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SupermassiveLBD · 09/03/2011 22:59

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

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DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 21:52

My thoughts exactly Phoenix. Can feel my temperature rising just looking at the photos. No wonder the poor woman interviewing wasn't very succinct in her questioning - she was probably struggling to stay upright and conscious!

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 21:56

Maybe we should ask Maud how she managed it? Her tips might come in useful one day, you never know.

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 21:57

How I managed what?

::chews knuckles::

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 21:59

Not to spontaneously combust in the Presence, Maudie.

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:03

How do you know I didn't, Massive? If he'd walked on stage wearing a cravat, I'd have been a gonner, I tell you.

::slightly singed around the edges::

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:06

He'd have walked on stage in just a cravat the entire Old Vic would've gone up in flames!

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:08

BTW, my phone's predictive texting has memorised budgie-smugglers Grin!

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:09

What a lovely way to burn...

Scorched Seats at Old Vic Shock Horror

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:11

An d I didn't see Spiro's comment before I posted, either.

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DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:15

Great minds Massive Grin!

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:19

'Twas probably a good thing, then, that we got a souvenir programme - very handy whenever vigorous fanning was required! And I did mean wearing a cravat as part of a theatrical costume, not on its own.

::wonders whether Spiro will have to be sedated now::

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:22

Did they make the programs extra heavy-duty, then, Maud, for superior self-ventilation purposes?

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DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:24

Nope, you're alright Maud - was only kidding!

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:29

Thinks that a judiciously-placed cravat would probably be more decent than those awful speedos

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:40

I have to admit that for all my double-entendre, Richard Armitage on stage in Chippendales mode really wouldn't do it for me

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:43

Now Johnny's afraid you are making a mug of him, Maud. Wink

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:43

Well, quite. Takes me back to what I said earlier about Johnnie and Ralph not posing with their kit off. These are Proper Ack-tors, after all.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:47

Tee hee, Massive. Very nice, but when Johnnie and I meet for tea we will use something more refined and delicate. Just like myself. Cough.

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:48

Speaking of Ralph...I have an appointment with a rather Word doc Wink!

Night night ladies.

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2011 22:49

Or even a rather large Word doc!

I've got the last chapter and the epilogue coming together in my head, but have to get through the next two chapters first so need to crack on.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 22:53

Ah. Perhaps we have been at cross-purposes. When I speculated that dear dear Johnnie and Ralph wouldn't have been photographed with their kit off, I had actors of another vintage in mind.

I'm orf to bed. See you tomorrow, ladies.

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:56

Okay, Spiro, have fun. And goodnight in advance.

Maud, that china is certainly an improvement on the Hales's last lot. Do you think Dixon dropped that accidentally on purpose?

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SupermassiveLBD · 15/03/2011 22:59

Nighty night to you too Maud. Sweet dreams.
Fancy us getting our Raplhs and Johns mixed up!

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 15/03/2011 23:05

Funny thing was, I was going to perm any two out of Johnnie, Ralph and dear, dear Larry. I was too engrossed in thoughts of the thee-ay-ter of my youth yesteryear that I didn't think about the coincidence of names. But you knew what I was on about anyway?

Well, off we go, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

PassTheTwiglets · 16/03/2011 10:00

Morning, ladies. How are all and sundry today? Has Smallboy recovered enough to go back to school yet? (and was GardenGirl off school too, Maud?) Glad she has improved.

Maud, meant to say that I did smile at your Python architecture sketch :)

Spiro, have you watched any of Tufty yet? (Phoenix, was it you who was asking about Tufty? It's a name someone here - Massive? - gave to Monet's silly beard).

Small, you may feel an outcast for not doing an English course but I'm an outcast 'cos I think I'm the only one here who didn't go to university or do anything else after A levels! It was partly that I knew I wanted to work for the Beeb so I thought why not go for it straightaway, instead of more studying first - but it was mainly because I was too scared and nervous to move away from home Blush I do now wish that I'd gone and feel I really missed out. I was also really surprised that you didn't do English, Maud as, like Small, you seem so well-read!

The beard website (yes, it was me who found it shortly after the press conference) - it is very funny, isn't it? Best of all, I think I like the little tagline "rub your beard on me" :o