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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited April 2020
    I once met someone who declared that you could discern a lot about a person from the character they identified with in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (not telling who I think I am!) I wonder if Marple is the same?

    Edited to say:  I probably am a bit wittery.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I like Geraldine McEwan as an actress ... she's great ... but as Miss Marple I find her knitting style unconvincing ...  Julia McKenzie's is far better ☺

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I cant identify with margaret Rutherford as i find tweed a bit scratchy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I once met someone who declared that you could discern a lot about a person from the character they identified with in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (not telling who I think I am!) I wonder if Marple is the same?

    Edited to say:  I probably am a bit wittery.
    I think @WonkyWomble will confirm that I am Joan Hickson's Miss Marple  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I wish I had Geraldine McEwan's shape, I have always lusted after one of those long straight coats but look awful in them.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I once met someone who declared that you could discern a lot about a person from the character they identified with in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (not telling who I think I am!)
    There's a fair few Nanny Oggs on this forum. :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Don't knit so don't care.  Never gone near Discworld.

    Now I've run out PC noodling and admin I really must go and paint.  Ho hum.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Oooh @wild edges she was a bit free with her favours! What are you saying?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Joan Hickson is Marple and David Suchet Poirot.  None of the others come close I'm afraid.  Alan Rickman in Robin Hood was amazing, I loved him in everything he did, and that voice, he called me up to talk about seat sponsoring when I worked at the theatre and I found it very hard to concentrate on the content  of the discussion I was too busy just listening to him.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Yviestevie

    ....  Alan Rickman in Robin Hood was amazing, I loved him in everything he did, and that voice, he called me up to talk about seat sponsoring when I worked at the theatre and I found it very hard to concentrate on the content  of the discussion I was too busy just listening to him.

    🤤🤤🤤

    I was in a similar state when Ray Davies of the Kinks visited the Festival Office where I worked ... we drank champagne and I don't remember a single word  of our conversation ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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