is it normal for socks to give you cravings??? perhaps i should wear some beetroot-coloured ones, then i may be brave enough to attempt to eat beetroot.

have to disagree on the mushy peas thing, cello. on the first point anyway. green and slimy. there was some on the wall today at school. not mushy peas.

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Originally posted by Jim G:
I make rather a good cream of mushroom, with proper cream too not bluddy créam fraise!

there's something i won't be trying soon. i can't imagine mushrooms and strawberry flavoured cream going together very well. mind you, i won't be eating anything at all if i don't get my appetite back. i have no time for colds

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Originally posted by ickle gem:
i have no time for colds

now now, dont be a man - it's only a cold. you should take some strepsils. they're highly addictive - my new snack in fact. they are healthy, right?

Night Nurse, works a treat.

Beetroot in pickled form is the devil's work, but in its non-pickled form I'm slowly coming around to it.

Still not at all sure about Patroclus's cake however.

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Originally posted by 544yppop:
is it normal for socks to give you cravings???

Depends on whose socks, and what kind of craving.

I do have a one-track-mind, don't I?

'I wonder what the King is doing tonight?'

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Originally posted by 544yppop:
now now, dont be a man - it's only a cold. you should take some strepsils. they're highly addictive - my new snack in fact. they are healthy, right?

believe me, this is no form of man flu, it is quite simply a cold. and i have no time for it because i am so damn busy, and so far it has forced me to take a day off both college and work. and i seriously think you need to see a doctor about your strepsils addiction. will mac do?

WOOO HOOO IF YOU CANT BE BOTHERED TO WAIT FOR CHANNEL 4 TO RELEASE THE MUCH AWAITED 1ST SERIES EBAY HAVE COPIES !!!

There are about a dozen copies of GW on Ebay. And not one person is selling 'Hippies,' why, why, why!

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Originally posted by ickle gem:
believe me, this is no form of man flu, it is quite simply a cold. and i have no time for it because i am so damn busy, and so far it has forced me to take a day off both college and work. and i seriously think you need to see a doctor about your strepsils addiction. will mac do?

ah, of course. although i think that (*prepares to be killed*) my affections may have moved away from jrt a little. i mean, of course he is still lord of the wing and gorgeous etc. but i have a new favourite. this is probably not a good place to admit that. ah well.

A new favourite? Poppy! What *is* this heresy? Whoever could it be?

ah damn. i knew i'd regret mentioning it.
the new favourite is the wonderful jamie cullum. went to see him at the city hall last night and he was soooo adorable and he kissed me on the hand
but if jrt did the same i'd probably go back to him. how fickle i am.

he kissed you on the hand? good lord! how did this occur?

ah well, we (my friend and i) were twelve rows from the front, and at the end jamie told everyone to come up to the front (luckily most of the people around us were quite old, so we didn't have much trouble getting up there). i got held up grabbing my phone, and my friend managed to get right to the front onto the steps leading up to the stage. fortunately, being quite short, i squeezed passed everyone and was dragged onto the steps by my friend. as he performed, we gradually moved up the steps so we were almost on stage, but at this point we weren't that close to him as he was in the centre of the stage, and the steps were right at the edge.
when he first went off, everyone was of course screaming so he came back on for an encore, and then when he properly left he went along the row of people right at the front, so obviously all the girls dived forward with their hands out. he started at the middle and moved towards our end of the stage. there were so many hands he just touched them all, but because he reached my friend and me last he took both our hands and kissed them (mine first, i must point out). and that was that. i couldn't even speak; i was just melting on the spot. he's so beautiful, and certainly doesn't look 26.
awwwwww he's sooo gorgeous close up. and he had really really soft hands. i'm trying to avoid washing this hand (god, i'm like a teenager ). i didn't even wipe his saliva off my hand. mmmmmmmmmm.

Marvellous stuff, Poppy. You mustn't reproach yourself. You have been more faithful than most of us. Second only to Millefleurs maybe, unless someone else can claim that title.

I strayed back in February with a few David Tennant palpitations, and now I find myself bizarrely drawn to the dancer Ian Waite, Zoe Ball's partner in Strictly Come Dancing. The shame.

But it's pure GW love that's kept many of us here, though I sincerely hope I get a few collywobbles from Mac in the new series.

There is always 'real life' waiting Poppy, and I'm not sure that Jamie Cullum counts, whether he was in the flesh or not. But I'm delighted your modest good manners were rewarded.

of course i still love gw as much as i ever did (although i have sadly lost the ability to do instant quotes, and i'm sure i can never go back). and once i watch it again jrt will be undoubtedly top of the agenda.

ian waite??? i have to say i'm not sure i see the attraction, cello. he looks quite old, but i am terrible at judging ages. is it just the dancing?

real life is much less exciting, especially if it doesn't include jamie cullum and jrt kissing (me, that is. and not just on the hand, necessarily). i dont think my manners were that good. i stood on someone's foot and pushed a load of people, which was surprisingly fun. but then i almost got squashed by some idiot who almost knocked me off the steps. but it was worth it. his hair was very cool, and i was so happy i was crying. that hasn't happened for a long time. i feel a possible new obsession coming on, which can't be good.

God it's been ages since I was obsessed with someone. I only really lasted with JRT until North & South came on (so.. um.. about a month. whoops) and even that's long since over. How very dull.

Poppy, very impressed with your Jamie Cullum story.

Cello - had to go away and look up Ian Waite. Afraid I don't see it. Stick with the Tennant...

Yeah, but you have to see him move, Pash. I'm a total pushover for blokes who are good dancers. And if they're not gay as well then bingo.

GW pals, I've just read in last week's Broadcast mag that Green Wing is now scheduled for March 2006. It's death by a thousand cuts.

i think i'm sort of unofficially officially married to jamie now. i mustn't cheat on him with jrt.

march. aaaah. i bet it will be at the wrong time. if i miss any because of my holiday, i will be extremely angry. i may cut the end off my tie (not that i have a tie, but anyway) and then (pretend to) hang myself.

will it still be friday at 9.30?

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Originally posted by cello:
Yeah, but you have to see him move, Pash. I'm a total pushover for blokes who are good dancers. And if they're not gay as well then bingo.

What about Darren Gough though? Doesn't he move well for a big fella?

I could have sworn Green Wing was originally shown at 10:00pm??

No more GW til March???
Whats going on?

This is getting like the mythical Red Dwarf film or the much mooted new series of Spaced!!

Jack, I forgot to say that they still have to tick the three essential boxes: kind, clever and funny. Don't think Darren gets past the first hurdle, though you're right - he does move well for a Yorkshire bulldozer. Next in my list come good teeth, nice smelling, long toes. Dancing comes after those. Ideally, blokes should should also weigh more than me but that's just too limiting. You'll be pleased to hear that Mr C ticks all those boxes but his very long legs mean he's hard to keep up with in a foxtrot.

Didn't we already know it was March 2006? I've had that date stuck in my head anyway.

As for obsessions, I'm with Pash - a terrible lack of them at present. I watched my Nathan Barley DVD hoping to pick up where I left off with the lovely Dan Ashcroft, but nothing. Nothing. *And* I sat through Johnny Depp's Worst Film Ever the other night, without experiencing so much as a flicker of lust. I'm just an empty husk and a used gourd. Sigh.

Unless cello meant the DVD?

I *thought* we thought Feb and Series 1 DVD in March, but I'm not exactly at the cutting edge of this forum.