Good evening everyone.    Been really hot and humid here today.  Thought it was going to turn to thunder several times but no.  Hope it cools down before bed.  

 

Won't get into the "latin" dialogue!!  Glad you had a successful shop at M & S Squiggle.  I try not to go there too often as I spend too much money when I do!!   Hope you are all well. 

Although I wasn't keen on my Latin teacher, most of us resepcted him - he was certainly a strict disciplinarian and did keep a tight control over the class. I doubt if there are many schools now other than the public schools which make Latin a required subject in the first 2 years of secondary school. And even fewer teaching ancient Greek. Ancient Greek would have been a more challenging language to learn and would have been beyond me but I learned the alphabet for no particular reason (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon,zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lamba, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, and omega). I've always wondered what omicron pie tasted like but never found out

Hi Joyron. It has been hot and humid here, too.

Just watched the weather forecast and it's going to be another hot and humid day tomorrow, then cooling down as the week goes on.  Some risk of thunderstorms, which might be good as it would cool things down,; at least I hope so!!! 

Hi all x
Very humid here, its awful  
El, what a lovely story , and 55 years together  
Thanks Yogi, re Downton Abbey, i better watch it after all my moaning  
Hi everyone else  

Joyron I hope its bearable down there.  Among many reasons for us to move down here was how hot the summers were getting in the South East.  I remember about 20 years ago we were off on holiday to Scotland, breaking the journey in the Lake District, and it was so hot that I could hardly think what to pack and just sort of went to my wardrobe and scooped.  I will never forget as we got to the Lake District the weather broke, there were enormous thunderstorms and I was so relieved, I just could not bear it.  From that time on we have always, like Yogi, had a ceiling fan over the bed.

Hi Skylark, I'm sure we have you to thank for STV's change of mind.

Ceiling fans are brilliant, Squiggle.

I agree Yogi.  My hubby didn't like fans blowing on him (he found it irritating) but the ceiling fan just feels like a lovely fresh breeze, its just such a luxury knowing you can always switch it on if there just is no air circulating.

If only i had so much power Yogi ! 

It's bliss.

I am off, got a busy day tomorrow, will tell you all about it 
Hope you all can sleep in this horrible, sticky heat 
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Goodnight  

Sorry I missed you, Skylark. Goodnight.

sorry I didn't get in much today, I got busy at work, had to do grocery shopping after and before I knew it, it's bed time! Yogi & Skylark, please do post about Downton Abbey as you watch it, I'm really keen to hear what you think!

I managed to watch it first time round because I get the English ITV Channel on Virgin - but I'll be watching it again. I loved it.

My mum doesn't have Virgin or Sky so I bought it for her on DVD. I knew she would like it.

Has she seen it yet yogi?! Anna was my favourite

She has. She started watching it at 10pm one evening and loved it so much she stayed up half the night and watched it right through.

fantadstic, I love it! She must have really enjoyed it to do that! I missed it first time round and recorded the repeats during new year. I loved it so much that I watched them all again in small sections during breakfast for weeks after!

The second series has already been filmed, so we have that to look forward to as well.

I can't wait! I shed a tear when the first series ended, I think it was a mix of anticipation for another series and sadness it had ended lol I hope they make many more series!

I hope so too, Summer. It has been a while since we had a decent period drama series.

Hi in here - loved the last series of downtown Abbey - the next one is set in WW1 although i feel they could have squeezed another pre war series out

Pride & Prejudice is still my all time favourite, it's the only video material I have ever downloaded off iTunes!

Hi ros Did you see the promo pic in the paper? Beware of dropping any spoilers, skylark hasn't seen it yet

Was that the Colin Firth version? He was a brilliant Mr Darcy.

Hi Ros.

I agree they could have done another series set in the pre-war era.

yes I did - good additions hi again summer

Hi yogi - I feel they will not make many more - too expensive

Yes it is yogi, I love Colin firth & Jennifer ehle- I'll never love anyone else in their place! I did however prefer the Jane in the film version that starred Keira knightly..

Surely they must have profited a fortune from DA ros?

I know. We've lost so many good dramas recently, on ITV and BBC because they are expensive to produce..

That was Rosamund Pike, I think. She was lovely.

I must admit to liking Matthew MacFadyen as Mr Darcy - he was rather handsome and moody.

Yes you would think so but I am sure i read somewhere - they were very expensive and therefore limited in production and when you think - it is all drossy Reality TV these days although i do enjoy that as well

I may have to watch it again to get a better look at him I'm hoping my next DVD rental is Jane Austen's Persuasion- another book I really enjoyed! Have you seen/read it?

Lol ros, drossy

I know - i love the Charles dickens ones but not seen any lately

I thunk they should bin off emmerdale & corrie and give the money to DA instead

The Dicken's ones were good - we need more like those.