Diary date

[ladyofastolat]

Well, it's not every day that you get to write "meeting at the police station to plan a murder" in your diary...

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

???

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

The police are staging a murder mystery for children during the next half term. The children can solve the murder during the week, and along the way, will have lots of subliminal teaching about all sorts of things that the police want them to learn about. They want as many other children's organisations to be involved, so have invited us all to a planning meeting.

They've said that all the suspects and witnesses will be played by "well-known members of the community." I think it would be a nice counter to the cosy image of libraries if "the library lady" - i.e. me - was guilty of murder.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

All is explained. Very dully and conventionally, it has to be said!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

But of course the dull and conventional explanation is only the cover story. If you got wind of the real explanation, I'd have to kill you too.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

With pellinor and his armoury at hand, maybe that's not just an idle threat ;-)

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough (or not), I read the initial post and instantly thought, "Ah, cool, a kiddies' murder-mystery -- great that the real police are involved!" What does this say about me? (Maybe it just reveals the fact that a middle-school science teacher at my last school always ran a murder mystery for her students, with lots of forensic testing for them to do and members of staff as suspects...)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

And who is it you are planning on murdering?

It is probably a good thing you don't get to write that in your diary every day, or even most days, otherwise your diary would be very boring!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

A few summers ago, my diary for one week read: "Kill someone in the stack," "film evidence from vicar", and "collect body."

This was because I did a murder mystery session in the library, which included "security camera footage" of the death, "real" witnesses, and a (very unconvincing) "body". It was fun watching people's faces as they overheard me saying things like, "so I'll come round tomorrow to kill you, then," or "where have you put the body?"

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I want to go to your library. Sounds like lots of fun.

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

Man, when you want to be enigmatic, you really go for the gusto don't you!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

*evil laugh*

Actually, I did intend to post a clarification fairly soon, but something came up, so I couldn't get to LJ again at work. Now I'm tempted not to post an explanation at all... *laughs again, even more evilly*

But, no, it has a prosaic explanation really, in the form of a murder mystery week that the police are going to put on for children, which I - and many other people - are going to be involved in in some way.

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

Still sounds like good fun!