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[brokenblossom]

I haven't posted properly here for ages, firstly because there was too much Stuff happening and it was overwhelming, then because too much Stuff had Happened and I was overwhelmed, and the thought of writing about it all when I'd only just had to get through it all, well, it all felt a bit much really. And then for the last week or so I just haven

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[scarletslippers]

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers wondering if he really is all that fanciable or what

Splinter of ice, imo :-/

Love the conflation of Bernards Manning and Matthews (conflation always sounds rude, to me - Bernards conflating each other...)

[brokenblossom]

Yep, I'm tending towards that opinion, I think. It's not enough to simply be beautiful looking, is it? There are plenty of people I recognise as looking gorgeous, but I don't fancy most of them. They've got to have that *something else* that grabs you by the guts and leads you along, fascinated, in their wake...

It just simply didn't occur to me that the Bernards weren't the same person, you know? I guess because I was only ever very peripherally aware of either of 'em growing up: I don't remember ever watching Bernard Manning on the telly, or eating Bernard Matthews's products - the closest I probably came to either of 'em was probably advertising. And maybe because you never saw a 'Bernard Matthews' figure on the ads for processed intensively reared turkey-derived crap, or even got a sense of a personality associated w/ him (as you did with the Mr. Kipling ads that were on while I was a kid - Mr. K describing how he brightened up a picnic at a cricket match interrupted by rain by bringing out his delicious lemon slices, or

[scarletslippers]

He *is* beautiful, but there's something cold - almost dead - about the eyes, which makes for a rather hollow kind of beauty. Looks alone are rarely enough, you're right - there has to be some substance to back up a pretty face :-)

[alicated]

Your tags are a little messed up, m'dear.

I don't know why your dad doesn't like Ceri! It's not as though it's a deliberate mis-spelling of Kerry, but it's a beautiful and unique name in its own right. Having said that, my parents are still at odds with their naming choice for me and I always know that post addressed to A. Grace Halsey (whoever uses their middle name like that, save for M. Knight Shyamalan and various literary bods!) is going to be from my mother. I've read that giving a child two first names rather than a first and a middle name leaves them somewhat short of an identity, but gosh am I glad my mother didn't get her way and call me Grace Halsey, which is the kind of name you'd find on a bleached and tanned horsey type working in PR. Could be worse; she also wanted to call me Violet and my brother was nearly a Mordechai

[brokenblossom]

Yep, sorted 'em out now, thanks. I saw that what I'd written looked even more like garbled nonsense than usual as soon as I'd posted it, but by that point was so dozy that I wouldn't have been able to pick out the error and rectify it even if I tried, so managed to rein in my "must correct! must correct!" impulses and just went to bed.

Dad says he's warmed to the name Ceri now, but he still calls me Poll more often than not. I'm not sure what it was about 'Ceri' that he wasn't keen on, or whether it was just that he preferred 'Polly', and was trying to hold out for that... He has form with this sort of thing, in any case. He was about 13 when my auntie was born, and deciding that her given name, Sarah, was 'wet', he persisted in referring to her as Sally until the whole family was doing so, and she's since changed her name to Sally by deed pollyThe thing I can't understand is that neither of my parents noticed that 'Ceri' was an anagram of my Dad's own name, Eric, till I was a few years old. It's glaringly obvious to me

[randy_gibbons]

Bah! What have you tagged me for? What have I done to you? /grump

I like the name Polly and it suits you very well, except you will always be Ceri to me.

As alluded to in your first paragraph, you haven't updated us on your housing travails yet. If you could just let us know whether things are alright, you know, without writing a book on it or anything, it would be appreciated. Some of us do worry about you, you know.

[brokenblossom]

Because I thought you'd have some interesting things to say! Tchuh, don't you know a wonkily framed compliment when you see one?

Fair enough. I like both names, and am happy to be known as either. It's just good to know that people are aware that I'm a Polly as well as a Ceri, so that they don't think I've really flipped should I refer to myself by more than one name.

True enough. I've been meaning to update here about housing stuff, but have kept putting it off, partly out of superstition/it's-too-good-to-be-true pessimism, and partly just because I've been plain busy with things, some of it related to the housing issues, some of it not, but much of it stressful. That, and the fact that however much I mean to be concise, I always DO end up writing a book when I try to write about anything, which can be as tiring to write as it's surely tiresome to read.

Anyway, I'll do my best to get onto it later today. Things are okay for now, and hopefully (touch wood, touch wood, touch wood) should remain okay for another year.

[mrs_leroy_brown]

ooh, I'll do this tomorrow at work.
I also do the teaspoon thing, and also loathe dried fruit. It's the food of the devil!!

[brokenblossom]

Hooray!! Teaspoon twindom! I thought I was the only one :-D

That does mean though that all the time you were here and I was making cups of whatever for us, I probably hogged the teaspoon for myself. :-/ Sorry!

Man I need to sort myself out with a tea/coffee related icon. I'm just too fussy about the images I feel comfortable using. Hmmmm.

[classytart]

Right there with you on Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. I think his eyes are too blue - they give the impression of being a cold, hard killer.

Have you seen Imagine Me and You? It's got Matthew Goode in it, and he's brill.

[brokenblossom]

I wondered whether I was just prejudiced against J R-M because the calculated cruelty of the role he'd played in the BBC serialisation of Gormenghast a few years ago had stuck with me (I thought his role in Match Point was an interesting echo of that, actually), but no, it seems I'm not alone in my cold, hard killer suspicions.

Nope, I haven't, but I'll keep an eye out for any telly appearances it might make. I won't seek it out on DVD at the moment, though, as I'm currently too bitterly, cynically single (sinically cyngle) to enjoy romantic comedies for what they are, Matthew Goode notwithstanding. Give it a couple of months, and if the sun starts coming out with a bit more frequency, I might be more kindly disposed towards it :-)