Swagger Inn Thread 103 - Wenches Win the Internet

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Some of us are sat in the communal tavern bed eating cake and being drunk. Some of us are on a forrinholiday having a very successfull and enjoyable time.

Some of us would like this

Ok then - what would be the best characters for TM to play? (I'm saying this with no idea what I'd suggest! )

I think Dog could be any romantic hero - disclaimer, I don't read romantic books but I'm sure he would be good.

Tom would be a great Winston Smith, if they ever made another film of 1984

Tom would be a perfect Rochester!

And I agree about Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon

LetUs - yes to Jasper Fforde
Mavis Life After Life is fab
and general agreement that ET's S&s version was good.

I actually read a bit of my current book while at the Beach with DS

Work is still a disaster area, and my contact for help doesn't work on Fridays. FML etc etc. Wenches - a handy hint. NEVER take on a complicated job using a wierd database without making them give you proper training first. When they say "Oh, it's like that other one you've worked on" what they mean is, the vague principle is the same, but actually it's got all sorts of wierd and wonderful trip points that you have no idea how to negotiate and you'll end up with a separate spreadsheet for each record recording what you've utterly fudged and will need someone to fix for you at a later date. FMStupidJob. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Am knackered, off to hayloft.
ILYA

I'm off to the Cardinal's quarters for the night to curl up with the sexiest man alive!

Night lovely wenches - ILYA

Crappy work, eh, Helen ? I sank a few layers lower into the depths of dispair today. Projectleader on currentjob was absent this morning (pre-arranged) and we had standinprojectleader instead. Standin was 1000 times better than mainleader and all team members were very happy, doing good work, getting lots out of it. Then projectleader came back, and it all went to cock again.

Wouldn't be surprised if team members end up talking to headhonchoswiththemoney about this problem. Projectendresult is going to be dire, but if standin came back for the next week and a half, it might stand a slight chance.

And with that surfeit of italics, I'm off to the hayloft. Capt Trev is coming with me to read aloud, and then snuggle. Cos you can't have earth shattering sex every night of the week, and I'm knackered.

Cinn agree about Mansfield Park

Thursday Next - yep, read the first on when it came out and have even been to an audience participation Richard III in a pub in Swindon attended by Jasper Forde himself (still have the sunglasses). Have a friend who is i/c of the local gazetter there and one of her team's jobs is to name new streets so she named one development after characters from the books, so there is a Thursday Street and Eyre Close

Cinn that sounds horrific :(

Helen hugs

madame I agree about santi being too Hispanic, I can't see him as anyone in Austen.

x-posts - the job sounds horrific, not the part where Captain Treville reads you a bedtime story

Mavis completely agree with you re Crow Road.

Current bedtime reading for me at the mo is The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830 - well written and v.interesting but I keep trying to read it when too tired.

As which point, I'm off to the hayloft. If Athos is otherwise occupied, might use Porthus as a cushion while reading

Many sympathies to helen & cinn re crappy work.

Sorry mavis, got distracted before I could answer your casting question - went to call ScaredyCAt in, realised it was raining, had to rescue washing, realised it was thundering, rushed around & shut windows & finally ScaredyCat appeared. I then decided a nice glass of port was in order, opened a new bottle and the cork was PLASTIC

Is he reading you some TavLit cinn?

Evenin wenchy peeps

Finally booked flights for hols....had to kick MrElk in the nadgers first mind you....as a form of persuasion it's very effective.

Well obvs, TB would be the perfect Heathcliff...it's in the genes. And Rochester....any dark and brooding angst ridden misery guts.

Never read the Count of Monte Cristo, I feel I really should. Who said about Christopher Brookmyre? I've ploughed through all of his....mostly whilst lying on a beach, they're great fun. Sobbed my way through The Help, but since BabyElk came along I've not read anything more taxing than LivingEtc , my concentration is shot to pieces. It's very annoying, I used to be a voracious reader, but now if I try to read a book I end up reading the same sentence over and over again.

Evening wenchi

I am also in the middle of work-a-thon Helen I'm off for a week for our wifi free middle of fucking nowhere week on Saturday which I can't wait for. But first I have to try and finish everything and I've just got too much.

I prioritised packing earlier and trying to get teens to actually pack their own stuff. So now I'm even further behind.

Mr C has wisely just made me a cuppa and said 'just pull a late one, I'll drive tomorrow' so I'm just sitting here at the computer trying desperately to get up to date. Argh.

However. Just to put in my 2 penneth:

Morelike I'm taking Gone Girl on hols. Haven't seen film yet. So looking forward to that. Also have Latest Stephen Fry bio cos there's lots of Fry and Laurie stuff in it.

Monte Cristo also an absolute face of mine. Read it once a year.

I still haven't finished war and peace. Some fucking chance.

Fancy Gaudy night is my most favourite book in the world. Have two copies as first one literally fell apart. . I love St George.

Have you read any of the Jill Paton W novels based on Sayers's notes?? Not bad.

Have to say this made me snort my tea;
LetUs : And Aidan Turner as Heathcliff? Well fuck me very much.

Well said.

Right back to it, back later

Elk - it's taken me about 5 years since miniGrind came along before I've started reading actual books again. Although I do seem to have read a lot of MN

I'm woefully read really. I tend to find the writers I like and then read them over again. It's a strategy, I suppose.

Right off to bed - let's see what the ol fitbit decrees .....

Issy- that sounds like a lot of fun! And the street naming is brilliant

Cinn's and Helen's jobs do not sound like a lot fun

Can't think of other roles for TM at the moment

Comtess

Off to have my private performance with Paella. Night wenches

Bed for me too - I did laugh at Apes description of a fitbit. I have an Up24 which performs much the same function

I can hardly read since I have the boys, brain is just all over the place. Really need to get past it, I need to learn things before I can start earning some money again..

Having met Letus, the image of her saying that phrase had me snorting out loud!

And yy, I seem to manage a fair bit of MN....you're about my level

How far into W&P have you managed comtess?

About 30 pages Elk . Mr C has made one of those 'why the fuck are you reading that' looks at it a couple of times. Don't know if I can be arsed to haul it on hols only to ignore it and read other easier reads.

ha ha....you've done better than I have then, they can't quite leave the initial soiree, and just to make life easier it keeps segueing into French fgs!

Not surprisingly, I love him too comtess - it's the flirty charm . I have read the JPW books, up to The Attenbury Emeralds, did enjoy them but found that one felt a little 'off' re character at times esp wrt Bunter (who I have a terribly soft spot for). I think the bit that got my back up was Bunter's son being at school with a Wimsey son. I just don't think Bunter would have thought that proper . Good luck with getting through the work.

ali, my reading slacked off terribly when my two were little, I've found it so much easier to concentrate on it now they're older & I don't get so many interruptions (& I'm less tired in the evenings.) I found just setting a small goal like reading one chapter a day helped to re-establish the habit. Not much help if you're looking to tackle W&P mind

Do your copies of W&P have character lists at the front? I spent so much time referring back to those when I first read it

See I'm fine with French bits but EXACTLY THAT Fancy I keep losing track of who everyone is.

Yy agree entirely ref Bunter (favourite bits of him are in Busman's Honeymoon when he loses it about the claret being ruined). I read The Late Scholar which is the most recent and basically just based on a few DLS scraps. Kinda wished I hadn't actually.

In my head, whenever I walk in shoes on a beach on wet sand I AM Harriet Vane on the way to Wilvercombe.

Right. Must fuck the fuck on with the work. Timing myself for half an hour.

Hm that doesn't sound good about the latest one comtess. Love Bunter & his claret disaster & any situation when he is sent to chat up the female servants