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Lady Hermione

Lady Hermione

I live in a house that was once a farm cottage, c.100 years old that still looks out on farmland. With great originality we have called it The Old Farm Cottage, as it seemed to want a name & nothing else seemed to fit. The poor thing has had a chequered past, with some years as a rental which it didn't care for much. It seems to like my retro... more »
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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Well mine lets me borrow 25, I think -- but that wasn't the problem; all my books were late and they refused to let me have them again that day even though not a soul in all the spheres wanted 'Boz' apart from moi. If Dee lived in Bombay I'd most definitely smuggle it out with her help.

    But right now I'm going through an extended tragedy, because the British Council Library is preparing to close its walk-in library, downsize, move far away, force us to only order books online and then come pick them up at a halfway point, and whittle down our allowances to some pitiful number -- I think 5 -- of books each.

    We're all cancelling our subscriptions. En masse. And soon they'll have to close up entirely and head home to England, at the rate they're going. Ugh.

    posted 6 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    (tearfully)
    I never got a chance to read 'Boz'; I had five other library books and by the time only Boz was left they were all wildly overdue, and then the library threw a hissy fit and seized them all back.

    posted 18 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    And oh! With your remarkable 'Up the down staircase' skill, you must keep away from the Mag!

    posted 19 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    Do tell Magnus that I forgive him- though this is the third time he's been and gone and cursed me (Does my generosity know no bounds?)

    posted 19 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    *trills* Stab them all through with stakes of holly, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaa....

    *drops parcel onto head* That's my Christmas list. What I want I mean. Your prezzies will be along shortly.

    posted 19 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    (screams out involuntarily to Dee) Stop! Stop! I'm sorry I cursed you accidentally and you tore your ligament! Ack!

    I like how we all still talk to each other on everyone else's pages.

    posted yesterday. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    You must have read Georgette Heyer of course. Have you read 'William the Conqueror'?
    Also published, in the version I have, 'The bastard King'.

    It's surprisingly good. Rather un-Heyerish. I just found it when I opened my loft. It fell on my head. It's part of a collection I once vindictively kept back from a library which accused me of stealing a book from them. A book that I got from the shelf and brandished under their noses.
    "No no! Where did you find that book? You have it. It's not with us. This is not the book." Weak, feeble excuses.
    I left in high dudgeon and never returned. Neither did the other books which I did have. Ha.

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    Sigh. It's been rather an awful week- laid up with this ligament tear and all. I haven't been able to do a thing (some of which needed to be done rather urgently) and am pleasantly miserable.
    But I think I shall start a new book now :)

    Those Molesworths are still not out in India! And as for Magnus' claims, yes. I did rather love Math...I still do, especially since there's no reason for me to have to do it anymore! All those lovely numbers floating around...
    But then, I think that was because we had a math and chemistry teacher (yes, she took both) who was absolutely brilliant and madly passionate about her subjects.

    'Zut, alors'-I wish I could have heard him!! The people I speak to speak the most refined french. It sounds hardly french.
    Speaking of french, have you even seen a film qui s'appelle [[Les Choristes]]?
    It's beautiful.

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

    Frabjous Day says

    Oh my God! Adenosine Triphosphate!
    *steals joke without compunction*

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Christopher H

    Christopher H says

    Yes, I was surprised! Byatt's book about both poets has just been delightful reading; and what an influence both Coleridge and Wordsworth were to Byron, Keats, Shelley, and the later Victorian poets. This deep delving into poetry has been a really fun experience for me over the past six months or so. It is really some fabulous stuff! Have a wonderful weekend, my friend! Cheers! Chris

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Daisy Barksby-Pryce

    Daisy Barksby-Pryce says

    That was actually pretty funny!
    Amazing that I got it, given my utter lack of chem skills!

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

    Frabjous Day says

    Ah! My branch of the family had the (less dramatic, but still annoying) misfortune to have merely moderate musical talent in an extended family of musical geniuses. They all sang Indian Classical music and were and are fairly famous in South India; so we'd visit every once in a while and when we arrived my aunts would finish up their lessons and send their students home while my second-cousin would practise an infinitely complicated song in nine keys in the next room with my great-aunt correcting her every so often, and while we talked we'd hear them break into ten-minute-long improvised melismas. After a while the aunts and uncles would ask us children whether we wouldn't sing something too, at which my sister and I would clutch each other and shakingly warble something we'd sung in school choir; we'd sound tuneful but pedestrian, and the rest of the family would smile at us pityingly but encouragingly...

    posted 7 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I remember when I was in Japan no one EVER got Santa's "Ho ho ho!" right; they were all uniformly convinced that he shouted "Oh, oh, oh!" like the White Queen before she pricks her finger.
    (Shame-facedly) Would you disown us if we said that we -- Dee and I -- liked maths very much when we were in school?

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    *touching, not touch
    How ungrammatical and ignorant these notes make us sound; when ARE we going to get an edit feature?

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I've been taught by such religious fanatics, at times. I remember I once had a maths teacher who heard, or so she claimed, someone call her a dirty name, and responded by screaming at us that we "dare not strike me. I spend so much time in prayer and fasting that if you touch me it will be like touch fire. If you strike me your hands will be burnt! Burnt, burnt, burnt...."

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

    Lady Dee says

    Speaking of said bio' teacher- Thankfully, good teachers aren't in very short supply yet!
    I hear endless, rapturous tales, of 'Miss. X' and 'Mr.Y' and how much fun it is in their class.

    Whatever happens to the fun students, god forbid the teacher die out!

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    In the photo in our paper here, she's towering over little Mrs. Singh and wearing a most disdainful expression. I'm hoping it's not directed at Mr./Mrs. Singh, because though I mock at them I'm strangely protective of them. And they are a sweet old couple.

    Ah well. Yes, soon we shall stop sending children to school. After all if a teacher inadvertently gives out homework, she could be giving the little darlings a nervous breakdown.

    Are you serious? Hahahahhahaha.....Now I can't get the image of Santa pointing at passing pairs of women and laughing 'Ho, ho, ho', out of my head! These people put ideas into everyone's head and then censure the world for falling into immoral ways and thoughts.
    Like our biology teacher who told us in school once, that we were all in the 'reproductive' stage of life and could easily conceive and bear children. But we mustn't!

    Don't you wonder how many real life murders have been inspired by fictional murders?

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

    Frabjous Day says

    My eyes are acting normal right now, but I don't trust them. Let's see.
    I, too, am luddite enough to send people texts in standard English, and some of them actually seem to have trouble reading a message that isn't rendered semi-intelligible and half-witted by chat-speak. It's like meeting a doctor or nurse out of context and uniform for them; they find it hard to read the normal words in a setting where they normally never appear.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    So do I! Ah well. Ten years from now, our children will grow quite interested in this ancient, outdated script...


    Ah! But with Lear one knew that he was quite capable of correct spelling :) I love Lear! I love him to bits. As is evident from my copy...I shall never forget the thrill it was to read with my own eyes that limerick that my father recited to me so often: There was an old man with a beard, who said it's just as I feared..

    I know! I love the poster that reads: If you can read this, thank your teacher.
    Correct English never hurt anyone.
    Should we start a school? :)

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dee

    Lady Dee says

    Oh no. We're succumbing to it here at a horrific rate. The next generation seems to forget that English is not an alphanumeric language. They routinely send out/receive messages like, 'hai dr...wud u lyk 2 c d flm ---- 2day tl fast i hv 2 bk da tkt'.

    *Lady Dee squirms* Oh! I can't believe I wrote that!!

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )


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