Suggestions please

When I was up in town yesterday (the outer London dweller's way of saying "in central London") I bought a book from the new branch of Foyles that's in the lower section of the Festival Hall. It was written by Christopher Foyle, grandson of the shop's founder. The original shop is, I believe, the biggest bookshop in the world. You need a map to get around its five (?or more) floors.

Anyway, the book is called Foyle's Philavery, and is subtitled "A treasure of unusual words". So here's today's competition. See if you can come up with interesting or, preferably, amusing definitions of these words:

1. furphy.
2. piligerous.
3. swikedom.
4. maritodespotism.
5. ventoseness.

Answers tomorrow, after I've looked them up again!

Not London Wall

I was hoping to get a few shots of the remnants of London Wall, small parts of which are visible in places around the City of London. There are Roman and Medieval segments and sometimes layers showing both. But my feet wanted to drop off.

There were so many churches on my walk - I'm not exaggerating to say they are every few hundred yards. Most are late 17th or early 18th century, the originals having been burn down in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Some are even by Wren, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral.

Coming Up

This Sunday we have the pleasure of Smothered and The Black T-Shirt Of Hotness

Doh!

I'm sorry, but I'm actually rolling on the floor laughing my ass off - my parrot Henry just chewed through the perch he was standing on! After saving himself by grabbing hold of the bars of his cage, he said, "OHHH!"

Now he just landed flapping on the floor of his cage for no apparent reason and said, "S'alright". What a boy!

Monster Post

Clever Bobby, stupid perps. Lots more in Season 7, we hope.

What would YOU tell him?

I would swear my undying love and invite him to sate his lust on my willing body.

Ah - Art!

I remember that when I did my caps for this episode, the dvd seized up in the closing moments at the studio, with Bobby walking round and round Sylvia Moon, and before they went to get Lange, so that's where I expected my selection to end. In fact, there's a whole bunch missing from earlier than that. Nevertheless we get another first - the first occasions (about 3 of them) when the right eyebrow raises. They are sprinkled among this selection of delection.

Thanks Eliza

As ever, our resident expert Eliza has come to the rescue and provided the whereabouts of the earliest examples of Bobby leaning on doorjamb





and Bobby with his arms folded








Thanks, Eliza. I know it was such a hardship :) for you to search through all your pictures from Season 1 to find this information for us.

Brain Surgery

My cousin Joyce's daughter Karen had her operation today to remove the regrown tumour in her brain. The surgery took six-and-a-half hours and went well. Apparently a piece of membrane had adhered to the inside of the braincase, and this was causing some of her symptoms. It has now been carefully removed. Karen is conscious and talking, but very tired. Unfortunately the nurses have to keep waking her up to check that she is OK, so she is not able to just drift off and sleep off the anaesthetic.

Thanks to everyone who sent their good wishes.

Buggered? Knackered!

When my motorised bed arrived, I discovered it was slightly longer than the old bed, and left very little room to walk between the end of it and my dressing table. I've been hunting for a less deep piece of furniture with drawers so that I don't have to sidle past a half-step at a time.

I had all summer to sort this, but only actually ordered the items I found last Tuesday. They are supposed to arrive after September 16th.

One arrived yesterday (luckily a second was missing and will arrive later). It weighs 27 kilos and I had to carry it upstairs a piece at a time. As I made a start on assembling it, another knock on the door signalled the arrival of six other parcels also destined for the bedroom. Now I was really buggered. They have had to stay in the hall.

I continued assembling the chest of drawers, but then my friend arrived MUCH earlier than usual, so I had to stop. By bedtime I was ready to drop - but first I had to clear off the bed!

This afternoon I finished my task. I hauled the old chest out and into the spare room, put my undies into the drawers, then collapsed on the bed, knackered.

If those of you in the US and elsewhere didn't understand the words in the title of this post before, I venture to suggest you've worked them out now!

Not in One

As BobbyG requested, I've scoured my pictures from One, and my memory has not betrayed me. Bobby didn't fold his arms or lean in the doorway in this episode. However...

He sat on the edge of the desk with his legs spread, not quite clasping the leather case in front of his groin.


He strode manfully down the corridor displaying his great height.


OK, this one is just 'cos he looks beautiful.


And this one is another groin shot (can't have too many groin shots).


Of course, we got the Goren Dip.


We got his clever observation sklls.


All right, this one is just here because he looked gorgeous, too.


The giant foot appeared in its own scene.

And of course he did his famous squat by the body.


Can anyone quote us the first arm-folding and door leaning incidents, please? Eliza? Diane? Tess?

One

The first time we experienced:

And did we notice them all the first time we saw that episode? Could we miss them now if we tried?

What we all are in our Vincent-love

Unrequited.