I am watching BALLET SHOES and it is HEAVENLY... do NOT miss it, you will cry and be sad forever

[Aitch]

ooooooh, only 20 mins in and am excited beyond belief. Harriet Walters is masterly, Emilia Fox a pleasant surprise as usuallly i find her a posho show-off.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

It was lovely.
It was the best thing on over xmas.

I am gutted that I didn't record it, as I can't find that it will bw repeated.

here, hoxty

Movie Shoes

That'll be the Painted Garden then.

(Why do books have to be retitled for America? Like the Golden sodding Compass and the Sorcerer's bleeding Stone?)

ta wendy. he didn't like it did he (clearly hadn't read the book).

loved it especially the airforce blue doors and panelling in the house!
the girls hairstyles were a disappointment to me though - not a bit like the pen pictures in the book
it has taken me 30+ years to realise that the Theo in it is a female!

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Thanks, cod - I linked to it hours ago!

ta too cod (you didn't type that did you ).

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(That'll be the day, ROFL)

surely you should be curtseying & saying madame .

"Madaaaaaaaaaaame"

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It's kind of nice that the reviewer in the Times hadn't troubled him/herself to read the book. Means he/she approached the TV thing without any preconceptions.

Actually upon rereading that awful write-up, I don't believe he/she watched it either. I can spot someone relying on Coles Notes at 100 paces ....

lucy cohu has a luscious mouth

Party Shoes is a lovely book, read it several times when I was young, and it was called that at the time, so we can allow that one WW

I was disappointed in this but I seem to be alone. Far too insubstantial- I thought it would have been way better as a series with a bit of meat on it, and there wasn't anywhere near enough dancing for me. Some of the scenes were good though.

Oh all right then, Tamum [huff]

(Never heard of it though - may have to buy it!)

The bits that matched the book were fab, I thought - Nana throughout, the boarders coming, the girls going to the school for the first time, the various auditions and bits of plays (esp "and I" - Petrova managed to get that wrong very well!), and the flounces and tantrums from Pauline and Posy. And Garnie was satisfactorily drifty and wimpish.

I really disliked the made-up bits though. And GUM was far too large and hearty.

It's about a girl going to stay with her cousins (can't remember if her parents are dead or overseas, but the usual picture) and they put on a pageant in the village. Lots of words I had never heard before and had to make up the pronunciation for, like err pageant, dais, that kind of thing

Would that be like page-ant, and da-is?

Ohhhh, I hate it when that happens. I had to read a bit in class when I was about 10 that included the word misled - pronounced mizzled, obv. Teacher laughed.

I remember as a child being struck by a phrase Nana uses when Posy first turns up. She's commenting on the red hair and says it's a shame but 'nicely kept it can be striking'. I'd never heard anyone say anything like that and had no idea what it meant - I mean literally no idea how the words added up to a meaning. Was many years before I worked it out!

Possibly my confusion was partly caused by never having come across the concept of red hair being unattractive.