Deeming Workshop of Leather and Motorcycle Maintenance, Faculty of Mech. Eng. at the UMN

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Who's first, me or Small?

Don't do anything i wouldn't do!

If you mean that clip, Spiro, maybe it's as well you didn't have it to hand as it's a trifle distRActing.

Nighty knight, RP! i know that knackered feeling oh, so well.

::Peers round::

Anyone still here?

Please attach a warning to any links to the confessions site, Spiro. Some of them are so rood that I'm ashamed of myself for knowing what they mean and I feel rather yucky after reading them. And no, that one wasn't mine, even though I agree with the general sentiment.

Even I wouldn't link to those particular confessions Maud.

Hello Maud. I think the rood confessions have got a bit too much for all of us, so any links should only be to the amusing ones from now on.

That one was sweet though.

So how was your day, Maud? Any cultural joys? Or just the mundane daily round?

I know Spiro, but I'm keen not to have that site in my browsing history as this is a shared pooter and there are some things I don't want to have to explain to a pre-teen!

But yes, Massive, my favourite porn is cravat porn.

How are we all, tonight?

No, no cultural joys, apart (obviously) from the limitless intellectual stimulation of earning my pittance at Marlborough Mills. I am wondering whether to see if our usual babysitter is free tomorrow so that The Bloke and I can go on a sizzling hot date to see Tinker Tailor Soldier but not that one Spy.

So who is the lady on the left in that pic? i have never noticed her.

I have to confess I am like RP, fading fast. Wher has my stamina gone?

Not that Spy either, is it The chaRActers have a horrible habit of shuffling off this mortal coil.

You mean the portrait? I assume it's some Thornton forebear or possibly even Mother in her halcyon days.

Perhaps it's Ma Thornton in her youth?

Maud - have you read the book? I saw it Monday and really struggled to stay awake understand what was going on. The way it's filmed doesn't make it really clear what is a flashback. I got to grips with it with about 20 minutes or so but by that time the 'roots' of the story had gone over my head a bit.

Couldn't fault the acting or production but I was left wondering if it is just one of those books that is a bit too involved to translate in a little over two hours of screen time.

Yes, the lady in the portrait. It seems odd none of us eagle-eyed lot has commented on her before. A whole story could be woven about, f'rinstance Great Aunt Agatha, who had been Disappointed in Love.

The way they make movies though, they could have shot some stuff that would have made all that perfectly clear, but it somehow got lost in the editing suite. Ooops.

Indeed, that could be Great Aunt Agatha, from whom I inherited the ostrich feather fan, but the truth is, Massive, I've never given her a second thought. With Mr Thornton in the room all the other artworks pale into insignificance.

::searches for GAA's OFF::

I read the book, Spiro, at the time it was televised with Alec Guinness as George Smiley oh no that really dates me. I remember I had to write the dramatis personae on the back of the bookmark so that I could remember who was who.

::Comes back to point out that she was a very precocious reader and was reading John le Carre at the age of six::

Maybe GAA was a fan-dancer, in Paris, or somewhere equally naughty, in her youth, then. She ran off there, after the Disappointment, perhaps.

Well, did you ever. .

Well they were rather fast gels, and no mistake

Poor Mr Thornton's manly cheeks would flush with shame, if he knew.

And so saying, i must bid you all a very good night! i am falling asleep over the keyboard again.

Bitey Knight Massive.

I'm off too as has struck !

Good knight, both!

I wish that particular Muse would strike me too

Bitey knight, all.

::Looks back at you::

You remind me, my dear, of my favourite line from my favourite Victoria Wood song.

This just made me