Richard Armitage Anonymous (Again)

[ASmallBunchofFlowers]

The twaddle continues ......

I think you must be right LeQueen, Our work here is perhaps a little rarified and esoteric for mass distribution.

Talking of rarified and esoteric,I am relieved to find that the vid that distills Guy's is still loading for me.

I have been thus far too distracted by the meaningful visuals to take notice of the verbal aspects, but how very appropriate they are.

Though I do think he has a wee little bit of a soft centre behind all that hard man stuff. After all, he is always telling Marion he ''has another side''

No LeQ, just encourage MrQ to indulge you in a little role-playing. He could act all mean and moody, it'D be fun and worth his trouble cos he'd only stand to gain.

He could do the Claridges thing for your birthday or something. Tell him not to forget the blue sheets.

This vid is a bit of a but the good bits are, well, amazing . So do stick with it

Boden - Miss LN has been drawing in the sitting room all morning while I've been working (intermittently) in dining room! She's just put away a bowl of tomato soup and several slices of garlic bread so I think she'll live !

Have just ordered this:

marie lloyd

from the library, plus the unabridged book of Clarissa and another book analysing Clarissa (so I look like a literature student rather than a stalker!!!)

Very nice Theresa - it's that tilted head, eyebrow raised thing he does 5 seconds in that does it for me (and of course that's absolutely the only thing that does it for me )

We may not be discussion of the day, but we have quite often - thanks to the diligence with which we approach our work - been in most active convos.

Bodenbabe - Yes, I am very fortunate. SmallBloke likes reading aloud and I have on-demand poetry recitals. He has a nice voice, sadly not LAMDA-trained but you can't have everything.

Hideous news about the Great Gatsby remake. It's one of my favourite books and I think that Mr Armitage could be a superlative Gatsby, although I think it was Theresa who wisely pointed out that the part is so much identified with Robert Redford that it may be hard to accept anyone else in the part. Even the otherwise inestimable Toby Stephens (aka telly's Mr Rochester) did not make much of it.

Everyone should read North and South. It's far better than all those wimpy Jane Austen books which are about Getting A Man. This one has social history, class divisions, religious dissension, industrialisation, birth of the trade union movement, abiding love and cravats. What more could anyone need?

Theresa - I am delighted that you like Bad To The Bone so much. I consider it my gift to the MN world, or at least this corner of it. As for the other one, it is indeed a curate's egg but as it offers FAF, apple biting and sword brandishing all within the first few frames I can see that it might have an appeal to the bliaut-wearing sorority. That quote is from series 1, the last dvd of the set (so episodes 10 - 13, I can't remember which).

Have just thought of a role I would loooove to see RA play:

Teddy Lloyd in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Have just ordered Cold Feet 5 from the libarary too, Flowers. I fear adding yet more Robin Hood would run the risk of me looking slightly tragic...might just go and see if they have that one though ...

MrsLN - I watched the Marie Lloyd thing at the time (under the influence of friends who are historians of Victorian music hall). 'Twas very good but Mr Armitage made no impression upon me then. Surprising because - don't know whether I've ever mentioned this before -I do like a nice Victorian gentleman.

You don't do you? I'd never have guessed.

Just searched the library's online catalogue and Robin Hood Season 1 Episodes 10-13 was the first thing that came up.

It would've been rude not....

Anyway, must crack on. Mr Thornton-North is calling...

I try to keep it a secret, MrsLN.

Well in addition to the humiliating harrassment I'm getting from Amazon re recommondations, (and I haven't got round to ordering Venetia yet, either)YT is now doing its best to out me to anyone who borrows my PC.

My LOTN audiobook has shipped, meanwhile.

Flowers, he has a very nice way with an apple, does he not?

Was Marie Lloyd the one that sang about sitting among the cabbages and peeing peas?

Is Theresa still about?

The music department has just sent over this recording of an old jazz standard which she might appreciate. Like all the best torch songs, it's .

Still here, Flowers, to tell you of another Shame. A plastic surgery clinic is now following me on Twitter. FFS, what are they on ???? And did they do it to all Twitter Lucas's followers or just me?

Yes, Theresa, that is she.

Quite, LeQ. Ms Austen is quite brilliant at depicting life inside that little bubble, but hopeless at even acknowledging that there is anything outside it.

Thinking of Waterloo and the Duchess of Richmond's ball, I was wondering whether Mr Armitage might do well in Vanity Fair. But in which role? Rawdon Crawley? Possibly too close to Lovelace.

All sorts of odd bods have attempted to follow me on Twitter. I have blocked them all. But I haven't been approached by a plastic surgery clinic. Yet.

Maybe they're trying to tell me something, Flowers

Thanks for the vid. It makes up for all the interweb battering I'm getting.
Foremost in my enjoyment was the skilful cutting room technique which so admirably mirrored the musical cues.

Just a quickie, but FAF?

Fallen Angel Face --referring to how Guy looks very Botticelli in some shots

I really ought to be going to an Important Faculty Meeting, but I'm just leaving this . Something here for all tastes.

Doh, silly me - of course. Thanks Theresa.

Most thoughtful of you Flowers