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Sep 12, 2014 05:02AM
Interesting about the ponies. And I just have to make a broccoli poodle now! :)
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As I said, Kath, unfortunately my photography wasn't up to doing justice to the creations. A broccoli poodle (with raisins for eyes) must be worth trying if kids won't eat their veg.I also liked the excellent saddleback pig made by partially peeling an aubergine to achieve the black and white effect, with grapes for legs, currants for ears and rice grains for eyes.
I love broccoli. The idea isn't to persuade someone to eat it. It's to amuse me for the couple of seconds before I devour it.
What an interesting and complex man. I remember seeing Lawrence of Arabia: the film, in my teens and being immensely struck by his charisma. Stop distracting me! ;)
You're a very quick reader, Kath!With those bright blue eyes Peter O'Toole was an excellent choice to play T E - even though he was over 6'3" tall whereas T E was only 5'7".
I am! My mother always used to say I was fast! I've been struck by the fact that O'Toole looked rather like the photographs I've seen.
There are loads of photos I'd have liked to include, but they're all subject to copyright - like this one:http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com...
Whoops - Internal Server Error - does that mean it's still copyright? ;)
I just did a Google Images search on O'Toole T E Lawrence and it's one of many images thrown up. The copyright protection just protects reproduction, it shouldn't stop us looking at it!
I've put up a blog post about Brixham, Fishstock and the FishMish.http://www.bjburton.co.uk/blog-2/
Happy reading!
Great post, as always. I love the name Fishstock! Some of my husband's family came to Hull from Brixham. I think there's always been some movement between fishing communities.
Thanks, Kath. Yes, you're right. Sometimes I think it's a case of following the fish. Sometimes bigger events come into play - we still have Dutch families in Brixham dating from the second world war when the Dutch fishermen brought their fleet across the Channel to stop the boats falling into the hands of the Nazis.
A blog post about Hungerford, the Tutti-men and English eccentricity.http://www.bjburton.co.uk/blog-2/
Brilliant! I think Tutti alluding to a nosegay is from the same root as the tussie-mussie - also a small bouquet or nosegay. I love the word. Our Village in Bloom group often make and sell them, filled with summer flowers and herbs, at the village show. I gave Romelda one for her wedding!
Thanks Kath. I confess that use of the term 'tutti' in this way has me baffled. I've only come across it in its musical sense meaning all instruments together, but perhaps that's the answer - was it possibly used to mean all available blooms mixed in a bunch?
Just to say it was a cracking blog. I took the liberty of sharing it on facebook and somebody has already shared it from meA nice piece of writing :-)
Thanks, Jim, although it was a very easy one to write as most of it was provided by the Tutti-Pole Tea Shoppe.
Welcome to the world of journalism, which for some of the younger denizens consists of rewording the press-release enough to avoid charges of plagiarism. :-)
When I ran a publishing business we used to send a shortlist of journalists individually prepared press releases about new books. Each one was of the length we knew that journalist required and we sent them by email so they could be lifted straight into their copy. It worked particularly well after regional newspapers slashed their staffing levels and the poor sod charged with filling the book column was also Defence Correspondent, Health Correspondent, Court Correspondent etc
And the freelancers get slashed first :-(But then when the staffers have also been slashed they've got to come back to the freelancers because sub-editors cannot actually write everything :-)
That's very true. It seems to me that regional newspapers now depend upon the readers to supply more than half of the content with the small ads, letters to the editor and readers' photographs. When it comes to book reviews I don't think anyone still employed as a journalist actually has time to read a book, let alone write a review, so the reviews are supplied by freelancers or bought by the column inch from the Press Association.
A post about the remarkable yew tree and why it appears in so many graveyards.http://www.bjburton.co.uk/blog-2/
An excellent post, as always. The story I'm writing for NaNoWriMo is about trees. They're the biggest living things. You've got be a be a bit in awe.
Thanks, Kath. Trees are simply wonderful. They bring life and beauty to the Earth. My current WIP is about trees, too - or, more accurately, it's about the Green Man.
Oh, I can't wait to read that one!Edit - can't spell read when I'm excited!
I've a fascination for trees too. Enjoyed reading about the yew, B J.
One of my great grandfathers was called Hugh Wood. No imagination!
There was a Rose Bush that lived near my in laws, but she'd become a Bush by marriage. I don't know what she was previously. Maybe Petal :~)
Ha-ha! I like those two. We know a Christine who married Mr Cross becoming Chris Cross.
My daughter has a friend called Anthony Hill. Surely his parents must have know his name would get shortened to Ant :~/
Years ago I had a hairdresser called Lesley who married a man called Mr Leslie. He had bought a fortified house called Leslie Castle - so she became Lesley Leslie of Leslie.
My surname is Taylor and we named our daughter Jenna. She went through hell at school. How we didn't see that coming I don't know, especially as I write erotica! Still she married eventually & alls well that ends well!
cracking story.We need more great minded people, not more bureaucrats and city planners
Thanks, Jim. Yes, you're right. Facing re-election every five years means our Government is always taking a short term view. It's refreshing to come across someone who took a very long term view, had the means to enact his vision, and created something beautiful that he knew he would never see.
You see it a lot in the Lake District. Some really beautiful houses built by people with vision.Their successors?
And a lot of bureaucrats who won't let anybody do anything
To be fair, in the last three or four years a new generation of planners has come through who seem to be more open to the fact that it isn't a museum and people have to earn a living there
My wife and I often have this conversation when visiting National Trust properties or admiring spectacular houses we come across when walking the coastal footpath - none of them would be permitted today as they constitute 'sporadic development outside of the approved local development plan'.
Among the emails I received in response to my last blog about the Holford family and Westonbirt was one asking me to mention the arboretum's Enchanted Christmas. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening from now until 21st December they will have an illuminated one mile trail through the trees. I'll mention it in my blog, but anyone who's already read that post won't see it, so I'm giving it a plug here. Read all about it at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/i...
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hic!
Sounds gorgeous! You can use a desert wine instead of water and gin, when you make the quantity up with liquid. Dark fruits in a port wine jelly are mega-good too. ;)
