#robert bathurst

[recycledmoviecostumes]

With costume reuse comes another kind of reuse – fabric. The distinctively colored striped silk fabric has also been used for a costume seen in Return to Cranford and Belgravia. 

This waistcoat has been used in several productions depicting the late 18th century through the 19th century. It first turned up in the 1999 TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel, in both the second and third episode of the first season, where it was worn by Anthony Green as Andrew Ffoulkes. 

From there, it was briefly used in the 2008 sixth episode of the miniseries John Adams, where Zak Orth wore it as James McHenry.

It appeared next in the 2009 miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, where Robert Bathurst wore the waistcoat as the character Mr.Weston. 

Most recently, the piece showed up in the first episode of the 2024 show The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, where Noel Fielding wore it in the title role.

Costume Credit: carsNcors, Shrewsbury Lasses

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#the scarlet pimpernel #john adams #emma #the completely made up adventures of dick turpin #noel fielding #robert bathurst #zak orth #anthony green #costume drama #period drama

[starlitsemantics]

Downton Abbey cutting scenes that are incredibly character relevant in the versions they release outside British live TV has given me ridiculous trust issues - a rant.

In season three, the middle Crawley daughter, Edith, gets engaged to a man she was close to before World War I, Anthony Strallan. He's class appropriate and liked by her father, if considered a bit boring. He's also somewhere between twenty and twenty-five years older than her and, after the war, has lost (most of?) the use of his right arm. Prior to the war and his injury, this match was considered a good one.

In the run-up to their engagement and wedding, multiple family members of hers express doubt as to her chances of long-term happiness, including her father asking Anthony to break things off (which he then takes back at Edith's tearful request, in which she points out, correctly, that her chances of happy marriage to a young uninjured man are very slim after WWI).

We get to the wedding day and as the ceremony begins, Anthony says he can't do this, tells her that she can't waste herself on him, and leaves her standing in a white dress in front of all her acquaintances and relations. Why?

This registered to me as absolutely bizarre when I first watched it, and in the years following. I was pretty into their 'ship, thought it was cute, especially the way they bonded in season one. I also felt it would be cool to show someone who was clearly traumatized by the war actually getting an ending that didn't fall into the three established categories of: cure, death, so sad the show can't possibly be expected to deal with it. Alas. Crucially, I also thought it went very nicely with Edith's other development in season two - less self absorbed, more observant and considerate of others, interest in machinery and farming, both of which are things we know Anthony is also into, even some interesting things comparing her to Cora and Isobel in terms of her lady of the manor style.

I thought it was a huge missed opportunity (still do, by the way), but I also thought it was kind of baffling for him to do. The reasons he (and others, especially Violet) put forward against the match throughout the season read to me as ones we were supposed to see as surmountable problems to be solved - because they are. Strallan is wealthy, and compared to Robert, clearly actually on top of recent industrial developments. He can hire a nurse and also be married. We see this logic (can't do x, hire someone to do x) in his very first appearance after his injury - he has hired a chauffeur. Disability does not prevent a loving relationship. Edith would probably be widowed earlier than usual, but being a wealthy 45 year old widow, potentially with children, is hardly a terrible fate for women of her class.

So why does he jilt her, and why does he do it at the end of the aisle?

If he was so unsure about marrying her that a few snide comments make him willing to take such drastic action in front of everyone, those same comments in the weeks prior should have prompted him to do this in literally any way that was less awful to her.

If he's just not that into her, why come when Robert invites him back. If anything, not coming probably improves Robert's opinion of him there. He also wouldn't tell Edith he enjoys seeing more of her more than he should - that is a flirtatious line even I managed to clock.

Does he just not get the importance/finality of it until he's standing in the church? The man's been married before, so while it's a possibility, I don't really think so.

Does he think doing this publicly is the only way to get Edith to back off given her previous insistence?... Not if I'm meant to find either of them at all sympathetic, to be honest, and I think JF wants me to, at least a little.

So the conclusion I arrived at is effectively that he is not entirely stable and incredibly susceptible to outside influence, partly as a result of trauma and injury doing a number on his sense of self. Which is tragic, but also means it probably would indeed be very difficult to build a whole new marriage from the ground up. Not a satisfying ending, but oh well. There's always fanfiction.

The Andith fandom is mostly to be found on fanfiction.net, and I think is filled with some ridiculously talented writers. They've built gorgeous fanon for Anthony's family, staff, and background, and some of them share the same fanon. So my first instinct when I read multiple references to a conversation between Anthony and Edith where she tells him she loves him not in spite of his injury, but because of it, and that she wants him to be her life's work, I thought this was another part of that shared fanon. After all, I'd never seen it, and I've watched Downton Abbey once every couple years whenever I got a particularly bad cold. Edith is my favourite character alongside Gwen and Mrs Hughes. Surely, I would have remembered.

