Last weekend we went on a family outing to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.  Ripley’s is the spiritual home of such wonders as the Bun That Looks Like Mother Theresa.


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I know I said I was going to watch an episode an evening but … I CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE LEFT LIKE THIS! *Stamps foot*  Not when the DVD has a Play All function.  So, onwards to Part 4.  Plot summary from Wiki:

“Thornton gives employment to Higgins after Bessie's death and master and hand get along surprisingly well, despite their differences. They ( Read more... )

I was meant to be helping out at church making tea and coffee for a group using the premises this premises.  But I’m not.  As it’s the first time I’d helped, I need to be shown how to use the equipment.  The person who offered to do this is ill so I’ve got a free evening.  So I am using the unexpected time profitably and watching N&S.

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Watched Part 2 of N&S and am so overcome I can’t think of what to say … but I will try my best … and if someone could pass me the torch as it's dark down here, that would be great.

There was hand porn (squee!); cravat removal (double squee!) and double entrendre dialogue "overbearing master".  (Triple squee!  Had to make a real effort to ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make … Shocking and Terrible.  Particularly for a fan of The One.  N&S was shown around the time I gave birth to the Tubblet.  Sleep was more important than TV.  So I didn't bother.

The route into RA fandom came via CBeebies (!).  But N&S is the RA MotherLode and I was nervous about watching it.  No one in the history of RA ( Read more... )