Is anyone else watching the new Sense and Sensebility atm?

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It is good but quite odd as the casting is strangely similar to the film version, ie they all look and sound very alike.

Policywonk - Thank you.

What happened to the turnips?

Oooh Swedes was being dense then, didn't realise quote of the week was you. Durrrr. Jolly well done that woman!

I was being dense, btw!

swedes, brava!
I liked the turnips bit too. Was thinking about you when I made my shoe stew yesterday in the broke batcave. We had Swedes(1) and Turnips(2) in your honour.

Edam just remind me of the Grand Sophy plot again without spoilers?
Crikey my memory really is crap.
Can I just tell you all, in a very sentimental stylee, that my mother had the entire, very battered cloth-covered hardback set of GH which she'd been given for her 21st birthday in about 1960. She died 4 years ago and they are now mine, I think.
So next time I'm home at Mad Dad's I will be scooping them up and bringing them back to the Cave.
Actually J Austen has same sentimental associations bcs PandP was my first grown up book, which she gave me bcs it had been her first proper book too. And I will be doing same for DD.

Sorry to intrude, but where does it say I won quote of the week?

I don't know Swedes haven't had my email yet.

are you going to print it out and put it in your round robin next year? [kiss]

"After a difficult Christmas, we were delighted in January when Swedes hard work finally paid off, and she was at last awarded MN Quote of the Week to general jubilation in the Root-Vegetable household."

In the MN news email Swedes - don't you get it? 9the email, I mean...)

"Quote of the week

House sellers take note: the smell of baking bread has been soiled forevermore, and it's all Swedes2Turnips' fault: "Panini sounds like a pet name a family might have for a vagina. So a crostini might be a post-menopausal panini?" "

You're right though Swedes, the quote of the week thing isn't on the homepage!
Is it because you is rude?

OBM - I was more thinking of a valentine's round robin - I can't wait until next Christmas to publicise my splendid achievement.

PS I found the funniest picture of JB's face on Google images - I was going to link it but it probably needs to be linked in three portrait slices and I'm not sufficiently techy for that. Plus of course I didn't want to further lower the learned tones of this thread.
I'm going for a big hot Jo Malone bubble bath then an early night.

Oooh, Slayerette,

I mentioned the grand sophy, ages ago. It's about Sophia Stanton-Lacy, a very managing female, who arrives at her aunt and uncle'ss huse with a menagerie including a horse, a monkey a parrot and an italian greyhound, and proceeds to take her cousins in hand.

sorry slayerette forgot it was you who first mentioned it. Is Sophia the heroine?
AND Regency Buck. Can't remember that plot either.
Oh I wish I had them with me.

balls.
sorry wombling forgot it was you who first mentioned it. Is Sophia the heroine?
AND slayerette, Regency Buck! Can't remember that plot either.
Oh I wish I had them with me.

OBM,

Yes, Sophia is the heroine. Ooh, Regency Buck was the first one I ever read as a romantic teenager, .

I am v of your commplete set of GH's. Was just researching her bibliography, and had never heard of this one: The Great Roxhythe, anyone read it/know it?

Charles is a bit wet though (in the Grand Sophy). Nor does he have a title (I do like a Lord ). But her stepmother is quite fun though.

I think that spelling of Sophie/y should definitely be revived.
I think I would have remembered such a very Polish sounding mouthful of consonants Wombling. So maybe it isn't a complete set. About 15 I think? How many did she write?

If I remember rightly some of them have different typefaces or differ in other small details, so maybe it was a write-away-for special offer and my GM only got the ones that she'd loved.

Blimey this is turning into a rather lovely matrilineal inheritance.

yes Shrinking, they really do have to be lords to be fully satisfactory I think.

She wrote 41 historical & regency novels, plus some modern romances and detective fiction IIRC, OBM. V Prolific, I have managed to collect most now, but wish she'd written at least double that amount.

bread? vaginas? Georgette Heyer?

Actually, I was thinking what a very, very classy thread this is compared to others I've started been on tonight

ooh capp are you cooking chorizo stew-y thing?
Sue! which vulgar thread did you start?

Away with your DT enticing chorizo, Capp!