But, it seemed clunky. Out of place in a fanon that, by and large, is understated and subtle, preferring gradual revelation rather than such a blunt, spelled out, character motive rant. So I began to investigate. I'm not that good at investigating. Eventually, it took reference to another piece of dialogue I had no memory of but is mentioned on the Wikia page (the bit about Consuelo Vanderbilt), to get me to a reddit thread that explained. There are multiple cuts of Downton Abbey, and the one I've been watching on Netflix is different to what was aired in the UK. It also referenced the episode the scene is meant to be in, so I was able to find it on YouTube (looking for 3.03 deleted scenes should do it, if you're curious).

The scene is pretty bad. It segues extremely awkwardly from Anthony mentioning meeting Consuelo to the life's work bit. Edith's line here is actually worse than I'd seen mentioned. She loves him "[because] of [his] needing to be looked after." Yikes. I can sort of see the sentiment, but it's phrased so terribly poorly. Now, having a character fail to find the chill, witty answer to their partner being pessimistic isn't terrible. It took me a good while to consider how Edith could have responded to "soon you will be wheeling me around" (in my opinion, the one line on the show Anthony's actor does terribly), but there are ways to respond that aren't so bizarre. Saying she wouldn't mind, or that that's really a long way off, or that at least they'll be buying the Rolls Royce of wheelchairs are all in my read authentic to Edith's character outside that scene and less awful than what she actually says. They're not perfect responses. But they don't confirm so explicitly the thing Anthony himself fears ("I don't need a wife, I need a nurse" - Edith here is all but promising she sees her roles as his wife as being his nurse, which means it's much less likely he'll be able to see her blossom and set her free, and much more likely she will effectively force him to become a burden to her), and the things he's been told he is imposing on her.

It also undercuts Edith's character development from season two. Making his injury about her, and failing so categorically to see that he values independence and being useful and would hate to feel like a burden to his wife, are things I might have expected of season one Edith, not season three.

So while what I missed explains his decision making somewhat better than its absence, I don't think it's worth it. Ultimately, Edith's character development is more important to me than a spelled out explanation for why we get yet another character with a disability summarily written out. So now I've found the answer to my confusion, I will proceed to ignore it.

Still. I think their marriage could have been neat. Edith could still have made waves writing her letter to the editor. Robert could still have felt entitled to interfere given he clearly doesn't trust Anthony to take care of her. We could have seen a happy marriage that still empowered Edith's journey to modern woman (on-screen, unlike so much of Sybil's) and also addressed the trauma of the war and the economics of country estates in a way that went beyond Robert being an absolute idiot when it comes to money. Then again, I don't trust JF to have done that super well, so maybe it's all for the best we're getting to enjoy the fandom instead.

Anyhow, time to go through other "deleted scenes" to find out if I have other radically weird reads of characters before I embarrass myself by talking about them publicly.

#downton abbey #edith crawley #anthony strallan #andith #edith x anthony #julian fellowes #Robert Bathurst

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 45/?

#dwedit #doctor who #eustacius jericho #yasmin khan #dan lewis #farquhar #survivors of the flux #kevin mcnally #mandip gill #john bishop #robert bathurst #13seraappreciation #my gifs #yaz* #dan*

[ladyandith]

I did hear that our lovely man was in “The Larkins”

His character is Johnny Delamere and actor and he’s a bit of a lovie.

#sir anthony strallan #andith #downton abbey #robert bathurst #lady edith crawley

[reluctantjoe]

(some of) the cast of 'she stoops to conquer'

mathew baynton, pippa bennett-warner, robert bathurst -> air date: 07/05/2023 on bbc radio 3 at 19:30

#she stoops to conquer #mathew baynton #mat baynton #pippa bennett-warner #pippa bennett warner #robert bathurst #6 idiots #six idiots #the six idiots #themthere #them there #rj: photo #rj: she stoops to conquer #rj: mathew baynton #rj: pipa bennett-warner #rj: robert bathurst #rj: 2023

