Do You Mind If I Smoke?: The Memoirs of Fenella Fielding

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Maybe also tell them that if they had any damn sense they would be investigating Jenny for arson and insurance fraud. Doctor In Clover and Carry On Regardless, Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success in serious roles on the stage, including title roles in Hedda Gabler and Colette. Normally a remote conditional and an open conditional are fairly far apart in meaning, but in this case they are making the same request and differ only in nuance.

The stories are witty and beautifully observed scenes from her life and all told in that unmistakable and ever alluring Fenella Fielding voice.I may be slightly dishonest in what follows, in so far as I'm not totally convinced of the immaculate correctness of " would you mind if I smoke? I eventually figured that I wasn’t going to get anywhere trying to explain highfalutin rules of grammar to some half wit waitress at a café, so I scrammed. Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies such as Carry On Screaming, Doctor in Clover, and Carry On Regardless, Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success in serious roles on the stage, including title roles in Hedda Gabler and Colette.

You see, when the kids ask me about a point in grammar and I explain it to them, next day they come up to me with things exactly like this. Jenny gazed at me and turned her head a little bit to the right, the way a dog does when it hears a high-pitched squeal.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

She had a mouth like a trooper, and I miss her swearing, about life, situations, people and circumstances, something she did with so much grace and always appropriately. Glorious, gossipy reminiscences of a vanished showbiz world delivered in a breathless, intimate prose style that mirrors Fenella's familiar, dulcet, dark-brown tones. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. could be inflected to raise my smoking as a very remote possibility, even a hypothetical of the type I don't smoke but would you mind if I did?Through all of this Fenella and Simon became great friends and spent a lot of time together that led to many more revelations and observations. here we have left the gentleness of the conditional form, and the question is almost expecting the answer no, and certainly making it quite hard for the other person to object. In book form, I don’t think it does justice to a lovely actress, who was known to many as England's first lady of the double entendre.