Academy Of Armitage Studies - pass the Twiglets...

[Bodenbabe]

Welcome to the new common room! Grab yourself some Twiglets and a glass of Chateau Gisborne or some Polish Cordial and come on in - the water's lovely!

Glad you liked the vid, teacups. On the whole, I prefer the gentler Guy vids (although Theresa has convinced me of the merits of some of the, ahem, post-watershed options).

Living as I do within a stone's throw of The Man, I rather hope I don't bump into him in B&Q. I hope too that I would have the strength of will not to speak to him, because I'm sure he's had more than enough experience of flustered ladies sidling up to tell him of the untold pleasure he's given them. Surely he deserves some time off. But would I, could I be that strong?

Thanks for the Twitter suggestions, Flowers. I am such a Twitter Twerp.

Boden, I am glad to see I am not the only one likely to be rendered speechless by the sight of Our Hero in B&Q. I bet the CCTV tapes that day would make hilarious viewing.
Who would dare approach and ask for directions to the sonic screwdriver section?

I'm not really here but just nipping in to say... oh, Mr Lovelace!!

Just you wait, Boden, just you wait.

Wait till you get to the good bits, Boden.

Don't forget to leave your feminist credentials on the mantlepiece beforehand, will you?

Message to fangirl Teri - That wasn't the implication at all! I was actually thinking of Guy being , who is nonetheless and about whom ladies may harbour .

Vintage - probably something about kitchen tables, or just: "Here's my phone number, give me a call when you're back from Middle Earth"

(cos I'd really have the nerve to do that in RL

Flowers, don't take any notice of Teri, she is Lady Gaga orientated all the way and is trying to pretend otherwise. A shame everyone can't be as refined and level headed as you and I, but it takes all sorts.

Yes, I am an Intellectual and an Aesthete and spend all my time watching .

Giggle about "kitchen tables", MrsLN :)

I have just finsihed Pt.1 of Clarissa and can't wait until tomorrow morning when I can hear the rest. Theresa, I'm so grateful to you for pointing me to those links - can't believe they were sitting there all the time and I didn't download them! I think I was put off trying because I'm such a technical dunce but it was easy! Made the painting all the more bearable to have Mr Lovelace talking to me. Just a shame that I'm not so keen on the yellow I chose. Now I wish I'd gone for a gorgeous shade of blue.

He's being lovely to her at the moment and seems like a Thoroughly Nice Chap, but I am well briefed to know that this will change :o I'm quite worried about one scene actually - not wanting to say in case anyone hasn't listened yet, but you probaly know the one I mean - is it horrible to listen to or is it glossed over? I'm nervous about that.

I dare you, Boden, to take that photo into any paint store that does colour-matching and ask them to match the paint to the eyes!

I'm made of quite stern stuff but I found That Scene quite unsettling because as they say (and as you know from your long association with Mr Wogan) the pictures are clearer on radio. But it's bearable.

OK thanks for clarification re the hair, I had mentally blocked out the bad hair scenes but they are now firmly back .

I was in south east London today (which I understand is home to someone rather dashing) and I was thinking that very thing myself Vintage. I wondered whether I would play it cool and ignore (but secretly stalk around the shop) or whether I would find something incredibly witty to say. Probably the former. I would like to say something about kitchen tables or perhaps we could have asked him to stand still while we held colout charts up to his eyes Boden?

Ah sorry Flowers, just saw your first line!

I was just called away by RL but was going to point out to Flowers that Teri, for some reason, is listening to Britney.

I am bent on more of course

I did see Vernon Kay in Homebase near me a while back. I ignored him. I did not stalk.

Boden, we should rather thank cornishpasty the OP of the Clarissa links, and also Flowers, who taught me how to find things on MN.

My link above turned out to be very apt, talking as you were about colour charts. Maybe they should bring out a new shade of blue paint in the Heritage range perhaps, called --what would it be called? Armitage Eyes?

I too, Theresa, am continuing my research in the department of History of Art, although I am concentrating more on Renaissance sculpture. And, don't ask me how this ever happened, but I am .

Stripey - Great minds think alike. What a pity I didn't know you were going to be in SE London. We could have loitered in`BandQ had a cup of tea together.

Settle down on the chaise longue, close your eyes and listen to this. .

Are you to the east then Flowers? It would have been lovely to have a cup of tea. I was wondering which bit of SE he lived in. My guess would be Dulwich (or is that too south?).

Beguiling Blue Theresa

Nah, I'm sarf east, Stripey.

The trouble I have with so many groups like Coldplay and even worse, shock horror, Oasis, is that they sound so whiney. As well as about 14 and spotty. But I found myself enjoying ''Fix You''. Maybe it's the influence of the vid. You certainly get an education here at the Academy.

re ths sculpture --there is a good B&Q sentence for you: ''Can I do you in marble?''

I'm a west end girl myself Flowers. I only go east when stalking Richard visiting friends.

I quite like some coldplay. I loved Yellow and I like Viva la Vida - always think it should be a Guy of Gisborne YT song.

Yes, that (and the awful plinky plinkiness of much of their piano playing) is exactly why I have always disliked Coldplay - or so I thought - but I had never heard Fix You and that has grown on me. I disliked Oasis for all that well-hard geezer schtick they used to do and for having borrowed so much of their material (or so it sounded to me) from early Lennon and McCartney.

at "Can I do you in marble?" Or there's "Would you like to see be in my etchings?" Or "Would you like to model for my gender-role reversal update of an Impressionist masterpiece?"

Ah yes, Stripey, but I thort you was in sarf east London today, innit.

Mind you, I am now into Muse.

Goodness, how many versions of Them there Eyes there are. I guess a lot of poeple have found it meaningful.