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Pillars of the Earth 2010

#The Pillars of the Earth #Ian McShane #Matthew Macfadyen #Eddie Redmayne #Hayley Atwell #Sarah Parish #Natalia Wörner #Anatole Taubman #John Pielmeier #Robert Bathurst #Clive Wood #Sam Claflin #Liam Garrigan #David Oakes #Tony Curran #Donald Sutherland #Alison Pill #Gordon Pinsent #László Áron #Féodor Atkine #Kelly Banlaki #Virág Bárány #David Bark-Jones #Tamás Baross #Oliver Bauer #Skye Bennett #Freddie Boath #Douglas Booth #Ottilia Borbáth #Jonathan Coy

[fyeahrebeccafront]

#rebecca front #robert bathurst #the comic strip presents #carol #charles

[klc-archive]

Watch Keith as Clarence Weasel in the film Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

#Keith Lee Castle #Mr. Toad's Wild Ride #Clarence Weasel #1996 #Film #Steve Coogan #Eric Idle #Terry Jones #John Cleese #Walt Disney #Anthony Sher #Robert Bathurst #Richard James #Video

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Masterpost

(a radio drama adaptation is a dramatization of the source material, with voice actors, music, and sound effects. It differs from a full cast audiobook in that it is an adaptation of the book and not just a reading. For this reason, then tend to be much shorter than an audiobook)

Northanger Abbey

2005: starring Amanda Root (Persuasion 1995, Jane Eyre 1996) and Julia Mackenzie (Agatha Christie's Marple, Cranford 2007). 3 1 hour episodes.

This one is part of a release the BBC did titled "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection", which includes one adaptation of each novel. You can find it for purchase or stream at the usual places (audible, Kobo, Hive, Libro.fm, Apple Books, Google Play, Xigxag), and there's a version on the Internet Archive.

2016: starring Georgia Groome and Luke Thompson. 10 15 minute episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Sense and Sensibility

1991: (BBC radio 7) starring Jean Leonard and Abigail McKern. 4 1 hour episodes. Available on the Internet Archive.

2010: (BBC radio 4 extra): starring Amanda Hale (Persuasion 2007) and Blake Ritson (Mansfield Park 2007, Emma 2009). 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Pride and Prejudice

2014: starring Pippa Nixon and Jamie Parker. 3 1 hour episodes. You can find a stream-only version of an untrimmed radio recording on the Internet Archive (1,2,3) Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Mansfield Park

1997: (Radio 4) starring Amanda Root and Robert Glenister. 3 1 hour episodes.

2003: (Radio 4 extra) starring Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey 2007), David Tennant, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

2022: (Radio 4) starring Lydia Wilson and Bryan Dick. 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Emma

2000: (Radio 4) Starring David Bamber (Pride and Prejudice 1995), Robert Bathurst (Emma 2009) and Tom Hollander (Pride and Prejudice 2005). Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Persuasion

1986: starring Juliet Stevenson and Sorcha Cusack (Jane Eyre 1973). 3 1 hour episodes. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

#jane austen #radio dramas #bbc radio dramas #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #persuasion #northanger abbey #mansfield park #emma

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

#napoleonic sexyman tournament #new pinned post for now

[jimrichardsonng]

Scotland Fix of the Day: The coasts of Scotland are spectacular but treacherous. The towering cliffs and submerged reefs were wrecking ships and killing sailors for centuries before the Northern Lighthouse Board started building the lighthouses that we here today just expect to grace scenes of nautical splendor like Noup Head (built 1898) on Westray in Orkney. Amazingly one family – the Stevensons – was responsible for the design and building of 82 of the most spectacular lighthouses. Right now I'm reading their story in the excellent book, The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst. The scion of the family was Robert Stevenson, who in 1789 as a young engineer, assisted his father-in-law in building the Dennis Head Old Beacon on North Ronaldsay in Orkney. It was classically beautiful but a poor aid to stormswept sea captains. But in the succeeding decades his innovations set the standard for lighthouse design and construction, not just in Scotland but around the world. Over the years I have (like many travelers) been drawn to these fantastic structures built at such cost to in remote locations. Neist Point on the Isle of Skye is one, built in 1909 by David Alan Stevenson (Robert's grandson), features perhaps the most spectacular setting of any. Another, at the Butt of Lewis (built 1860s by David Stevenson, Robert's son) guards hazardous cliffs. And Cape Wrath, seen form my cabin porthole as we rounded Scotland's northern headlands, refers not to vengeful terrain but the Norse word for a "turning point", one that would take them home. (Robert 1828.) Fair Isle South (1892 by David and Charles) was bombed in WWII. Altogether I find the Stevenson's story both compelling and daunting, like a myth from a lost world. Like a place you might find in a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson who shunned the family business to write books. #scotland #heather #highlands #bestofscotland #hiddenscotland #thehighlandcollective #scotland_highlights #ig_scotland #visitscotland #scotlandgreatshots #scottishhighlands #scotland_greatshots #igersscotland #unlimitedscotland #scotlandtrip #scotlandtravel #thescottishcollective #simplyscotland #moodyscotland #scotlanddreams #orkney — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/tbBcf5G

#Instagram #IFTTT

[spifflocated]

UK based Sherlock Holmes fans! I just listened to this on BBC sounds and it’s a very fun pastiche. Robert Bathurst makes an excellent audio Holmes, and I particularly enjoyed his German philosophy based existential crisis (and Watson’s response).

