Weekend TV Watch
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callmemadamQuery: why is poppy sporting unnecessary on HIGNFY but obligatory on Strictly even if you’re wearing little else? Let’s have some consistency here.
Tess Daly looked less good than usual on Saturday. Her dress or her bra was the wrong size, I couldn’t work out which, so she had a rumpled midriff. My boy Harry is still, I think, being let down by Aliona’s choreography. Let him show what he can do, woman! Holly and Chelsee, OTOH, had wonderful choreography to work with. This must be because they have *Russian partners*. What is it with Artem and Pasha; were they in ballet boot camp from the age of five, perhaps? Lulu’s out? Didn’t see that coming, even though I thought she was pretty useless.
Wrong about Downton, too, because I predicted that Cora and Lavinia would both die. Talk about double standards from his lordship! ‘I want you with every fibre of my being.’ Ha ha ha! Hugh Bonneville is such a good actor I wonder he can bring himself to deliver a line like that. Plenty of material left for series three!
‘Enjoy’ was not quite the right word for Paddy Ashdown’s programme about The Cockleshell Heroes last Tuesday. A letter from a young man to his sweetheart brought tears to my eyes. He knew he was unlikely to come back and wrote, ‘Cheerio and God bless.’ After he died the girl succumbed to TB. A good programme to have on near Remembrance Day. There’s a film about the same story. I saw it in the sixties in a double bill with - Yellow Submarine!
Tess Daly looked less good than usual on Saturday. Her dress or her bra was the wrong size, I couldn’t work out which, so she had a rumpled midriff. My boy Harry is still, I think, being let down by Aliona’s choreography. Let him show what he can do, woman! Holly and Chelsee, OTOH, had wonderful choreography to work with. This must be because they have *Russian partners*. What is it with Artem and Pasha; were they in ballet boot camp from the age of five, perhaps? Lulu’s out? Didn’t see that coming, even though I thought she was pretty useless.
Wrong about Downton, too, because I predicted that Cora and Lavinia would both die. Talk about double standards from his lordship! ‘I want you with every fibre of my being.’ Ha ha ha! Hugh Bonneville is such a good actor I wonder he can bring himself to deliver a line like that. Plenty of material left for series three!
‘Enjoy’ was not quite the right word for Paddy Ashdown’s programme about The Cockleshell Heroes last Tuesday. A letter from a young man to his sweetheart brought tears to my eyes. He knew he was unlikely to come back and wrote, ‘Cheerio and God bless.’ After he died the girl succumbed to TB. A good programme to have on near Remembrance Day. There’s a film about the same story. I saw it in the sixties in a double bill with - Yellow Submarine!
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Date: 2011-11-07 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-11-07 03:44 pm (UTC)I watched the Paddy Ashdown programme too. I've perhaps told you this before so apologies if so. My uncle was a Cockleshell hero type. He was in the special forces in the SBS and was captured in 1944 on a mission (the Alimnia mission) in the Greek Islands. Six of them were (illegally) executed by the Germans in Greece on Hitler's orders and my grandparents and my mother and aunt never knew what happened to him as he was just listed as missing. The Red Cross found nothing and no one thought to let them know in later years what had happened. Then it made newspaper headlines in the 1980s when the story finally broke. Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian PM and Secretary General of the UN, was allegedly implicated in the deaths and Thatcher ordered an enquiry. I have copies of the original secret Alimnia Files delivered to my mum by Margaret Thatcher's government with all the German documents translated into English. I have them on microfiche as well. I managed to chronologically piece together what happened to them all from capture to death (almost a month) and my document is quite widely read by authors, website owners and SAS and SBS databases who need information about the Alimnia mission and other special forces missions. He was 23 years old.
I always post the document on remembrance Sunday. This year there will also be Great Uncle Alex who I have discovered was killed in action in 1916 on the Somme.
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Date: 2011-11-09 08:15 am (UTC)The whisper is, 'Is Bates as nice as he seems?' so perhaps he done it! I can't see the attraction, especially when he and Anna finally got into bed. Lardy or what?