Thanks Summer

Hope you're having a nice day I'm so excited about my little party tonight that I could only eat a bag of crisps for lunch

I'm really hungry now

I've just finished watching the Astaire/Rogers film "The Gay Divorce" which was their first main film together. The highlight of the film is The Continental routine which lasts for 22 minutes but the clip below just has Astaire and Rogers bit's which were at the beginning and end of the routine and is 4 minutes of magic:

Thank you frodo, and welcome to the Buddies' thread.

Happy December 1st to you too.

Hope to see you in the IAC thread tonight.

Ooooh, hot chocolate with marshmallows or cream - or both! Yum!

El, Fred and Ginger were fantastic, I loved the clip.

Yay Squiggle, I see you are rooting for Ashley, too. Let's hope our girl wins.

Hello again

 

Its my BBC 4 night on Saturday 'The Killing 3' so I will have to watch  IAC

to-morrow .

 

ASH to win for me 

 

Yay I am with you two, I would be very disappointed if Charlie were to win, I was disappointed that David went last night.

Yay, another Ash fan.

 

I love The Killing and will record then watch it tomorrow.

I don't want Charlie to win, and I thought David deserved to be in the final 2 with Ashley. More than anyone else, I think David and Ashley threw themselves into the trials and every aspect of jungle life.

I loved the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers clip EL, thank you.  I am torn between watching the beautiful dancing and looking at the dress.  I am a big fan of film costumes, especially Edith Head.  I have seen a wonderful book entitled Marilyn Monroe's Costumes which I would love to see but it's huge, a coffee table book, what would I do with it?

Squiggle, Debbie Reynolds had a huge collection of film costumes (3,500 of them) which she had collected over the years. She had hoped to have a permanent museum for them but it was never to be and over a number of months in 2011 they were auctioned off. Some of these were worn by Marilyn Monroe and they were probably included in the book you mentioned.

 

Here's a clip of Debbie Reynolds introducing one item from the auction and she's not exaggerating when she say's it's the most famous costume in movie history.

 It sold for $4.6 million.

Summer, I hope you have had a great time at your party tonight.

Goodnight all, see you tomorrow.

Good morning everyone on this frosty morning.

Woke up at 6am and couldn't get back to sleep.

Summer, I notice you didn't manage back onto the forum last night, so I'm guessing your elf party was a great success. Hope you all had a fab time.

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny, cold and frosty here.

 

Summer, I hope your elf party went well. I saw the first elf of the season yesterday morning (he was at the door entrance to Santa;s Grotto (and no I didn't go in )

 

Being a long time fan of Michael Powell's films yesterday evening I watched his 1951 film Tales of Hoffman on a DVD. Previously he had made The Red Shoes which is known for its stylish ballet scene. It had received critical acclaim and so he decided to film this which is a straight filmic version of Offenbach's operatta. Unless you are a fan of that operetta there's not a lot to recommend about the film but I will post this extract which is the Barcarolle which is the most famous music from it and the scene is worth watching.

The sinister looking man next to the woman is played by Robert Helpmann who plays the villain. He was a ballet dancer who also made a few films and is best known as the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

Good morning bright and frosty here, it will be a lovely morning walk with bramble Oh I'm going to have to go load that Fred & Ginger clip on my iPad, I just know I will love it! Elf night was a huge success! I didn't expect everyone to stay so late but we had an encore of the grinch and they stayed until after midnight! Surprising because 3 of them have work today. I climbed in to bed at 1am, picked up my phone to forum and promptly fell asleep! I've got some laundry etc to get on with but I'll be back shortly happy first Sunday of December everyone!

Aww so sweet I can just see you after your happy elf party tired out and trying to log on - falling fast asleep with your phone in your hand Summer

 

Cold and cloudy here this morning.  EL I would have been so tempted to just nip in if I was outside Santa's Grotto I think I'm a bit big (and old) to sit on his knee

 

Just found out who won IACGMOOH!!

 

 

Squiggle, the elf did actually invite me in to the grotto but I thought I better not 

 

Not watching IACGMOOH means that I don't particularly mind who won

If any of you want to know what that song is which the BBC are using for their Christmas advertising it's The Puppini Sisters singing their version of All I Want For Christmas. They are more like the Andrews Sisters rather than Mariah Carey who did the original.

 

Oh blimey! I thought mariah wrote that song

Wait wait- I read El's post wrong!

I've been a busy elf today; tidying up, returning furniture, getting a tree, decorating the tree, walking bramble.. It's nice to relax at last. I hope everyone had a lovely weekend, have those of you in Scotland got any snow?

Good morning everyone, I'm afraid RL got in the way of my forumming yesterday.

Yes Summer, it snowed here overnight and there are a few inches of snow lying on the ground - Keira is happy.

Got a few errands to run today but I will be back later. Have a good day all.

Good morning everyone

 

No snow down here but it's been a wet night. Should be a fairly dry day with some sun.

 

 

Morning 

I Like the new layout  Nice and clear and easy on the eye.
We have had snow here too, but not heavy, thank goodness.
Hope you all had a good weekend, been hectic here, hoping for a quiet day today. Glad the party went well Summer.

 

Good morning everyone, it's very very windy here, nearly got blown away taking the recycling up.

 

Glad to know that Keira is happy Yogi, hope the snow doesn't cause any problems for you.

 

Sounds like hard but rewarding work Summer glad you got it all finished.

 

Cheltenham have their FA cup match against Hereford this evening and I wish them well. Both sides have had some decent cup runs in the past. Although Hereford may be in one league lower than Cheltenham, Cheltenham does not have a good record of matches between the 2 sides.

 

Whichever side wins has a home tie against Everton.

 

I managed to get all my errands done - and didn't forget anything, for a change.

 

Squiggle, I was disappointed in the IAC winner, I thought Ashley was far more deserving of the title.

 

The snow has turned to rain, so everything is going all slushy. Keira won't be happy.

 

Well done Yogi.  I was so gutted that Ashley didn't win, what a lovely girl she is, I hardly watched any of the final.  Sad to say that towards the end Charlie was reminding me more and more of Janine

quick hello, I've been busy and struggling to get time to pop in today! I'm planning an easy night so will come catch up later, hope everyone is having a good day x

Ok I'm all caught up I too awoke to snow bramble found some thrown snowballs and thought they were toys lol she soon dropped them when she realised they're cold

Keira loves biting the snow, she's a bit weird.

Just come back from my hypnotherapist client. She's a pleasant person and the work should be straightforward.

 

If I were to get hypnotised, I would ask to be put off sweet food

Evening all. El, are you sure your client hasn't hypnotised you into thinking she's a pleasant person Hi Summer, how's the bunny doing?

Hi yogi the bunny is doing great! I don't even have to force the syringe in her mouth, she just drinks from the end if it not that it's going to fix her tooth problem.. How was your day?

My day was okay thanks. Managed to get all my errands done despite the snow Went out at 9pm to pick up son and it's like a skating rink outside.

It's scary isn't it! I shuffled round half my walk tonight and kept hopping on any grassy stretches I could find! Glad you got back in safely, has the snow melted?

Windows crashed and I had to shut down my laptop

Managed to get it restarted.