There are 18 days left to listen if you fancy hearing Holmes and Watson embroiled in a private case which escalates wildly when the manuscript for Das Kapital is stolen.

(Obvious warnings for discussions of revolutionary politics and drug use, as well as standard Holmesian murder and some discussion of (illegal) deportation.)

#Sherlock Holmes #doctor john watson #Sherlock Holmes pastiche #radio 4 #acd Holmes #or at least in the style of #Karl Marx #radio holmes #Spifflocated listens to radio

[elorrabean]

The fact that Charles Edwards and Harry Hadden-Paton played two of Edith's love interests in Downton Abbey, and also both played the same man at different points in his life in The Crown...amazing.

Robert Bathurst should play an even older Martin Charteris in the future.

#i dont even know how to tag this #edith's men #downton abbey #the crown #not going to tag the actors themselves bc this is silly

[atlanticcanada]

New N.B. law allows supported decision-making for intellectually disabled residents

Dianne Cormier Northrup has helped her son and daughter, who both have intellectual and physical disabilities, communicate their key life decisions for years. Soon, her support role in that process will have a legal foundation.

New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor gave assent Friday to the province's Supported Decision-Making and Representation Act, which will allow people with intellectual disabilities to appoint those who will assist in important choices they make.

In a news release, Inclusion New Brunswick said the province "has become one of the few jurisdictions in the world" to implement a court-recognized, supported decision-making process.

The new system will allow for a person with intellectual disabilities -- who may have difficulty understanding and conveying information -- to make decisions using the assistance of others who are appointed by the person or the courts. The Attorney General's office still has to provide details on how the new Bill will be administered.

Sitting with her children, Rob and Lynn Chamberlain, who have a neurological condition called autosomal familial spastic quadraplegia, Cormier Northrup -- who is 75 -- says the legislation gives her a sense of security that she and others can give voice to the siblings' personal and financial choices.

"All of us are happy about the law because supported decision making is how we've always been doing it anyway. Now it's for real, and we can use it," she said during a zoom interview from Robert and Lynn's home in Bathurst, N.B.

During the zoom call, Robert, 55, and Lynn, 52, who cannot speak, vigorously nod their heads to show they agree with the legal changes.

Robert confirms with a slight movement of his head that at times it is hard to have others understand his decisions, and then nods vigorously and makes a sound similar to "Yes," when asked if he likes to have his mother assist others in understanding.

He also smiles and nods in affirmation when asked if his mother is "a good talker," and the family shares a laugh.

When Lynn wants to add a point, she sometimes vocalizes sounds that suggests to her mother that there's further information her daughter wants to get across.

During the interview, she indicated to her mother she wanted to make clear there are others in her support-decision making circle. The mother confirms, with Lynn nodding, that her aunts, Jeannine Duguay and Marie Meagher, along with her cousin Laurie Jean, will be among those authorized to assist in making decisions.

Inclusion Canada spokesman Marc Muschler says there are elements of supported decision making in other jurisdictions across Canada, but the New Brunswick law is more comprehensive in that it allows for a broader group of people to make use of decision making supports.

He said it also provides a two-track process for the appointment of decision making supporters: one for people who can appoint their own supporters, and one that allows for someone to apply to the courts to become an "decision-making supporter."

Danny Soucy, a community planning advisor with Inclusion New Brunswick, says his son Daniel Soucy, 31, communicates through gestures and body language that he understands due to all of their years together.

"He can express his desires and we can translate his wishes," said the father during a phone interview from his home in Grand Falls, N.B.

Soucy said under the old law, if there was a significant decision to be made and Daniel couldn't directly convey his wishes to a health provider or bank, "we would have had to have him declared incompetent to make a decision for him."

"With this new law we'll be able to help and interpret what he wants and have the right decision for him made," he said.

The Bill says a person is capable of making decisions if they're able to understand information "relevant" to the decision, and appreciate the "reasonably foreseeable consequences" of a decision, "with the assistance that is available."

"A person is presumed to have the capacity to make a decision, unless the contrary is demonstrated," it reads.

