Oh Sharpe...Sharpe, Sharpe...

Sharpe's Peril on Tv right now.

I'm so happy that this is AFTER the Napoleonic Wars - as the other one he did when he was supposed to be in India BEFORE he got promoted simply was cringeworthy, he looked mid 40's - which he was at the time - not in his 20s.

*happy sigh*  Tight Green Uniform. Check. Silver epaulettes. Check. Grumpy gravelly voice. Check. Blonde flossie for him to shag at some point. Annoyed Check.  I love Sharpe to pieces.  Book canon where he looks and sounds nothing like Mr Bean - and series canon where I don't care what he looks like as long he gets his jacket off at some point.

Just been reading a post of some of the Harlequin Historical Undone new series and good lord - talk about wallpaper historicals. An earl's second son with a "fortune too vast to be bribed."  oh really?  A woman writing scandalous books in Regency England?  Er... No. I don't think so. For all the reasons that TJ Pennington explained in this review... I don't really mind exaggerations or over-use of things that happened. For example, I know there were sometimes women on Nelson's ships but I don't want to read books where it's a normal occurrence.  Women wrote books in the Regency, but ...

*distracted* Oh - he's got his shirt off already. This is good - and possibly a record.

there were indecency laws. Whopping big fat ones. Convince me how she got around them please?

black soldiers in the Indian regiments in 1820 ish?  I don't mean Sub-continent Indian soldiers, I mean black English (ex-African) ones. I don't know enough to comment, does anyone?

ETA: I with they'd saved the money and filmed in England instead of India. they could have employed more than four soldiers then.