Lewis

[bunn]

I am watching an episode of 'Lewis' in which a very smarmy young fantasy author (who may or may not have dunnit) is attempting to walk in the shoes of the Inklings.  It's all about fantasy worlds.  I like it!

Amused though to find that I still have an automatic reaction to seeing piles of Oxford bicycles on bike-stands,which is to immediately lose focus on the plot and peer hopefully at them all.  I am still, it seems,  looking for the late lamented Geraldine, my very old heavy black bike which was stolen in Oxford and that I never got back again.   I suppose she may still be out there somewhere, but one thing is for sure, if I DID spot her in an episode of 'Lewis' it isn't going to help me get her back now.  Also, the thought of trying to ride her across the Cornish hills makes my bum ache. 

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

So you believe that your former couch turned up in Being Human. You regularly scour the TV screens for your former bike. Are there any other former possessions of yours that you have seen, or expect to see, on TV? Is TV-land a little bit like Heaven, for secondhand items? :-P

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Regularly scour is too strong : I don't think I've watched an episode of Lewis in years, and probably wouldn't have watched this one if it hadn't hooked me with Tolkien references.

But I was amused that my eyes automatically started riffling through the bikes on the bike-racks in the manner that they used to do when Geraldine first went AWOL. :-D

I'm not sure I have any other vanished possessions distinctive enough to be recognisable in TV Object Heaven, but who knows. I' m now trying to remember the reg. no. of my original D-reg Austin Metro - just in case - although given that it was sold as an MOT failure back in the 90's (and frankly something of a dismal failure as a car from birth), surely it cannot still be running!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thinking on, I suppose there is my icon car. It was my Mum's back in the 70's. If I ever see a butter-cup yellow Karmann Ghia on the telly, I'm definitely going to be tempted to greet it with glad cries.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I've just rewatched Being Human, and I kept getting distracted by trying to remember if it was the Bristol-based couch that you claimed, or the one they sat on after moving to Wales. "Move aside, angst-ridden vampire!" I kept on shouting silently. "Angst, angst, angst. Blah blah blah. I just need to peer at what you're sitting on, so I can decide if looks like the sort of couch that Bunn (or was it a Bunn family?) might once have owned!" :-D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

This one!


I'm almost sure this is the one my Mum sold when she last moved house: she still has the matching two-seater and armchair...

Obviously you'd be able to admire it better if we could remove the annoying vampire and werewolf. :-D