The only Mantel I've read is Eight Months On Gazza Street. A really chilling portrait of life in Saudi Arabia. I don't know why I've not read more as that was excellent.
Hilary Mantel on Kate Middleton Page 3
Quote: youngian @ February 19 2013, 2:27 PM GMTYou don't need an executive Presidential system. There wouldn't be a conflict if you are a constitutionally bound ceremonial president like Ireland. There have had some dullards but the better ones like the two Marys didn't come from a party poltical background.
If you get the job right like the Queen they can stay around for life if that's what people wanted.
If you get some idiot like Prince Charles as head of state well we can boot them out after a single term.
I know, theoretically. I just don't trust that it would happen to our pleasing. I don't trust our government, I don't trust whoever would be president, I don't trust our system to make this happen reasonably. *Puts colander on head and hides under duvet*
The anti-royal sentiments here today have really cheered me out of a bad mood. As my father used to say 'Stand them up against a wall and shoot them.' (He was a member of the Communist Party at one time 
If any of you watched the recent programme about Queen Victoria('s Children), all I can say is I suspect the personalities are still the same - must be genes or something.
Quote: keewik @ February 19 2013, 2:43 PM GMTThe anti-royal sentiments here today have really cheered me out of a bad mood. As my father used to say 'Stand them up against a wall and shoot them.' (He was a member of the Communist Party at one time
What was your story about being a child and there being a fella in your garden?!
Quote: AJGO @ February 19 2013, 2:46 PM GMTWhat was your story about being a child and there being a fella in your garden?!
?????????? there was a tramp/midden-raker round the back green once who chased us? You think he was a SPY?
Quote: keewik @ February 19 2013, 2:48 PM GMT?????????? there was a tramp/midden-raker round the back green once who chased us? You think he was a SPY?
Found it. My recollection is a bit worrying 
Quote: keewik @ April 22 2012, 11:49 PM BSTWell, my recollections of being at a party (in my youth) with the Mayor of Leningrad, is that it was just a party. *thinks - does that explain the wee man with moustache and sunglasses who hangs about the bottom of my garden?*
Quote: AJGO @ February 19 2013, 3:01 PM GMTFound it. My recollection is a bit worrying
I'd forgotten that one. Then there was the time I was tailed after performing poetry at a Communist rally. Well, when I say 'tailed' it might have been an actual spy trying to recruit me. How else would you interpret being approached by a total stranger with a Russian accent at a bus stop in outer Glasgow, and he states 'This is like Spring in Siberia'?
Quote: sootyj @ February 19 2013, 1:15 PM GMTThe booker prize is about level with a brown sticky star from a primary school teacher
Oi, I worked hard for that star.
Heyshandy how did you get invited on jimll fix it?
Quote: Shandonbelle @ February 19 2013, 3:56 PM GMTOi, I worked hard for that star.
Quote: sootyj @ February 19 2013, 12:35 PM GMTI actually find Hillary mandrels face weirdly erotic like a pugs or something
Well, I think that if dear Hilary is going to be doling out venom, she might as well receive a little constructive criticism herself. And, you know, when I looked at her picture, it came to me immediately who she reminds me of. Are any of you Brits familiar with Mad Magazine here in the States?
This woman Hilary could easily pass as Alfred E. Neumann's long lost mother! See for yourself--
I really can't see the problem here. Isn't it true? And wasn't Diana regarded in the same way at the time?
Quote: DoubtfulDolt @ February 19 2013, 5:49 PM GMTWell, I think that if dear Hilary is going to be doling out venom, she might as well receive a little constructive criticism herself. And, you know, when I looked at her picture, it came to me immediately who she reminds me of. Are any of you Brits familiar with Mad Magazine here in the States?
This woman Hilary could easily pass as Alfred E. Neumann's long lost mother! See for yourself--
Ooh, so close!
The truth is out there and its in the post above me
Quote: DoubtfulDolt @ February 19 2013, 5:49 PM GMTWell, I think that if dear Hilary is going to be doling out venom, she might as well receive a little constructive criticism herself.
Are you really unaware of how vicious and hypocritical you're being?
Quote: DoubtfulDolt @ February 19 2013, 5:49 PM GMTWell, I think that if dear Hilary is going to be doling out venom, she might as well receive a little constructive criticism herself. And, you know, when I looked at her picture, it came to me immediately who she reminds me of. Are any of you Brits familiar with Mad Magazine here in the States?
Not familiar at all.
British instuitition.
Bad joke.
