The Squeee

Question posed a while back was: who's your preference, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice , or Mr. John Thornton from Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South ? 1. John Thornton - 39 votes - 88%  2. Fitzwilliam Darcy - 5 votes - 11% Thank you to the 44 voters, the results are perhaps not that surprising, considering I'd say the majority of the readers of this blog (love you all!) are fans of Richard Armitage. ;) On the other hand, Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, he was the first introduction I had to the wonderful world of period drama, and my first cravat crush. (The 2005 version of P&P just doesn't work for me at all. Colin Firth is and always will be the perfect Darcy.)

"Will you be following the World Cup this year, Miss Dashwood?" "Indeed I will not, Mr. Ferrars. I find football most disagreeable." Any football fans out there? (Soccer fans if you're American.) I couldn't give a stuff about the World Cup personally. Apparently, Sweden's not even in it - nor did we make it to the Eurovision final, gasp! At present, England is at a standstill, because they're playing the USA. So far, it's 1-1 and it's about 15 minutes to go. It being the World Cup means "but now there's nothing decent on telly for ages !" - or is there? Actually, there is. The channels are exceedingly agreeable, as it happens! One channel's showing Sense & Sensibility '95, another one's showing Pride & Prejudice '95. Another one is showing Notting Hill . It's chick flick heaven! And it'll go on during the World Cup so that all of us who give a collective yawn at a bunch of blokes chasing