James McAvoy and Maids of Honour

The joys of having sisters are too great to list, Amy is in Hatfield visiting Alice (and me by default) so i invited myself round (one of the joys being you are allowed to invite yourself to things and they generally dont mind, in fact they tend to give you food and a hug). After laughing our heads off at the x factor we watched Becoming Jane, a movie about the life of Jane Austen (which was all very depressing and didnt have a happy ending, as is real life i guess). I don't know why people always love the dark mysterious guy so much, Amy and Alice were so disappointed that Jane and whoever James McAvoy's character was didnt get married in the end (possibly because they both love James McAvoy so much) but he wasnt really that great!! (not that anyone listened) i was sitting there from the beginning saying 'she didnt even give poor Mr Wisley a chance!' and he seemed so sweet as well, it was crazy i would have married the nice guy, not the one who runs off with someone else because they have means. To which the retort was 'Soph you would make a terrible romance novalist, Jane gets married to Mr Wisley because he seems like a nice guy who would treat her well and she would probably grow to like him more than Lefroy' Of course the lack of heartache and lonely loveless life would have meant that pride and prejudice and other great novels wouldnt have been written but theres another place where its a bit messed up, am i the only person in the world who though Mr Darcy although very good looking wasnt that great?? Pretentious and snooty come to mind. Mr Bingley on the other hand was so lovely, i guess i would have had to be Jane Bennet and marry the kind man. Sure Darcy had hidden depths but why would you want to be married to somebody who was horrible to people until they earnt his respect? Well anyway this discussion (along with a list of jobs i wouldnt be particularly good at - namely romance novalist and hairdresser - Liam currently has patchy pink hair) lead on to Amy telling Alice to get married soon so she could be her bridesmaid, and then asking us both to be her bridesmaids if she ever gets married, which of course i objected to, because i look very awkward in bridesmaids dresses. Amy of course was very offended and said i didnt get a say in the matter and that if i wasnt bridesmaid i would have to do something very silly like a talk or a limerick and that she expected to be bridesmaid at my wedding even though i protested that i only really wanted little girls as bridesmaids not my old maid of a sister, im surprised i didnt get hit round the head at this point. Well this is pretty much when it all got rather silly. But the take home message is, if you ever wondered what women talk about when guys arent around it might be something along the lines of this - James McAvoy and who gets to be the maid of honour at their wedding.