Welcome to Tuesday Open Thread, where we link stuff that doesn’t quite make the cut for a full post but we still think might be of interest to our readers. A lot of the stuff in this link we’ve had for a while but never got round to posting, partly because of the holidays and partly because of laziness. 🙂

P&P as a Space Opera

This is basically the only kind of retelling of Jane Austen that we haven’t seen yet, and for good reason. Mr. Darcy can’t take his shirt off if he’s wearing a space suit.

They’ve got a point.

The Dolphin Hotel in Southampton (where Jane Austen, according to legend, once danced) goes into administration

Save Little Green Street

A still-intact Georgian street in London is in danger from being turned into a construction zone by greedy developers.

Parenting in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Hint: It’s bad!

Doodles by Andrew Davies (Ungentlemanlike Language Warning)

The first one made us LOL.

Thanks to Alert Janeites Lisa and Patty for the links! We might have forgotten someone–pipe up in the comments. And this IS an open thread, so feel free to pimp your own Jane Austen-related links and projects in the comments, or just tell us what’s going on in your patch of Janeiteville.