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Modestly introducing Tallis Steelyard (Now nominated!)
And sausages as promisedand one of Gingerlily's pictures, but I only just found it because she hid it on twitter :-)
https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...
heheheheh! And as usual you make excellent use of it.
I don't look on twitter every month! When people mentioned me it used to send me emails so I'd go and look But now it just sends me 'notifications', and these can be a month apart, so when I get one I do go and look briefly, clicking likes and suchlike and then get on with life. So this time I saw your picture :-)
Looks like the timing was just right.
Gingerlily - Not a potato wrote: "Looks like the timing was just right."I'd already got the lady in question, plus the picture on the horse and then your picture came along and provided the sausages
(I only found your picture this morning)
There is always room for a last minute sausage.Although I missed an invitation last night to a sausage BBQ. I was on Skype at the time.
Gingerlily - Not a potato wrote: "There is always room for a last minute sausage.Although I missed an invitation last night to a sausage BBQ. I was on Skype at the time."
there are few things more 'real world' than a sausage :-)
Yes, but that doesn't include those wild and wonderful recipes you get at gourmet restaurants. Wild boar and vanions sloly simmered in redcurrant jus and brusted with a romemary sprig exactly 3 times.
Lets try again.
Wild boar and venison slowly simmered in redcurrant jus and brushed with a rosemary sprig exactly 3 times.
although just why Rosemary has gone into cooking sausages when she's such an accomplished artist is beyond me!
Cooking sausages can be art too.
And I'm sure gin would be involved somewhere...
Gingerlily - Not a potato wrote: "And I'm sure gin would be involved somewhere..."that seems entirely reasonable :-)
I still prefer rum.
Without. I was never keen on livestock in my alcohol.
Blame? I would prefer the word credit for such a heartwarming tale.
:-)Glad you liked it madam.
I felt the story had to sort of go with the picture and there was a deliberate coziness to that painting, the chap seems to have made that sort of thing his trade mark :-)
Yes, almost chocolate box lid sweet.
Am I the one in the middle showing off her shapely behind? On second look that may be a him. Not sure....
I think she's got the same hairstyle as the others
That is indeed a mercy :)I just saw this picture - apparently it is the Duchess of Newcastle, which amused me greatly...
apparently the work of Charles Jervasfrom the wiki
As principal portraitist to the King of England, Jervas was known for his vanity and luck, as mentioned in the Imperial Biographical Dictionary, "He married a widow with $20,000; and his natural self-conceit was greatly encouraged by his intimate friend [Alexander] Pope, who has written an epistle full of silly flattery."
According to one account, after comparing a painting he had copied from Titian, he was said to have stated "Poor little Tit, how he would starve !".
Upon being told that Jervas had set up a carriage with four horses, Kneller replied: "Ach, mein Gott, if his horses do not draw better than he does, he will never get to his journey's end."
What amused you about the lady in question?
Just looking at her and imagining her talking in a Newcastle accent. Thanks for the info on Charles Jervas. He sounds like a bit of a character. Might even fit well in Port Basin! Or Port Naain, if my autocorrect will allow...
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "Just looking at her and imagining her talking in a Newcastle accent. Thanks for the info on Charles Jervas. He sounds like a bit of a character. Might even fit well in Port Basin! Or Port Naain, ..."
Apparently some scholars think that whilst Shakespeare's Henry IV has Percy speaking funny, it's not a speech impediment, Shakespeare might have been writing him with a regional accent :-)
As for Charles Jervas, I think he'd fit perfectly into Port Naain
But perhaps I could make him a lady?
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "Charlotte?"I am pondering :-)
And as an aside reading somebody's dissertation on the Salem Witch trials
Ha! I was on to his trick straight away. Nice sleight of hand :)
Obviously your misspent youth gave you an advantage ;-)And the story continues :-)
As of yet i cannot ask you 'who dunnit' because nobody yet knows what was 'dum' ;-)
Well it was actually someone else's misspent youth...
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