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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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[bloodflowerbill]

"I only realised a few years ago that Bernard Manning and Bernard Matthews were two entirely separate individuals. I'd always sort of mentally conflated them into one vague idea of a turkey-farming sweaty old racist who was on telly sometimes."

Well the names are similar-ish Polly/Ceri/kiiten...

I avoided that Matchpoint, I find some of Woody's more recent films all a bit too much of a self parody...for me you can't beat Manhattan!

take care xx

[brokenblossom]

I'd only ever seen Mighty Aphrodite previously, which doesn't seem to have left much impression on me. I've been wanting to see some of his early, classic stuff, though, and videoed Hannah And Her Sisters, which was on BBC2 after Match Point t'other night. Haven't watched it yet, though!

Sorry to hear that you're not doing so well, by the way. Let me know if you feel up to a cuppa (or a trip to the flickers) any time soon, but no pressure - the way you describe things being sounds all too familiar to me, and I do sympathise! x

[shepline]

I'm also pleased that they've cast Emma Carter as Cordelia, since it's always nice/weird when an Archer gets a big break, and she is far too beautiful not to work a bit more outside of radio drama.

When Kirstie split from Tom Archer a few years back I saw her as the lead in Creation Theatre's super-Christmassy production of Hans Christian Anderson's Snow Queen in the BMW car factory. She's good...

[brokenblossom]

I used to find the story of The Snow Queen truly, chillingly scary as a little 'un :-) I think I had it on a story tape - I wonder if that's still around in my Dad's loft...

I saw Nigel Pargetter in a performance of Brian Friel's Translations on a school trip back in 1999 or 2000 when I was studying it for A level, but unfortunately I didn't realise he was even in it till afterwards, let alone recognise and enjoy his presence in the play. I was dead disappointed afterwards - missing a chance to gawp at Lower Loxley's finest! I'm very fond of Nigel, it must be said :-)

[brokenblossom]

Ugh, yes. I get overwhelmed by daily life so easily, too: I seem to have had at least one Thing to do every day last week (a meeting with my support worker yesterday; going to my Sugarcraft class another day; &c.) and after that I've been wiped out, and the thought of trying to string a few words together on't internet has seemed far beyond me. Gah.

Oh, how lovely a chance encounter :-) I'm glad she lived up to expectations! Tee hee, and with the humanising touch of the cold, too - even screen goddesses can get snotty like the rest of us...! I'd love to see the TV production of Brideshead, and have been holding out hope for it to be re-shown on one of the numerous TV channels I've found myself with since getting digital telly, but no such luck yet.

I'd seek it out on DVD, but despite the dozens of the things that I own, I'm terrible at watching them. Some combination of guilt (about sitting down and 'doing nothing') and anxiety ruins my ability to concentrate if I try to watch something on my own, and since I live a pretty

[lemur_man]

1. Do you get a sharp pain in one eye from time to time?

2. I never understood why anyone thought Lurpak was a good name for a brand of butter. Entirely too resonant of 'slurp'.

3. It's ears with me. I am determined not to become hairy of ear as I get older.

4. I'll have yours.

5. Judging by that Enid Blyton site, the only thing of hers I remember reading is Three Cheers Secret Seven. I think the maths implied in the title put me off the rest of her oeuvre. (Also, 'something spotted in a window' seems to be a rather lazily recycled motif in the FF books, doesn't it?).

6. She's not the Messiah, she's a very confused girl!

7. Matthews' accent = funnier than anything Manning ever said. But pseudo-conversely I wouldn't trust turkeys raised by Manning.