The Sergeant John Porter Memorial College at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

Motto: Qui audet adipiscitur

Areas of study include:

Firearms Training aka Big Guns 101

Advanced off-road driving

Improvised Vehicle Maintenance

Hostage Negotiation

...and lots more!

I am, Maud but I'm about 8 minutes behind at the moment. We're just on the Leamington Spa segment.

I want to go to the Brighton Pavillion! None of the RA/GH's go there but quite a few of her other novels have scenes set there and it looks fantastic.

I went years ago with school - if you do visit you'll have to come in for a !

It is wonderful, LadyD. We go to Brighthelmstone quite often. Perhaps we should go as an Academy to take the waters?

I was just thinking, Spiro, that you live not a million miles away from Brighton.

I do indeed Maud. Perhaps I can send Mr and Miss S somewhere thrilling for the weekend and you can all come down for tour and an RA themed pyjama party!

In the meantime...[ I like this]]

Or even

It's a heck of a trek from here so I'd be in dire need of tea and cake, Spiro!

Am I the only GH aficionado, over and above the three RA ones? I know there are lots of us on the wider MN but I don't know about within the Academy.

Definitely yes to an Academy trip to Brighton!

The museum in the grounds of the Pavilion is nice too. Took Miss S there early this summer.

I don't know if they do it every year, but last year one of my friends had their Christmas 'work do' there. Ice skating and a meal - Academy Christmas party perhaps?!

Can you dress up in Regency dress?

Have you ever done so for real, LadyD?

Can you dress up in Regency dress?

I'd be game if you were Lady D!

I have just found another .

Will you be dampening your muslin, or was that of an earlier age?

Will you be dampening your muslin...

I have no idea what that means but it sounds very rood and totally appropriate for our little thread

I haven't yet. I'd love to though. Apparently there is a Jane Austen week in Bath when all the attendees dress in Regency attire and there are nuncheons and dances. Quite a few GH fans go as a significant number of her novels are set there. I'd love to go one year but know no one in RL who would enjoy it.

Right age, Massive but only the flightiest females would do such a shocking thing. So yes, obviously I would.

LadyD - I confess that, although a very dear friend has been singing the praises of GH to me for years, I have always shied away from them on the grounds that they're not, you know, Proper Literature conveniently ignoring the other trash I read. I have still to read an actual GH book but must say that, egged on by my fellow intellectuals here, I have greatly enjoyed dallying with dear Jasper on a divan.

That is a great vid, Spiro, but I'm feeling a little Guyed-out at the moment, as Girl has been watching S1 back to back since we got home from the mammoth shopping expedition. Mind you, we got all the classic FAF (Fallen Angel Face, in case LadyD hasn't come across the acronym before) and "there are other people who would like to be kind to you" moments.

Maud, just do it! I promise you will be pleasantly surprised, they are extremely well written. To be honest, good as the audiobooks are, they can't really capture the true essence of GH because they are so heavily abridged. I estimate they probably cut a good third out of Venetia and about half of Sylvester.

Briefly returning to the RP - they've got some good stuff coming up over the next few months:

Ice Rink

Regency Fashion

Oscar Wilde Day

Maud, just do it?

But what about the reading? fnarr fnarr

I am a pathetic skater but would love the Oscar Wilde day.

::Puts green carnation in buttonhole::

Ah, Maud, we have been watching the same episode today then.

The FAF sequence is even more thud-tastic in the moving version than it is in the screen caps.

Spiro, in case no one else has already explained, rather fast young ladies in Regency times used to wring their muslin frocks out in cold water, before they put them on, so they would cling to their assets.

Skating, did someone mention skating?

Maud, Maud, Maud, you MUST give GH a go! They are SO well written, delightfully funny! just like Jane Austen but not as dull

I also watched FAF over the weekend!

rather fast young ladies in Regency times used to wring their muslin frocks out in cold water, before they put them on, so they would cling to their assets

So that explains the origins of the wet t-shirt competition !

I can't skate either Maud although I bet it looks stunning. Did you see they have a 'pop up' restaurant (basically a marquee) so you can just go for a meal and watch?

I may well potter along to the Wilde Day, especially as they'll still have the Regency Fashions thing on then.

::adds S1e7 to list of viewing pleasures while LordD is away::

Spiro, the Regency dress exhibition looks fab. I have earmarked this as a treat to myself once MasterD2 is at school full time.

::two weeks and counting::