourceful Gumbles.
The battle has begun!

The Bottersnike King & Gumble Tink

The animated tv series is by the BBC (yes British not Australian) and the Seven Network and has it’s own webpage with videos, the character bios, and an ‘About’ page which includes a ‘making of’ clip.

The major difference in the animated series from the books is that while the stories recounted conflicts between the lazy, destructive Bottersnikes and good-natured, hardworking Gumbles. The two species were intended to represent opposing attitudes towards the environment; those who destroy the bush, and those who clean it up, this is missing from the new stories. Inspiration for the original stories came from the emerging environmental movement in the 1970s.

Chank the sneaky 2-I-C to the King

Read the complete adventures of the Bottersnikes & Gumbles, and watch the premiere on 7Two on 22nd December at 7:30am.

The highs & lows

A little ancedote from lunchtime today,  
I was out in 30+ degrees (today 36 max, Thursday 38, Friday 40 and Saturday 43 degrees) purchasing a rain gauge, and then buying lunch.

Four people made comment on the gauge

• 2 liked the look
• 2 asked where I had bought it (was the last in stock!)
• 1 told me I was wasting my money it isn't going to rain
• 1 that I was being over optimistic

So maybe I'm optimistic as it can record up to 250mm (that's nearly ten inches - should be enough)

Identifying Adobe

I've neglected the 23 Things for a while, so to rectify things, here is Thing 15 - Adobe ID. Your Adobe ID is for using Adobe products such as Adobe Digital Editions and Photoshop.
The Discover task was to get an Adobe ID or Bluefire Reader. We need Adobe Digital Editions for Bolinda's eBooks when you are downloading it to a computer or laptop. 

The Explorer tasks were to investigate

• Project Gutenberg (where I had downloaded my classic eBooks - Sherlock Holmes, 1984, For the term of his natural life, and so on)
• The website list of options for locating free ePUB books (which was huge, and included things like the original 1892 edition of Mother Goose) 

Mother Goose's 'There was a crooked man'

 The Thinking Points wanted you to ponder

• if you provide information to guide your library clients in downloading eBooks and reader apps? We provide a link to Abobe Digital Editions, User Guides for both our eBooks and eAudios, and a Troubleshooting Guide for eBooks
• the user experience downloading eBooks in comparison to other library experiences - where I feel we are more at the whim of the vendors of eproducts than other collections, and must provide it as they require

The Adobe Digital Editions' "Alice" with Arthur Rackham's illustrations