Monday 27 August 2007

Married Women, At It Again

There’s a felling of déjà vu about this morning but Doggo and I just shrug and get on with it, as our lie-in is truncated and we go for an early morning run around the park with L. Of course it’s not that early, the park isn’t unlocked until 9am but after a night on the beer, it can still be termed as such.

Once back, for some reason I decide to postpone the already postponed important part of our lie-in in order to watch our two British girls go for medals in the Heptathlon at the World Athletics Championship. This is harder than you would imagine because the BBC are naturally ignoring a British medal prospect in order to spend two hours debating which North American is going to win the 100m. Kelly Sotherton gets bronze by the way, just ahead of Jessica Ennis.



We come sixth in the 100m; a North American wins and comes second and third.

The BBC do at least interview Sotherton who at the end of the interview says hi to her boyfriend on air. The interviewer is then heard to say 'lucky guy'. Should BBC staff really be lusting after our athletes? I wouldn't go there in Sotherton's case if her moods swing as much as her form does, not a safe place to go.

I finally come to my senses and take L back to bed, then more déjà vu as we go to the Gym. Another 2k, this time cranking it up to 15kph. Then my nemesis, the 2K row. That machine took one hell of a beating but I did it this time. 8.27.7. So to the pool. The same two chaps are there again in my lane, doing a lot of standing and doggie paddling.

L cooks up an excellent Sunday roast and then we head to Broadway for the second day running this time to see a French version of Lady Chatterley.

Something I didn’t know was that DH Lawrence wrote three versions of Lady Chatterley, of which only the third is widely published and filmed. The books are 'The First Lady Chatterley', 'John Thomas and Lady Jane', and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. In the third version, the gamekeeper embarks on a purely physical relationship with Lady Chatterley but the second version is supposed to be more romantic. It is this version that the French have filmed.

The film takes its time to get going, and even longer to get into my consciousness, due to the French language and subtitles. It is also not far off three hours long.

I don’t quite see the film as romantic but L does, so perhaps it is. I also don’t see the gamekeeper as particularly fancible but L does. Shows what I know. I just had Lady C down as another married woman, who isn’t getting it and fancied a bit of rough.



I don’t think it’s romantic because there’s no sexual tension in the relationship. Lady C is attractive, the gamekeeper fancies his chances, and he isn't afraid to go for it. So one day he puts his hand on Lady C’s chest and asks her if she’d like to join him inside his hut. She does and seconds later he's trying to find out whether there's a real person under all those clothes. Before you know it they're at it regularly on the wooden floor of his hut.

The sex starts out a bit dull, possibly because she's probably never had it, her husband is disabled, and his wife has left him, so presumably he's no good at it. Seems a gamekeeper wasn't rough enough for his wife because she ran off with a miner.

Eventually they get the hang of it and it livens up, as does Lady C.



They have sex against a tree but fully clothed and in a position that is near on impossible to achieve. I will check this at some stage. Then later, they frolic in the rain and do it in the mud.



All in all, I quite enjoyed. I even care about the characters and what happens to them.

The film is a turn on, in a way, but L rebuffs my amorous advances but oddly her resistance wilts after about 0.3 of a second and she consents to some late sex. Perhaps she liked the film too.

36 units, not bad considering.

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