my big fat huge sloshy woshy milky wilkies

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BERNARD WILKIE: We also had to film a monster’s head being bashed in, so we cast one in plaster and filled it with gunge and muck and when the head was broken all sorts of things came out.

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BERNARD WILKIE: Jack and I produced the opening captions by using a sheet of card on which we had cut out the letters. We placed this in front of a bath of dry ice and blew the vapour through the holes.

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Little drawing I did my character Wilkie. 🦑

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2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD in 1775) commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.

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"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

*Wilkie Collins.

By Karen Offutt.

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"The important things to remember when Apparating are the three Ds!' said Twycross. 'Destination, Determination, Deliberation!"
— JKR (HBP18)



by Ottowl

https://t.co/C9q8JGOfma

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Listening to Marian and Walter speak of Laura's betrothal and Walter's love for her in keeps reminding me of lines from a Walt Whitman poem:

"Day by day and night by night we were together,—
All else has long been forgotten by me;"


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JUST PUBLISHED: our new article, The Two Women in White, examines two works featuring extraordinary women that enthralled & shocked 1860s Britain ~ Wilkie Collins’ bestselling novel & Whistler’s outrageous portrait

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Wilkie Collins, born January 8, 1824.

"People who read stories are said to have excitable brains."

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Born 1824 Wilkie Collins. Before becoming an author, he worked as a clerk for a tea merchant, but achieved literary success after befriending Charles Dickens, who became a mentor to him.

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Magic trick from Wilkie.

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Lunch break. I'm spending mine with The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
(art by Jill Barklem)

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Novelist, playwright and creator of one of the first detective novels, Wilkie Collins, died in 1889. 'Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.' (The Moonstone, 1868)

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General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tippoo Sahib after having Captured Seringapatam, on the 4th May, 1799 by Sir David Wilkie found via https://t.co/JS6g3I3ltu

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I’ve been wanting more Wilkie Collins content on the wonderful for years and I’ve FINALLY gotten round to emailing them to suggest it.

If anyone fancies doing likewise, drop them a line at: content-requests.co.uk


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