Member Name : Fran Ghurl
Location : Canada
Sex : Female
Hobbies : Blake's 7 - fanfic, fanart, filk, conventions.. what else!
Email : fran ghurl@aol.com

New to the Anorak's Guide, our correspondent Fran details her world of Blake's 7 Fandom.

I've had a great week this week, working on my new Avon website, as well as some cheeky fanfic with Vila and Tarrant <g>. It's an original story about them meeting up with Kieler from Gold and Belkov from Games, who are both planning to team up to take over the Terra Nostra. What's good about it is that it also features a backstory for Soolin and flashbacks to the Dayna/Justin relationship from Animals. You'll shortly be able to download highlights from my forthcoming website, Avon's Inside Leg Measurement, which you can enjoy but copyright is mine, so ask permission to reproduce.

Anyway, the best thing that happened to me this week was, of course, a Blake Convention. Like, duh! What else would it be? <g> I'd come up with a new costume based on Tarrant, but a female version, calling myself Mrs. Tarrant <g>. I stayed around the bar, swapping stories and fanfic and getting lots of new autographs for my collection. Probably the best bit was when I saw one of my favourite stars from the show. I won't namedrop, but I always refer to him as Mr. Squiggly Squirrel Nuts so you'll soon guess who I'm talking about! <g> I was having a great time, showing him all my fanfic and tapes I've made, plus some replica Moondiscs from "Shadow". I think he'd actually had a little too much to drink <g>, because he looked really interested, but then was accidentally sick in my hair! <LOL> Needless to say, I haven't washed it for a week! <g>

Click the file to view one of my new illustrations based on my post-season four fanfic, "After Blake", which you can download for personal use, but copyright is mine so please ask permission before reproducing.

To finish off, I'll let you know that I've got a new tape out, "Sgt. Avon's Lonely Hearts Club Band", which is new filk based on the series, and made by my production company Liberator's Liberators. For those newbies who don't know what filk is <g>, it's folk songs inspired by the show, which in many senses go deeper than the series itself IMHO. Here's a taster, with one of my new pieces: Remember, this filk is copyrighted, you can download it for personal use, but ask permission before reproduction.



Avon's Hair

By Fran Ghurl - Liberator's Liberators Productions, 2003.

(To the tune of "I'm a secret lemonade drinker" off the R.White's Lemonade ads)


Avon's hair is so golden and light,
an insoucient tangle of lovely curls
his bouffant fills me with delight,
he satisfies all the girls.

I wish I could be in the Liberator,
we would travel at speeds so fast,
then other times we travel slow.
Still others we would travel at speeds not quite fast, and not quite slow,
sort of in between really.

There I would make love to Avon,
and count the hairs on the back of his neck.
In season four he had ten,
in season three only nine.
And in season two he had ten as well.

copyright Fran Ghurl - may be downloaded for personal use but mail to ask express permission before reproducing.