Our Girl and Captain James Addicts Part XIX

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The CJ Collective "Sophisticated Silliness"

Feel free to join in as we discuss all things Our Girl and Captain James related.

Honorary Members of The CJ Collective:
Ben Aldridge
Tony Grounds
Lacey Turner
Cast & Crew of Our Girl

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I was a Corrie fan too but there are too many episodes each week, they're too drawn out and the storylines are too far fetched. Rant over sorry! As for Eastenders, that's too depressing by half!

I used to watch EE, but crap storylines, too many episodes a week and the chaos of a newborn meant that I stopped watching years ago.

I feel I know you all well enough now to out myself as an Archers listener (if you've seen my Twitter feed you'll know that already). I've been listening for about 20 years now, but nothing moves too fast on the Archers, you can not listen for weeks and still follow stuff. Plus you can download podcasts and listen at anytime.

ilove more than happy to do a bit of escort duty, some hours in the company of CJ might be just what the doctor ordered when he said I need to create a bit of me space!!! If the weather holds then some soft top action could be good! I can collect from the Royal Crescent too!!!

Heehee pixie I'll stand up and own to being a veteran Archers listener as well. As you say, it's easy to keep up with even if you don't listen for a while. Dp's mum got me started on it years ago as part of my R4 habit (I'm one of those people who has it on practically all day in the background) and is probably the only other person who I know who listens!

When I want a chuckle, I read the Mustardland forum which is a good showcase of the nuttiness (not always in a good way) of Archers' fans.

Orphan, you should listen to the dum tee dum podcast, it's hilarious. My favourite quote of theirs was last year and was about Lizzy opening her (tent) flaps for Roy.

dumteedum.com

Morning all beautiful day so far . I blame DTT, Friday I flooded me kitchen, put bleach in sink filled up with water and thought while soaking will read a chapter of DTT, one chapter turned into two, three......, must have left tap running[blush,] half sink should have taken overflow, it didn't. Spent rest of day and part of next clearing up, every pot/pan in cupboards was full of water. I can sit here and laugh about it now . Have now finished reading DTT thoroughly enjoyable read, although to me it didn't have the tension and build up that Jen's stories have.

Pixie your last chapter was really, really good, loved the tomfoolery with Archie.

I used to watch Eastenders and Hollyoaks (!) all the time, but stopped a few years back when I realised that I spent longer fast forwarding through the boring bits, than I did actually watching it! I did into EE occasionally now, but it seems the same, and I don't have the time any more!

My mum used to listen to the Archers all the time, I remember her cooking tea with it on, or catching up on a Sunday morning on the car radio, when we were on holiday ... lovely memories :)

I dip into EE occasionally too but I can't stop thinking about LT as MD, weird or what .

I sometimes listen to Radio 4 extra if they are serialising something I like. I listened to an adaptation of 'Before I go to Sleep' shortly before the film came out -so didn't need to see it. They used to do a crimes and thrillers hour at 1pm which was good to sit down and eat your lunch with and I heard all the Tom Ripley stories on there over a few weeks. They also do some interesting factual stuff and biographies. I find it passes the time easier to listen to a drama or story when you're doing something boring. I remember listening to an Archer's spin-off on there as well pixie but not being up to speed with the real thing it didn't make much sense to me at t the time. At the weekend I was having a go at catching up with the Home Front drama on Radio 4 - about 12 minutes long every day set during 1915 - a kind of 'on this day' drama which is quite good. I also like story CD's in the car on long journeys although you've got to be careful about the content depending on who's with you! That's my Radio 4 extra advert over!

Kezia sorry to hear about the flood. One of my favourite sayings is 'a little bit of liquid goes a long way' and clearly a lot of liquid goes even further. I have to confess that I did download DTT but I have not gone as far as to read it because I don't always enjoy P&P stories. Someone recommended another which I looked at but I only got as far as the second paragraph before it annoyed me. I think it was the twenty-first century expressions and emotions foisted onto a story still set in the nineteenth century - it just sat uncomfortably with me. I'll just have to live with the original version alone I think. I have however enjoyed things like Bridget Jones and also Clueless which are modern adaptations of Jane Austen, probably because they're just loosely based on the story and I enjoy spotting the references. Yes, I am very contrary!

