The Kennedy Institute of Accountancy and Woolly Jumpers: University of Milton North

[PassTheTwiglets]

Here we go again, ladiez!

Let's all make passes at Harry in glasses

Snuggly!

Beautiful smile

Dawn French is one lucky lady

Who wouldn't want to come home to this on their sofa?

What did you think of the video, Massive

Can I butt in and sum it up in 3 words...

Phwoooar...wibble...thud!

Quite liked the stuff about the film too !

Yes the Hobbit one!!! 'course!!

I have to confess the nearest I've got to LLD, Maud, is watching Cruel Intentions. Bronte's aside historical literature was never my thing until 'meeting' you guys!

Lady V... What Spiro said!

I was also going to quote Brucie and say ''didn't he do well'?'

Liasons is another books I've always shunned as somehow very unpleasant, Maudie.

Worries that she is now the thread's purveyor of historical smut

Welcome to the dark side, Maud!

It's not the smut factor that makes me feel uneasy, Maud, it's the weird attitude to women in them, it gives me the creeps. And I haven't really read much of them either, just flicked through and read blurbs. so I could be totally wrong in my judgement.

It's quite true, Massive. They show, in an extreme and exaggerated way, attitudes to women (as commodities to be traded, dominated and possessed) which were common at the time - although beginning to be challenged, I think (thinks Mary Godwin) - and would be unacceptable now. So as such they have to be treated as historical documents. That's why I think we can't dismiss Clarissa as whiney, because a young woman of that time had so few options open to her.

I do get what you mean Maud. My reaction to them isn't intellectual at all, it's purely visceral, and gets in the way of anything else. Just one of my many quirks.

I don't think Clarissa's reactions were whiney - you'd expect a woman in her situation to strenuously fend off his advances - I just think in parts it was overplayed, although being no expert on literature from that time I may be being completely unfair to the actress concerned.

Anyway, am off to bed now, hopefully for some sweet dreams after that vid today!
Night all.

Night Spiro, and good luck! !

Good night, all!

::waves reticule, jauntily::

Are you off, too, Maudie? I guess the Sandman will be busy tonite

::Looks back at you::

::And so does my friend::

Yeah, busy day tomorrow. I hope to be here in the evening.

Stress dreams? Really? Of all the options available to you after that video?

Morning lovely ladies. Good lord but you were busy last night. I was out for a birthday meal so apologies for not joining you.

I've got a few meetings today so will be in and out but will hopefully be around tonight.

Small, thanks for tea and toast, yum, lots of butter, very naughty.
Which is about as sinful as I've got since I was last here.

I think we should hand the Sandman his P45!

Twiggy's post in the wee small hours was heart-breaking!

Morning all. LOL at giving the sandman his P45, Massive! Love that :) I was very cross with him last night, I must say - given all that head-touching, surely he could've managed a 'leans head towards me and tells me to close my eyes' scenario.

Spiro, how are you & DD this morning? And did you see DrTwigs' comment on my FB page? :) Where I'd linked to the Hobbit video, he wrote "I'm Richard and I'm from London" - I can't work out whether he is teasing me, teasing RA, or just trying to confuse me :o

Maud: That's why I think we can't dismiss Clarissa as whiney, because a young woman of that time had so few options open to her.

Oh dear, that's a very good point - does that mean I'm not allowed to hate Tess of the D'Urbervilles, anymore? I do so enjoy it.

Right, I'm going to try not to be around much today. Ought to do some sustained attention-giving. Today we are making Easter biscuits, then going to a trampolining session at the leisure centre then making Easter bonnets. I thought I'd try that parenting thing that I've heard people talk about...

Morning Ladies! Sorry to hear about your bad night, Twigs. I nearly managed a dream but not quite - DD has impeccable timing for bounding into my bedroom.

I did get to go back to sleep and have a lie in though, and have only just got up

You lucky lazy mare!

Small boys weren't even here last night and still I was up by half past six thanks to Mr Small not being able to sleep

Oh what a shame on the almost-dReAm, Spiro! My night wasn't too bad, it was just between about 1 and 2am. I was playing Angry Birds at 2am, trying to forget about my horrible dream!

Twigs, what were you stressing about?

Small, nothing major - am just in quite a stressy place at the moment anyway but we had a horrible incident on our day out yesterday that made both me and my mum cry, and I had a row with a stoopid woman about it too. Mum and I we were both so wound up about it and I just couldn't let it go, so I think my brain was just going over it all again :)

Yikes, so much for my morning of parenting. We didn't get out to Asda for our Easter biscuit ingredients until quite late and then we've only just had time to make the dough before we are off to trampolining now. Will have to double-time the activities this afternoon.

Can I just point out that "Mum and I we were both" was just a typo (started to type 'were' twice!) and it isn't the dreadful grammar wot it seems :o