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Jilly 28 Sep 08 at 2:03 p.m. GMT

Dont forget 3rd Girls is on tonight on ITV1

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MissQuin 15 Apr 10 at 1:41 p.m. GMT

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Somethings been bugging me about Third Girl Poirot adapt.

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If the nanny's death was meant to look like Norma had killed her, why disguise it as suicide? Why slash her wrists? Wouldn't it be better to have stabbed her, so it looked like Norma had killed her?

MissQuin 24 Mar 10 at 4:24 p.m. GMT

I watched the Affair at Victory Ball last night. It was Nathaniel Parker as Chris dressed as Pierrot. What an excelent adapt.

Tommy_A_Jones 13 Mar 10 at 4:16 p.m. GMT

A Great Book with Great Chasracters

MissQuin 12 Mar 10 at 5:27 p.m. GMT

I was luke warm on Anthony Cade, plus I hated Virginia! I liked Bundle and Battle though.

stylestocurtain 12 Mar 10 at 5:23 p.m. GMT

Ah yes I've a romantic soul at heart! I did start reading The Secret of Chimneys but disliked the character Anthony Cade so much I didn't get past the first chapter! I might pop down to the library this evening at give Mr Quin a try!

MissQuin 12 Mar 10 at 4:54 p.m. GMT

Yes, that motion used to be called "a come hither look", were learning stuff when watching AC arent we?

The best story to start with Mr Quin is The Coming of Mr Quin, the first one where Mr Satterwaite meets him for the first time. Mr Q is a love of hate book, but if you have a romantic soul like me, then it's love.

stylestocurtain 12 Mar 10 at 4:32 p.m. GMT

I *love love love* Victory Ball - it made me want to actually be there! (apart from the murder of course!) hehe I loved that bit too, where Poirot stands up and quickly nominates poor Hastings, who doesn't get so much as a look-in anyway! I love the little action she does to Lord Cronshaw inviting him to dance! The story was good but I found it really hard to imagine all the costumes, it was crystallised so much more in the adaptation.

I haven't got round to Harley Quin yet, MissQuin, (I haven't read outside of Marple and Poirot yet :-s) but it's a work in progress  would u reccommend a particular story to start with?

MissQuin 12 Mar 10 at 3:33 p.m. GMT

The Victory Ball is an Art Deco dream with all those costumes. The ball would have been great fun if it wasnt for that murder! I liked the American widow asking Poirot to dance.  I liked the AC story, but visually on screen it's better as we see the rainbow motley of Harlequin outfits. I quite liked that actor who was Pierrot.

Have you read the Harley Quin stories Styles? I love the descriptions. Mr Quin is such a puzzling, enigmatic, romantic figure. With his sad melanchony, but handsome face, his odd way of appearing seemily out of nowhere. I was given the book and I would never had read it otherwise. It would be great if it was made into an adaptation.

stylestocurtain 11 Mar 10 at 8:53 p.m. GMT

I love the Art Deco lifts too - I really love the Third Floor Flat episode where we get to see more of Whitehaven Mansions and its hallways! My old piano teacher lived in a very Whitehaven Mansions-esque building and it felt just like stepping into Poirot's home!

I'm not so sure I could go the whole hog with Poirot - arranging everything in order of size for instance would be weird! And I'd have to have a good comfy armchair to laze around in, Poirot seems to sit very stiffly!

I love the Art Deco glamour of the (earlier at least) Poirots ... I think they deserve a lot more credit for that alone than they get. I loved Freddie's and Lady Horbury's costumes from Death in the Clouds/Peril @ End House, sooo glamorous!

I thought Victory Ball was a great adaptation too with all those lovely party costumes - that for me was a million times better than the short story because I couldn't picture it well with just the text.

I think they cheated by using the same flat in a couple of episodes ... Carlotta Adams's flat in Lord Edgware Dies I'm sure was used in another episode, and had the same curtains as the one in One Two Buckle My Shoe ...

Ok am seriously going to start saving up for a flat in Florin Court now LOL!

MissQuin 11 Mar 10 at 3:41 p.m. GMT

The way the person had their flat, you wouldnt really know it was used in Poirot. I like the glass doors in the episodes and I love the Art Deco lifts.

I think a Poirot inspired flat wouldnt be odd. If it was obsessively plastered wall to wall with photos from the show, well I'd be worried!

stylestocurtain 11 Mar 10 at 1:02 p.m. GMT

Oh no really?? Were the hallways and everything the same? I would love to live there, and have the same flat as Poirots! Lol is it a little obsessive to say I would consider even having it done up like Poirot's? :-s maybe I'd go for a more modern look!!

Lol I love it when Hastings says he'd be "only too delighted!" to help with the weeding in Styles! He's always so affected by things isn't he ... "good gosh!"

MissQuin 10 Mar 10 at 4:38 p.m. GMT

Hasting is the perfect gentleman, if only I could meet one of them!

