Our Girl and Captain James Addicts Part XXIII

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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
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Yip Nick Medhurst. He was lovely. Don't want to say too much in case people hadnt seen all the last series but I hoped in my mind that Mary would have visited him after the credits in the last episode and got together. I loved the will they/won't they part of the story.

I think Dan the Fruit and Veg man in Tesco has a look of Nick Medhurst.

Hello all - I'm finally back from holiday after three weeks away, and immediately followed by a weekend away for a lovely family wedding. Great to be able to finally catch up on the thread- I only managed to check in once while away due to constant proximity of other family members!

Can I belatedly join in with A level news? Sorry to brag but I'm so chuffed for DD - she got A*AA and is off to her first choice - drumroll- Bath! I might gonna need the name of a good hotel there, any ideas anyone?!

I'm particularly pleased for her because she had a bit of a disappointment at GCSE time (let down by school over written coursework in two languages) and we advised her to put it behind her and nail her A levels. Also a couple of teachers have undermined her confidence in her ability and she has well and truly shown them. Hopefully the "hard work pays off" message will sink in with her brothers.....

Orphan - well done to your son, I hope he has a lucrative year out! Living in London I'm well versed in the expense!

Woof - I hope your son finds his thing soon. I understand your disappointment but TBH they sound like good grades if he didn't really try so he obviously has plenty of ability which bodes well for the future.

Must go and reduce the washing mountain and continue the unpacking now I'm up to date here, which was my priority this morning!

Welcome back always and hope you had a good holiday. And congrats for your DD . Bath too! When I was writing my FF, I had to think whether there was a university in Bath.

Versailles was breathtaking but very much in an over the top way. No wonder the French had a revolution!

It was a real pity though the way the Japanese totally ruined the experience with needing to photograph everything in sight.

I'll post some more photos from my camera when we get home.

Wow, so formal ilove - precision trimming! Thanks for pic.
Many congrats to dd frank - Bath Spa Hotel is great, and at the bottom of the hill from the university :) Will she be studying Languages?

I can't see the words 'precision trimming' without thinking it's the very opposite of orphan

I'm having a mildly shitty start to the week. Home, work and MrP combining into a perfect storm. Plus I'm trying to reign in my holiday expectations. I always go thinking I'll have time to do loads (relax, read etc) when in reality so much of it is just transferring the annoyance of everyday life into a smaller kitchen with blunter knives and crappy saucepans.

Spot on with the holiday thoughts pix - just the same kind of expectation I have every year at Christmas too, but it always turns out to be endless cooking that's neither appreciated nor shared equally, visits from the MIL, never-ending arguments and bickering over who cheated at Monopoly, followed by repeats of Only Fools and Horses on the telly. Then, whenever anyone asks you "did you have a good holiday/Christmas?" you always answer "oh yes it was great thanks". Liar, liar, pants on fire!!!

And I'd describe orph as more like "occasional ragged random chopping" than "precision trimming"

Ooh always welcome back! Well done to your dd on the A Levels, you must be very proud of her. I'm really proud of my DS too - he managed to get out of bed before midday today the little bleeder

Always well done to your daughter. I've staye a few times at Guyers House between Corsham and Bath. A bit cheaper than Bath city centre, good parking etc. They often have deals on the sites like booking.com etc.

Had 2 glasses of free wine on Eurostar to blank out the sound of acforeign man persistently sniffing. Typing now all to pot sorry.

Welcome back always and mega congrats to your dd! That's amazing. She must have worked really hard - an alien notion to my son who so far has managed to get by with the bare minimum of effort. Once the hol is over we're going to have A Talk about his year off cos at the moment Thailand, nights out and lying in bed until midday seem to be what's scheduled.

pix and woof I'll have you know that I am much sought after as a model for the Alternative Hairdressing Awards. My bountiful ladygarden has inspired some wonderful creations, a narwhal horn being one of them.

Had a great day yesterday and really enjoyed the Summer Exhibition. Worked out that if you draw/paint /print a bird and price it below £500 then you're pretty much guaranteed to sell it. The Grayson Perry tapestry was amazing if not something I'd hang in my house. Rather liked this but didn't have £20,000 to hand! Might try it myself using coloured tissue paper!! The stairs up to the gallery were good as well.

I think I fall squarely into the people who would buy the picture of a bird category orphan, I did that a couple of years ago under the own art scheme (not £500 I hasten to add). Only financial destitution of putting a child through private nursery has stopped me buying more. Maybe I'll spunk ££££ on something once he's done a year at school.

always massive congrats to DD for A levels. You must be so proud.

ilove your photos are amazing, a well manicured garden!!

pixie you really made me laugh about the holiday kitchen. I was having trouble slicing my lemon for my G&T with a blunt knife and how can a kitchen not have a toaster!

I've had my first day back at work and it feels like I've never been away :(

Do you think if I chisel this evening's masterpiece 'Ichthyosaur and ammonites' off the bath I could flog it to an unsuspecting art collector orph?

Well done to your DD Always she must have worked very hard. Well done to all the DC's on their results and efforts - no matter what they choose to do its the end of an era and the start of a new adventure called life!

I would like to share my artistic efforts but I definitely have no skills in that department. I have just been baking a couple of cakes. One of them is to take into work. It's a small office and the general philosophy when we're not having a good day seems to be get a cup of tea and a cake/cookie/bun etc (many nice coffee shops and food places nearby!!). I have been trying to be good and almost feel I should start one of those AIBU threads about not eating sugary snacks at work (I love them but I'm just trying so hard not to form a habit that will pile on the pounds) anyway after another rubbish Monday - computers and insufficient knowledge to get on with anything arghhh - I have given in and made a cake to take to work, that will hopefully keep me in their good books for the rest of the week!

Anyone watching the Scandalous Lady W? I'm clutching my pearls in preparation.

Bother, meant to record that :( forgot it was this week!

I'm trying to work out where I've seen the actor playing her lover. He looks like a hobbit crossed with a Grange Hill extra

Eek, she's just shagged Nick Medhurst in a dodgy wig!

The guy from Endeavour is in it, isnt he, Sean something? Is it him?

Watching it pixie

Aneurin Barnard apparently. Frodo Baggins more like.

Just got a chance to post as it's been such a busy day plus going to dentists and was given an estimate for potential bridge work that needs doing and put it this way-I'll be living on bread and water for the rest of the year.

I remembered Scandalous was on tonight but I thought it was a series and DH said when he was going to record it for me on series link that it was only a one off. Sounds intriguing anyway especially if it might have Nick Medhurst in it.

There must be a saucy episode of Reign that's just been filmed as one of the writers has tweeted to say there's a record number of leather pants being taken off and put back on in episode 5. Hope it's not BA. If I need to watch him doing any bedroom gymnastics, it needs to be either with me or Molly Dawes. . This series is supposed to be a sexier one apparently.

Am going to watch Lady W on catchup. Just been watching the French series 'Witnesses' and wondering if I suck my cheeks in (face ones obvs, arse ones could never be sucked in) if I could ever achieve the sophisticated French look. Answer: resounding No.

pixie I can assure you your bath art is worthy of a space on the RA wall and would command a price tag of £5000 plus, if some of the stuff I saw is anything to go by. Only wish I'd taken a photo of the best examples.

At the risk of sounding pretentious (who moi? ) I do like buying paintings and prints and they're probably the most valuable things we own. In fact many a young man has fallen for my line 'Come up and see my etchings'.