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Um I dunno Kaz - I would have thought so.....

Hi all

Do you know if it's repeated as I missed it - got out-voted *sighs*

Kaz :o(

I thought it was wonderful...he was ok - he'll get his;)

Good evening mrs:))

Hi, Uggers and Jean:)))
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I loved it....full of angst.

I don't know the story so am waiting with baited breath for the next episode.

I know he was a rotter, having his wicked way with Tess...... but isn't he a handsome devil. lolol.

What did you think luv?

Phew.... just got back in time to watch it.

I haven't got one of those new fangled things you can tape programmes on cos I don't understand how to work them lol.

Still trying to work out how to watch 'catch up' tv :)

Jean x.

Mac, stop showing yerself up lol

Maz, she was very beautiful but couldn't act, which is a bit of a disadvantage in films....

fgs how can you pah at that! I know she had the wrong hair colour blah blah but I think the 3 men and her were great and perfect for the parts. pah all you want, but I like it !!!
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Hello luv:) Do you mean the one with Julie Christie? Pah. There was an excellent adaptation a few years ago though

Sharron, I have never heard of it but I will investigate:)

my fave is Far from the Madding Crowd, absolutely love it and the film is fab too. I suppose it is probably one of Hardy's cheeriest novels lol. will be watching or taping Tess tonight.

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I ws just wondering if any of you had read 'A Shepherd's Life' by W.H.Hudson. It is not a novel but more a collection of articles,one about Salisbury and the television series 'Bread or Blood' was based upon it.

Sheila, I think that's the only novel I haven't read yet - must get round to it:) I wish I had some Dorset ancestors but I haven't got any:( I am a fan of his poetry too.

I love Hardy, and I love 'his' Dorset (where a good number of my ancestors hailed from). We did 'Mayor of Casterbridge' for O-Level. I read 'Return of the Native' recently and loved that. Much of his poetry appeals to me too.

You must get rid of others, Joy and make room for Hardy;)

I'm off now before everything gets all huggy and lovey and life affirming and makes me bilious...bye bye

I don't have many bookshelves ... :-)
and have even had to rationalise the books that I do have, because of you know what.

I love the countryside of Wessex.

Well you should have more, Joy. I love Hardy.

Morning Gwynne:) Jude is heartbreaking isn't it. There was an excellent and suitably grim film adaptation of it with Christopher Ecclestone and Kate Winslet. As much as Hardy gets me miserable, I do love the tragedies. Think The Mayor of Casterbridge is my favourite - I like all that relentless wheel of fortune stuff:)

BC, no-one could accuse Hardy of being like stuck in a vat of pink blancmange;)

Sorry I didnt mean Hardy, I meant the Boards:-))

*grumbles...like being stuck in a vat of pink blancmange....

I love that book, the only person with worse luck than poor Tess was Jude...

Gwynne