Dept. of Advanced Cravatology, University of Milton North

[PassTheTwiglets]

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

Oh, yes, Phoenix, me too, have done since I was just a kid -- makes me laugh to remember that...

Yes, Spike is cute too, I guess. Buffy was a good show. I don't think I got to see the later seasons though. So many shows, so little time

Meanwhile MN has a live webchat with one Ed Vaizey, next Monday. Wonder if he's related?

Ed Vaizey - who is that..

Oh - just looked him up, he's an MP..

Related to who?

Just being facetious of course, Phoenix. This guy

Ha ha ha!

Sheriff Vaizey of Nottamun.

Am enjoying the strains of Baba O'Reilly here - possibly the best thing about CSI is the Who theme music, I think, having now seen far too many of the programmes and being rather jaded. I also enjoyed the Guy vid to My First, My Last, My Everything, but you know what I've got to do now, don't you?

::sirens wail::

Barry again...!!!

It's quite tiring, you know, being an Armitage fan...

Shall we go on that webchat and do the Vaisey catch-phrases? No, it would be very childish

::worries that Theresa will get a lifetime ban from MN for lowering the tone of serious political webchat, discussing biscuit choices and the like::

Biscuit choices, now there's a burning political issue.
You can make your own with the MN recipe of the week, too.

Don't worry, I will not let the Academy down. After all, as an ex-pat I don't get a vote so am not really allowed to ask an MP questions of any sort.

postal vote, surely?

No, none at all, unfortunately, Phoenix.

It was probably before your MN time, Theresa, but in an earlier webchat Gordon Brown got into deep water when he declined to say what his favourite biscuit was.

Even postal votes don't last forever, do they? Do you get a vote in Limpopoland? My long-term ex-pat chum gets no vote in national elections anywhere, because he's lived outside the UK so long but not taken nationality in his (not so) new land of abode.

You have been rejected by the motherland?

If you turn your back on the motherland, eventually it will turn its back on you. Or summat.

'Tis even so Phoenix! But I do get to vote in Limpopoland -- and much good it does me, they're all much the same as each other, as they are in the UK

Hmm, favourite biscuits. I know what Robin's would be. A jammy dodger.

I can imagine the sheriff's favourite being a squashed fly biscuit.

Too knackered to think of ones for the others

Ooohh - Guitar Heros on BBC3...I think its Deep Purple or something like that...

I downloaded a free audiobook (Madame Bovary)from the Naxos Audiobook website, thought I would see if the lack of Mr A would make the book unlistenable or what...

Rejected and reviled, they even sniff at my passport when I come through immigration. Eww! where was that issued?

That's nice - you even get the booklet...

Oh Teri...you need to rest

Somehow, Phoenix, I think the Armitage-lessness might make a wee bit of difference.

I fear you may be right, Miss Teri!

::Waves Union flag, rousingly::

Madame Bovary is possibly the greatest book I have ever read. Although I made that judgment before I'd read North and South.

Chin up, Theresa old girl.

::Passes lavender-scented lace-trimmed hankie::

I am still somewhat obsessed with those poems, you know the Words and Music ones...

I missed the mince pies at the foreign wives' bazaar this year, too! They'd all gone when I got there.