I was out at an event for Good Friday in my local town centre this morning and heard a phrase which delighted me and which might just prove a caption in need of a back story.

The phrase was as follows : "Your epaulette is all crushed up - it must be your handbag"which, as said by one female Salvation Army member to another ,as was the case today ( Read more... )

After last week’s double casting news anteros_lmc and I thought it might be nice to catch up with what all our boys have been getting up to post Hornblower. I’m not going to attempt to sum up Paul McGann and Robert Lindsay’s combined decades in the biz, I’ll leave that for someone else, but today I shall post a potted history of the careers of Mr. Gruffudd ( Read more... )

anteros_lmc 's brilliant discovery of Hornblower study guides made me think back to when I first fell in love with Hornblower, especially Horatio. Little did I know that I was destined to become a Ioanite as well.

Anyway, some of those discussion questions and activities reminded me of some of my early fangirl squeeing. Since I can now look back and laugh, I  ( Read more... )

Right. Um. *coughs* I haven't been posting and commenting much lately. As a way of saying that I'm still alive, and because we haven't had a discussion post around here recently ( Read more... )

As a newcomer to the community, I've been amazed by all the fan fiction being produced by fellow members.  I've posted my thoughts regarding fan fiction on my own journal, if anyone would care to take a look.  I thought it might be a bit long to post here.

If anyone would like to see a bit of what I do write, I'd be glad to post it here, if you want ( Read more... )

Perhaps no other naval battle has such fame as Trafalgar ( Read more... )

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... )

Thought the pirate lovers lurking in our fandom might like to know that this weekend many Welsh churches and chapels are open for people to enjoy old documents, peaceful gardens and a few surprises - like the font where the infamous Blackbeard Barti Du was baptised ( Read more... )

I've Really been enjoying the quote contests (even if I'm rubbish at guessing them), but all the literary quotes made me start thinking of the books in general, and hence, the following questions. If this has been discussed before, then I apologize for rehashing it.

( Questions this way... )