The Heinz Kruger Palace of (57) Varieties

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Strangers are friends you just haven't met, yet. Even when they are baddies and drive science-fiction-y submarines, wearing a smart grey lounge suit.

Can't post all these individually have a page full!

Oh Spiro, that 1st one is truly a treasure surpassing the Koh-i-noor Diamond itself... That's one of the best Lucas photos I've ever seen.

LOL at greengrocer's apostrophe, Massive! I've not heard that phrase before but how apposite, I love it!

^^

I was thinking the same thing!

One is most gRAteful for the sight of one's dear subject, Mr Thornton.
One feels one was rather let down by one's erstwhile servant, Mr North.

How one would love to make a state visit to the tropical island. Should one bring one's bucket and spade?

::Thinks: Probably time to stop the regal stuff now and revert to one's customary Sarf London patois::

::Looks around the empty common room::

::Gets out knitting::

::Discards knitting and invites Mr Thornton to join her on the chaise longue for a game of canasta::

Evenin' all.

Put him down, Maud!

The Lucas photos were delish, how I wish I had free telly access time, I coud sit there all day and all night and then I might even get round to watching something not Armitage-orientated

What a man though. After all this time, I still cannot get over the expression he gets into his eyes and playing round his mouth and... well you know about it as well as I do.

LOL @ Brits SHOUTING AT ME... My English mustn't be quite bad enough for that

PS I didn't invent the phrase 'greengrocer's apostrophe', I either got it off the telly or from a snotty broadsheet newspaper

::Pauses, mid-canasta::

::Assumes innocent expression and kicks discarded cravat under the chaise longue::

Yes, I've heard it called the greengrocer's apostrophe, too. Do you read the Independent? I suspect them of spreading the term, even if they didn't invent it.

What language do you speak in the house, Massive? My friend who is a long-term ex-pat sounds not quite English now. It's to do with sentence construction rather than accent, I think - some of the things she says are obviously a translation back from the language in which she daily speaks and thinks and are just ever so slightly off-key.

We have our own patois, Maud, an impertinent little blend of Englsh and Islandish with some of our own inventions thrown in for added zing.

So wot do you think about my sentence construction? Of course it's easier to think on 'paper' than it is on the hoof.

How wildly creative, Massive. I would have expected nothing less.

Your sentence construction seems tip-top to me. I suppose I notice it with my friend because I also speak her adopted language (with nothing like the same degree of fluency) and so can spot things - figures of speech, use of tenses etc - that are not natural English usage but would be correct in the other language. So if you are using bits of Islandish grammar, I would never notice.

It's nowhere as good as it sounds, Maudie, I assure you.

Hello !! What Lucas pics are these?????

My blu-ray Strike Back arrived - hurray!!! No chance to try it out yet...

Further up the thread, LadyV.

You are too modest, Massive. You have invented a language to rival Miles Kington's Franglais. You may get my the Queen's Award for Enterprise.

Spiro posted some earlier, Lady V, if you care to scroll back a way. They are not new, but very well chosen for our delectation. Very clickable, if you like...

This is worthy of some further study, methinks...

I hesitate to offer an opinion on matters Lucasian , but I would tentatively suggest that this is even more deserving of intensive study.

Loverly, Lady V. I adore that wistful, almost innocent look

I believe the difference with blu-ray is considerable. Lucky you

That pic of yours is a bit more smirky Maud. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing...

Ah, now, do you experience that as a smirk? I thought it was just the merest soupçon of a smile. ::Muses on the subjective nature of human experience:: Did you see what I did there?

This one seems to me to have several pleasing features

I did indeed see your cheeky little cedilla, Maud. Is there no limit to your powers?

Chin on hand is also good.

Sorry I am not entertaining you myself, tonight, ladies, I have emails to write behind all this

::Blushes that her cedilla has been seen in public::

That's OK, Massive, I'll do tonight's song and dance routine and you can entertain us on another evening.

Chin on hand is, indeed, always good

Ah the hands - they are lovely too.. Yesterday I cane across a particularly good pic of them, but can't remember where...might have been Twitter, possibly.

Did you see the SB trailer by the way???

Lovely sculptural hand here

Would we miss the SB trailer, Lady V? Not Pygmalion likely...What did you think?

Oh, Maudie, that chin on hand is shiver-making.

And of course we all know and love Mr Thornton's world-renowned facepalm.

All this and a handshake too.