Knackered Maru is knackered

[yakalskovich]

Dont't expect me to say anything witty, or anything much at all, because RL is rather demanding at the moment. My sister's renovations are a bottomless pit, but we do have established some planks across it. My brother-in-law and my Little Lady especially are total heroes.-

That means I'm not going to thread much at the moment, either.-


[[OOC: Crossposted to ways_back_room -- sorry if you get this twice!]]

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[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I think must be the White edition -- everything is white.

You can imagine how well that is going to work with black cats. *rolls eyes*

[yakalskovich]

Oh, very effective for decorativeness, but the moment they start shedding, the effect is somewhat marred...

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Mine perpetually shed. They are some exotic mix of Persian and Siamese (we have both in the feral colony out back and these are some that I trapped and tamed as kittens). They are black with a thick grey undercoat (Leopold looks like he has pantaloons, which I keep telling him is not terribly masculine -- he's neutered and doesn't care). I vacuum daily and still have fluff in the air.

Remember that scene in North and South when Margaret first walks into the cotton factory?

That's my house!

[yakalskovich]

I think I never saw 'North and South'. It was considered kitsch here when it was current.-

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

*gasp*

Richard Armitage as Mr. Thornton is the new Mr. Darcy!

Fie on the naysayers.

[yakalskovich]

Is that a new version?

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was an older one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417349/

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I have to say I really love the relationship between Mr. Thornton Mrs. Thornton (his mother).

[yakalskovich]

I must have confused it with something else. There was some TV series with friends and family 'ripped apart by the Civil War', made in the 1980s; I thought that was called North and South? Perhaps it was South and North?

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

This is about industrialization in England (specifically in Northern England) and the division in the Church of England. Mr. Hale gives up his rectory as he cannot bring himself to accept changes in the Common Prayer Book. He drags his wife and only daughter (the son is in trouble in the Army) to the North and there she meets his first student, Mr. Thornton, the magnate of a cotton factory. Margaret befriends the workers and leads an all-out assault on the cotton manufacturers.

But somehow *music soaring* true love conquers all and workers and oppressors get together and figure out how to make a win/win situation.

Lots of refs to historical fact (bringing Irish laborers in to break the strike).

And one mind-blowing kiss in the last scene!! UNF

RICHARD ARMITAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yakalskovich]

Do I really need to watch another things?

**ponders**

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Yes! LOL

I loved it as much as Emma, tho' the book was packed with tedious detail of religious doctrine.