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

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree about Jemima Rooper. She irritates me a bit but she does succeed in taking you along with her into the nonsense. I'm not so convinced by the rest of the cast, especially Darcy and Bingley. On the other hand, Alex Kingston who normally irritates me to channel-switching level, isn't bad. Possibly because Mrs Bennet is supposed to be that irritating.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Darcy has the forbidding-looking facial structure, I suppose, which is more than you could say for Matthew McFadyen who spent the entire movie looking a bit hangdog and as if he was desperately afraid that the news would come through at any moment that all the investments in mills and coalmines propping up Pemberley had gone bust and he would have to move to America and support himself as a card-shark, but oh, dear, what is going on with that wig? He looks as if he's going to mutate into Sir Roger Norrington the moment he turns thirty.

Also, I do think Christina Cole is underused as Miss Bingley, and she makes the otherwise very attractive actress playing Jane look sheep-faced by comparison, which can't be good.