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You are all awed into silence.

I can understand this.

It is an extraordinary achievement.

my goodness

I think I feel a motivational poster coming on

I have prepared a few words, here [brandishes notepad], just a few people to thank, recipes to admire, thoughts and inspirations to share . . .

[coughs. waits for spotlight]

oh yes, a poster is called for here I think. I still admire mine on my profile now and then, though it says I don't have a profile. I do.

That soup sounds tasty. May I ask if your dinner was a casserole with celery in, 100x, or did you have it as a vegetable on the side?

howzat?

very good

More yummy food . I am off to a birthday party this afternoon.

Boco I am sorry about your skin. Were you still taking the magic water remedy or do you stop once it has cleared up?

100 would you like to choose next week's title in honour of your fruity prowess?

That is ABSOLUTELY BLARDY MARVELLOUS.

I am lololol and oddly touched and utterly triumphant. Go, Joyce.

No MrsC [important voice] it wasn't. It was roasted vegetables with goats cheese and a erm, steak. Celery was roasted with everything else, and with fennel seeds.

Boco when you talk to Wizard ask them why I've got this thing about fennel. I keep bunging it in everything and drinking fennel tea. [utterly narcissitic emoticon] Don't worry about your rash, ask about the fennel.

I love the poster Franny. A lot.

100 Juno really has been successful hasn't it? Did you think it would be such a hit when you saw it, or did you see it as more nichey?

I don't want to give bits away for people who might want to see it, but I was SO glad the ending was as it was, re: what she decided. It felt right and true and real and it was not a crappy tacked on happy ending - so many otherwise very good films do have those

can I pretend you really look like that? A bit?

can we at least say that you have a dress like that?

Yes, please do. She is wearing my overall too, I have the same. I have long been looking for a garment that carries the panache of a school overall with the ties that go through the holes.

I don't think I thought it would be so big, but I don't know. DH said 'We should vote for her, I think she'll win an Oscar' so perhaps it was always going to be good?

I liked the ending too. I liked all of it, except the first five minutes when I thought 'Uh oh'. I liked it much more than Little Miss Sunshine, which I thought was a bit of a fake. Sort of purposefully dysfunctional and indie. Whereas this was a bit of a gem really, and funny and clever too. I liked him in his yellow shorts.

So annoying your skin has flared up again, Boco. Can you identify anything that is similar ot happening like before?

100x - god that sounds delicious. Were there no carbs? I am awe of those who can avoid carbs. The biscuits won.

LOL. X Posts about the dress.

I am dizzy with success, it is making me tipsy and fly-away.

I have to go and put dcs to bed I suppose. I like half term.

Oh, I am pleased i'm not the only on who didn't love the sunshine one. DH was raving about it and I was fairly unmoved.

I believe some potatoes were in there too MrsC. I could barely see them for the fennel of course.

yes yes I couldn't bear the first 5 minutes! It was so stylised and the so called witty banter and all that attitude - ugh, I thought I was really going to struggle
I liked the animated titles but I was distracted by the 14 year old tossers behind us who had clearly come by accident, and were going to make fart jokes during every quiet moment, just to prove they weren't turning gay or something because they were watching a film about a gur-rrrl

I haven't watched the sunshine one but I want to

I want to know what to see when I am in London next week - NEXT WEEK MRSC - I have decided to go and see a film in the evening after carb loading

yellow shorts guy was FAB I loved him
very very very good
the dad was great also, who was he?

Yes, wasn't the scene where she tells the dad and step-mum good? It was at that point I went 'Oh god, this going to be REALLY good.'

There Will Be Blood is amazing you know. I don't know if it is your sort of thing, but it is an exceptional film.

You will like The Savages, I think. I did, it's dead good.

look I could go to see just because the premise made me laugh

or this which has the divine Mr Wilson in, but they don't seem to have cast him for his beauty as he spends the entire trailer with his face covered in bandages

or this which actually looks like it could be quite BAD but I couldn't find anything else that was a comedy and not an action / horror / thriller thing

if I am sleeping on my own in hotel that night I do NOT need a scary film first

Hmmm.

Are you going to see film in London or Col * ster?