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Eleanor T

Eleanor T

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Hi there! I am a book lover living in North Carolina where the weather is pretty much perfect. I teach Computers for the local Community College, take care of my 3 lovely children, letterbox and read. I also try to take care of our house, do some church singing and other activities. When you ve been reading as long as I have, you find that... more »
  • Belmont, NC, NC, USA
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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    4 WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL.................... Obviously you're correct about the swearing, however I don't think it gets in the way of what the director is trying to do and it's not obscene in the sense that it's aimed at somebody in a hateful way. It is simply how the character expresses himself. The same as an Australian calls people and things 'a Bastard' in an affectionate way without it being derogatory. With regards to the s-e-x scenes (Three of them? Correct?) The ones between the leads I remember as beautiful. The one between the bridesmaid and friend after their marriage (whilst) Grant sits in the wash-basin IS pretty slapstick and clumsy, however it does illustrate the inanity of somebody else enjoying life whilst you're depressed. I find this scene right up there with Shakespeare's Drunken Porter urinating in a bucket. There are quite simply NO easy answers to your children and s-e-x. However they live in the first generation (in the West anyway) that knows literally everything there is about the subject. I suspect it soesn't make them any wiser. It certainly must be puzzling, however it always has been.

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Is Andie Macdowell REALLY an actress? I thought she was a model who wandered onto a set and got listed by mistake. Beautiful, however NOT an actress.

    Regards, Michael.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Interesting to read Max Mallowman's account of their 'courship'. I read a biography of Agatha Christie a few years ago. She was initially interesting, had a disasterous marriage and then turned into a pot-boiler.

    Regards, MIchael

    PS: That can't be the correct spelling of disasterous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Bleep? Yes........... but one must be something you return to all the time?

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I've been ran off my feet for a little while now. We had to slip up to Chambrey in Farance and onto London which took time - at least I managed to catch up with Victoria and Elizabeth! I've been reading MALLOWMAN'S MEMOIRS (the auto-biography of Agatha Christie's second (and much-loved!) husband). His descriptions of the epigraphists on the team at Ur definitely made me smile! You'r a detective-fiction lover, I presume you've read THE ORIENT EXPRESS? Did you work out the solution? Supposed to have been born out of her return to Europe from Iraq with Max. His account of Philosophy Tutors at Oxford in the early Twenties made me think of yourself!

    I hope the Birthday Bash went well? Did you dine somewhere interesting? That makes your Star-Sign? Both Elizabeth and myself were bornin the first week of June - making us Gemini! Can you tell this? ONE FOR THE MONEY looks interesting (ok, and funny!). Definitely a Genre there.... I don't think I'd class it as Chick-Flick though... I watched the film HEARTBREAKER (should there be hyphen? maybe in English...) last week.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PuZo8qLxo

    DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH THE HOLLYWOOD FILM THAT HAS A SIMILAR NAME!!!!!!!!!! It is such a hoot! Do you believe in Love? I do. Two of my favourite films are FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and LOVE ACTUALLY. Maybe they're too English for you? My Favourite Film Of All Time (FFOAT) is of course AUSTRALIA with Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjGgY7EU_I

    DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH THE HOLLYWOOD FILM OF THE SAME NAME (which is a re-make of a 1940's film titled THE OVERLANDER'S). There is a much longer youtube video of AUSTRALIA extracts, however Mute the music that somebody has overlain it with! I remember Victoria breaking her brace and having to pretend to the orthodontist that it was done at hockey (she had sat on it!).

    Do yuou have a FFOAT?

    Tonight, I return to England on leave. Even though the weather is atrocious, I am so looking forward to it! I'll breakfast in the morning with Victoria and Elizabeth ere setting off for the North!

    http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/awhitecat/art/IM0360_zl.jpg

    Regards, Michael

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Ps: I just posted another couple of JA extensions to read on my bookshelf, whilst refreshing my memory of Abigail Reynold's title. Maybe one day I shall read them! My shelves are littered wih volumes that one day I shall read!

    Reards, Michael.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I am aware of whom PD James is, however I am afraid that I have passed by the Railway and Airport Bookstalls lathered with her crime novels. It sounds as though she really rings the bells for you. There are sooooo many rewrites recently of 'Dear Jane' (Last year I read MR FITZWILLIAM DARCY by Abigail Reynolds). I guess Jane Austin is so many things to so many different people. P & P WITH ZOMBIES has to spring to mind here! Do you think it is ever possible to really understand the mindset of people from a different era or culture? I have my doubts. Personally, I have trouble understanding anybody....

    Regards, Michael.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Eleanor, my Political Philosopher! What a strange, new role...... I'm stunned....

    When young, did you ever read Robert Heinlein?

