Our Girl and Captain James Discussion Thread Volume VIII

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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

nickel any glimpse of an aran cardigan beneath the hoodie?!

Oh dear am behind on the ff - will try to catch up later. About to start Operation Take Down Christmas which always makes me a bit melancholy. I love the holly wreath on the front door and the smell of the tree. We're having a family day tomorrow before school starts again on Tuesday, then yippee, time to watch the DVD!

That's not sad, it's dedication to the cause! We need special agent icemist to call upon her known operatives out in the field to call back in with intel.

We once had a rather surreal encounter a few years ago (pre kids) when on holiday in Venice. I found myself boarding a vaporetto and turned to see Bjork (sporting a kaftan). She's fairly unique so I was certain it was her, I was trying to convey the sighting to my partner who was as per usual oblivious! A few not so subtle stage whispers later and he finally got the gist...together with most of the other tourists who all started furtively reached for mobiles and cameras as Bjork made a hasty retreat, kids, kaftan and all!

No sightings of any BA lookalikes in Berkshire, or indeed the man himself, I'm afraid. It's mostly beer-bellied, middle aged saddoes in my neck of the woods. If only the Musketeers or 2 Section in full combats would suddenly drive through Woof Village in convoy, now that'd be worth capturing in a selfie, sigh.

Haha elsie I have the same problem trying to get my dp to recognise subtle signaling. It always ends up with me having to jerk my head ferociously towards whoever I want to point out and mouth their name in a village idiot kind of way. Unglamorously, not in Venice and not Bjork,but I had the same kind of experience in Wales on spotting Merlin and Arthur.

Rhubarb have just finished reading all chapters of your FF right from the beginning. You totally amaze me how clever and talented you are. I can't think where you find the time to do all of your research. This is more than FF, it's a mini serial drama that should be commissioned. We live very near to Biggin Hill the old squadron 2427 and my eldest is in the air cadets. Just brilliant. No wonder I can't pick up a book at the moment, all the FF is incredible.

Great fun when you spot a celebrity we play the look-A-Like-Y celebrity too, which sometime is lot funnier! Every year we are lucky enough to go to a football black tie event (through a sports writer friend) all the men are going mad over spotting players and I havent a clue! Completed wasted on me. I am more likely to spot the wives! Does BA suport a football team do we know?

icemist any new on when BA is back to Canada? My British Airways friends is flying to Calgary on Friday, I will ask her to keep a look out!

Lol richtea, would have been fun if I'd actually really spotted a celebrity!!
My DH is a Chelsea supporter and we used to have season tix so went to all the matches, and he used to point out celebs he saw .... I never noticed any of them! Mind you, didnt know half of them when he did point them out!! Other than Lawrence Dallaglio, who I actually walked into! I wasn't watching where I was going! He's very tall! :)

I'm rubbish at tales of brushes with celebrity. Stephen Hawking ran over my foot with his wheelchair once.

nickel your DH would like to swap places with me then being a chelsea fan, we are going to tribute dinner in a few weeks for Didier Drogba. I didn't know who he played for, as I said wasted on me!

Celebrities - well I have two tales which both weirdly involve the cinema!

The first which is funny considering some previous conversations on the positive and negative points of "Don't go breaking my heart!" is that when I was a child way back in the seventies, Elton John sat in front of me at the cinema - I kid you not! He had all his own hair in those days. He was in concert next to the cinema and they were killing time in the afternoon and my mum and dad had taken us to a matinee of "The slipper and the Rose" a musical version of Cinderella - my mum had/has a thing about Richard Chamberlain. He and his band sniggered a bit during the soppy songs.

The second will appeal to some of you ladies more as it involves sitting behind the South African Rugby Team in a Cinema in Edinburgh during the Rugby World Cup in 1999. My DH nearly ran one of them over on the way out of the car park. As they hammered England the next day - it was a bad move. The film was The Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo and there were a few comments during the stairs bonking and topless scenes on the beach - as you can imagine!

pixie pixie pixie fantastic latest chapter. Time slowed down as I read it! Perfectly captured!

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Pixie - great latest chapter! Since I screwed up my ff id and password and have to review as "guest", I've decided to put (MN) at the end so that you know it's me!

