Leigh, the amusing thing is that the actor who plays Luke (Scott Neal) also played a gay teenager in the film Beautiful Thing, so I now see him going through this protracted coming out process and I think "darling, you've already done this!" (He is gorgeous in Beautiful Thing by the way...anyone who hasn't seen it should rectify the situation immediately.) The thing I find slightly less believable, though, is the idea that he's madly in love with that old troll Sgt. Gilmour...I mean, come on. The fact that you're gay doesn't necessarily mean you'll take whatever rubbish comes along.

(Incidentally, The Bill is now loads better than it was when it was all about crime and boring old police work, no matter what certain fun-hating people think!)

the actor who plays Luke (Scott Neal) also played a gay teenager in the film Beautiful Thing.

I love that film. A friend of mine insisted our group of friends watch it, and we thought it was great, though the stuff between Jamie and his mum was a bit realistic for comfort sometimes (in the good way, really). The ending with them dancing in the estate court-yard with everyone watching was perfect.

The Bill is now loads better than it was when it was all about crime and boring old police work, no matter what certain fun-hating people think.

'Tis true - though I sometimes have trouble making the adjust. It's been on the air longer than I've been alive, so I can understand people being attached.

Edited to add that Beautiful Thing is also why I think he should just give it up, because, yep, Scott Neal was so great in that film that I have trouble separating the two characters.

Blue M&Ms are wrong. With the true M&M color mix, when you put them on vanilla ice cream and mix them in, the ice cream turns a pretty peachish color. With the blue ones put in, it turns an ugly gray.

Finally Hil - another right-M&Minded person.

I'm watching the Edwardian House slowly (one hour a night), and I just got to the episode where the Socialists showed up and got all the lower servants singing "The Red Flag", and I was very very very happy.

Do English socialists still sing "The Red Flag"? Does the Labour Party? Or is that hopelessly passé?

Signed, lives in a country where "socialist" is a big damn insult, and nobody ever admits to being one. Snif.

red, orange, yellow, green, light brown, dark brown - these are nature's intended colo(u)rs for M&Ms. Blue? No. No. No.

Word.

I miss the light brown-- they were best.

M&Ms are just brightly coloured candy. Pah. Fie upon them. Smarties, now they're chocolates. Oooh yes. And the orange ones are orange chocolate. Mmmm Smarties....

Yes, Betsy, the Red flag is still sung - even (last I saw) at Labour conferences. Mr Tony mumbles it embarrassedly, while the lefties bellow the "AND TRAITORS SNEER!" bit. The they do "Jerusalem" and we all get tearful together.

And the orange ones are orange chocolate.

ADULTERATORS!!! (I don't really care if that's a word. Orange tasting chocolate faux M&Ms are dumb, thus they must call themselves Smarties in their efforts to deceive.)

Hmm. Now, do Smarties pre-date the M&M, therefore being the one tru candy coated chocolate, or are they more recent, representing the concept being done right?