The Phoebe Marlow Academy of Trumpery Novel Writing at the University of Milton Northern

[LadyDamerel]

Welcome to the new faculty.

Selected classes available in:

Running Away
Setting of broken bones
Seafaring lore
Care of Small Boys
Humouring of Dangerous Lunatics

Our patroness is considered rather taking when she is animated

and the Vice Chancellor would like to remind you all of the importance of the wearing of a correctly tied cravat.

Any beard? That might have been a clue.

Oh yes sorry forgot the beard and the broadsword of course.

A broadsword, eh? And I missed it

I suspect there may be incriminating photos so perhaps all may not be lost? To be honest I'm surprised he didn't get arrested walking around town with such a large weapon, that's got to be illegal surely?

As long as he didn't whip it out and wave it about, I suppose it was okay. Though I do so love it when Gizzy does that.

So Massive, how long do you have house guests?

at whipping it out and waving it about!

See PM!

Right I must get some much needed beauty sleep. Hopefully the others will be home soon and fill you in on the days real activities.

Bitey Knighty Massive.

Night night Small. Glad you are home safe after your big adventure!

Hello, hello, hello!!! I can't MN on mobile and have only just got home! Had a fab - everybody was so lovely! ROFL at me getting legless on Prosecco not being questioned :o :o

Film was... um.... I don't know, really! It's not the sort of thing I'd seen were it not for Herr Beanz but it wasn't bad. I quite enjoyed it. A WTF ending though. He was in it quite close to the beginning so once that was over there were comments about going to the pub :) His US accent was pretty good, I thought! Unlike Dominic Cooper, URGH.

After the film, we went to a pub in Covent Garden and stayed for a few more drinkies (missed you, Small!) at which point it was made very clear to me that I need to see all of Between The Sheets, not just the YT clips :o

The little pressies Spiro made were amazing - is it ok to share the details, S?

Maud and Massive, we drank a toast to you in the restaurant.

Hope everybody got home ok!

Hi Twigs, glad you enjoyed yourself and are home safe!

Morning you dirty stop outs! . You sound like you had a great afternoon/evening . So is it worth me going to see CA then Twigs?

It definitely wasn't hard to sit through and if you can sit through Transformers then I'm fairly sure you can cope with CA :) There was a trailer for Real Steel... I'd see it if it were me, I think. And stay until after the credits have finished for a trailer for the next film.

Oh, just don't see it in London, Small - I gave them a tenner and the cashier looked me questioningly as I hadn't realised that it was £16 to see a film in London

@ £16! I obviously don't see many films in town but that's really

I'll take SB major on a Thursday near me, the tickets are about £4 which means I can afford sweets and popcorn -yay!

Hi I got home ok, so nice to meet you all. On reflection, I'm sure you all probably think I'm even more bonkers than you did before - but no matter. I enjoyed my day - which was, incidentally, a first for me too (in terms of meeting up with anyone I met on the Internet). It was lovely to put names to faces, faces to names, and noone was scary (unless it was me, that is ).

3D films are about £9 here and I thought that was bad enough!

So, ladies, who can find my lost picture? <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=strike+back+viral&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1680&bih=880&tbm=isch&tbnid=DWToUG4sPWO3eM:&imgrefurl=www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/StrikeBack/album/SBViral/album/slides/strike-back2.html&docid=L1s0yuZ1WOGkBM&w=741&h=500&ei=GZo7Tp2lGIa98gOxwaT3Ag&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1050&vpy=237&dur=1217&hovh=184&hovw=273&tx=152&ty=99&page=1&tbnh=134&tbnw=176&start=0&ndsp=41&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> This is the one I meant, it just seems to have disappeared. And I NEED it.

Hi LadyV! Glad you got back ok. You're not bonkers at all (well, if you are then we all are too :o) and it was fab to meet you at last!

I'm also reflecting on the movie, which I did enjoy. Too little of Mr A but it looks like he must have had a fun time doing it, and it is an ideal project to raise his Hollywood profile. I doubt people who had not seen his work before would especially notice him, though. But he did a great job with the little he was given.

Chris Evans had a lot more to do and did some solid acting I thought, though never really wowed me.

I liked the Avengers teaser and it was so good to see Robert Downey Jr there in the mix - pure class.

Nothing on that link for me, Twigs.

Anyway I've got a 9 o'clock this morning that lasts till 3 so I will see you later.

I thought Chris Evans was slightly yum, tbh. Though no comparison, of course :)

The link takes me to a small version of the pic (the one where he's on his knees, hands behind his back) but with a 404 error page in the background.

I must away, too - just realised I ought to actually feed the kids!

Morning Ladies - was lovely to meet you all yesterday.

I loved Maxwells - especially the look on the waitress' face when she asked it if was the first time we'd met up in a long time and we told her it was actually the first time we'd met at all!

Film was ok - like Twigs I wouldn't have gone to see it if Mr A hadn't been in it (and there definitely wasn't 16 quids-worth of Heinz Beanz), but it was well done and if you haven't read much about it the end will come as a bit of a which personally I thought was a bit of a bonus as I was expecting something considerably more cheese-tastic!

LadyV - you are definitely no more bonkers than me the rest of us!