My Filf List: Fictionals I'd Like To...

This week we’ve been considering the theme of Snog, Marry Avoid. I last did a list like this when I was about fourteen and, understandably, my priorities in a woman have somewhat changed since I watched Nickelodeon. For a change then, I’ve decided to pick my favourite Fictional characters. Yes, a filf list- because I’m so much more mature now than when I’d have picked Tia & Tamera / Clarissa / Moesha.

Snog:  Miss Holiday Golightly, Truman Capote

I love the way she flutters in and out of places in Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A woman so seductive they got Audrey Hepburn to play her. I particularly love Golightly turning up announcing

‘but when the beast got so tiresome I just went out the window. I think he thinks I’m in the bathroom, not that I give a damn what he thinks, the hell with him”. Tell me you wouldn’t snog such a spirited thing.

Marry: Miss Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen

If wit could be bottled and sold as perfume, her name would be written on the finest scents. A woman with “something more of a quickness than her sisters” and “a lively, playful disposition”, it was the way in which Jane Austen allows her finest heroine to lead Pride and Prejudice that had me hooked. The best bits of Maid Marion, Princess Leah and Jennifer Aniston all bundled into a ball gown- I’ve loved her ever since my schooldays.

Avoid: La Belle Dams Sans Merci, John Keats
“I met a Lady in the Meads/ Full beautiful, a faery’s child;/ Her hair was long, her foot was light/ And her eyes were wild – “

She sounds great, doesn’t she. A right good goer. Well I wasn’t the first man to meet ‘La Belle’ and find himself “alone and palely loitering”. The sedge may be withered from that lake but strangely, the other birds sing. Stay away from these ones or you'll find yourself getting consumption. 

There you have it then, my FILF list. I’m obviously much more sensible with my decisions than I was when I last played the game- opting for fictional over real to save my own scrotum for example-but I must say, I’ve enjoyed the fantasy none the less. Let me know who you’d choose- I’ll just be over here daydreaming of my Lizzie…

Thanks for reading, S. 

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Who to Snog, Marry and Avoid?

So, decisions, decisions!  In the absence of a significant other in my life, I could choose anyone really couldn't I?  Are you worried yet?  Mwahahahahahahaha.

Seriously though, since becoming a Widow 3 years ago, I have been leading a solitary life, as you do when these sort of things happen.  To be brutally honest, I can't say that anyone in real life has turned my head, to REALLY start looking for love again.

Therefore, for this weeks topic, I thought I would draw on the wealth of well known faces that we call TV Stars.  There may have been over the years, one or two people on TV who I may have had a little bit of a crush on.  With all the hype surrounding Dr. Who at the moment, it was the ideal opportunity for me to talk about a Programme that I love watching, with an Actor who I think is just lovely.

Who to Snog, Marry and Avoid?

I'd love to snog your face off
Together in tender embrace
Gently nibbling and brushing lips
Trace the contours of your face

In time we'll get Married
I want you to be mine
To be my constant Companion
Until the end of time

But, just so you know, we'll have to avoid
For a while, those troublesome foes of yours
Saving the Universe is all well and good
But being the Doctors Wife takes getting used to of course.


I'll leave it to your own imaginations as to which of the Doctors I'm talking about. I shall be watching tomorrow evening for the latest installment, will you?   #SaveTheDay

Thanks for reading!  ;-)

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Three Little Quotes

“Our only KISS was like an accident – a beautiful gasoline rainbow.” 

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“The test of a desirable poem is not that one wants to MARRY it immediately but that one wants to meet it again – soon.”

Kevan Johnson, Poetry Review, Autumn 1993

“I try to AVOID looking backward and keep looking upward.”

             Charlotte Bronte

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Snog, Marry, Avoid

Snog, Marry, Avoid

To Snog

To lock in amorous union

To exchange saliva

To be a teenage couple in a bus stop

To press lips so hard

To become a seal of secrets

To Kiss Helena Bonham Carter

To Marry

To lock in spiritual union

To exchange vows

To be a couple that faces the world together

To love so hard

To become a force nature

To say I do to  Kate Bush

To Avoid

To unlock any possible connection

To exchange insults

To be as far away from each other as possible

To hate so vehemently

To become a vat contempt

To stay clear of Pearce Morgan 

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