Soucy does not see himself as an active decision-maker for his son, who has Down's Syndrome. Rather, he says he tries to "provide my son with the right information, allowing him to ask questions."

"As a supporter you're not making decisions, you're helping people make decisions for themselves," he said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 18, 2022.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/E0wI2la

#new brunswick #prince edward island #nova scotia #news #politics #canada #CTVAtlantic

[sarahlancashire]

i realised that on my last reblog i forgot some things! also i was forced to omit a few things bc i ran out of tag space oops ("nobody cares, lamorna" - shut up i need to document this correctly)

so let's explain:

saw belinda lang in present laughter (also saw serena evans in that!! and david from cold feet robert bathurst, but he's less important to me); the reluctant debutante (also saw jane asher in it!!); and single spies

old times: met kristin scott thomas, saw lia williams + rufus sewell

the audience: met helen mirren + haydn gwynne (this was also the day when i chased jenny agutter accidentally, and i saw anne reid + stephen tompkinson going through the stage door)

passion play: met sam bond, zoe wanamaker, and lyndsey marshal (she wasn't in the play, she was just there with zoe), saw owen teale

the weir: saw dervla kirwan, met ardal o'hanlon + brian cox

private lives: met anna chancellor

the importance of being earnest: met cherie lunghi + nigel havers

relatively speaking (i went to an ayckbourn play for felicity. this is true love and dedication) met felicity kendal

the national theatre masterclasses: went to penelope wilton + david hare's one, saw them (saw penelope out front beforehand!!), met penelope afterwards

also went to amelia bullmore's masterclass, along w lots of my lovely mutuals 💖; we all met her and talked to her at length

kiss me, kate: saw hannah waddingham

guys and dolls: saw sophie thompson, and phyllida law (her + emma's mother) was in the audience

a damsel in distress: saw summer strallen

mrs. pat: saw penelope keith

oklahoma!: saw josie lawrence (also saw her + paul merton at the comedy store one time)

me and my girl: saw caroline quentin, also matt lucas

fleetwood mac: i've seen them live twice, once with chris mcvie

once there was an event that a choir my mum + i used to be in were invited to sing at, and a lot of the other performers / organisers were famous people: julie graham was one of the organisers, so i saw her, alison moyet was performing (i'd already been to one of her concerts, but not met her yet), so i met her then (she hugged me!!!!) and emma kennedy was there bc she and alf are best friends so i stood near her awkwardly; and caitlin moran was also a speaker so i saw her (backstage and onstage) too; and my mum spoke to her

my mum once won tickets to see a bbc show being filmed, and it happened to be upstart crow (you don't choose what you see, you just get allocated something by the bbc people), so we were on set with david mitchell, liza tarbuck, gemma whelan

i've told the story of being caught in the fire w the new tricks actors + sarah beeny SO many times, but i will tell it again if anyone else wants to hear it

comedians/-ennes i've seen live: ed byrne (twice), alan davies, omid djalili, rich hall (i wasn't that keen on seeing omid or rich but my mum made us all go with her and they were better than i'd expected them to be), zoe lyons, tim vine

and finally: i live in the same town as dave benson phillips (of get your own back, british blue's clues, various other children's television), and he used to be (might still be, for all i know) the next door neighbour of a family friend, so i met him at a party at their house once as a child

#the amount of these stories that involve my mum is embarrassing #she was even the reason i ended up accidentally chasing jenny #my mum is my best friend i guess #personal #about me

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"2 CRIMES IN 10 DAYS GETS 4 YEARS 'PEN'," Toronto Star. May 14, 1943. Page 21. ---- Robert Weir Sentenced for T.T.C., Butcher Hold-Ups ---- "Two armed robberies in 10 days, that is too much, Weir. However, as you have pleaded guilty, I am going to be lenient with you. You will go to the penitentiary for four years." So stated Judge Ian Macdonell, in general sessions today, in sentencing Robert Weir, single, 28, for the armed robbery of the T.T.C. garage, Bathurst St. and Davenport Rd., Feb. 14, and for assaulting, with intent to rob, Aubrey Ardill, butcher.

In the T.T.C. robbery, Weir held up Roy Parrott, cashier, but only got a quantity of street car transfers. In the Ardill hold-up he and two companions were scared away before they could rob the butcher.

[Weir was 26, married, a truck driver, and of Irish background. He had a single previous term in the reformatory to his name. He was convict #7314 at Kingston Penitentiary. He worked in the shoe shop, and was transferred March 1944 to Manitoba Penitentiary. He was paroled in late 1945.]

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