Quantam Tuesday

I cannot tell you how excited I am for the new James Bond film Quantam Solace to come out. After finishing series 6 of MI-5/Spooks, I'm ready for a hot guy to do some butt kicking, and Daniel Craig is awesome as James Bond.

Don't get me wrong, I adored Pierce Brosnan but Daniel Craig actually looks like he kills people for a living. No other James Bond, apart from Sean Connery, had that edge.

November can't come soon enough for me!

For Richard Lovers Everywhere

Just found this interesting article on EW.com with Richard Armitage.

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/08/bits-and-bobs-v.html#more

I don't know how I missed it except I was in San Fran for RWA.

Enjoy!

Back to the regularly scheduled blog tomorrow.

Friday Real Estate Porn - International Edition

I found this delightful little property on The Country Life magazine web-site. It's in Cheshire, and selling for 2.4 million pounds (translates to about $5M), which when you think about is quit the steal. Particularly when you consider that two bedroom apartments go for more than in New York! The web-site describes it as "An exceptional country house in extensive private grounds on the outskirts of Chester. There is also an excellent converted Coach House and a range of traditional outbuildings available in addition."

The house has 8 bedrooms, and 3 bathrooms, plus 3 reception rooms. From the pictures on the web-site the kitchen is gorgeous but small. There aren't a lot of pictures, mainly of two of the reception rooms. Apparently, the original part of the Field House is believed to have been built by the Earl of Shrewsbury in the first half of the 17th Century, so this house is pretty old. In the 1890's it was redeveloped by a renowned Victorian architect John Douglas.

I could easily see living in this house with say, my new husband, James Purefoy (I bet you thought I was going to say Richard Armitage!). He can take some of that money he made on Rome to buy the house. We would, of course, only there on the weekends, keeping our house in London. I would have a lovely writing room on the second floor, where I would write meticulously researched romance novels about the American "Dollar Princesses" who married into the English aristocracy, while hubby swanned off to make movies and television series.

Perhaps we would even develop one about Beau Brummel as a detective based on the series of novels. After all this is a fantasy right? Or I would adapt one of Georgette Heyer's books so that he could star (anything to get him into those Regency tight pants), since all of the Jane Austen novels have been adapted for television.

Sigh, I so need to win Mega Millions!

Sing Hallelujah, Come on Get Happy!

I'm having one of those days today. You know, the "everything irritates me, and I'm about 5 minutes away from screaming" days.

First of all, Bravo screwed with me last night by putting on Project Runway at 9:00 pm instead of at 10:00 pm, because they were showing Shear Genius instead. Thank god they repeated it at 11 and I could DVR but I haven't watched it yet and I'm trying to avoid reading about who got the first "Auf" from Heidi.

Then today, we are moving from one part of our floor to the other, and there is much bitching, moaning and complaining, and that's just from me. I hate moving, which is why I have lived in the same apartment for the past twenty years (for the most part, there were 6 years when most of my stuff was at ex-sweetie pies. Lots of moaning when he moved to LA and we had to move all my stuff back to my place. Seriously, I had furniture that needed to be moved.)

So since I'm having an off day, I decided to put up this picture of Clive, because looking at Clive can make any day better. Plus, I have the 5th series of MI-5 reserved at the library and that makes me happy as well. And the glass of wine I'm planning on having later this evening after work, that makes me happy. And Mad Men getting Emmy nominations. The tuna empanada I just ate for lunch made me happy as well.