Academy of Armitage Studies: The Research Continues

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Welcome to the new campus of the Academy for Advanced Armitage Studies, part of the University of Milton-Northern.

We offer courses at all levels from introductory to advanced and opportunities for independent research. Come and share your learning with us.

That was fantastic, Flowers. What a nice change of music, that was! Thoug I can't help but see him as being from a Blackadder episode when he wears that top hat :) Sterling work, Fleur.

A link from your clip led me to this / It's funny, rather than moving or profound - love the "it's electrifying" moment! You will probalby find it a little irreverent, Flowers but it made me smile. And actually some of the lyrics are quite relevant cf. "if you're filled with affection, you're too shy to convey".

It is utterly scrumptious, isn't it? We'll gloss over that one inappropriate lyric.

And as for the swooning and thudding, be my guest!

Right, night all. Need to step away from TeenageTwitterLucas now, so switching the laptop off. A demain!

Oh, Boden, that is great! Sometimes, after the tragedy of Lucas, we need a bit of levity. And Grease and Saturday Night Fever have a special place in my heart.

I am sometimes quite spoilt for choice between lovely Johnny, Adonais Lucas and naughty Guy. who does one swoon at first?

That was fun, Boden, cleverly edited too, to the soundtrack.

Don't go, Boden. You can switch off TL without switching off MN

Be strong, Boden. You know you can.

Think of Runcorn, Boden.

Think of Kevin and Perry in their fetid bedroom with a pile of mouldy football socks, pizza crusts and a copy of Nuts decomposing under the unmade bed.

"you can switch off TL" - but I can't, he's taking his shirt off and everything!! Though bed-caling is more to do with having been awake with the Minis from 4am

aaawwww, would be such fun to get together and drink Chateau Gisborne wit you all! (or I preferred my latter finding - Mount Gisborne :) ) Mwah!

Boden must have either has fainted at the thought or already donned her hair shirt and powered down for the night.

Literally ROFL, to the point of needing asthma inhaler, at "think of Runcorn" :o

Oh Lordy. Now TTL is taking off his shirt and offering his hotdog.

I rest my case.

Ewww, though, Boden, it's Kevin or Perry's shirt, not Lucas's Prada lovely.. Not been washed for a month, they keep picking through their dirty clothes to see which is the least ripe till they can get someone's mum to collect it all and take it away to be fumigated.

WAAAAAH, stop it, Flowers & Theresa!!! Damn, but you ladies are making me laugh this evening! Actually, I sort of offered to take off TTL's shirt for him Is it possible to disapprove but still participate? It's like if they took away the finest Belgian chocolate and replaced it all with a Lidl choc bar - you'd still eat it if that's all there was, right? Anyway, it was a lot worse than the shirt earlier - he was on about kebabas and having his lips around most of it

Hot dog? Lawksamussy!Now I am snorting my Polish Cordial down my nose.

Oooh! that was rather nice, akshuwally. The cordial-snorting that is, not the hot dog.

Ok, really have to go now - 5 hours sleep and half a bottle of Chatea Giz are not going to be good tomorrow. Goodnight, sweet ladies... (a parting bit of Hamlet for you there - have we thought of RA as Hamlet? Too obvious?) Night, all.

Here is that Burberry coat link again:

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Night Boden. I hope you do have sweet dreams, and not Runcorn nightmares

Night, Boden.

I was going to say that Mr Armitage is too old for Hamlet, but a quick rummage in the Theatre Studies department's archive shows that David Tennant (who played the Prince two years ago) is almost exactly the same age.

And, Boden: Is it possible to disapprove but still participate? Truthfully? I think not. You are perpetuating it. Think of the responsibility. They probably have some homework they need to hand in tomorrow. And I deliberately did not mention the kebab. Eww.

I did have a good laugh at it all, though, Flowers. Not at TTL, but our interpretation of what was going on.

I think actors of all ages have played Shakespeare's heroes, regardless of the supposed age of said character. It seems to me that it's a recent fashion to have, for example, young actors for Romeo and Juliet.
But I am an expat, what do I know.

Shall I tidy up, now and put out the lights?

Yes, I am now a slave to the idea that TTL is Kevin and Perry, who have relocated to Runcorn and inhabit a squalid bedroom (as above).

You're right, I think, that the fashion for age-matching actor to role is quite recent. I suspect (without bothering to check) that dear, dear Larry and Ralph (amongst others, never mind Henry Irving) used to play parts for which they were actually decades too old.

I must away to bed. Have a book to finish by Friday and have barely started it. (It's sadly deficient in cravats, hence my sluggardly attention to it). I may have to switch the PC off, Boden stylee, to get through it tomorrow.

Good night. And good luck with the reading. I have been on the same book for a fortnight, since starting this lark.