#dancesabove

[flybybee]

We should all be glad it’s @dancesabove‘s birthday today! 

It’s the perfect chance to bring out all the most handsome Kitchen.

Happy birthday, love!  Have a wonderful day.  😘

[vagabondtrousers]

Happy Birthday, @dancesabove!  🎈

[rhonlor]

Fandom Appreciation Post

It’s the end of the year or possibly the beginning depending on where you are and I wanted to let my Foyle’s War and Michael Kitchen fandom friends know how much I appreciate them.

@electric-curls I’m so thankful to have you as a writing friend and pen pal. And thanks for introducing me to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld!

@vagabondtrousers Your gifs of The Beautiful Man have cheered me up incalculably. Such a talent and kind enough to try to teach me!

@flybybee Your eye for the Beautiful details (you know... hands, lashes, and so on) is amazing. And your political commiseration keeps me hopeful.

@kivrin Your headcanon and fic is inspiring. And I have discovered some of my favorite books from your posts (Gaudy Night springs to mind!)

@abjectadmirer You can always make me laugh with your Michael Kitchen observations. And I’m still holding out hope for continuation of a certain epic fic!

@paulinedorchester Your posts of Foyle’s War era historical documents and clothing and information are wonderful!

@dancesabove Love your old Hollywood posts and love rereading your FW fic!

To you and all the rest of our tiny fandom, Happy New Year!

[jomiddlemarch]

32 MILLION PEOPLE

That’s how many stand to lose coverage under the Graham-Cassidy “healthcare” bill being proposed. Patients with cancer, children with birth defects, all women of child-bearing age, people suffering with depression, autism, substance disorders-- all pay a higher price for insurance-- if they can afford it at all. Blue states suffer the biggest hits. This isn’t federalism, it’s a death sentence.

202-224-3121 - CALL YOUR SENATORS. Make it clear you want them to vote NO. Fax, tweet, email, ask for a meeting if you’re up to it. Don’t let this happen to your neighbors, your friends, Don’t let it happen to you.

Tagging to help with reblogging @kivrin @sassy-doctor-foster @mmmuses @tavsancuk @mercurygray @sagiow @britishdetectives @dxmedstudent @electric-curls @inquietstrength @myfesteringcesspool @mybelladuveen @summerinavonlea @broadwaybaggins @dancesontheedge @dancesabove @chemfan @frellywellies @ultrahotpink @gypsyscarfwoman @theadventureofhistorygirl @mademoisellelapiquante @rhonlor @slimwhistler @prairiechzhead @calamity-bean @lucyemers

[mjn-air]

YAYYYY I GOT TAGGED IN A THING! (I love getting tagged in things. thank you so much my dear @unionjackpillow)

Rules: Put your music library on shuffle. List the first 10 songs that come up, then tag 10 people.

Traffic - Dear Mr Fantasy

AIR - Playground Love

Ludovico Einaudi - Night

No Surprises - Radiohead

Adrian Glynn - Slowly Undone

Garbage - Push It

Run Boy Run - Woodkid

Jethro Thull - Locomotive Breath

Buffalo Springfield - Stop children what’s that sound

Lady Gaga - What’s going on/4nonblondes cover

OMG ten people ok I got this

@daltongraham @the-reading-lemon @morettaallstar

wait everybody else I know already has been tagged so I’ll just go batshit crazy and tag my latest 7 followers since I really want to get to know all of my darlings out there - but no pressure:

@thats-not-gone-well

@dancesabove

@somnianavigo

@rachel-sullivan2013

@ifyouarelookingforbabynames

@klecksfarbe

@katuen

Have fun and have a nice day <3 <3 <3

[hvkunst]

Tagged by: @swingaposts. Thank you very much !!

You can tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. No skipping.

Shaun Davey : Peter And Assumpta (from Ballykissagel)

Béal Tuinne : Ciúmhais Charraig Aonair

Ed Sheeran, Nancy Mulligan

Ruth Barrett & Jon Wygens : Louisa and Spiro (from The Durrells)

France Gall : Evidemment 

The Corrs : What can I do

Axelle Red : Dejame ser mujer

Coldplay : Paradise

Rebecca Ferguson : I’ll count the days

Simple Minds : New Gold Dream

I'm tagging:

@controlledbyanarmyofmyownmaking, @ilovemushystuff, @flashsil, @theofficialdramallama, @the-child-at-heart, @marvilleous, @irinachobotovaa, @dancesabove,

Tagged by: @missymez thank you very much !! It's my first tag, so HERE WE GO !!

You can tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. No skipping.

Balance ton quoi - Angèle (french song)

Candle in the wind - Elton John

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

Back to you - Selena Gomez

Payphone - Maroon 5 (acoustic)

Top of the World - The Carpenters

Happier - Ed Sheeran

Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

Sleep in the Heat - Pup The Band

Diego libre dans sa tête - France Gall (french song)

Now, i’m tagging:

@resistancequeens - @akinoymi - @boudica9 - @lovepoetryquotes16 - @goldstan-squeemander - @martinemoonshine - @louisahalikiopoulou - @cinnamonbunsinmyhair - @mindibindi - @hvkunst

⛅

[lauraraposa]

MK Fan Girls hang out last night in Harvard Square. Think his ears were burning????

