Our Girl and Captain James Thread Volume VII

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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

Have read the fanfic Elsie posted the link for, that bloody kinders! If he went to a fancy dress party he'd have to go as a giant gooseberry

Ahahahah!
Well I am right on the border, 40yo, 2 boys, 10 and 3, one full time work fairly demanding, a very supportive hubby who physically reminds me a lot of CJ (but was that slim only in the first few months of our dating ;-)
Live in London, come from the continent. Speak 3,5 languages...but have learnt more English since I started watching OG and then joined here than in the decades of study before :-)
(Not necessarily "proper English", but much more fun!)

Sorry to ruin the dynamic. I'm 39 (40 in a few months), one boy, 3 and living in East Anglia.

pixie can we have online 40th birthday celebrations? Maybe Cherin could design a card and I'll bake a cake, I'll have to eat it though! By the way since OG I feel like I'm in my 30's!

Confession time...37 (just...) 3 sproglets eldest 6, youngest 2. Yorkshire. I'm familiar with online world due to previous jobs, but have never activity participated in any online forums or made real virtual friends!

cherin we're teaching you proper good English.

Crikey I have just read the smutty M rated FanFic. Really good, bloody Kinders.....

I'm 40, been married 11 years and have 2 boys 5 and 7. My oldest has autism. I live in the east Midlands and as you know I'm a teacher. I've been this obsessed with a programme before or posted on a thread like this. I love the way this thread makes me laugh out loud -it's such good therapy :)

I think it's amazing we have all been together on here for a couple of months without actually knowing hardly anything about each other, but it feels like you are all my mates! Mental, or what (real good English we're teaching you, cherin!!)

pixie defined another rating for it earlier that I'd like to set as a new benchmark.....'quality smut' = QS

Can you weave that one in somewhere SPO?!

Doing my research on episode 3, it's not the same without cjwoof's commentary.

Agree with pixel...."Sigh, gooey feelings all round" thanks cjwoofwoof

Good god, this man's cheekbones...

Ooh love the new fan fic

Not sure about the level of English, mates (I was prim and proper before OG, now a few too many bloody and freakin' pop in my mouth!! What a change from the 'acquaintances' and 'manners' of my period dramas...)
But one thing is sure...I left any shame behind! And I found (and confirmed today) that making a stag smile in drawing is basically impossible :-)
But I put some bloody effort in. There are some baubles and fairy lights in his antlers, and the coffee mug is replaced by a glass of champagne. Cheers to the last, mad rush before Xmas!!

"Freakin" brilliant Cherin. I can see his smile, forearms, chunky watch and stunning eyes. I think I'm in love with Stag CJ as well.

cherin, you are awesome! That is amazing, I have no idea how you do it, but somehow you have captured CJ in a Christmas stag! Thank you, I now have a massive grin on my face :)

I love it Cherin, wonderful.

Ok, so I'm regressing to teenage years here but, given we've had Top Gun references on this thread today, I'd like to request people's fave teenybop movies.....

Please can I ask for top 5, I'll kick us off. A couple of mine might be quite obscure but as with OG, the cast and soundtrack have always been really important to me

1 Dirty Dancing (sorry, but nobody puts baby in a corner, even if she deserved to be there whilst I was busy dancing and practicing those water jumps with Patrick)

2 Some Kind of Wonderful ( Eric Stotlz, he's not my cup of tea then or now, but great soundtrack and good characters and slightly offbeat theme, female drummer & best friend, 'will they wont they?')

3 Top Gun (sound track & 'take me to bed or lose me forever', Tom Cruise when not so mega famous with shades and a bike, what more would you want.... No, not Dr Green from ER, unnecessary ...)

4 Running on a Empty (River Phoenix & Martha Plimpton [she's now a sometime extra in the good wife]. His family are on the run from the FBI, nicely filmed, great chemistry between leads, subtle, warm, lovely James Taylor Fore & Rain song that features. And loved River at the time, what a waste ov a life)

Cheating now....

5 The Breakfast Club/ or / Stand by Me...complete opposite ends of the spectrum in the main, but both clever, thoughtful, funny, self-aware

(Sod it, I need to add Dead Poets as 6 ...cool Robin Williams & inspiring & evocative)

Damn, I might need to do a top 10! But I can't say this counts as I wasn't a teenager when it was released....

7 Before Sunset ( might be higher up the list, Ethan Hawke, cute, improvised, chemistry, brings back memories).

Very nice Cherin. Good work! :-)

Caveat...last film choice is Before Sunrise (not Sunset, that's a later movie in the series)

I love Before Sunset. Never really liked Before Sunrise. They were just so bloody earnest. At least by Sunset they were a bit more jaded.

Ok mine are probably a bit dated, like me!

1. High Society, (Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra) A classic musical oldie. Old fashioned Hollywood Glamour.

1. The Way We Were (Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand) RR, phew what a man! I cry every time I watch it.

1. Love Actually. It's film made of many films, if you know what I mean?! Also the vicar in the wedding ceremony at the beginning used to be the vicar in our village church.

1. Pretty Women. It's the only film I could actually quote all the lines, well OG as well now!

1. Withnail and I (Richard E Grant and Paul McGann) Classic comedy that never fails to make me laugh.

Loads more and I bet when I see other peoples list I will be "Durr" should of had that!

Elsie, we have same taste! But I may put Running on empty almost at top 1...I absolutely adored it, and I bought the James Taylor cd (cd? Or tape? Nah, cd! Fairly sure!) as a consequence.
Not sure I know Some kind of wonderful, I need to check the title it was translated to...but I can offer Benny&Joon in its place. With an absolutely adorable set of actors, all of them. Johnny Depp über young and dreamy, Mary Stuart masterson, and Aidan Quinn with lovely eyes. Oh, and julienne Moore, too! And the 500miles title song :-)

But thinking about very early teens...I was addicted to Hollywood classics (Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, I think my first hot dreams included Paul Newman in Cat on a hot tin roof. With Liz...), including minor silly things with Sandra dee ("look at me, I am Sandra dee!", Grease song...The real, acting one ;-)
And then Pretty in Pink, mosquito coast, most of the Star Wars/Indiana jones...there was also another Tom cruise movie, he was shamefully young, can't remember the title...and
Scent of a woman with al Pacino??