Our Girl and Captain James Discussion Thread Vol V

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Feel free to join in as we discuss all things Our Girl related

Honorary Members:
Ben Aldridge
Tony Grounds

cherin you are bonkers! I love it!!!! We need illustrations to go along side the Zombie FanFic.

I'm off to my one of my neighbours for a jewellery party tonight :( It will be mostly femail, I would think, so I am going to carry out some research to see how many people watched OG. I will slip in a few phrases to see if I get any response, I'm not hopeful though

cherin I nearly spat my wine out (and I never waste wine!) -"I want the right end of the stick! " Love that line!

Remember the secret signals richtea: quick flash of stag pants, swinging mic hand action and humming first line of "Don't go breaking my heart". You'll soon find out if there are any other OG obsessives... or never be asked to your neighbours again.

I don't know about a flash of pants, but I am seriously "jingling". It's the bell, every time I hear it i think one of cats have come in!

Wonder if the bells are all the same pitch? If you got together with some other stag bell pant wearers, could you play a tune? Might be an alternative way to do carol singing.

Is it another type of bell-y dancing? ;-)

Ladies and SPO, I went through the entire first thread to try to work out how many of the earlier posters in our obsession are still with us and can truly be counted as hardcore. It surprised me to be honest. It was quite fun to read some of our earlier musings too. Even though CJ/BA has been central to our obsession throughout, we have gone off at various tangents along the way. I can't believe some of the drivel I've written! I am probably not as thorough as SPO so this might not be 100% accurate. Comparing Thread I to Thread V was enough - I could not face wading through Threads II-IV as well.

We have:

Snumpy
Smurfingreat
NappyValley
Cherin
Ihearttc
ThreadnNeedle
Firegirl
Icemist
Richtea
Ilovelblue
Stressybird
Beingfrank
PasstheSherry
Rhubarb
SPOfficer
Nickel

LeBearPolar made a brief appearance in Thread I but I don't really recall her popping up until very recently.

PasstheCremeEggs and Mandy214 baffled me as I am sure they have appeared more recently but I couldn't find them but maybe I could be mixing up CremeEggs with PasstheSherry.

As I said, it wasn't scientific and apologies if I've missed anyone out who things they should be on this list!

I do wonder what happened to some of those posters we lost along the way. I wonder if they still read but have stopped posting or whether they got bored and opted for decompression?

I had episodes 2 and 3 on in the background whilst flicking through all our posts.

I do need to get out more I think.

Great work iloveblue, I'm not posting as much, but i'm still here.

Cherin I have been at the bottle of wine, and mulled wine and pints of beer, plus fair ground rides and my DH is now looking bemusedly at me manically cackling at your last post. Badrai and Cpt Azzizi?

You're going to suggest Kinders and Dangleberries next!

Dangle-bells?

Blimey, I've been at a planning meeting all evening and just gagging to get back on here, guess I'm addicted too!

cherin you made me laugh! Brilliant!
I hope SPO is working on the next chapter ;)
Right, off to have dinner and research operation bulge (maybe mot at the same time?!) and try and find some good examples!

Anyway, captain Azizi is not bad, I can't see why Badrai would not find him attractive.
Me personally would probably prefer Sohail (not in zombie version), but hey...
(does he not remind you of an old actor called kabir bedi?)
I am drinking a sleep-well herbal tea, I swear it's just the exhaustion talking now, no alcohol in me old body. But I get all stupid when I am tired!!

(Btw who had cramps?? Magnesium!! Helps a lot!)

cherin I was the one with cramp. Had it before but never quite like what happened in the middle of the night. Thanks for the tip.

Oh and richtea I've decided to remove the bell from the Tesco stag pants. My washing machine is a bit iffy (probably a new one isn't far away) and I don't want something like a pesky little bell working loose and b*ggering up all the mechanics!

Hi, just had to chuck in my 10 pence worth to say how utterly overjoyed I was and am to have discovered this thread - I have giggled and guffawed all evening to the complete bemusement of dc (x3) -..Haven't had chance to catch up on the zombie sideline but it sounds brilliant. Thanks so much ... i really really need another time consuming obsession...

Oooh another new member! Welcome Wildwillow! We are all completely sane in real life, I assure you. We can do beautiful drawings, creative writing, spreadsheets and some (not me) are superb at the IT side of things.

Hi Wildwillow and welcome. I hate to tell you that this obsession can be somewhat time consuming, 5 threads of bonkers amusement on offer. The Zombie fic is a must read, our honorary and much esteemed bloke SPO is a comedy genius.

Welcome Wildwillow to the best thread on MN.

Good work iloveblue - you don't realise how long a full 1000 post thread is until you read it again. I tried reading thread 1 again last week and had to give up half way through.

Confession snumpy - I did some of it at work when a lot of folk had started going home. I didn't read all the posts though, that would have been too much. Just picked out the posters' names.

Welcome Wildwillow

I love how new people are posting!

Have you been reading all the other threads?

I've had a hectic night- had to bring youngest to walk in centre. He's ok just viral- from his current cold. But came back to lots of fun on here

Needed a cheer me up so posting one of my faves

Icemist that certainly cheered me up.

Glad your littleun is ok.

I also realised tonight in my handbag I have 3 photos of CJ that I printed when I sent my fanmail. Need to keep them safe- it's like having CJ with me all the time

Get the stag pants icemist - you can keep him even closer!

Hello wildwillow. You do realise this is totally addictive and you will spend most of your time researching stag pants and analysing CJs bulge. But also there is the Fan Fic to contribute to as well!

Ok, my update on the jewellery party at neighbours.... Had a few glasses of wine for courage, checked out jewellery (felt obliged to buy) and then started chatting about this and that. I was talking about my eldest son being in the Air Cadets which led me swiftly on to armed forces (I thought that was rather clever!) and said "oh did anyone watch Our Girl?", several blank faces, however nosey neighbour No3 replied "yes, actor was rather nice". NICE (rather too loudly), bloody gorgeous actually! Perhaps No3 isn't as Hard Core as us!!!! Another epic failure in RL.....

Evening everyone. Had a late meeting at work and just catching up.

orphan great question about what extra you would be. I would be one of the wounded Taliban so that Molly could minister to me. If the question was extended to include props I would be Molly's towel. (Can't believe I just wrote that!)

cherin that opening to the second zombie chapter is mad! I am going to try and use it.

ilovelblue interesting research. Surprised at how many of us remain from the first thread. Mind you, I shouldn't be, this thread is so addictive.

wildwillow welcome!

Now as someone once said 'I have a request' could one if you remind me what the name of the American Major was in episode 4. I want to include him on the next zombie chapter.