(1) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(2) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(3) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(4) Worth died last June, before she could see Call the Midwife become a massive Sunday-night ratings hit – its first episode outshone the much-hyped Sherlock to become BBC1's most-watched drama debut episode ever – with Chummy one of its most-loved characters.
(5) Besides which, Warren’s own biography strongly indicates she’s not keen to be an insider , anyway – as have her recent speeches taking the Obama administration to task for its chumminess with Wall Street types.
(6) And in the end, the only real remedy is to reduce the cost of running for parliament and therefore reduce the need for politicians to be so chummy with the people who give them lots of money.
(7) Lavrov and Kerry appeared chummy, exchanging whispers and slaps on the back, in marked contrast to the strained relationship the longtime Russian foreign minister maintained with the new secretary of state's predecessors.
(8) There were no chummy texts with any proprietor and no blizzard of emails, text and phone exchanges with Adam Smith who last week told the inquiry it was mere happenstance he was not in touch with the alliance — they had not contacted him.
(9) The appearance of a George Bush impressionist alongside the real thing at the White House correspondents' dinner this weekend was seen across the world, but the speech that followed - by Stephen Colbert, a colleague of the American satirist Jon Stewart - was a lot less chummy.
(10) Meanwhile, journalists – and remember that in the age of the web everyone online is a potential journalist – might concentrate on police abuses of power if they cannot get chummy with serving officers in the News of the World style.
(11) Earlier, the second episode of BBC1 six-part Call the Midwife, which saw the introduction of Miranda Hart's character Chummy Browne to the drama set in London's East End in the 1950s, averaged 8.6 million and 30.7% from 8pm.
(12) That was a nod to Wednesday’s chummy Liberal press conference down the road at the City of Armadale council offices, when Hastie stepped in to take an awkward question directed at Abbott about the future of his leadership.
(13) And it's not really advice – just a faux-chummy way of criticising.
(14) Why Schroders' reshuffle looks like a triumph of chumminess Read more The move contravenes recommendations in the corporate governance code, the regulatory framework that Schroders is more used to defending as a powerful investment institution.
(15) Its a tricky formula developed by Blair and now Cameron: the public profile is all amiability and chummy bloke-next-door, but their political success depends on very different characteristics of calculation, ruthlessness and impatience.
(16) "I flicked straight to Chummy's entrance in the book – well, you would, wouldn't you?
(17) "I didn't want him to get all chummy-chummy, all that bullshit.
(18) The first series ended with Hart's character, Chummy Brown, marrying PC Noakes, and one standout scene was when she overcame her self-doubt to deliver a breech birth.
(19) 8.01pm: Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsyvania) tries to get chummy, tells Toyoda that when he returns to Japan he'll be able to brag about withstanding a quizzing by Congress, considered a badge of courage in the US.
(20) Social realism is lightened by a certain silliness and, of course, by the award-winning performance from Hart as Chummy.