Revolutionary Rants

I went to see the all new film of the classic Jane Austen book last weekend. After - like everyone else in the country - loving the 1995 version (although this had nothing to do with Colin Firth, I preferred Wickham, to be honest!!!) I was quite sceptical.

But, I absolutely loved it! It was even better than the telly version, in my view. It seemed more economic, more real; the Bennets seemed ‘poor’, Darcy seemed filthy rich, there was mud and animals. Most of all, unlike the TV versions Firth and Jennifer Ehle, you could see the love in Darcy and the change in Elizabeth. Keira Knightley was altogether brilliant, a perfect, feisty and somewhat scruffy Lizzie; much more how I had imagined her than the perfect curls, bonnets and bodice of Ehle’s portrayal.
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On Monday we journeyed almost 300 miles from Devon to West Yorkshire. We returned to Huddersfield, Chicken for his final year, and me for my MA.

We are mostly settled in now, with our bedroom now a room rather than a space containing a large number of boxes, bags and general dirt from the previous occupier. The house was rather filthy (although our first arriving housemates had the worst of it) so I had a nasty hour cleaning out the little bathroom, and brought a fancy mop to do the floors.

Needless to say, we both slept as our heads hit the pillows! But we are back, where we started out, in the North.

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