Happy Birthday to Margaret Clunie :)

Patrick Cumberbatch ❤️😭🥰 #benedictcumberbatch #cumberbatch #patrickmelrose #cumberloving #sobeautiful #iwantmore https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGqA7nIHh8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and happy Monday to you all! It’s a bank holiday today so I’d love to be telling you about the exciting things I’ve done but sadly I’ve been in bed most of the day! Is it chronic illness or thyroid removal related? Hard to say! 🤣 I’m going to cheer myself up by talking to you about a book haul 😁 This Edward St Aubyn series was inspired by the lovely Sarah over at @messy_aussie_reader who was reading it. The Patrick Melrose series is described as wonderful, wry and profound about an unforgettable, complex figure. It starts with Never Mind, then continues with Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk and At Last. I was delighted to receive Fearsome Fairies, Haunting Tales Of The Fae from my wonderful sister @chrissireads Taking inspiration from folk tales and medieval legends, writers of weird tales and ghost stories proved that fairies, elves, goblins and their ilk were something to be feared and respected as our ancestors did. This new collection of stories pairs strange creatures with frightening encounters to revive the fearsome past of the fairy folk. Penultimately, Rebecca is one of my favourite books and even though I have an edition, I wanted a shiny new Virago Modern Classics edition from the designer collection to look pretty on my shelves and match the others 😂 Finally, I have the beautiful Carly @stardust.and.sunflowers to thank for A Treasury Of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe 😍 Carly has bought me all the books in this collection and I just love them! As well as looking at a history of folklore, this book has a directory of places you can go to see folklore alive and well today. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments and have a great week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #bookhaultime #beautifulbooks #edwardstaubyn #patrickmelrose🌹 #somehope #nevermind #badnews #atlast #mothersmilk #fearsomefairies #deedeechainey #rebecca #daphnedumaurier #elizabethdearnley #atreasuryofbritishfolklore #maypolesmandrakesandmistletoe #quirkybooks #newbooksplease #arentialuckygirl #booksarethebestpresents https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2iln7L0A3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#happybirthday #BenedictCumberbatch #actor #KhanNoonienSingh #startrek #IntoDarkness #Sherlock #DrStrange #thorragnarok #InfinityWar #endgame #whatif #spiderman #nowayhome #multiverseofmadness #PatrickMelrose #theimitationgame #zoolander2 #thehobbit #TheMauritanian #thepowerofthedog

É muita perfeição reunida no mesmo post, nos dêem licença aqui! A querida jornalista Ana Maria Bahiana nos presenteou com este registro exclusivo de quando entrevistou Benedict em 2018. Na época, ele estava divulgando Patrick Melrose em Los Angeles! 📸 Magnus Sundholm/HFPA . . . #HFPA #BenedictCumberbatch #BenedictCumberbatchBrasil #AnaMariaBahiana #LosAngeles #Throwback #PatrickMelrose . . . TW https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3rmvfl5me/?igshid=hd6macr7yyz

Patrick Melrose- first digital drawing

It's not quite yet the 19th where I am, but it's definitely the 19th where he is, so we'll split the difference 🥰 Definitely a day worth celebrating...the day the universe received the gift of this handsome, bright, talented, generous, silly human being ❤️ #happybirthdaybenedictcumberbatch #benedictcumberbatch #sherlock #doctorstrange #smaug #patrickmelrose #frankenstein #hamlet https://www.instagram.com/p/CCzV2tcHI5z/?igshid=1bsme770b9lfv

#BenedictCumberbatch is the winner, leading actor #BAFTATVAwards #PatrickMelrose! Btw, his Grinch smile

Episode 5 - At Last

Euthanasia

“I can hardly move. I am bedridden and incontinent. And feel uninterrupted anguish at my own uselessness. There is no prospect of improvement and I can already feel my faculties betraying me. I do not look on death with fear, but with longing. Please help me to escape my daily torture of my existence. Yours sincerely.”

Memorials

“They said he has a good war, but I know better.”

Life

“I was thinking how life is just the history of things we paid attention to; the rest is just packaging.”

-

“Well, if you change your mind…”

“In fact, you should change your mind. That’s what it’s for.”

“Is it too late to change my mind?”

“No, not at all. That’s what it’s for.”

So, do you…do you feel proud of your mother (or parent)?

“Isn’t it just easier just to loathe their guts?”

“Yes, I have tried that with my father. No good. Truth is I feel everything. Contempt, pity, rage, terror….and tenderness.”

“tenderness?”

“At the thought of how unhappy he was, they both were.”

“Well, I hate bereavement. It plays havoc with your eyeliner.

“It just the way the tears spring on you at a funerals, or silly films. Not bought by the thing that triggers them, just from the generalized sadness, I suppose.”

“Sometimes the trigger and the sadness are the same thing. Occasionally.”

-

“Christ! I wonder what it’d be like to have an unconditioned response about something, anything without irony and detachment, just be spontaneous, to feel something.”

I wasn’t sure I would

“Come sit here.”

“No.”

“I beg pardon.”

“No.

“I won’t do what you say anymore.”

“Patrick, don’t talk like that to your dear old dad.”

“It’s wrong. You’re wrong.

Nobody should do this to anybody else.”

Patrick Melrose

Margaret Clunie and Benedict Cumberbatch in "Patrick Melrose", episode 5 (2018)

When Patrick meets Benedict. Swipe for more moments, and look at the last one, one of those expressions Iove so much... #benedictcumberbatch #cumberbatch #patrickmelrose #sherlock #alantouring #khan #theimitationgame #sherlockholmes #startrek #bbcsherlock #lovethisman #british #actor #amazinggrace https://www.instagram.com/p/CnRxP4torf0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

Mother’s Milk (Edward St. Aubyn)

Happy Birthday Benedict Cumberbatch! 🎂✨🎉 #benedictcumberbatch #hbd❤️ #britishactor 🇬🇧 #sherlock #drstrange #cheeckbones #disapprovingsherlock #patrickmelrose #stephenhawking #imitationgame #alanturing #birthdayboy🎉 #221bbakerstreet #birthdaywishes🎂 #cumberpeople #fangirl https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GYRZnFVLw/?igshid=1kkt90ltgs1mh

Patrick Melrose - Mother’s milk - Benedict Cumberbatch