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Some are, like the Royal Doulton ones & others of that ilk, but mine are somewhat (i.e. a lot ) more modest than those-the earliest of mine is maybe 1920s. I don't ind the odd flaw & mend at all; it's all part of their history ! I also like the china with them on, and have some embroidered things with these pretty ladies. Some people read SO MUCH into them; I think that they were popular simply because they were so pretty.
I meant disbelief that this pretty lady isn't me.
Yes-I told you that I'd lost weight :DActually (waits for look of disbelief) she's the latest to join the crinoline lady family; she is very sweet, made by Wade (which surprised me) and has the loveliest face. She's looking at a bunch of flowers with a dreamy expression on her face and is called Romance I. I am a sucker for crinoline ladies.
Our poor friend was more mortified than he need have been; we've all made loud & crass remarks, I suspect. The criterion here is that one cannot walk more than ?m unaided. Needless to say, from time to time other people use these parks.The best ever piece of advice for dealing with someone who's just sitting there is to offer to help them to get out, and when they (of course) refuse say that you have had plenty of experience with disabled people so you're very happy to assist etc, etc...alas, I have never had the nerve. There are bright blue flyers about the size of postcards that say on one side 'You have my park, would you like my disability ?' and on the other give details of the criteria for a disability card and how to get one. How squirm-making to find one under the windscreen wiper.Can you ask Amazon to put all Mrs Vaizey's books on Kindle-with original illus. ?
variation on the driver's license joke...a friend came prancing up to where we were atanding by the little red 'cart', crying loudly and facetiously 'You don't need one of those things !!!' James said that yes, he did at the moment, having been in the cardiac ward etc...exit red-faced friend, mumbling feeble remarks & wishing himself anywhere...
What !!! You can do THAT ???
No, it's not on Kindle and nor are any of her others. I don't know why I love this book so much & reread & reread. Her characterisation is superb & so is her sense of place... To my great delight, it seems to be reasonably easily available so (faints) her others may be too. One can never say that someone else will like or love a book, but I think that you would like this. I find it hard to believe that the people didn't exist; I have read one or two others of hers, but TLP is the only one I own. It's one of those books that draws you right in...you come to the end and realise with surprise that you're here & now and not there & then !
ALP & AOG were awful with totally unsympathetic illus & covers. QED.
Oh, it is so hard to choose which one to keep...I like all my three Bozes & Alices-but one Alice was donated, as it wasn't on nice paper at all. But how to give away a small & handy copy of a book-just in case ? Agony. I saw a really attarctive copy of a book that I love-The Lonely Plough-illus. with paintings of the real part of England where it's set & like an idiot didn't buy it. But I couldn't have parted with my little World's Classics copy. Is it extravagant to replace a book simply because it's an unattractive edition ? Yes. But I HAD to replace my copies of An Old-fashioned Girl and A Little Princess.I have yet to meet anyone who's read The Lonely Plough which I find very odd.It was a very popular book in its day & I love it dearly.
You have SEVENTEEN Tennysons ??? You make me look abstemious by comparison. I have three Madding Crowds; the old p/b that I had when I was 12, a pretty one that I found at a book fair and a leather-bound that a friend gave me; in each case the old one was discreetly returned to the shelf, as I couldn't part with it. I have 2 Tennysons, on on my coffee table & one in the bookcase...2 Oxford Books of English Verse ditto...one big & gorgeous Whitman & two p/bs... (sighs)
One of my Classics lecturers wrote a thesis on the punctuation in Homer-but as, of course, there is none, it was about where & what it would have been if there had been. Or something like that (faints)No DL jokes yet, but theyll come, no doubt. I'd be terrified to take it down our very steep drive, but James is quite all right about it.
You mean it was THAT Ulysses-you let us think that it was...J is tootling around like anything on his little red vehicle-it's certainly cheap to run and my fears (only thought of after I'd bought it, of course) that it might not be able to go up our hilly street & drive were unfounded.Fanshawe has just demolished a Tinker, Tailor flyer & made himself rather unpopular.
(eavesreading) Why doesn't my absence prompt a gentle rebuke? (flings dinner across the room)
Oh, good. Someone else to talk to! It's not necessarily the best thing to break it down week to week, because a great deal of the effect is cumulative, but then one couldn't possibly expect people to read the whole thing on the computer screen.
I wish you were enjoying Whitman. He is a prophet, too. He's had a vision of what it is to be Holy, even if he wasn't Holy himself.
Yes, she didn't write about Catholics -- southern Protestants were much more in evidence around her, and provided lots of material. She found them rather unhinged; although she didn't mock their faith, just their way of expressing it.
If you can call it that.
It's Rayber who is the object of her satire.
What I never understood the first time I read the Violent Bear was that she is quite serious - the Uncle and Tarwater are prophets, quite truly. (Cf. her letters.)
Even the word rose is pretty; it couldn't be anything else. I used to have to put mats down in the oddest places when we had a Siamese who was sick with annoying frequency. Enough said.
