Sarah-Jane

(Baby was a boy. We did not call him Johannes.)

Just had a flashback to four years ago when I was very heavily pregnant with littlest and eldest was so taken with Strictly he was adamant that if baby was a boy we were calling him Johannes.

I love it so much. I bought special cloth bound copies for all my bridesmaids as gifts when I got married.

I'm going to have to see if I can rewatch it, I can't remember much of it.

Well now there's somewhere else on my list to visit!

I've googled it and I think it must be a different one because Jonathan Pryce was Patrick in that one.

I think I've seen the Ruth Wilson version but I don't think I can remember much about it. I love Michael Fassbender as Rochester though - he's exactly how I picture him. I reread the book last year and was pleased to see I loved it as much as I did when I was 17 😍

Well Alexis is doing an excellent job of dancing while George stands still here #scd #strictly

Was it the BBC one from Christmas a few years ago? Something like She Walks Invisible? I enjoyed that.
There was a play at the National about them that I would have loved to have seen.

I find myself doing it all the time now, for historical figures and fictional characters! Robespierre was 100% autistic, absolutely everything I've read about him makes it clear.

Obviously it wouldn't have been a deliberate choice, but I think it does make me reframe the Brontes in my mind a bit. A visit to the parsonage in Howarth doesn't exactly scream that they were a neurotypical family!

Is Jane Eyre autistic? Discuss.
-Completely oblivious to Rochester's flirting.
-Very direct and speaks her mind to the point of what others consider rudeness.

I suspect you'll be finished it before me as I have to keep pausing to parent. Most inconvenient 🤣

It's my favourite ❤️ Pleased you caught a bit! X

2011 one with Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester! Now watching it from the start on iPlayer 🤗

Why did none of you lot tell me my favourite version of Jane Eyre was on BBC2 this afternoon - hmmm?!?!

I also once tried to open one of the secure vaults at work with a paper clip, so I feel this 🤣

That's a nice way to look at it. I hope you both enjoyed it 😊

It's so frustrating that this is even a thing we need to consider! Luckily J finds the Harry Potter concept boring. At the minute he's gotten really into tween books about friendships that seem to be marketed at girls - Katie Kirby in particular - and he's rattling through those.

It did feel very stupid at the time 🤣

During the same time period I also spent over an hour going through the library sheaf catalogue looking for the record of an historic bible (I worked in a cathedral library - there were a lot of bibles) so I could find out the city it was printed in.
The book was called the Geneva New Testament.

After I went back to work after my first maternity leave, quite a few times I forgot to put the milk in my tea, but on one spectacular occasion I also forgot the teabag, and stood looking at my cup of boiling water just repeating the words 'my tea is the wrong colour my tea is the wrong colour'.

That's great! Next year I'm going to insist on going and knock on the doors on our estate with decorations, and that we know - his dad will just have to feel uncomfortable about it 🤣

9yo is completely disinterested but we've been open with him for a long time about JKR and her views on certain things. I did tell him if he wants to read them he's welcome but he isn't fussed. There are other more modern authors he's more taken with. Some of his school friends read them though.

Oh I hate it too. It's truly my least favourite part of parenting. But there are a few houses that have kids about the same age and we know they always have stuff in for trick or treaters and they always visit us too, so I can't understand why he didn't go there.

I swear, there are times when I feel as if we are speaking a different language.

Me: 'Well no wonder he was frustrated if you didn't go anywhere on the estate.'
Him: 'I did go to some houses on the estate! I went to 3!'
Me: 'You just said you didn't.'
Him: 'I didn't! Anyway, I meant we didn't go anywhere near our end of the estate, not the entire estate! That should be obvious!'

Eldest was frustrated that his dad wouldn't let him knock on many doors last night, including ones with Halloween decorations.
Me: 'Why didn't you go to [that neighbours'?] Or those? They always have stuff for the kids.'
Husband: 'I don't like to bother people. We didn't go anywhere on the estate.'

Aww, that's very sweet! I'm lucky if mine say trick or treat, they stand there mute 😁

But then I'd have to trust my eldest not to come out with something inappropriate and/or bonkers 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