Martin Freeman is to be Bilbo Baggins!

[starrylizard]

How the heck did I forget to mention this!! I was reading the paper at work and I squeaked and got funny looks from my office buddy... It's now official!

MARTIN FREEMAN IS GOING TO PLAY BILBO BAGGINS IN THE HOBBIT!

Oh yes, that does indeed deserve allcaps if anything does!

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[shoemoney2night.livejournal.com]

Hee, I saw that! It made me happy. I've just started watching Sherlock since Nine has been airing it and I'm a bit hooked.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I've watched Sherlock's 3 episodes so many times now that I have lost count. I got the DVDs off Amazon. Brilliant series and I cannot wait until series 2! :)

I hope you're well. Don't bump into you online as often these days.

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

And Richard Armitage is to be Thorin Oakenshield!

(He married the Vicar of Dibley, you know!)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Oh I did hear that. Yup. Good old RA.

(*giggles* You getting your hopes up there? Are there NZ stalking sight-seeing trips planned in your future?)

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

No, it's just that my younger brother would like me to be married. I have said for years and years that, no, I will never get married, to his great frustration. But now I say, yes, if Richard Armitage ever proposes then I, like the Vicar, will say yes. See, annoying younger brother, I haven't closed myself off completely to the prospect of marriage!

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with having good taste. :)

Weird segway... but have you seen that the Greens are making quite coherent arguments for gay marriage again? I occasionally do love the Greens. :)

See: Linky! (http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/renewed-push-for-australian-gay-marriage-as-poll-shows-78-per-cent-support/story-e6freooo-1225942157554)

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Yes. I do hope it goes somewhere. A few of my colleagues and I have been thinking about setting up a "Clergy for Gay Marriage" group to say that we would happily marry same-sex couples on the basis that none of the "God is love" theology says anything about sexual orientation. It's just about love.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

It's people like you almost drive me into churches. It's the fact the most churches don't meet my values (coupled of course with my very atheist upbringing) that leaves me happily agnostic. :)

I'm more than happy to wait it out, knowing it will eventually happen, but the issue (like so many) needs to be raised and raised and raised... and repeated until the right people listen.

Edit: I haven't a clue how I turned this thread into a political soapbox. Oops. *steps down from it*

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

It's people like you almost drive me into churches.

Does that balance the times when my fellow Christians almost drive me out of church?

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Ooh if it does, then bonus. *Giggles uncontrollably*

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

OMG YAY!!!

I LOVE MARTIN FREEMAN!!!

And I don't even watch Sherlock cos it's not over here (and I never watched The Office either)!

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
I LOVE HIM TOO! :D

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Yes that one and Love, Actually as well.
And he was the doctor in the first episode of Black Books so I remembered him from that when I saw him in other stuff later. Like, Hardware. :D

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yes he's one of those people, that once you think yo look for him, turns up in an awful lot of shows I've seen. :)

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!

Like Simon Pegg, first time I saw him was with Nick Frost in Spaced, on tv in the UK 10 years ago...

And they were both in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. XD