Last night's telly

[girlyswot]

Okay, so I did actually laugh out loud at the wet shirt scene. Also Peter Stringfellow is at least as much of an idiot as you might expect. And I really hope they've made a series of Property Ladder in the last few months so that all those smug idiots who ruin houses then make huge profits because of a rising market will have the smiles wiped off their faces.

Still no progress on the flat. The bank, who had twice assured me that they would be able to fax the reference through on Monday, have not yet done so. I have a long, strongly worded letter of complaint ready to send as soon as this whole thing is resolved. I understand that you want to please the customer that you're speaking to but lying through your teeth is not the best way to achieve this in the long term.

If it's not raining, then I think I might go to the Invercharron Highland Games on Saturday. This will involve lots of very strong men, wearing kilts, throwing, lifting and pulling heavy objects. I shall take a camera.

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I too laughed at the wet shirt scene, although I was disappointed that Amanda didn't call Darcy out as a hypocrite, given that he is surely not a virgin himself, so I didn't enjoy it as much as last week's episode (in which "It was badly done, Bingley, badly done indeed." practically had me on the floor).

Also, is Jane's so far unconsummate marriage a get-out for the plot?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly assuming that the unconsummated marriage will be annulled. I am finding it quite hard to let go of all my purist Austenite tendencies and just enjoy the nonsense, but the wet shirt scene was just such a good joke. I liked Lindsay Duncan as Lady Catherine, too.

I thought it was weird that he'd give her non-virgin state as a reason to not marry her, rather than her lack of any kind of family or connections which would seem to me to be a much more insurmountable problem in that society.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I'm not really an Austen purist - I mean, I can't stand the novel continuations, but I can find this sort of thing just funny. P&P was on in my first term at university, in an age when few people had TVs in their rooms, and the lounges were absolutely packed at 9pm on Sunday night (and for the repeat). And, er, I may have written a spoof fic about our tutor.

I liked Lindsay Duncan as a rather more dynamic Lady Catherine.

The advantage of a non-virgin state is that nobody need know. But hopefully it will come back to haunt him. Apparently next week he discovers the internet...