Been thinking again this afternoon whilst I was pruning my climbing roses halfway up a ladder about SPO and the TG/BA theory. OK, so it's unlikely he's BA and he did say he managed a team of people I think as his job. Even if he's not TG, he could easily be part of the scriptwriting team. As the token man on here, he would definitely be able to suss out the "what women want" aspect of the series. A research/survey panel couldn't have given him more in-depth feedback.

The only celebrities I've seen were Martin Shaw in Cafe Rouge in Bath (with long hair for the part he was playing in the theatre there); Monty Don from Gardener's World in Knutsford (very offhand guy, not at all as he appears on the programme) and Paul Burrell, Princess Diana's butler outside in his garden at his house near Chester. Paul Burrell actually posed for a picture - he was a very pleasant chap, despite the bad press he was receiving at the time.

pixie excellent new chapter!!!! Thank you!

rhubarb tad jealous of the rugby team.. Any country would do for me!

Are we at the "spot the celebrity" again? Shall I dig up the Raisin's story, much to someone's despair?? :-))))
I am totally hopeless and I never recognise anyone, also because I hardly watch tv or go to movies these days. I spotted cumberbatch in wardour street once (in from of an excellent bakey called Princi, the guy has good taste in carbs), an actress that is recurrent in most BBC period drama (one of the Pratt sisters) lives next to my babysitter, and mc avoy I mentioned before.
Unfortunately, the one time my BGF bumped into Colin firth right in front of our office I wasn't fast enough at running out and could not see him. I think I knocked over a couple of partners in the rush, though, but it would have been totally worth it. :-)))

Fab chapter again pixie

There us truly some great ff at the moment.

Ooh celeb spotting-
Booked the actress who plays Carla in Corrie a holiday
Victoria Beckham in trafford centre
Quite a few of the actors from Corrie over the tears
Andy from cbeebies

You can tell I'm the mum of a toddler because the one that impresses most is Andy from cbeebies.

Oh Ilove I do hope you're right and that SPO was doing research. Just imagine what type of series would be commissioned based on the wish list of the ladies of a certain age on here! Perhaps we are the next group to have a drama targeted at us! - No not another series of Call the Midwife with a token vicar as totty! (I've said before I do like it and I was very glad when the ex-nun finally got the doctor but how many series do they need to make before its too much? Overseas sales again!).

Ahahahah! Is he the tall one?

Oooh Corrie - I forgot about Steve MacDonald from Corrie - I saw him in Sainsbury's in Wilmslow. He was busy checking his till recieipt. Also Ken Barlow in Wilmslow (pre recent sex allegations). He was on his mobile walking down the street. It was his voice I recognised before I saw him.

icemist - did you acknowledge that you knew who Carla was or do you have to be discreet?

(I read the other day that the BBC had to censor some comments by lusty mothers on the FB page of the vegetable show...apparently they were begging the guy in fake wellies and knitted gilet to try their melons and check of they were ripe enough!!! I swear it wasn't me!!)

Oh I forgot...once saw Emma Thompson at the natural history museum...with a little girl (daughter?) and therefore I kept at good distance...

While we're on the soap stories - I once had breakfast 'sort of' with Butch Dingle from Emmerdale in a hotel in London. I hasten to add I was with my DH and some of his work colleagues on a corporate thank you - (actually it was pretty good we had a slap up dinner in Madame Tussauds and a free tour) We were being treated to the Executive lounge and poor old Butch was in there on his own trying to eat his breakfast in peace. We all knew who he was but pretended not to. Unfortunately, I don't know the actor's real name - terrible but I saw him in Blue Murder as well and I'm sure bizarrely the character was called Butchers - talk about typecasting!

Noooo cherin, don't you dare retell The Raisin story!

Celeb spots that spring to mind:
Kylie as mentioned previously
Merlin and Arthur
Michael Foot ( very frail looking) in donkey jacket in posh restaurant
Kojak (for those old enough to remember) sat next to on a plane
Jools Holland in Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood looking very bored
Various Made in Chelsea people
Peter Purvis (blue peter) again next to on plane
Rufus Sewell, looking much more handsome in real life