University of Armitage Studies

[MrsLucasNorth]

And here are our study materials for the evening. Not sure if we've had them before, but have tried to find new ones - is getting trickier !

Enjoy!

Sadly my kitchen's not big enough for scrubbed pine.

Plenty of worktop though...[winks]!

MrsLN - Why don't you take over the development of the Strike Back merchandising range? I see this as very much a collaborative venture.

Don't want to upset Flowers but I seem to recall a rather innovative barbecue grill.

Clothing too, that desert camoflage look would go down a treat with DHs wanting to come across all hard and manly at the weekend.

And I seem to remember some rather fetching lingerie was modeled in one stage, that would certainly suit the ladies.

I seem to have forgotten that. Do I want to be reminded?

We should also sell black velvet eyemasks for those of a delicate disposition

Recommeded for use at first intimation of a BBT armour sighting, or certain Claridges or Lovelace moments.

Mr Thornton would find this saucy little number irresistible

Maybe we could market these too?

Arf, Boden!

Could your contacts in the meeja help us here?

Sorry, Guy, but I ''really really want'' one of those too.

Bad greedy Theresa.

Transfer tattoos. Write your own slogan.

Vita brevis ars longa

Vivamus atque amemus

Blimey, now Latin. Could we be more cultured?

I am trying to do amusing ones in Google Translate but it's leaving something in translation. "Keep clam and think of Lucas" translates as "sign up and calm, then think of Luke". "Lucas can spook me any time" is "Luke can poker me, at any time" :o

calm, not clam!

Amor vincit omnia

Per ardua ad Luce maybe?

I like that last one, F :) Oooh, this is interesting! Until you used 'luce' above, I hadn't though that, of course, the name Lucas could be connected with light - light, not really being something you assosicate with him, is it? But then I Googled the actual meaning of the name and apparently it comes from an Indian word meaning "unknown" - that seems very appropriate and I wonder if it was deliberate or not.

Ardua is too flippin' well true. But dulce et decorum est, perhaps

Fiat Lucas

And ''North'' is all sort of cold and chilly too, Boden.You could be onto something there.

This building is developing cracks, meanwhile. We may have to move soon.

It seems someone has taken the Latin dictionary from my office. And the online translators depend on your knowing Latin grammar, which might have been the case years ago but is less so now. But, having invented an ablative for Lucas, which of course does not fit any Latin declension, I think Boden's cherished motto, inscribed on the Bodenbabe coat of arms, will go something like this:

Tene quietus atque de Luca puta

On the subject of names, I saw recently that Lucas was 17th most popular boys' name in 2009. I wonder what (if anything) the parents of little Lucases feel now that he has turned out to be such a (to put it mildly) complicated character?