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June was dying among the roses, the hedges were darkening to a duller green; the blatancy of red brick sprawled along the highway was a reminder that the present builds inexorably over the empty fields of the past.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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persuasion (1995) dir. roger michell

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Woman’s Day, June 1976.

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I'm sorry, I just cannot get over Ratthi's face when Murderbot sasses Pin-Lee

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Whose blood is this?

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I just want you to know I went and watched Saving Grace tonight thanks to your post and it was absolutely delightful. The music, the town, the surprise Bill Bailey, the best pair of sproingy fake glasses ever put on screen. I loved every minute of it. I want to make a double feature evening and watch it again with Greenfingers immediately

OK so I just want YOU to know that this ask a) made me realise Saving Grace and Greenfingers were both released in the same year?? What a year for Gardening & Crime movies! There was something in the water!

and b) it made me go and rewatch Greenfingers just now, what a great double feature idea. Absolutely prime early-career Clive Owen. Post those breakout British TV roles, pre-Gosford Park, working that classic Clive Owen vibe of 'the less he says, the more magnetic he is'. He's 50% legs, 50% wordless intensity, and the suggestion (though rarely demonstration) of violence. Also Helen Mirren is there! And lots of shots of high summer Cotswold gardens.

Saving Grace though - absolutely everyone, every side character, every bit part, literally everyone on screen is TOP SHELF. Watch Craig Ferguson (also writer!) go off on some spectacular high speed scottish rants! Watch Phyllida Law get absolutely shitfaced! Watch Diana Quick be Diana Quick! Martin Clunes literally launching an entire 'doctor in Cornwall' TV franchise with the strength of his scenery eating! Technically sold as a comedy but like all great British ones it's a little bit sad, and there's a bittersweet shadow sort of creeping in at the edges, which just makes it more lovely.

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Practical Magic (1998) 28 Days (2000)

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Saving Grace (dir. Nigel Cole, 2000)

I can’t believe your friend fainted. Do I look like I would cut someone’s finger off?

…Oh, yes.

Thank you.

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Gardens in the remains of the medieval tithe barn, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire

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Take my heart when you go. Take mine in its place.

Westworld season 2 episode 8 "Kiksuya" (2018) dir. Uta Briesewitz

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“How’s your faith now, Templar?”

James Purefoy as Thomas Marshall >>> Ironclad (2011)

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wall tile with lotus flower, iran c. 1300-50.

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We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.

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I've often admired St Olaf's House, an Art Deco building near London Bridge, but today I had an exciting opportunity to go inside it.

Designed by H.S. Goodhart Rendel and built for the Hay's Wharf Company in 1931, the building now houses the admin departments of London Bridge Hospital. On the inside, there are lots of stylish Deco fittings, a cool stairwell, and a beautiful high-ceilinged boardroom that looks out onto the Thames. From its little balconies, you can get a close-up view of some of the decorative ceramic panels on the riverside facade.

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CHARLES FRÉGER

http://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/lepopee-de-jeanne-darc/