Went down the Croydon yesterday, bought two mauve shirts (what was I thinking?) and then went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - not a lot to say about that, a did a fair job of making a decent film out of a book that’s more teenage grumpiness than actual plot. It’s now quite clear that some of the teenagers simply can’t act and that some of the veteran thesps can’t be bothered to do anything except ham it up. Excellent special effects with the exception of the CGI creatures which still look like they’re made of plasticine.

But before the film they showed a trailer for the film adaptation of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising.

Oh dear.

You see I don’t care what sort of changes they make to Harry Potter, or how they redesign the Transformers, but when you start messing around with The Dark is Rising you’re messing with something very important from my childhood.