Grab six books

This morning before I started work I saw on Twitter that Dawn French had joined in on a Twitter hashtag called #grabsixbooks and that Jennifer Saunders had answered with her six books.

Here your #grabsixbooks . I nominate @JaneyGodley @5h343hjh233cf @tweetyedmondson pic.twitter.com/xZGBWlQxi4

— jennifer saunders (@ferrifrump) May 18, 2020

I only know a few of the books / authors the ladies mentioned but it was fun seeing their choices. I haven’t really looked at many other responses to that hashtag on Twitter yet, but thought it was fun anyway and this evening decided to pick some books as well. This is just a first gut-reaction, if I had to grab six books right at this moment it would be these…

I’m sure after I post I’ll suddenly think of others. I haven’t read the Audrey Hepburn book yet (been meaning to for a long time) but it does symbolize my love for actors and for her, so she’s in.

Yesterday my brother showed me a picture he had found of me at 17 years of age, looking up from reading a magazine, and I thought it fit well with this post…

He said to me with amusement, “This is still so like you today!”, which basically translates to a person who likes to sit on the couch and read. The medium is more often a laptop now than a magazine or book but he’s got a point. Showed the picture to Mr Esther and he laughingly agreed.

Speaking of laughing and reading, just spent some time reading and laughing about Guylty’s post comparing Richard Armitage to Dutch breakfast sprinkles. I could totally eat a sandwich with dark chocolate sprinkles while sitting on the couch and reading one of the #grabsixbooks books above.

Picture source: screenshot taken from Guylty’s post

I’m not a huge Lucas fan, but it is Lucas sprinkles all the way for me!

Anyway, back to the topic: if you’re so inclined, I’d love to know in the comments or in a post of your own what your #grabsixbooks would be.

Comic relief

Comic relief is better than getting super angry yet again at this morning’s Trump news. That man’s a menace! Anyway, yesterday evening our TV was switched off so I forgot about the Comic Relief Big Night In the BBC had put on to raise money for combating the Corona virus. Just a few quick clips here this morning before I get back to my boring work chores.

• Catherine Tate brought her comedy character Lauren Cooper back (see for instance this clip of Lauren Cooper visiting then-PM Tony Blair) and David Tennant is back as her English teacher, a character introduced in another Comic Relief sketch some years ago. Lauren and her teacher are back doing a Zoom class, butting heads again, this really made me laugh…

•  Miranda is back with tips on how to get through these times of isolation. I loved how she got the primary cast to Zoom in with her. I follow her on Twitter and she posts a lot about mental health. She’s such a sweetie!

• And Dawn French was back as the Vicar of Dibley, but alas without any Richard Armitage. It would have been nice if she had been able to Zoom with come cast members. Wasn’t as fun as I’d hoped but but I’ll take this too…

I understand the Big Night In has raised over 27 million pounds. Wow!

OK, gotta go, my meeting’s starting!

The future just brightened up!

It’s in the bag: I have a new job! Had a final interview this morning, we discussed salary and working hours and they want to have me and I want to have them. 🙂 It’ll be a little while before I can start (May 1st), but already I am feeling so much lighter!

On Monday I’ll be handing in my resignation at my current job and suddenly the world looks a lot brighter to me now that I can give micro-manager the finger. 🙂

Space is being cleared in my mind now, so hopefully I’ll be back to Richarding again soon. I had considered dropping by the Red Dragon Con last weekend when I was in London, but in the end my weekend was filled with other fun stuff with my brothers and niece, there was little time left to travel to the convention center and back, and as I wasn’t going to pay the entrance fee anyhow for Hannibal, there wasn’t much point in going. I did think of my fellow fans enjoying Richard over last weekend, though, and hope everyone had fun. I got an especially big kick out of this Twitter exchange, referencing the vicar of Dibley!

Thank you, Kate and Richard and Dawn French! And thank whatever good kharma there is out there for giving me a really good way out of my current job. 🙂

Thank you for the laughs, Emma!

Emma Chambers, star of The Vicar of Dibley and Notting Hill, has died.

I adored her in both the TV series (I have seen every episode!) and that movie. Here, to honour her, are a few clips.

At the end of each The Vicar of Dibley episode, after the credits rolled, Geraldine (Dawn French) would always tell Alice (Emma Chambers) an iffy joke and more often than not, Alice would be appalled. Those end jokes always cracked me up! And not necessarily because of the jokes themselves but mostly because of the way Alice reacted…

And then, in the absolute last Vicar of Dibley episode she gets help from Harry (Richard Armitage)…

Oh, Emma was so funny! I was in tears of laughter when in this following fantasy sequence, that sees Harry marry someone other than Geraldine, she gave the finger (at around 20 seconds into this video). The video won’t embed so click on this image to see it (opens in a new tab)…

I also love this part from Notting Hill when Honey (i.e. Emma) meets famous actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and goes all gooey, which is so very funny, mortifying and relatable!

Emma Chambers was lovely. She wasn’t only funny, she also exuded a real warmth and depth of feeling, like here at Geraldine’s & Harry’s wedding…

She passed away at only 53 years of age, far too young! May her memory be for a blessing.

Easter Bunny

I have not had any inspiration for the latest Mach’ was Easter Bunny challenge. Easter bunnies have never really been on my radar, not even in my childhood. So, I was going to skip this challenge, but then I saw something on my Twitter timeline and although it’s not much, I figured it’s at least something!

Even before Harry Kennedy (Richard Armitage) became the man of Geraldine Granger’s (Dawn French) heart in The Vicar of Dibley, I used to really enjoy watching the show! And yes… I’ll just share some gifs of them here (nothing to do with Easter, just for my own viewing pleasure…)

Well, in the first season of The Vicar of Dibley, way before there was even any thought of Harry, there was an episode about Easter in which Dawn French dressed up as the Easter Bunny! She went out at night to hide Easter eggs around the village and I saw this fun little gif of that on my Twitter timeline. 🙂

So, there you have it, that’s it from me for this challenge: Dawn French as the Easter Bunny!

Have a Happy Easter everyone!