Happiest of days!!!

[alexandral]

Happy birthday to soniag and earlgrayhot. It has been wonderful to "meet" you on LJ, so many good times ! Thank you very much, ladies!

I have tried to find similar interests for both of you. I am not sure if I am correct but it seems that both of you like tea and BBC adaption of Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South". In honour of your birthdays, one of my favouritest scenes in "North and Sounth", in which Margaret is pouring tea for Mr. Thornton, in pictures. Oh, Smoldering glances! Oh, hand touching!

I adore the following passage from the book. Mr.Thornton is having tea with Hale's family for the first time and Margaret pouring it:

"It appeared to Mr. Thornton that all these graceful cares were
habitual to the family; and especially of a piece with Margaret.
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which
had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not
attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups,
among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless,
daintiness. She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall
down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of
this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he
listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see
her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh;
and then to mark the loosening--the fall. He could almost have
exclaimed--'There it goes, again!'"

Comments

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

*swoons* Your picspam is spectacular! I love it. :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am still in such love with this adaptation, after 3 years. It is such a rare drama, where everything come togather to make the best possible result.

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

You know I agree with you 100%!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

** hugs ** This somehow reminded me something else we both like - I need to watch the episode 7 of "Around 40"! YAY!

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

Me, too - I saw that the subs came out a couple days ago, and I'm hoping to watch it maybe tonight! I can't wait! Things are getting so much more interesting now. :D

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Things are getting so much more interesting now. :D

So true. Okamura is becoming quite adorable with his eco-consciousness. :D

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

And he looked so sweet and vulnerable in episode 6 when he was worried that Ogata looked down on him because he was lower-status and lower-income than she is! They're really well-suited to each other in many ways, I don't feel like the relationship is forced at all, because they're both very egalitarian in their approach to other people and certainly to each other.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

They are definitely not measuring people by the standards of how much money they earn. And they do have many common interests and views on life, which IMHO is very important in a relationship.