Morning! Phew what a weekend and a half that was. Bit saddle sore after orphs recommended naked tandeming with Matthias, and the bike ride didn't help either. Then there was the polo in Gloucester with Prince George, ooh it was all go.

Finally got a bit of calmness back in my nut today. Three more A Level exams this week for eldest DS, but thankfully GCSEs finished for middle DS last week so a little bit of angst has subsided. Eldest DS is so laid back in comparison and barely works up into a sweat - hence the very average results

I'll admit to being a Corrie fan (recently helped by regular appearances of Sean Ward) but ditto to the silly storylines over the last couple of years. That's the only soap I watch quite regularly.

It's in our paper tooday that the BBC spends less than half its cash on actual programmes. It costs £89m to run the new Broadcasting House annually apparently, and £230k for cups of tea. On that basis I rate the chances of an OG series 2 as zero.

Ambridge extra was the Archers spin of on R4 extra rhu, they were usually storylines that saw the characters out of the village in events that stretched credibility to breaking point. They don't do them anymore.

I try and listen when DS is in the bath, but I'm normally required to draw pictures of Thomas on the tub or squirt water at him so I can only listen with half an ear. Luckily that's all it normally needs.

What an exhausting weekend woof, looks like you're going to need extra anti chafing cream to recover from all that time in the saddle. Still, getting fresh air into all those nooks and crannies must have blown some figurative and literal cobwebs away.

Nickel can see where you're coming from with P&P ff, strangely because the lead character Will had curly dark brown hair and brown eyes and Elizabeth had brown hair and green eyes I was seeing them as CJ/MD and not linking the story too much into P&P.

BK Not sure where pixie's wedding is but we need him in Surrey early Sunday evening please. I can then personally hand him over to Nickel on the Wednesday.

I'm a bad tour manager as I have then forgotten where he's going!! We've got him sorted throughout August but he's free in July. How about our newcomers Kelly and Dizzy?

Kezia I only ever catch the tail end of EE when I am waiting for Holby City on a Tuesday night. Occasionally, even though I'm not sitting down and watching the telly at the time I will catch LT's voice and automatically think of OG. She is wasted in EE, totally wasted.

Glad you got your flood cleared up. It's a mess though, isn't it? I had an unexplained leak under my sink back in the winter. The plumber was coming anyway to service the gas fire and he couldn't find out what had happened as nothing appeared loose or to have perished etc. Fortunately as he was here anyway, there was no call-out charge.

The wedding is in Ipswich ilove if I can him on Friday afternoon then I'm sure I can make use of him in the equipment cupboard at gymnastics. BK can then pick him up Sunday morning to give him a rest.

pix I can assure you there's never any time for cobwebs to form with Matthias, the Strike Back boys (but sadly no Max) and Antony ALL wanting a ride on my tandem, but thank you for your concern. I think its orph who suffers with dryness/chafing in that area, which is understandable at her age. Hell I'm always well lubricated; as awash as kezias kitchen you might say.

woof I fear you are making veiled references to the time with dear Ian Ogilvy when I actually burst into flame. The rapid rubbing action of our afternoon activities was akin to Bear Grylls starting a fire. Poor Ian needed a skin graft and I enjoyed a brief period as honourary mascot for the Scouting movement.

Pity I was, ahem, tied up with dear Oliver at the time, orph or my abundance of fluids could've extinguished the flames like a fire hose.

Thanks pixie for that link. I didn't know about those podcasts .

Am utterly distracted by working with attractive & young PE teacher & he's modelling the low slung look perfectly. Hasten to add it's staff training so no kids anywhere! 4 more hours to drool my way through

Aaah yes young male PE teachers, mooj always a favourite when I was a schoolgirl, and thankfully all my DSs are sporty so Parents Evening is still a joy to behold, and makes up for the 60+ Maths professor with a wig that always insists on an extra long clammy handshake

All our male PE teachers at school were insufferable bellends. 20 years later one of them was put away for child pornography charges.

Work with him a lot but totally thrown by the shorts
We have a lot of those. Another I'm working with today usually stares at my boobs in 'meetings'! You really don't want him to stare at you, any part of you