I've tracked down JJ Feild, I knew I recognised him - he was Richard in Perfect Strangers which, if you haven't seen, please please do. It is possibly the most remarkable program I've ever seen... I was absolutely shattered the first time I saw it a few years ago, I've seen it again since and the impact was not quite the same, but it was still ( Read more... )

I'm meant to (always mispell that mean tot) be writing an essay, on none other than the lovely and scandalous Jane Austen, and I have all the information I need (more than I need actually, but I tend to repeat myself a lot, so I can probably cull some of it, because I can be rather cyclical with my arguments, you see) And it's only meant to be 1500 ( Read more... )

There comes a point when, late at night, after hours of homework, you are reading Jane Austen and a paragraph rolls around that makes you double-take with a "Whaaat-?". You thought Miss Austen was such a conventional kind of girl, and would never write so explicitly about things like the following (but maybe I've now stumbled across the reason this ( Read more... )

This one is mostly directed at my American friends. So, I have a (potentially odd) question for you - which of the following two sentences are you more likely to say/hear ( Read more... )

I had a fairly productive day today, homework wise - I am far from finished, but I've made a start, and that's good, and definatly better than nothing ( Read more... )