Bruce Willis? Blimey. I do remember thinking he was rather cute way back then, though (you know, when he had hair), and everything I ever knew about Taming of the Shrew is entirely down to Moonlighting. I think your own personal Mycroft Christie is dependent on who you’ve ever quite fancied off the telly, anyway, so he can be Bruce to you if you like. :)

Girl Meets Cake: officially more fun than levelling English papers. Quote for the cover!!

My copy of Girl Meets Cake arrived this morning (thanks Amazon) so am now giggling while reading it , which is much more fun than the levelling of English papers I am supposed to be doing.

Mycroft Christie reminds me of Bruce Willis in Moonlighting. Is that just my age??

Josie: there is now a mini-rarg! But I shan’t pass the bit about punching on to Mrs Rarg quite yet. Must confess to hating Bedknobs and Broomsticks due to presence of Jessica Fletcher being creepy and weird as per usual. Chestnut jam is yummy! Though you can only buy it in one bit of France, sorry. (Or possibly Waitrose for all I know. It’s good though: sort of oddly doughnutty.)

Nicky: I just watched the evil killer sand! (Hate to break it to you, but it’s Tarrant that Servalan gets all friendly with in that one, in a totally unconvincing fashion. Blech. She does buy Avon as a slave in Assassin though!) Vila is still my fave too: he’s so charmingly cowardly. It’s quite strange watching Season 4, because there are bits I remember from being about 6 so they’re all jumbled in my head. I do recall being instructed to leave you to mourn in the lounge after the last one though. Aww. I apologise for my unsympathetic small self – I totally did the same thing when I found out Michael Praed was going to cop it… *cue ‘they don’t make em like they used to’ ramble* I remember when it was all just fields…

Apparently Mum and Dad got their copies last week! Amazon are obviously being highly enthusiastic.

It’s really weird to discover that younger people (ones the right side of 40) have even heard of B7, let alone talk about it. It was my mega-fave show in my teenage years, and I cried for 3 hours after the final episode (much to the hilarity and utter lack of sympathy of my family!!!). My fave character was Vila because he was so useless and scared all the time – can’t imagine why?! Servalan’s panto villain act made me laugh, especially when her and Avon got to spend some time together (there was 1 ep with some weird killer sand which particularly stands out in my memory). Ah, I feel all nostalgic now….

On a more up to date note, Amazon have emailed me to say my copy of GMC has been dispatched. Either they are sending it tied to the back of a snail, or it will arrive early. Fingers crossed it’s the latter as I’m looking forward to a good read.

Servalan = amazing, sexy, frightening, my prepubescent wet dream. But also rather annoyingly flirty with the men she captured. Uh, darling you’re meant to CHOP THEIR HEADS OFF. natch.

GMC = woo woo wooo woooooo etc. will there be a cupcake roadshow coming to Cardiff soon?

New look Susie site = lurvly, esp the cupcakes and sprinkles bling

Mini-Rarg = my sympathies with punch-bag. It doesn’t stop after birth, punching will continue, sorry to say.

Charlotte Sometimes = haven’t read it but it sounds pretty cool. Twisty off bedknobs reminds me of one of my favourite childhood films, which always gives me the opportunity to quote “he’s taken my knob!” or something like that, of course it’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks woo

chestnut jam = um, wha?