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just a portakabin maybe, till we can find a proper building?

BtW, is anybody following the fanstRAvaganza blogging that's going on this week...?

Indeed Massive

Small - Well that possibly proves my 17 year-old point, that a person can be well-read without spending three years sitting in the coffee bar occasionally flicking through the pages of Beowulf, which is what the English students seemed to do. Where, though, I do see a difference is that Bloke is much better on literary theory and actually appreciating what he has read than I am. I don't claim to be well-read because I am oppressed by the knowledge of the many thousands of things I haven't read but should have done, but ::whispers:: I have read a lot of books because I am very old so have had longer to notch them up.

Massive - Yes, the official medical diagnosis seems to be Just One Of These Things.

Vivat, vivat barba!

::Crowds cheer, the nation rejoices::

No I don't know what that is Phoenix, what's going on then?

Has this been studied in earlier Academy seminars?

No I don't believe so Maud, I think though it was on a forum for favourite photos recently. Not many liked it but I do.

fanstRAvaganza is an event running this week organised by several bloggers who are having a week of celebratory blogging about the wonder that is Richard Armitage...

This is the second time it's been done - there was one last year, but on a smaller scale, with only 5 bloggers I think. This year there are around 15 bloggers taking part. More details [[http://rafrenzy.com/fanstravaganza/ here].

I'll try that again...

The King of Hearts indeed, what fun, Maud, where did you find that? The Bibliotheque de Google, as usual?

Trouble is at uni, with Lit subject of any kind you are always too focussed on important things like parties and booze to bother with unimportant little bagatelles like set books, et etc etc. Which are after all so dreary and unexciting and you skim though as fast as possible, uttering hollow groans. Now I'd give a lot to be able do the same course again.

Youth really is wasted on the young, IMHO.

Anybody read Japanese so we can read what they are saying about him in Maud's beardy pic?

I'm not sure whether I like the photo as a whole, Small - like most magazine/publicity photos it looks a bit too staged and calculated - but I do like the beard. I wonder what Massive will think of the Gizzy-like smoulder?

::Arranges cushions on floor, just in case::

Glad Garden Girl's ok Maud.

I did see the fan blog thing this morning, but didn't have the time or patience to investigate. What do these people actually blog about - is it random musings about RA?

Tbh I'm quite happy to stick to our random musings here where I can still pretend that I'm not totally obsessed

Actually, Massive, that one came from the Bibliotheque de Bing, to which Twiggy introduced us earlier this week. I had seen it somewhere else though.

::rummages::

Ah, yes, on this celebration of (and now, alas, memorial to) the Joy of Beards.

And oh yes to the mere bagatelles of set books. Now - hindsight, as they say, is 20:20 vision - I think it must be rather wonderful to spend three years reading novels (in any language) and discussing them with people wot know their stuff.

I Know what you are saying Maud but that's why I like it, not really as an RA photo but rather as an arty farty photo .

Thanks for the cushions Maud, mighty neighbourly of y'all.

Massive thinks it very Gizzy-like indeed and is fanning herself womanfully.

Sadly, Massive, my Japanese vocabulary extends to six words. Although, back in the day, I could sing because the album inner sleeve had the lyrics printed phonetically.

::Holds cigarette lighter above head and sways gently::

Exactly, Spiro, I like the madness here but don't feel the urge to sample anyone else's.

I think that each of the bloggers has a different topic to focus on, maybe a character, or voice work, or fan fic, or whatever..it's just for fun!!! It's organised by this blogger.

Ah, do you think it's arty-farty, Small? I liiiike arty-farty (preferably with a bit of poncetastic thrown in for good measure). I just felt that one was a bit too cheesy, like some of the Cold Feet promotional pictures that surface all too frequently. I mean, did dear, dear Johnnie and Ralph ever pose with half their kit off? I think not.

::Calls ambulance for Spiro, in case she's still watching::

All the Japanese I know I learned from another guy named Richard

Maud your beard tribute had me ROFL! Did you read the comments?

I feel odd perving on a dwarf, but whatcha gonna do.

At a press conference for The Hobbit. I'd press my conference on his Hobbit any day.

And as for the bottom two pics here

I saw an advert this evening (Fosters possibly) and heard a phrase the reminded me instantly of Lee...

budgie-smugglers

Oh, dear, another one pleading guilty, M'Lud

Eeek. Richard Chamberlain. I'd forgotten all about him until a Facebook friend was perving reminiscing about the Thorn Birds last week.

I've never read that website, Spiro (I never read the comments on YT either) but someone here - if it wasn't you, I'm guessing it was Twiggy - found it at the time of the Hobbit press conference. Until such time as the beard returns (if it ever does) that's probably going to be the refuge for disappointed pogonophiles.

Ooh, I really don't understand tumblr...must find out about it some day...

Those hobbit pc pics are very swoonworthy - I liked the comment "if he had looked at me like that I would have combusted on the spot no kidding"