Random things make a post

[mme_hardy]

•  Yesterday, when I came into the house in the evening, I gathered a nosegay of old roses:  Mme. Isaac Pereire, a China I can't remember, and Devoniensis (a.k.a. "Tradd Street Yellow").   I could have added Vineyard Song and Chrysler Imperial, had I chosen.  The kitchen smells beautifully rosy.
• My laptop ate its hard drive  yesterday and I am going through withdrawal.  My cellphone is great for mail and the Guardian, but terrible for DW and Tumblr and general Web-noodling.
• Last night the NYTimes app sent me an alert about the Final Four.  This morning the Guardian app sent me an alert about a school stabbing in Pennsylvania.  The Guardian's breaking-news coverage of this story is, as usual, far, far better than the NYT breaking-news coverage.
• I am mainlining "The Thick Of It".   This has (A) given me a whole new perspective on ministerial shuffles (B) made my internal dialogue far, far more sweary (C) cemented my crush on Peter Capaldi.   Not Malcolm Tucker, mind; I'm not insane.  I am now engrossed in the fannish debates on why the hell Malcolm often wears a wedding ring (n.b. because Capaldi didn't always take his own off) and who the child peeking out of his house in S3 was.
• Am making steady progress on two 1910s dresses for daughter and self, to be worn to a GBACG ice cream social Saturday.  Definitely in adrenaline mode, but not yet panic mode. 
• Said to husband, "I'm going out Thursday evening."  Husband:  "He's a lucky guy."  (Off to a movie with movingfinger , actually.)

Comments

[oracne]

What was the movie? How was it?

[mme_hardy]

It's tomorrow. The Mad Miss Manton and Red Salute.

[movingfinger]

We are very fond of The Thick of It.

You might also want to re-watch Local Hero.

[mme_hardy]

I'm planning on Local Hero; it's actually been on my "should be watched" for years. (Currently paused on the DVD player is Malcolm betraying Nicola in S4, ep 2)

We just watched Lair of the White Worm a couple of weeks ago, and it is hilarious. I actually highly recommend it as a horror-movie parody. Hugh Grant, Capaldi, and Catherine Oxenburg (!), who (per Capaldi) asked him if, being a Scot, he owned any sheep.

[perennialanna]

The Thick Of It is forever associated with the early stages of labour for me - I remember my husband complaining that I was laughing too much for him to attach the pads for my TENS machine. The particular line I remember was "I'll be with you in two shakes of a crying baby", and I spent the next two days bursting with it, muttering "Mustn't repeat it to the midwife, really really mustn't, she might not realise it's a joke, she'll put me on The List".

[jayblanc.livejournal.com]

Iirc, 'Word from God' is that Malcolm Tucker actually did have a family, who were kept as separated from his Political Persona as he could manage. Which is actually quite normal in British Politics. The 'Photo ops with the Caring Family' is a recent US import, and it didn't quite work here.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thanks. There are no words for how much I hate the Obligatory Political Family; I think it's brutally unfair to the spouse and children. In the last few years, there have been several politicians whose wives (in all cases) are rumored to have said "Hell, NO, you aren't running for President".