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Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

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I started reading when I was four years old, and I pretty much haven't stopped since. As my mother has remarked, if there's nothing else available, I will read the toothpaste tube. I read everything except romance novels, and as long as the book is well written, I'll finish it even if I'm not thrilled by the story. I guess I'm always... more »
  • In Medias Res, VA, USA
  • member since February 21, 2007

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Robert is a much more parroty sound than Polly-it makes much more sense to call one that. If I ever have one, it's definitely going to be called Robert !

    Poor Polly-inpollerated in a cage :D No wonder some become cross and inpollerant (sprays tea on keyboard at own wit)

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    (eavesreading) I was charmed to read in a Durrell that the generic name for parrots in Guyana is Robert in the same way that Polly is in England (and America ?) Imagine a Guyanan writing home to say how funny it seems that parrots in England are called Polly and saying that THEIR next parrot will be called that. I love the idea of calling parrots Robert.

    We had some giant birds called Moas-and I met a cockatoo called Lorne Moa :D :D :D

    I haven't gone mad, this was suggested by the Bob ref. Well, on second thoughts...

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Not if they'd shipped all their bad eggs off to the New World to be inCubated.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Hah! Meanwhile, the significance of the name "Carcer" has only just struck dull old me.

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    One would think it would make you a Major Dame, but somehow I don't think it works that way.

    Oh, how nice about the discush. Good. Thank you!

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Well, yes, you know, I do think it would be nice if you lead the Lodge discush. You've such a connexion with the Living? Game?

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, aren't you going to call yourself Dame Daisy Barksby-Price? You've earned it.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh! Well, never mind then. I wanted to find someone who knows his work and loves him to lead it if I can-- always a help with a new author (one I don't know). Perhaps it was Chloe.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Daisy, I know you have an abiding affection for David Lodge's work. Would you care to lead the discussion of "The British Museum is Falling Down" in April?

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    James has drunk dandelion wine; he said it was clear & sparkling. (eyes current crop with a view to making them earn their keep)

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Ha ! we could start a vineyard with the number we have.

    I imagine it tasting like bottled sunshine.

    The little ones on the lawn are sweet-so pretty-but the tall straggly ones are a word that Shelf may not let me use.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE

    Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE says

    VIA ROYAL MAIL

    Dear Mrs. Barksby-Price:

    In recognition of your outstanding participation in Anglophiles Anonymous throughout the year, The Queen has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the founding of said fellowship, to give order for your appointment to the rank of Dame Commander of the Most Literate Order of Anglophiles.

    Please allow me to extend my congratulations.

    Yours sincerely,

    Sir Esmé Bassington-Bassington, KBE
    Central Chancery for the Orders of Knighthood
    St. James's Palace, London SW1

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    :D

    As James was worryingly ill, I didn't have too bad a conscience about abandoning the unlucky pair left behind (he suddenly recovered, like a speeded up film) but I wouldn't have anyway, I fear.

    Although I KNOW that, in the highly unlikely event of my having to run from someone who's shooting at me, I should zigzag, I doubt if I'd have the presence of mind to DO it, just as every year people drown because they fight rips that carry them out to sea instead of relaxing and letting themselves go until the rip fizzes out. But while they must have known & I have known from when I was tiny not to try to swim out, of it it would all but impossible to let yourself drift with a rip and not struggle.

    Lord, it's hot today. I have just mowed the lawn which was approaching the stage where it resembled an African jungle. So did/does everyone else's, as we have had so much unseasonal rain. I kept expecting to meet a lion coming towards me. (Actually, it was more of a dandelion farm)

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Thank you. Who knows what's going on in her head ? I can only be a friend to the poor sucker who married her and commiserate with his poor daughters who have this person as a stepmother (goes cold at mere thought)

    I only hope that he didn't see another friend and me acting like prison escapers on Christmas day, leaving as soon as soon as we were decently able to-for some reason the friend at whose house we were having lunch invited them too. K & I ran to the car & took off like stuntmen in a film, skrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!! Well, just about.

    We had pumpkin tonight too; a rather odd-looking wild one, but it tasted all right. I did it with lentils and Indian tomatoes and had it on rice. Nice.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    If you knew someone whose mother died in the 80s-decade & age-and who had to be certified then and is still so obsessed with this that she has taken the mother's name as her 2nd name & pretends that she has always had it and has bought a grave plot and put a headstone on it 'so that she has somewhere to mourn'...would you be wondering just what is going on in this person's head ?

    I still miss my mother terribly & have those 'I want my mother !!!' moments, but this !!! I'd value your opinion !

    Aren't we lucky on AA that we have such a pool of knowledge on so many things between us ?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Oh dear, that reminds me; a friend lent me "Thud!" about a year ago and I've yet to read it.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    Thank you, darling. I'm afraid there's only one possible outcome. It's just a matter of time. Hubby is flying to see him a little later this month. Thank goodness we just had a lovely family vacation together with all of Hubby's family present.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Falling to bits all round me while I've thrown myself anew into some further education. Blood-Red Dahlia thinks this decay is heaven, of course, and has set her very own strain of climbing rose -- no flowers, bigger thorns -- clambering over the loose bricks of the west wing to hasten their collapse. Soon I'll be living in a forest, still scribbling notes in the margins of Tom Jones.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I have nothing in particular to say, but it feels like it's been a long time: how are you faring?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Eliene

    Eliene says

    Faithfully awaiting the new season then? It's too bad it got pushed from Summer 2011 to 2012.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )

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