I only had eyes for JF in Hickory.

If I lived in those Poirot flats, I'd get a liitle wary with people coming around with cameras, taking pics. I should be more hospitable, but I'm really a very private person. I saw a progamme with the people who lived in one of them, it wasnt Art Deco inside. But of course it's their place though and they should have it how they like it.

stylestocurtain 10 Mar 10 at 4:27 p.m. GMT

hehe yeah I know, he's always like "I say, what an absolutely lovely girl!" I love how he's forever the chivalrous English gentleman, in the Veiled Lady when he shouts out "The swine!!!" when Lady Milicent (?) tells of her being blackmailed!! Forever the man of action as well lol. And how he always thinks the best of people!

Lucky you having been to Peril @ End House's station!! It's in Salcombe isn't it? I love Devon, it's so very Christie!! I went to Torquay some years ago, it was ace :D

Lol they do often cast a good fittie in Poirot ... Damien Lewis was pretty buff too in Hickory Dickory Dock. But Jonathan F certainly wins the trophy for fittest fittie lol!!

Love "Death in the Clouds". Lady H is a legend. Oh and Jane Grey, I love how she was played!!

I would love to work on the sets of one of those movies just to see what went on behind the scenes. Did u know there are flats at Florin Court (Whitehaven Mansions) actually for sale!! How cool would it be to live there! :D

MissQuin 10 Mar 10 at 2:58 p.m. GMT

I find it amusing the fact Hastings cant fully concentrate on a case, if theres an attractive woman around. I'd be the same, only with handsome men. I wouldnt be able to solve a case with Jonathan F around, he makes my mind wander..... in fact what was I saying again?!

Poirot really doesnt like English food and vice versa. Japp comments a meal was "a bit Frenchiefied" Back then people would mainly have had English food in England, so Poirot's meals would have been pretty exotic. Poirot doesnt drink tea either.

Some of Peril at End has was filmed at Kingsware Station. Ive actually been there.

Death in the Clouds is very good. Lady Horbury is very unpleasant.

stylestocurtain 09 Mar 10 at 6:08 p.m. GMT

haha no no Mr Firth is hotttt property!! (I can't believe he hasn't got as much attention as his brother Colin!)

I love Peril At End House too!!! I'm that sad I tried to search google earth on Salcombe in Devon to see where the house was ... I think the ambience was amazing, her house was pretty neat too lol. I always remember Miss Lemon catching forty winks on the hard wooden bench outside Nick's hospital room with her handbag for a pillow! It's about the only time we see her relaxed!

I love in Death in the Clouds when Lady Horbury says in a loud voice "I do think Frenchmen are so RUDE, don't you Venetia?" in the hotel lobby!!!

Oh and when Japp tries to serve Poirot English food!! And he fakes the allergy!! And then offers him a "nice bit of mousetrap" LOL!!!

MissQuin 09 Mar 10 at 3:24 p.m. GMT

mmmmm I thought I was the only one to find Jonathan Firth so dishy.

I LOVE Peril at End house and I enjoyed it much more than the book. I think Freddie and Nick personalities were switched. Freddie seemed like the nasty one, Nick the sweet one. When Poirot dared to go through her drawers Hasting's told him off. Poirot carried on anyway!

stylestocurtain 09 Mar 10 at 3:18 p.m. GMT

hehe yeah Jonathan Firth was very easy on the eye in that one!! (lol when he was coming out of the shower with his hair all wet, I think that mustve been the inspiration for his brother's Darcy lake scene!)

Rofl that bit is hilarious with the beauty contest!! Which one is the one with Miss Lemon angrily complaining about the typewriter and then Poirot gets her a present and it's a clock!!

My favourite is Peril at End House: "I cannot eat these eggs. They are of two totally different sizes"!!

MissQuin 09 Mar 10 at 2:38 p.m. GMT

I liked Hickory Dickory Dock, although mainly as I liked Jonathan Firth. His hair looked lovely...

I liked the opening of the Lost Mine. Hastings and Poirot are playing monopoly. Hastings say's to Poirot "youve just won first place in a beauty contest!"

stylestocurtain 09 Mar 10 at 2:03 p.m. GMT

Lol yeah I love the his ego too - I love the one with the uncashed cheque where Poirot insists he has cashed it and the bank are saying he's overdrawn!!

Hmm I can't remember that particular bit of Double Clue, it's an excuse though to watch it again

I loved Hickory Dickory Dock when we met Miss Lemon's sister!! What a shame in the later episodes they've bulldozed her little office with all its meticulous filing cabinets

MissQuin 09 Mar 10 at 1:13 p.m. GMT

I like the way they deal with Poirot being really egotisical. Poirot had his waxwork on display and was being very bigheaded. So Hastings and Japp pretended to think the waxwork was of Charlie Chaplin!

Miss Lemon wasnt too happy when Poirot had a lady friend the Countess, was she? The double clue episode.