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"my cousin rahcel" readers

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 10:05

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Boco · 07/06/2007 14:31

I want to be decca the communist black sheep please.

Hey 100, i didnt' miss out jessica - jessica is decca isn't she! The one who went to america.

Enid · 07/06/2007 14:18

Have read all possible mitford biogs

boco you could be Decca? or Nancy?

Roux · 06/06/2007 19:55

Bloomin ruddy henry...

I have no idea how you girls do it???

have spent all day running around like a blardy looney...

this is the first chance I've had to catch up all day

wanted to indulge in Cousin Rachel chat..

believe I may have missed the boat

Boco · 06/06/2007 18:23

I spent ages trying to work out what a tensi thread could be.

I didn't miss out jessica actually - i already had dibs on her as the non-fascist ran off to be left wing one.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 17:33

Yes, was good. I love the tennis thread. Is making me larf. This very serious literary thread, here I have to talk economics and feel suicidal. I like the locker room chat best.

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 17:21

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ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 17:19

You left off Jessica

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 17:07

Nooo, she is bisexual friend of them all. Flits from apartment to apartment, via crumbling Italian farm house to stately home to drunken weekends in London. Will be good for her to have Bentley on hand, and chauffeur, what with the champagne and all.

Boco · 06/06/2007 17:04

Who would you be Enid, Diana the fascist, Decca the communist, Unity the Nazi, Debo the duchess, Nancy the novelist or rural Pam?

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 16:39

Yes, I read biog. We need Enid to read it.

bundle · 06/06/2007 16:29

i read love in a cold climate, it was pretty good. think bakedpotato liked the biog. or was it marina?
have half a yellow sun at home and a trashy american crime one...guess which one i'll go for next??

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 16:28

Okay, Enid with the Mitfords, Boco with Man Ray on the farm and me with the Bloomsbury's. We're going to be very busy. Will be lots of talking.

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FluffyMummy123 · 06/06/2007 16:27

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Boco · 06/06/2007 16:20

I'm not sure about the whole fascist thing though. And the bloomsbury set were pasifists which i quite like.

Maybe i'll just stick to farley farm and the topless picnics.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 16:03

Yes would be better for you with the picnic thing I think, and you can always hang with the fascist one if she looks most fun. I'm still orf to Garsington though, all that champagne and Bentley stuff doesn't quite suit. I'm drifting about the rose garden with Keynes, wearing sensible suit.

Enid · 06/06/2007 15:43

Boco yuo dont want to hang out with the Bloomsbury group

you want the mitfords

mannish cropped hair, fag holders, champagne in proper champagne coupes, brittle laughter, open topped bentleys, screamingly funny gay friends, dogs everywhere

etc

Boco · 06/06/2007 15:19

This is me giving you a slightly pinched glance, before getting on with some frightfully important bisexuality followed by gardening and a poem.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 15:12

lol @ jerry springer.
They were a miserable bunch though weren't they? I reckon Edith Sitwell would have frightened us. Who cares. I'd have loved it. I'd have been bitter and slightly pinched. Caustic.

BishyBarneyBee · 06/06/2007 14:46

love the glam of them too - and the sheer artistic air of authority.

BishyBarneyBee · 06/06/2007 14:45

shows what rick stein knows.

Am cribbing from a letter in the radio times about a programme rick stein did.

Boco · 06/06/2007 14:45

Those Bloomsberries were all totally bisexual, it was compulsary. I'd love to hang out with them - not in a bi-curious way, or a particularly mean and fascist and suicidal way, just in a glamorous clique.

Boco · 06/06/2007 14:36

With Gerry Springer leaping from behind a bush.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 14:32

Have looked this up on Wikipaedia. Not only did Du Maurier and Gertrude have an affair, but Gertrude also had affair with Du Maurier's father.
Goodness. They'd be good to have the topless picnic I should think.

ahundredtimes · 06/06/2007 14:29

Sooo lesbian in every way. I always rather fancied hanging with those fascist Bloomsbury crowd, being mean and slightly suicidal in the Sitwell's rose garden.

Boco · 06/06/2007 14:26

Yes, read nights at the circus - but it was years ago during my adolescent Angela Carter phase.