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Gareth
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Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine he/him
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Hello Bluesky. Finally moved over here because I don't like the other place. It's a challenge to rebuild a following that never really existed in the first place, but if you like books, films, theatre, classical music, queer stuff and unsubtle sexual innuendo I might be your man.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Toying with seeing this at Cambridge Film Festival in a couple of weeks and probably will, but I'll rein in my expectations slightly. Don't know LH's other films, but the stills I've seen look beautiful, and anything with a Spirit of the Beehive influence interests me.
Oh dear, they've put the Miss Marple subtitles on again
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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This made me laugh way more than I probably should have.
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I've really enjoyed the new Alan Partridge series, but especially fantastic Felicity Montagu, better than ever. What a beautiful performance.
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"YOU WANT ME TO ARSE THE PARLOUR MAID?!"
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After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
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Ross Bleckner, "Dome", 1990-91, Oil on canvas, 96" x 96"
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Lesbo Batman

United States, Census, 1910
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Dominique Cabrelli
Little girls reacting to a wedding kiss
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I do realise using someone’s death as a way of pimping your old stuff is morally reprehensible, but there’s enough Keeping Up Appearances chat on here today that I think some people will be interested.

So: what films does Onslow watch in every episode of the show?

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“Specially Shot for Onslow’s Telly”
DAISY: There was a time when you used to chase me all over the house. ONSLOW: That was before we got colour, wasn’t it. — Keeping Up Appearances, “The Art Exhibition”, TX: 1…
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'It was no bother to drop me off because he has an artificial arm from the Western Desert and he was coming through to Roehampton anyway to have his webbing adjusted.'
So many great Kitty-isms live in my head:

"How you are supposed to gather your thoughts to the thud of a falling Bounty, I do not know."

"He waggled my aerial and wolfed my custard creams, but that's the comprehensive system for you."

"I speak as I find, so I said, 'What's that terrible smell?'"
RIP Patricia Routledge. It's the Alan Bennett stuff and Kitty that meant most to me, but everything she did from films to TV to musicals was (to use a Bennett word) classy. One in a billion people has her gift for comic timing. How lucky that we got to see it all.
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read