We've had some very cold, rainy days this week but this morning the sky was bright with a few pinkish clouds. Now, it is brilliant sunshine although the nice lady on the telly last night, we would be in for another 3 days of unsettled weather! My seedlings (flowers and cucurbitae) seem to have survived the slug and snail crew! The garden after all this rain is blooming!
@Nanny Beach Thought you'd gone on holiday!! Sorry to hear about the styes - yes @Dovefromabove I remember Golden Eye Ointment - also the gold wedding ring trick!!
@Chicky Enjoy your day out at Arundel Castle. What tulips?!! @Allotment Boy No milkmen here. Even the milk is full of sugar! We had the real ones in NZ with the schoolboys practically running alongside the rattling truck with crates & barrows. I'm not sure if they have them any more now. Great after school job - that and a paper round.
Today's expression: Pluie le jour de Sainte-Opportune, ni cerises, ni prunes!
How lovely to feel some warmth today after all the cold and wet @tui34, shame it's not going to last though, we have thunder forecast for tomorrow. OH is digging out huge clumps of Thyme which are taking over the raised beds, have left some though 'cause the bees are loving it at the moment, but it is a thug here. Have a good day all.
Morning all. Morning @D0rdogne_Damsel, strange that you didn't write anything or did it get lost?
Cooler here too, nippy wind, still sunny.
I wear a cotton nightie in bed, unless I'm too hot - then I take it off.
We went to Henry V last night, live screening from the National Theatre. I'm afraid we were both disappointed. It was in modern dress, no scenery and they had changed some of the script. Some of the soldiers and dukes were women which they seemed very keen to point out. I was rather confused as to who was male and who was female, so missed the Queen of France. The French Royal family were black and spoke French with subtitles, which they didn't in the original script. Why mess with Shakespeare?
Nothing planned for today. Think I'll do a bit of gardening this afternoon.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Cool and grey again here but trying to be brighter. We have thunder storms forecast for early tomorrow and some rain. I hope so.
Did the SM run this morning as I couldn't yesterday. No oil. Remind me not to go on Friday again, especially not in school hols. Just having a post lunch cuppa then I'm off to sow some more pumpkins and toms.
@floralies I'm planning to put thyme in my new dry beds but first I have to sow some and take cuttings form existing ones which include orange and lemon scented varieties. Happy for them to go thug.
@tui34 I buy local Vendée produced milk for OH's cereal. It's sterilised and semi-skimmed but not sweetened. We used to have a milk delivery in Harrow and I remember, growing up in Cheshire in the 60s, having to get the milk in before the blue and great tits pecked the lids and got all the cream. The Harrow birds didn't do that.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We went to Henry V last night, live screening from the National Theatre. I'm afraid we were both disappointed. It was in modern dress, no scenery and they had changed some of the script. Some of the soldiers and dukes were women which they seemed very keen to point out. I was rather confused as to who was male and who was female, so missed the Queen of France. The French Royal family were black and spoke French with subtitles, which they didn't in the original script. Why mess with Shakespeare?
Nothing planned for today. Think I'll do a bit of gardening this afternoon.
some would say " we have to suspend belief " I'm with you though If the character is male or black, or tall or old ,or whatever, IMHO the actor should be as recognisably close as this as possible.
Well, if we go back to Shakespeare's days women were played by men and boys so I don't have a problem with women in men's roles but don't think it's appropriate for soldiers for Henry V's times.
Still, it could have been worse. They could have sung it like opera!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Well, if we go back to Shakespeare's days women were played by men and boys so I don't have a problem with women in men's roles but don't think it's appropriate for soldiers for Henry V's times.
Still, it could have been worse. They could have sung it like opera!
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We've had some very cold, rainy days this week but this morning the sky was bright with a few pinkish clouds. Now, it is brilliant sunshine although the nice lady on the telly last night, we would be in for another 3 days of unsettled weather! My seedlings (flowers and cucurbitae) seem to have survived the slug and snail crew! The garden after all this rain is blooming!
@Nanny Beach Thought you'd gone on holiday!! Sorry to hear about the styes - yes @Dovefromabove I remember Golden Eye Ointment - also the gold wedding ring trick!!
@Chicky Enjoy your day out at Arundel Castle. What tulips?!! @Allotment Boy No milkmen here. Even the milk is full of sugar! We had the real ones in NZ with the schoolboys practically running alongside the rattling truck with crates & barrows. I'm not sure if they have them any more now. Great after school job - that and a paper round.
Today's expression: Pluie le jour de Sainte-Opportune, ni cerises, ni prunes!
Enjoy the rest of the day.
Tui
Have a good day all.
Morning @D0rdogne_Damsel, strange that you didn't write anything or did it get lost?
Cooler here too, nippy wind, still sunny.
I wear a cotton nightie in bed, unless I'm too hot - then I take it off.
We went to Henry V last night, live screening from the National Theatre. I'm afraid we were both disappointed. It was in modern dress, no scenery and they had changed some of the script. Some of the soldiers and dukes were women which they seemed very keen to point out. I was rather confused as to who was male and who was female, so missed the Queen of France. The French Royal family were black and spoke French with subtitles, which they didn't in the original script. Why mess with Shakespeare?
Nothing planned for today. Think I'll do a bit of gardening this afternoon.
Did the SM run this morning as I couldn't yesterday. No oil. Remind me not to go on Friday again, especially not in school hols. Just having a post lunch cuppa then I'm off to sow some more pumpkins and toms.
@floralies I'm planning to put thyme in my new dry beds but first I have to sow some and take cuttings form existing ones which include orange and lemon scented varieties. Happy for them to go thug.
@tui34 I buy local Vendée produced milk for OH's cereal. It's sterilised and semi-skimmed but not sweetened. We used to have a milk delivery in Harrow and I remember, growing up in Cheshire in the 60s, having to get the milk in before the blue and great tits pecked the lids and got all the cream. The Harrow birds didn't do that.
I'm with you though
If the character is male or black, or tall or old ,or whatever, IMHO the actor should be as recognisably close as this as possible.
Still, it could have been worse. They could have sung it like opera!
Ooh! You snuck in @Busy-Lizzie. So much for teasing @Hostafan1 with imagined horrors.