Thread 17 - TalkLair: "Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit? Live in the now, okay? You look like DeBarge."

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(Previous thread 16).

Spring is springing, daffodils blooming all over our LairGarden, which have not all been picked by a neighbour's kid...

In the TalkLair, the hearth is glowing, books by non-approved authors line the shelves, cosy rugs are down on the floors looking a bit stained by cat hairball regurgitation. The denizens of the lair are a welcoming bunch though, always eager for general chit-chat on all manner of topics. We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

Sometimes not too mind taxing is just the ticket. I'm glad you like the Boys in the Boat too. As I type that I'm smiling. It's that type of film.

Crazy, Stupid Love is on the list of get around to and I really must.

One of my faves, vaguely in that field, is the wonderful Midnight Run. RdN, never better.

Ooh on the basis of our mutual tastes I’ll look that up. We don’t have cable tv any more - all our stuff is on streaming though we get to see live news courtesy of PBS because we send them money every month so we get live tv on that channel.

While playing the Eurovision playlist yesterday, we discovered that Mochi doesn't like the Austrian song - possibly too high-pitched? She did the Ears of Displeasure every time it came on

And I have the Espresso Macchiato song as an ear worm, with added constant mental image of his mad knees-dance. It is driving me slightly mad.

I was just thinking about that film, I really enjoyed Midnight Run and have seen it several times. Charles Grodin was infuriating and so brilliant, he was my favourite character.

Brit, if you've never seen it, you're in for a treat. Plus, as a bonus, added Yaphet Kotto!😁

Why have I never heard of Midnight Run?

Do watch it, SinnerBoy, it's enormously entertaining.

It’s now on my list for next Saturday. DH is prone to liking to work his way through a series and I don’t like to watch too many episodes of one in one night, so we range between a few. However this meant we weren’t watching many movies so I decreed that Saturday night was movie night, and I generally get to pick :-)

My 8 year old DGD1 Katie had to go to urgent care for a pain in her knee that became acute and has to go back on Thursday to see the consultant. While she was there, 5 ½ year old DGD2 Sophie wrote her this poem. DD sent me a photo of it and a translation in case I couldn't work out the spelling (though actually I could pretty much) and DD also lineated it, but these are the exact words Sophie used, which I think is impressive even for a child older than Sophie:

Katie how you is special in the night,
how you chime in the wind,
how you hold my hand,
how you walk in the sun,
how you look beautiful,
how you are gentle to animals.

Ultra-proud grandma here!

Aw, that's lovely!

@Britinme ... Katie how you is special in the night

Very Dylan Thomas!

That's adorable @Britinme ❤️

BTW this is still my ear/eye worm!

Ooh, @RasaSayangEh - I somehow missed that one. A definite onze points from me!

I've had a lovely day at the zoo. The binturongs were hiding, and the sloths on holiday, but there were capybara galore. As well as a very small orangutan (with mum), a panther having a thorough wash of his paws, a pair of bush dogs who were as interested in watching the humans as we were in watching them, a rather supercilious cheetah, a very asleep tree kangaroo, ditto tapirs, and assorted otters. And a fantastic free-flying bat area where quite a few bats passed near enough to waft me, and one was so close I actually got a wing brush.

@NoBinturongsHereMate ... The binturongs were hiding ...

Well, obviously there were NoBinturongsThere,Mate.

LOL

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5336839-clarks-wtaf

"Showcase our commitment crafstmanship"?! They look more like the first attempt of a particularly unpromising trainee.

They do. An unpromising trainee who isn't going to get through the probation period.

I looked at some of the other designs and they're quite as ugly.

I'd almost-but-not-quite like to wear those shoes as a joke.

I remember Midnight Run but had completely forgotten it existed until you mentioned it and thought, that's almost a transition film for RdN where he was still good but heading in the wrong direction even though we didn't know that then. And yes, Charles Grodin!

I've not watched much for the past couple of days because I have a chest infection so there's been a lot of sleeping and mild drama when three paramedics turned up in my bedroom. They'd been sent by the GP who is five minutes up the road and apparently this is not unusual. Apparently I had suspected spepis which was a bollocks. I needed antibiotics and thought I'd be getting them today. It all got sorted and I got antibiotics. I'm still feeling rough but a bit better.

I was looking foward to a couple of terrestrial goodies yesterday, Who Do You Think You Are featuring Aisling Bea who I adore. I'll probably catch up on that tomorrow and right now I'm on Sky Arts watching Anita Rani talking about the Bronte sisters and falling in love with Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall which I recommend so highly. It was so popular - before it was supressed by Charlotte on the deaths of Emily and Anne - that within six weeks a second edition was published. Anita loved Wuthering Heights when she first discovered the Brontes - as important to her growing up as her love of music - but so many people were and as she said for her as a brown person - her words not mine - the fact that Heathcliff was also brown meant so much to her. It would have to me if I was also not white and had even noticed that Heathcliff wasn't either. It's insane that we read that he wasn't and yet were still "oh yeah, he's white."

Anyway, The Tenanti of Wildfell Hall is often cited as the first feminist novel which makes me happy. Reader, she shut the bedroom door on her abusive, alcoholic husband!

I forgot the poem! @Britinme I'm blown away by it. That's real talent. Did DD cry when she saw it because I think I would have. Not only is it really good, your Sophie clearly loves her big sister. There isn't a thing about it that doesn't make my heart melt a little. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Thanks @FagsMagsandBags:-). DD was blown away too. Yes, Sophie really loves her sister. I’m hoping the paediatric consultant tomorrow is reassuring about Katie’s knee pain and I’m glad DD got her in so quickly.

a recommendation for you, which may well have been on UK TV already as I’ve watched it on Masterpiece Theatre, which gets all its good stuff from Britain - Miss Austen, based on the novel of that title by Gill Hornby, about Jane’s sister Cassandra. Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie aren’t nearly old enough to play the characters in the book, but if you haven’t read the book you wouldn’t know that and it doesn’t really matter.

I loved that, @Britinme and I'm glad you got to see it over there so soon because it really was delightful. I'm currently reading some of Jane's letters to Cassandra and while I'm sad that so many of them were destroyed there's enough in the ones that remain to make me understand why, back then, they decided it was best not to keep all of them. Jane was delightfully cutting enough in what we have. I think she must have been quite shocking on some of the others and there was probably more private stuff that they didn't want out in the open. I'm just grateful that they kept as many as they did now and I'm loving reading them.