University of Milton North - bring a bottle & some Twiglets!

[MrsLucasNorthPole]

Ta da!

a nice fluffy pic for the common room

I think maybe it's more to do with the sex end of the equation. There have to be things to make the cavelady more amenable to continuing the gene, if you get my drift.

I have assumed - and no need to comment if I'm wrong - that the HollyBerries are of the male kind and so you are doing them a good deed if you are enabling them to manage a few minor domestic tasks for themselves. But they may not yet see it like that, I know.

Moving swiftly on, break out the blankets and hot soup?

He does look like he needs them in that pic, doesn't he...and a big cuddle (but that might be my imagination)

That was nice, Holly - I had a similar moment to you a while back, when the picture loaded very slowly and delectably, line by line. Just like Santa's New Toy :)

DD is better today and I'm feeling lots better (but very lifeless and quite tearful, oddly) but now DS is ill as well! Argh, I hate winter. I think he has croup.

Is anyone watching Upstairs Downstairs? I just watched the 1st 2 episodes on iPlayer and am really enjoying it.

Evening all.

That photo is tres twiglet, Holly!

Oh dear about the raging illness in ChateauTwiggy. If you are feeling tearful, Twiggy, perhaps you need medical advice? I have taken the liberty of arranging a housecall from a doctor whose bedside manner is particularly attentive.

I saw last night's Upstairs Downstairs and found it rather, err, dull. It seemed to veer dangerously close to Victoria Wood territory and I kept expecting her to come bustling in with a tea tray and complaining about her sciatica. Perhaps, though, I am suffering from period drama ennui (being old enough to remember the original Upstairs Downstairs) and only something very remarkable involving (say) cotton mills, riots, Plato, smouldering and perfect teeth can excite me now.

By the time most TV shows get here to the great grey-green greasy banks, even the modern ones are period drama.

However are we going to locate s series that has all Missy's exacting criteria, though? An impossible task.

Poor Twiglet family. You are going through the wars. I am so glad the piccie of the pretty spy man gave you a small fillip. If he does indeed require cuddles, I don't think he will be short of volunteers. Perhaps we could do it in shifts.

I feel your pain, Holly. Have you looked at the Amazon sale, by the way? Muchos bargains there, it seems. I have just spent a fiver on Moulin Rouge, enticed by that, ahem, eye-catching number you linked to a little while back.

I know that cotton mills, riots, Plato, smouldering and perfect teeth are an unlikely, nay, impossible combination. It was just a wild flight of fancy of mine. I don't expect ever to find anything like that.

I shall check out Amazon after the hols I think or the longing will get too much for me. At the moment I am tending towards RH3 and maybe that original RH audiobook. Purely for serious research purposes, you understand. I have to go by dribs and drabs or the customs elephants will come down rather heavily on me.

Re the period dramas, if you were prepared to accept smouldering and perfect teeth in conjunction with leather and big swords, or copious facial hair and blobs of oil paint, I could possibly find you something...

Oh, you already have the one with the leather

Facial hair and blobs of paint? Now you're talking. Any chance of some clay?

I do indeed have the boys in leather kissing girls in pearls. We have only just finished watching it.

Evening!!! Studying hard I see!

I've got the RH3 audiobooks by Big Finish (who produce lots of Doctor Who audiobooks). - they're good, though only about 1 hour long in each case and done with sound effects as well. He does them both really well, as usual. There were also some others narrated by other members of the cast, but I don't think anybody ever buys those

Found this earlier, completely by accident I assure! I can't believe anyone would buy them, except possibly for a joke.

Ugh. Words fail me. Presumably the thong can be bought in a gift set with the matching pillow case.

I don't know if clay was involved. Maybe there could be a original female character worked in, who had embraced the bohemian lifestyle and swigged big glasses of wine in the cafes with them and when they went off on their painting expeditions, pottered off to the Louvre or something to copy the odd Michelangelo if they have one. I rather like Nike too for a complete change but can't find a good photo of her.

All this rather than the usual female-type character who does all the cleaning and cooks for them.

And while I have een thinking of Art, this tasteful gift for the lady who has everything surfaces. I might be tempted to buy one for my worst enemy if it had any other name on it, but,.... Ugh, indeed.

I don't think clay was involved, but one always lives in hope (not that I would want to appear in this drama, as neither the Impressionists nor the PRB seem to have treated their women well, on the whole). I was wondering whether Monet ever met Camille Claudel, but during my extensive research on wikipedia I haven't found anything to suggest that he did.

Ah, but this original character very remotely based on you would stand none of that sort of male chauvinistic nonsense. Any funny business and she'd take out her hatpin from her big feathery hat and deploy it mercilessly.

Re the unmentionables, that pillowcase almost begins to look attractive in comparison.

I think one guest appearance in a work of literature is enough for me. By the standards of the unmentionables, PlasticGuy suddenly seems attractive!

Surely we've seen this. And yet I don't remember it.

Ooh la la! Comme il est beau, meme barbu!

Et voila!

Quels beaux yeux bleus. Being as we're
but at the song, mind you, not so much then the singer. Whose mum was the Charles Aznavour fan?

I am usually rendered insensible by anyone speaking French (yes I mean you, Monsieur Depardieu). Here is .

If we're talking Charles Trenet,

Oh, indeed it is (and links neatly back to a Bobby Darin moment we had a while ago).

Meanwhile just seen that Anne Rice wants the Man to be her vampire Lestat. I am not a fan of the books but could possibly make an exception in that case. Even though it would be mega-angsty again.