Deary me! I've left the poor Navyboys grinning away there for so long that the poor chaps must have lockjaw! So let's not delay a moment longer... It gives me very great pleasure to announce that the owner of the most luminous smile in the RN, as voted by you, is Lieutenant Archie Kennedy. No surprise there then!


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Earlier in the week there was some silly fangirling going on over at my journal (hard to believe I know) regarding which of Archie's smiles is the most gorgeous. eglantine_br went for his "incandescent" smile when he first catches sight of the Indy, where as I favoured the smile at the end of Mutiny when he catches sight of Horatio being all heroic again. ( Read more... )

I got so caught up in the heated Breeches vs Trousers debate the other week that I completely forgot to post the all important results! Despite valiant efforts by latin_cat and donnaimmaculata to rally Team Trowser with copious pretty screencaps, the Breeches won hands down, if that isn't one mixed metaphor too far. Many thanks to the good people of perfect_duet who added to the ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, through a process of rigorous investigation and analysis (aka an LJ poll) we successfully defined the quintessential qualities of the perfect naval officer. However! One critical question remains unresolved:

Trousers or breeches? What's it to be?!

At the time, the issue sparked a long debate (illustrated with screencaps), ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago mylodon's disreputable alter-ego charliecochrane posted a link to a romantic novelist's Perfect Man Poll. I pointed out that this was utter tosh as "18th / 19th century naval uniform" appeared nowhere in the list of "Essential characteristics". What nonsense! As a result Charlie suggested that maybe we should do a following_sea version of the poll instead ( Read more... )

Cross-posting from my own journal with a load of photos taken from the exhibition about pirates we have just put on at the museum where I work.

Photos hereObviously there's nothing there of a truly piratey nature but I was allowed to ransack the stores in the Nelson Museum in Monmouth and came away with some treasure ( Read more... )

So, Hornblower podfic. What do you think? Would you listen to it? Would you record it?

esmerelda_t and I were chatting about this the other day and wondering if there would be any interest in Hornblower podfic. As far as I know none has been recorded to date, but I could be wrong. We're both quite intrigued by the idea but I have to confess I know ( Read more... )

The result of Poll One was a resounding YES. So here is poll two in which I delve into timezones. It's not the world's most accurate poll but I'm trying to get an idea of where everyone is. It may be followed by Poll Three which will give you a number of times to choose from.

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If you all remember from last week, as part of our discussion on the jollity of alcohol, we had a poll about who would win a drinking competition.

The result was a tie between:

MR KENNEDY

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No, we are not playing a drinking game, and we're not discussing our alcoholic tolerance. (You can if you want... mine is shockingly low ( Read more... )