Our Girl and Captain James Discussion thread Volume VI

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

Honorary Members of the CJ Collective:
Ben Aldridge
Tony Grounds
Lacey Turner

Yes firegirl all of those actions followed by a full lift in the air a la Officer and a Gentleman, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire

Rhubarb the very fact I am on this in work probably adds weight to Jeremy Vine's argument!! Best not tell my boss.

Bloody hell, he's just walked past - fortunately looking the other way! Haha.

I wondered about that film too... Back from school show- was too cute

apsara I hope your day in your new school went well and that they were all keen and eager. That got me wondering what sort of teacher CJ would make? I think he would have to teach chemistry. Most CJisms would be a bit dodgy in the classroom can you imagine "can I go to the toilet sir?" "No f*ing way, wait out"

pixie I hope your move has went well and that you're not getting battered by the storms we are having at the moment. We moved 2 weeks before Christmas a few years ago and it was a crazy time but worth getting it all over and done with before Christmas.

Actually BA reminds me a very, very tiny bit of a teacher I had a major crush on at secondary school. Same sort of build, hair and nose! I spent most of his lessons day dreaming about him (very innocent ones I have you say- don't think I was nearly as 'advanced' as teen girls are now

CJisms in the classroom : of course i want you to be brilliant, and perhaps I'm the only one allowed to arse around. And what about you'd only be cheating yourself.
cockwombles would be kept strictly for use in the staffroom.

How about "two volunteers, one to blow it up and one to get the water and fill it up". Chemistry lesson maybe?

cherin and icemist I'm always blubbing at school things. When my daughter was in the nativity play I was in floods before she'd even come on. It only took the little sheep to process down the aisle and I was sobbing. Even now, when I watch my son play in his school band I'm seeing him through a mist of tears. I'm not very stoic though - I was almost hysterical by the end of Les Miserables, heaving shoulders and snot smeared face...

I cry at all sorts, the Sainsburys advert and sad to admit but I cried and Scott and Charlene's wedding from Neighbours! No Nativity plays anymore for me, but I have the school carol concert where DS plays guitar, could be a tear jerker, hopefully in the right way!

Mmm, I quite fancy the thought of BA/CJ as a French teacher. He's got such a lovely voice that speaking in French would be heavenly!
Or maybe a piano teacher. Imagine him bending over you to show you how to play - and his long fingers on the piano keys...

richtea yes nativity play was years ago. I really miss all that sort of thing although I don't miss the horror of trying to cobble together a costume.

Oh yes.. French teacher, all that tongue rolling! Really though any teaching roll would suit him, and I would be more than happy to stay behind for detention if I had been bad!

I used to get lumbered with all the sewing of costumes, as I made the silly mistake when DS1 was in Reception in making a King Henry VIII costume for Tudor week. Durrrrr....

Oh I have been always very good at disguising the fact that I actually own a sewing machine, and can also use it...because the costumes in my kids school are serious business. And by using serious, I mean that there used to be a mum that was a professional costumist for the BBC...she took 2 weeks off work each year to work on those costumes. I suspect the school has an archive of stuff (only 4-11 sizes) that competes with blue peter!!!
(And you can actually tell. It's jaw dropping. But after all...the simple idea of getting 850kids dressed, made up and coordinated to dance/play/sing on stage...it's a military operation!!)
(State school, before you ask)

Ladies, CJ would always be a PE teacher for me. He could scream at me all day long, and I'd be happy to sweat and climb and run and whatever...

Wow cherin what a bonus to have her at the school, my efforts were not in that league at all, but slightly better that a sheet with a hole cut in the middle for a shepherd.

Oh yes, PE teacher, of course! Tight shorts for Operation Bulge!

Watching my kids at swimming lessons ... CJ as a swimming teacher ...

Oh my, a swimming teacher! I'm not a very good swimmer (an expert at lounging on a lilo though) so would sign up like a flash for lessons with CJ. What tricks can he do with a woggle do you think?

Brilliant idea Nickel. I'm not a very good swimmer, think he would have to jump in a lot and rescue me, might even need mouth to mouth

As for school costumes I think I'm still traumatised by the memory of having to as a child wear a lamp shade covered in tin foil and dance to David Bowie's Space Oddity.

Doing the nursery run so back in the land of 3G, well any phone signal really. All moved in, house is chaos but the heating works which was my main worry.

Managed one CJism of 'focus up' as DH was flapping about polyfillaing holes.

Well done pixie sounds like a well earned glass or two of wine tonight!

Has a good day thanks so slightly less nervous.
What would CJ teach? Interesting question..
I think he's too intelligent to be a PE teacher (apologies to any PE teachers reading) but would probably help coach rugby and be involved with D of E, which would lead to a huge increase in the numbers of girls doing D of E as well as female staff volunteering to go on expeditions .

Yes D of E : tents, rucsacs, blisters. He'd be in his element!

Hey pixie glad you are all in and have heating. It's getting cold down here, but no snow yet

Glad today went well for you too apsara, hopefully a good a Christmas break for you now

I would definitely volunteer for D of E (or anything similar!!!) if CJ was doing it . . . Unfortunately with the only things I do at the moment, the only men are hubby's of friends, no matter what they look like obviously not going there!! I think I could forget how to swim though, if it meant getting lessons from CJ!

I had a major crush on the boys PE teacher at school, in the days when shell suits were de riguer. Thought he was the bees knees in his pink, orange and green striped getup. Oh the 80s fashions were totally forgettable, but he was certainly memorable. CJ defo a PE teacher, shouting "what have you just learned?"