The White Boar's Head: Student Union Bar at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

Student discounts available on all varieties of Chateau Gisborne and Polish Cordial.

Lady D the Colonel is never back from hiding in bushes and crawling in mud sitting behind a desk in time for bath-time woah is me! So I hope my fantasy Man future husband doesn't work quite so hard at maintaining the country's security!

Spiro. Well, if one is going to make him into one's ideal man, one may as well do it properly!

::sniffles::

::lends LadyDamerel a lace-trimmed, lavender-scented hankie although, looking at her skirts, that may be a bit late::

There is a thesis to be written about chiaroscuro in North and South, I am sure, and that scene is particularly well-shot. The close-up of his manly visage while he watches her leave, as his expression goes from hope to desolation (accentuated by the fact that the visual palette of the scene is limited almost to black and white), is inexpressibly moving.

An interesting variaton, Maud. I have to admit I do sometimes get it slightly wrong myself.

Another unrelated but equal frustration is thus:-
Him: (at top of voice) MASSIVE
Me: (dropping bowl of meatball mixture and runnung with greasy hands and heart in mouth) Oh, gawd, whatever is the matter, MrM?
Him: (giggling) Just look what this funny man is doing on the telly (or similar)
Me: (snorting flame down nose) What funny man?
Him: (airily) Oh,you missed it.

We have that too, Massive. Although it tends to be our vastly differing senses of humour that send the flames down my nose!

Oh, yes, I had just been noticing those lovely touches, too, LadyD and Maud. But there are so many. And to think I got my copy free with the DM.

Sigh

The screen cap doesn't illustrate the doorway scene well enough, but the starkness of MrT against the white snow is lovely.

There is a similar shot in the dining hall which is almost entirely dark except for the bright whiteness of MrT's cotton shirtsleeves. Most symbolic, I thought.

Oh gawd ladies! Think I've got PMT too!! You've got me snivelling away too! I'm feeling extra lonely tonight too!!

Sniffle sniffle blow.

If you don;t want spoilers before you watch N&S, don;t open this but I just couldn't resist. .

::blows nose on Maud's skirts::

That's no good, LadyD, he looks as if he's being decapitated by the carriage door. This, though, takes wibblesomeness into the fourth dimension.

going to need a lifeguard with a long pole in at second to stop us drowning in here!!

Sure does, Maudie. Note how the high white collar embraces his throat.

If you check out his left ear it looks as if mr t has an ear-ring!

::Looks at the sodden state of her skirt::

::Sends Dixon to the 24-hour Drycleanarama with it::

Good night, dear ladies.

::Slips into the FWTSNS and skips upstairs with Mr Thornton::

::starts to sob again at the desolation in the beautiful blue eyes::

His eyes are incredibly expressive. Most of his acting, especially in N&S, is with his eyes. His face is quite still most of the time.

Hey. Hands off lady d. His eyes are mine!!!

::Looks back at you::

Embracing his throat, did you say?

::Keels over::

But may I just say how much I have enjoyed this N&S wallowathon? So much more salubrious than the usual ULCPDAAHM-inspired smutfest.

Oh sniff, LadyD. his face. How does he do that?

::Looks back at you again::

I think you'll find ::adjusts FWTSNS coyly:: that all parts of him are miiine.

Hey dudette, don't diss da Giz!

We have been a little Gizzy obsessed in recent weeks, haven't we Maud. Poor MrT has been sadly neglected although I am sure you have been reading plenty of Plato on the Aubusson with him.

::Looks back for what is definitely the last time::

I am not dissing the Guy, dear heart. I am merely lamenting that we seem recently to have overlooked his many spiritual qualities in favour of ogling his leather-clad bottom. It is most unworthy of ladies of our intellectual calibre.

::Blows you all a kiss and departs::

Yes LadyD, with all those Plato sessons, I have been thnking we should have put down carpet tiles instead.Then we could have replaced the bald patches more easily.

None of those Chateau Gizzy stains won't come out either. All in all, it's looking a trifle tatty these days.

Perhaps we should take it out of the bar for now? The lino isn't that bad and won't cause Maud such nasty carpet burns either.

Oh the SHAME.

That's what happens when you don't check your own editing.

None of those Chateau Gizzy stains will come out either.

Sorry, sorry, sorry .

Leching over Gizzy may be unworthy of us but he does have a most delectable leather-clad bottom.