Madeleine

Hardly surprising really.

I read today that Channel 5 will be screening it in the UK, in February

My favourite 3 shows in 2015 (dramas) were The Bridge, Wolf Hall and Poldark, with the Bake Off as my favourite entertainment show (and Strictly of course). I also enjoyed Witnesses (French crime drama).

Happy New Year everyone I stayed in and was in bed with my book just after 11.00, turned in around 12 and waited for the barrage of fireworks but it was relatively quiet this year.

Colder today, bit of rain this afternoon but nothing much, although the cold wind is back. Manages a nice walk this morning though. I didn't know Ireland was having floods as well, that hasn't been reported at all here. Hope you stay dry Nollaig.

Probably North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, ooh John Thornton, swoon!

My top 5: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart When Nights were Cold by Susanna Jones

Well done bobblybear, what a great bit of news to end the year with.

Alternating between sun and rain, still quite mild, yesterday morning was like spring, and at this rate my daffodils will be in flower before the snowdrops come up!

Hope it goes well Athena, glad the dentist was OK.

Just started to catch up with And then there were none, have seen the first part and thought it was a bit slow at first but it's picked up now. Also got the last episode of The Bridge to watch. have now watched both of the above series and enjoyed them - I did read And then there were none years ago and correctly remembered whodunit. Missing The Bridge already hope they make another series.

I'm not a big fan of Sherlock, but the Victorian theme does appeal, and it looks quite good.

Yes Nat looked stunning didn't she?! I enjoyed the Xmas special but thought Tom should have won.

Well done Kell. My total is 48, slightly down on last year which was 51, I think slogging through the 5th Game of Thrones books clogged my reading up a bit.

Windy and rainy here too, horrible.

Thanks chesil, superfan! The Xmas special does sound good, they've got some of the best dancers this year.

Oh what a great cast, that sounds brilliant.

Yes it's sad that Aliona is leaving, she's had a very good run. She said she was planning on it being her last series anyway, however far she got this time. I'd rather have seen Jay's salsa or jive again, I think they were better dances than the paso, like chesilbeach I'll be watching them on Youtube!

We had a few theatre trips, we saw King Lear somewhere, although I can't remember who played Lear, it was a fairly small theatre so I don't think it was any of the high profile actors; however for German A Level we got taken to the National Theatre to see a production of Galileo with none other than Michael Gambon in the title role. We did get shown a few film/TV versions of some plays as well, including Hamlet despite the fact that we never studied it.

Yep, Saturdays won't be the same without Strictly (and The Bridge as well).

Welcome mh! Jane Eyre's my favourite too.

Same here, wind and rain keep waking me up during the night.

I think I'd have put Simon and Garfunkel at the top as well, I'm surprised Sonny and Cher weren't higher up.

It's a long time since I was at school and I'm not sure how things are now, but when I did English Literature it was a mixture of books (the usual classics plus some more recent ones such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm), poetry and plays - again as usual Shakespeare dominated but we did Pygmalion and a few other Bernard Shaw plays as well, and we did read them out in class, with us playing the various roles, which did help a little. We did go to see an occasional production too, which also helps bring the play alive. When I did advanced level French and German, we also studied some of their literature in the original language, such as Goethe, Kafka and Maupassant.