Academy of Armitage Studies -- the Research continues

[Theresahollyinyourmind]

Welcome to our newest faculty building. Make yourselves comfortable and ignore the smell of paint. We cannot keep up with the demand for new premises.

Didn't you warn her, Missy? It was bad enough for little me and I had seen it all before courtesy of YT.

And I wasn't on Marion's side, heaven help me.

I haven't warned her - although she knows that Marian dies - but have nudged The Poet (on whose knee she is sitting) so that he can react swiftly, if necessary.

I think Lucas' problem, in small part anyway, was that he didn't have the sort of girlfriend who could sew on a button.

I suppose that as I'm a feminist I shouldn't have mentioned girlfriends and button-sewing in the same sentence.

I tend to think though that if he went outside and canvassed for volunteers he would have been flattened in the rush, long before he got fl..... well, you know the rest.

Very true - and I am not meaning to suggest at all that button-sewing is woman's work - but I stand by my general point that Lucas might have fared better if he had had some, well, ordinary people in his life.

What is The Moment, Missy? I'm not au fait with what happens in RH in what order...

I expect in his line of work you don't meet many ordinary people. Even that nice little old lady next door was a spook, wasn't she, or did I get that wrong?

Gisborne has just run Marian through with his sword. It is all very Wagnerian.

Oh, I didn't realise that happened in S2! So they have a whole series without Marian in 3 then?!

Oooh, looking good on the shirt now!

The sheer inevitability of it makes me want to throw a hissy fit.

Stupid girl. Stupid man.

Stupid Holly. it's a story FFS

I hope your dear girl is okay, Missy.

My darling girl is fine, just disappointed that there will be no more Marian biffing baddies on the jaw - she especially liked it when Marian knocked Alan out.

So, Twiggy, how many millions are you raking in tonight?

Glad your DD is ok. I was thinking of getting mine into RH but I think she would be too upset by all that.

Well I am down by about £7 on the shirt but that's not as bad as it could've been. Tonight's ventures have netted about £30 in all, not bad I guess.

Right, I'm failing to concentrate on Spooks S3 whilst I'm here, despite the lovely Adam, so I will bid you farewell for tonight.

Bye, all!

Will you be getting S3, Missy? There is a feisty girl character in that IIRC, Bobbin's new lady friend. he does seem to get over losing the love of his life PDQ. The twerp!

Go Twiggy! Will she be our first academy millionaire?

G'night, Twiggy, enjoy your Spooks.

Night, Tycoon Twiggy!

Adam was rather sweet (and sort of disproves my half-baked theory that having a calm and contented home life might have saved Lucas, as it didn't in the end help Adam).

Err, Holly, I've already got series 3. I bought them all at once in a moment of extravagance skittishness. Still wavering about buying Venetia - I hadn't realised it was four CDs.

Now watching The Scottish Play on BBC4 (not the RSC one with Mr Armitage as Angus). More death and destruction.

According to the wrapper which I happen to have here next to me, Venetia is 4 hours 49 minutes and 5 seconds of jolly fun. A few of those are taken up by chamber-type music intros, but the rest is unadulterated Armitage.

Heyer is very much Austen lite, but intelligently so. If you are looking for deep, meaningful and angsty, a la Mr T. I haven't found it so far. But there are 3 CDs to go. And it's fun and charming.

Also acording to the wrapper, somebody else has had the nerve to have already done N&S, so there goes one dream bubble burst.

Now, you see, it's the Austen lite that bothers me. Will there be an awful lot of, err, bonnets? And trips to the drapers to buy sprigged muslin? But my dearest friend adores Heyer, and she too is a woman of sense (not to mention sensibility, geddit) so maybe I shall.

Am up to my eyes in bloodshed here, of course. Out, out, damn spot.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.....

I always think ''Out vile jelly!'' is more puke-worthy. D'ya think the Man would give us his Lear if we asked nicely?

There has already been some muslim and dimity, I must say, in Venetia but, spoken in The Voice,
''...who am I to interfere with this?''

I got Venetia from the library - does yours have an online search facility?

I love the sound of sprigged muslin and frankly wish we wore more bonnets, and took more turns about rooms and gardens. Much more civilised.

Yes, but no washing machines and no internet, lovely. We'd all be stuck at home squinting over a candle and trying to stitch samplers, or press flowers, ot the like,, and hoping a wicked rake would come visiting at the Big House, in time for a nice Spring
Ball.

But probably the only male we eve saw under the age of 70 would be the butcher's boy.

Lovely - I love the sound of sprigged muslin, but nonetheless am thankful that I don't live in an era when the purchase of same (and the acquisition of a husband) was the beginning and end of a lady's ambition! I have an extremely large collection of bonnets, though, being (see earlier contributions to this thread) something of a hat enthusiast.

I suppose so. I couldn't muck about with study with you lot then could I?

Oh I dunno, he's done the aged West Countryman thingie, hasn't he? And he'd have fun having an Elephant Man moment.
It has some great lines, too
How sharper than a serpent's tooth, and all of that jazzin' around.

Lear is full of grue,indeed. I forgot who was in it when I saw it (out in the sticks so hardly one of the best), but they threw gobs of gelatine about.

Funky!

No, lovely. You'd have to wait to have the carriage sent over for you, so you could come and take tea with us, and you'd have to hope you didn't get soaked in the rain on your way home and need to be conveyed to Pemberley to recuperate.