[misscrawfords]

Any advice, S, on how to get Season 3 of Gran Hotel with subtitles, without having to download some virus-y software? Thx! --dancesabove

The only place I know where to watch it is on Sky Arts 2 in the UK. I’m sorry - I don’t know if anyone’s uploaded it anywhere. I understand the first two seasons are on Netflix so I guess eventually the third one will be too but I don’t have Netflix so I don’t know any more than hearsay!

Hope you find a solution!

[flybybee]

Happy Birthday @dancesabove!!

Here’s some mostly random Kitchen beauty, emphasis on eyes and lashes!

😘

[wolseley37]

Things are warming up a little between Foyle and Elizabeth Addis in chapter 16 of my fanfic written to answer the challenge from @thatvoice! Leave a review if you have a moment. 😊

@abjectadmirer @britishdetectives @flybybee @kitchenfoyle @dancesabove

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13248330/1/FW-1947-Post-Elise-Foyle-and-Addis

Calling all Foyle FanFic Writers

Now that AH has confirmed that Foyle’s second wife was Elizabeth Addis, I’m stumped. How does he overcome his feelings about her behavior and learn to love her enough to marry her? It seems to go against his whole moral code.

I look forward to reading your fanfic about this. Thanks in advance!

[abjectadmirer]

Cat, if you go outdoors...

@dancesabove

[vagabondtrousers]

This Is My Last Post From Out of Africa...For Now

The Baroness Blixen sat gazing into the fire. The vast hearth of her home at the foot of the Ngong Hills could blaze with more heat than the Kenyan climate usually required, but she often built just enough of a fire to remind her of evenings in Denmark. She thought with a pang about the deep love she had felt for the irresponsible Hans, and of the spark of caring she had unexpectedly begun to feel for his twin brother, also a baron, after their marriage of convenience.

But now it did not even seem to her that she was married, given Bror's careful lack of devotion, and as often and as long as he was away and out of touch. So it was always with great anticipation that she looked forward to the occasional visits of Denys Finch Hatton and his friend Berkeley Cole.

They would listen rapt to her stories; enjoy the luxury of her china and crystal, drink fine wine; talk for hours; tipsily serenade her.

Tonight they were just a bit late; usually the light had not disappeared from the endless multi-coloured sky by the time they arrived.

She thought about the casual, flippant Denys. Tremendously handsome in that sandy and boyish way. Karen had felt the steady waves of his attraction to her, though always he had been courtly—or was it a bit distant? One imagined it would be a very difficult thing to truly get to know him. Karen also suspected that he was just as much a wandering spirit as Bror.

Berkeley Cole was decidedly harder to read, though she felt buoyed by his kindness and his way of listening carefully to anything she said, a slight smile often crooking at one side of his lips. She loved it when she got out something amusing that caused him to smile more broadly, in a way that made his teeth seem to glow in contrast with his deeply tanned skin. And he had the clearest, warmest blue eyes. He'd greatly widen them suddenly when bantering or impressed (or feigning it), in repose ruffling his own unruly hair and never failing to make her chuckle.

She could not forget his easygoing chivalry toward her the first time they met, when she was snooping in Denys' digs at the hotel on her wedding day. Her perfume had reminded him of a girl he had known at Oxford—but the intimate way he had told her it was not quite the same spoke volumes about his feeling for the one who'd got away.

Karen had fallen in love with him a little even then, though she could not acknowledge that to herself minutes after her wedding. She joked about it soon after to Bror, telling him matter-of-factly that when he left her, she planned to marry the charming Cole.

Excerpt from “I Promise” by @dancesabove​

Read the rest...

[rhonlor]

Pay It Forward

I was tagged by the awesome fic writer @jomiddlemarch to tell you about five (5) things that make me happy and in turn call out ten (10) people to do the same. Lots of things make me happy and I may be able to scrape up 10 followers so here we go: 1. Being in the middle of a good book. Currently it's Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan. A mystery...in a bookstore...who could ask for more? 2. All the lovely Foyle's War fan fic out there. Working on my own makes me happy too! 3. Laughing with the love of my life. 4. Michael Kitchen Michael Kitchen Michael Kitchen 5. British television programs from Foyle's War to Time Team. Tagging (if you are so inclined) @electric-curls @vagabondtrousers @flybybee @thatvoice @kivrin @clearlyenchantingmusic @abjectadmirer @mkmohair @anotherkitchenette @dancesabove

[kivrin]

@dancesabove this is unlikely to be new to you but I had to tag you anyway. :)

Silly Symphony - Mother Goose Goes Hollywood directed by Wilfred Jackson, 1938

An original drawing of Fred Astaire created by character designer and story man, Thorton Hee. The Hollywood caricature appears in the conclusion of the cartoon - showing off his tap dancing skills - which was what he was well known for. Hee temporarily left Disney after the 1941 strike - only to return again in the late 40s and 50s.

[jomiddlemarch]

Right in the feels

I think the first romantic moment in a movie that *got* me as a kid was in Superman, when Superman turns back time by spinning the world in reverse (or something like that, we’re not dealing with actual SCIENCE here) to save Lois Lane’s life.

Who else wants to play? Tagging @ultrahotpink @kivrin @sagiow @tavsancuk @myfesteringcesspool @britishdetectives @cmee57 @dancesabove @dancesontheedge @mmmuses @paulinedorchester @rhonlor @summerinavonlea @emmadelosnardos for a trip down memory lane...

[lala-kate]

Much like Julie Andrews, I tend to think! And a family lady and very talented writer, and a kind person.

Thank you for this!!!!  You’ve made my day!  Hugs to you, dear one. :)  And Merry Christmas!