The Lord Jasper Damerel School of Kitten Handling: Zoology Dept., University of Milton Northern

[PasstheTwiglets]

Of course, I am violently allergic to cats...

The only picture we have of the Dean is not overly flattering but in my head he looks a little more like this

Come in, enjoy, help yourself to Twiglets.
Yours sincerely, a Fair Trespasser.

Good morning! What is it with you guys and camping? We used to have camping holidays as a child but I have SO been there, done that. We were thinking that we need to take the kids (such fun for littlies) but it fills us both with dread. Plus we don't own a tent :) But my mum said that they were planning to have the kids for a sleepover in their tent at their house so huzzah for that! I seriously think I would be scared to sleep in a tent, even in my own teeny garden! Every little animal snuffling around would become a homicidal axe-wielding maniac...

Have a nice planned. It was my turn for a lie-in (bliss!) and then we are going to have a BBQ for lunch and then try and tire out TwigBoy so that we can get him to bed before the mid-series finale of Dr Who! On a side note - why, why, WHY, WHY do they have to split the series up like this?! ARGH! Then there is something pink and fizzy in the fridge for later.

Lower the tone Maud? As if we would do that.

Sorry Spiro I missed that post, I see now that your own bed called you. Glad Miss Spiro slept well though.

Twigs what do you mean about Dr Who? I didn't know they were splitting the series, you know this means we're going to be left with another cliff hanger which will bug the hell out of me. When is the next series then?

Our camping trips are normally fine. We have a huge 8 man tent. H & I have the 4 man section at one end with a full height, kingsize inflatable bed and DD had one of the two man pods at the other end with a camp bed - we take all our own bedding and use the last pod for storage so the whole living area ( about 10ft square and tall enough for lanky H to stand up in) is clear.

So normally it's fine - was just so bloody noisy last night 'cos of the wind that I really couldn't be doing with it. Weird because I love the sound of rain when I'm nice and cosy in a tent.

Yes Small, the series is split into two parts. Tonight is the last Dr Who until later in the year (the autumn, I think?) I hate cliffhangers too, I am very sulky about it. We have to wait so long to get a new series and then they only let us see a bit before makign us wait AGAIN!!

I used to like that sound of rain in the tent too, Spiro!

Camping, ugh! I find it difficult enough to get to sleep anyway without the walls wobbling about and weird nature-y noises loud in my ears!

I wonder if the international Beeb will do the same thing with Dr Who as the ordinary one is doing to you, and split it when we get it. The one they are showing us now is the last one but one I think. I lose count. A local channel is showing a much older series, with subtitles. Between the two of them it gets so confusing that I have given up!

Ah! After the chocolate talk last night I just had to go to the shop and get myself a sneaky Mars Bar. I ate it too, before anyone else could sniff it out, sucks boo to you, Superboys. I would have given Gizzy a bite though, if he wanted one.

Au contraire, Massive. Camping is character-building!

Girl and I have just discovered the fudge we bought in the National Trust gift shop.

::won't eat our lunch emoticon::

ignores the double and triple entendre of 'would have given Gizzy a bite if he'd wanted one'

Which one is you, Maud?

I wonder when they stopped issuing the poles with the uniforms? My grandma used to have some jolly Annuals with similar photos. and lots of gels in drop waist gymslips and shoes with very pointed toes.

No entendres of any sort intended with the chocolate. But being as you mention it, as you know, I could deny him nothing

Which one do you think, Massive?

::Worried by Massive's latent vampirism::

With throat-kissing pics like that about, who would not be tempted to the Dark Gift?

Rather you than me, Massive. I refer, of course, to Lestat. Ahem.

Oh, yes, Lestat is so not my type. So far in the book no one is. And the bad French strikes me as purely lazy in a professional writer.

Of course I am allowed mistakes in my stuff, as I am just doing it for fun.

A complete non sequitur, but here's something for the Trekkies.

I have read most of the Anne Rice vampire books - I liked some but not others but I can't remember which ones now! Louis is much nicer than Lestat.

Question - was lucas with Elizaveta when we was working for MI5 the first time round?

Not too much of a non-sequitur, though, Maud. Some interesting comments from Patrick Stewart about acting -- how he feels like a giant on the stage, and much safer than in Real Life.

I don't know the answer to your Lucas query, Twigs. I need to go back and revise my Lucas Studies

Yes think so Twigster. Think he met her when he was working in Russia. Why?

Yes, Massive, I found him very interesting and engaging.

Twiggy - As I understand it [so, huge proviso] he was working in Russia, met and married Elisaveta and then Something Happened which led to him being imprisoned.

anyone?

Ooh, thanks Maud, a little fizzy Gizzy is just what the doctor ordered.
I have met Patrick Stewart, though in a group, not on a one to one basis, and he was very interesting to listen to indeed, thoughtful about the questions he was asked and not the least bit ''luvvy''

You have met Patrick Stewart?

::curtseys::

We are not worthy.

I have been in the same room as Sylvester Stallone and Sir Anthony Hopkins, although not at the same time.

Well, I have shaken hands with him, along with half a dozen other people who did likewise, and stood around with him while he chatted...

::Proffers and twiglets::

Tell us more.

We know all about people you have been in the same room as, Maud

Oh indeed. Michael Portillo once wished me a good morning and I quite literally bumped into Melvyn Bragg.

Hmm, no that wasn't who I was thinking of...
now who was it???

An acquaintance of mine is one of the experts on Antiques Roadshow. Closer?