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Is Ayn Rand "You can avoid evil, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding evil"?

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I managed 2 1/2 days in England - not foggy, however some damp! Then the telephone rang! Now I'm back in the dust - it is so cold as well! I was supposed to return to England via Chambery in the Alps this evening, however it's postponed till tomorrow night. Oh well, maybe it shall happen sometime. I'll be back down here by the weekend anyway. I guess your lot are back at school by now - it can't be 1/2 term still?

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Of course not of ourselves! Damn T9 punctuation/phraseology/spelling police on my iPad!

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Oh! I've just realised that of ourselves you have read ATLAS SHRUGGED! It is one of your most memorable books!

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    ATLAS SHRUGGED is seen in Europe as being against Socialism - it was reputably one of Margaret Thatcher's inspirations for her political philosophy. Whatever, it's definitely interesting and still has a mesage. Did you read the book at sometime? It is difficult to grasp the hatred of a certain part of a certain part of British Society for Margaret thatcher - I suspect the closest in modern times is how some Americans see George W Bush, however this is even more visceral. I do not understand it myself and am continually puzzled when people evince this. I guess I'm unrealistic in how I see people...

    Regards, Michael.

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Well, still in the Middle East. We'd hoped to be in London Sunday evening however things changed and now it looks like later in the week. The temperature has dropped below freezing in England and there's fog! Shades of Sherlock Holmes! Installed anything else on your e-reader? I must make a list of what I've got on mine so that I can post it for you. Did you get a chance to look at the bookshelf site? It saddened me to recognise a few! How sad it is when you actually know a variety of random shelves from around the world???!!!

    Regards, Michael.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I like beans in chilli....

    http://www.cactushill.com/tcp/home.htm

    Regards, Michael

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Rice & Chilli? No, not really............. I quite like the right sort of bread with chilli. What's the right sort? I'll think about it. Has to be right on the day for mopping up though! I once lived with a Vietnamese family for a year. Every, like every, meal came with rice!

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I'm picturing Glop.... Amazing how a few spices/chilli etc can make a difference. I like a good, hot chilli! The best mix I buy from a boot store in Fort Worth! What does that say???!!!

    Religious Rock? Is that a contradiction in gems? Oxymoron?

    Try RhineCards with your eldest son? I haven't heard of those since Robert Heinlein! Have you read anything by him?

    We have to slip up to London on Sunday. Should be there about ten days I can see the weather now, very much not perfect!

    I bought a copy of the film A SHINE OF RAINBOWS in the souq and have been watching it. Unbearably sad.... Life is just so horrible sometimes... I may look out the book (Lilian Beckwith) on my return to England. I remember reading her THE SEA FOR BREAKFAST as a child. Look up the trailer for A SHINE OF RAINBOWS on YouTube - I'm typing this on the iPad and pasting a link difficult.

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I grew up with an AGA (Do you know these?) - everything was slow-cooked - including the live/suffering from exposure lamb in the low oven! Your use of the word crock-pot, I presume means an electric bowl type slow cooker? You can't go to far wrong - most of the world uses this method! Throw in what you like and go off reading WAR & PEACE. Trouble is, most things come out looking much the same! That's what the spices are all about, I guess - try and make it taste slightly different. I could do with not being fat, however it's difficult....

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    By the way, Brigardier Gerard sent the fox, BAKED, to the English! I make so many mistakes in my typing! I see there was a film

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESP9tsYPnU

    How on Earth do they get financing for these things?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    How weird of those books to be hagiography. There are so many examples from her life of her seeking self-interest - marrying the man chosen for her sister after that sisters illness and death, after the death of her husband (I don't envy her in prison during The Terror!) all her liasons were with politicians for 'protection' (What a worry! Choosing which would be a 'survivor'!), changing her forename after marrying Bonaparte, remaining on good terms with Bonaparte after their divorce etc etc

    None of us (certainly not myself anyway) are Saints. I guess we all try, to the best of our abilities, to do our best. If you think that American culture is self-centred, try India or China. Charitable-Giving as we know it, is almost non-existent there - charity there is based around clan and/or religious affiliation.

    Slave Labour is alive and well, I am afraid. How many people have employees working illegal hours below the minimum wage? The recent film THE HELP could have just as well been set in 2012.

    I have a copy of Ansell Adam's book MANZANAR. As always, his photographs are superlative and leap from the page. Sadly, like most liberals he ignores the issues that rquired internment, has no realistic alternatives and is blinkered on different apects of it. As always, the Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions! Try this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=471ZcZ1RiAA

    If people feel that Manzanar was terrible, try being interned at exactly the same dat by an Axis Power!

    Such a gloomy note today! I'look for something cheerful in my next!

    Regards, Michael

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )

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