Dept. of Advanced Cravatology, University of Milton North

[PassTheTwiglets]

Just in case we need new premises tonight... :)

I have looked at them now and can't find it! Maybe Phoenix will know, she knows everything.

The rumours of the demise of my telly may have been greatly exaggerated. A chum on another thread thought it sounded like the fixable affliction to which her telly succumbed, so I have lugged the telly down to the local audio-visual artisan who is going to provide a diagnosis and prognosis.

Yes, MissTechno is well aware of the tricks of CGI but nevertheless I was amused at her initial scepticism as it matched my own.

I wonder whether the UK Harper's has the interview with lovely Colin in it? I never buy magazines unless they come with a free trowel. Looking at my wardrobe, it shows.

Seen this...?

Moscow airport bombed

It's the one you see Lucas arriving at in Series 7.

That's awful Mrs LN!

Just heard it on the radio. What a world we live in.

Just seen the Moscow airport news myself. And yet they say they are still open for business as normal

Fingers crossed your local televisual artizan can fix your telly, Techno. I was just thinking about you and wondering if you could get your DVD fix on your computer.

The Harpers I bought is the UK one for February. I rarely buy the Limpopoland edition as all the slebs are people I have never heard of and the clothes are not right for a stiff upper-lipped ex-pat Brit lady. (I use all those terms loosely)

Harpers should look into free trowels. Come in handy for the slap...

I knew it was a mistake to mix up my gardening and my maquillage equipment.

::Uses chisel to remove first layer of make-up::

My lovely artisan reckons he can fix my telly by tomorrow. I know I could watch dvds on the 'puter but it would hardly be the same.

::Looks wistfully at vacant telly-sized space::

::Has brainwave::

::Loads Venetia on the 'puter::

I may be busy for a while, ladies.

Venetia...Chapter 9....

::wibble::

www = world-wide wibble

::wibble to the power of n::

Are you sitting comfortably, Techno?
It sounds as if you might be enjoying it just a wibble little..

It's a very strange experience. It is (so far anyway) so much not the sort of book I would ever read, but it's certainly making the ironing go with a swing.

::scorches her best petticoat::

Oooh. Just had the first mention of Lord Dameral.

"Well, fair trespasser, you are justly served, aren't you...."

Wouldn't mind that sort of punishment, meself

What would happen if we synchronised our Venetia listening? Would the global hyper-wibble cause the earth to shift on its axis? Would we fall through a hole in the space-time continuum?

PS some folk haven't a clue, have they? Just had a spam e-mail from a Mr. Pope Innocent.

Would we fall through a hole in the space-time continuum ?
Well, we knew he was a WMD..

::interrupts wibble with unladylike cackling::

What did Mr Pope Innocent want? Is he going to deposit half a million pounds in your bank account, as soon as you send him the details?

Am loving Mr Armitage as Dame Sybil Thorndyke as Lady Denny, by the way.

Let's see what happens, I have just cranked mine up.

Can anyone else invest the words 'bread and butter' with such oomph...

''I prefer the nearer prospect ... a green girl''
''Fair fatality..''

Stop talking about venetia, I haven't got it

Sorry, Small.

I didn't stop to look at Mr PI's communication, Techno. Perhaps he wanted to absolve me from my sins, for a price..
He's obviously been following my MN posts

I thought Mr Armitage's Lady Denny had a flavour of Maggie Thatcher.

That's incredible, Theresa. The first time Lady Denny spoke, I thought Steve Nallon as Mrs Thatcher on Spitting Image. It was on subsequent encounters that she morphed into Dame Sybil (although actually that was a slip of the mind, as I was thinking of Dame Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell and her haaandbaaag).

Sorry, Small. But you really need to hear this. After all, wasn't it you (and Twiggy) who watched that Chekhovian drama The Golden Hour?