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Post by lindenchase on Aug 29, 2008 21:45:30 GMT
I'm afraid they proably won't be up by Monday now.  |
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Post by wildcathammondette on Aug 30, 2008 5:52:12 GMT
yup monday it'll be ah well, nevermind they'll be up eventually.... sigh!
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 30, 2008 12:17:20 GMT
My last week's post wasn't put up. They did put a few more up yesterday. I was a bit naughty and sent a second post about the lost one's being found on a laptop's hard drive bought from a car boot sale in Chipping Norton!  - smack my hand - I do take some time to write them so cant help being a bit disappointed when they dont appear. Fingers crossed for this week, although I wont be able to check as I'm off to Weston -s -M for a few days. I hope it's only a case of man-flu - Get Well Soon James - |
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 30, 2008 12:23:20 GMT
Didn't know that James smokes - knew that Richard does. |
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Post by maureen on Aug 30, 2008 13:30:16 GMT
Jeremy and Richard do for sure. James has said in an interview that once in a while he does . He had a cigar in the Cadillac 16 road test.
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 30, 2008 14:32:46 GMT
An occasional cigar wont do him any harm - I'm no angel, it took me years to give up the habit. That was a good ten years ago.
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Post by maureen on Aug 30, 2008 16:50:59 GMT
Me either. I started when I was 14 and quit for good when I was 22. In the last year though, I've had cravings, but have managed not to light up, even though I really want to sometimes.
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Post by hypnobird on Aug 30, 2008 19:04:04 GMT
I read the column and immediately thought of this... preview.tinyurl.com/5cs9fpHair's a bit red though it's the right length. I suppose the confetti on the floor is failed columns. |
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Post by inky on Aug 30, 2008 19:22:53 GMT
I read the column and immediately thought of this... preview.tinyurl.com/5cs9fpHair's a bit red though it's the right length. I suppose the confetti on the floor is failed columns. Excellent hypno. Typical man with a cold  |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 30, 2008 21:54:47 GMT
Wow... pre-Raphaelite man-flu  |
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 31, 2008 8:33:44 GMT
I'm a bit of a Pre-Raphaelite myself you know!  "Elaine the Fair of Astolat is a maiden who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her. The story appears in the vulgate Mort Artu and in Malory, but it is the Victorians who embraced the tale. The best-known retelling is Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott", in two versions (1833 and 1842), which inspired dozens of images of the maiden weaving in her bower, or setting out heart-broken on the barge that will bear her dead body to Camelot, by such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John William Waterhouse, Howard Pyle, Elizabeth Siddal, and H.J. Ford. Tennyson revisited the tale again in 1859 in Idylls of the King, where the story is called "Lancelot and Elaine." " |
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Post by lymaze on Aug 31, 2008 8:37:10 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 31, 2008 12:03:05 GMT
The story of Elizabeth Siddal is terribly sad, but as an artist's model she gives me nightmares because there's something about her face that reminds me of Egyptian mummies - never more so than in Millais's Ophelia, which is probably my least favourite pre-Raphaelite painting (though given what the artist put the poor woman through, I can't say I blame her for looking a bit awful). I tend to have a Marmite reaction to paintings from that movement - there are some that I really love, and others that I simply can't abide. And I think it's terribly sad that my favourite pre-Raphaelite painting, Flaming June by Fredrick Lord Leighton isn't in Leighton House museum at Holland Park but at the somewhat unfortunately named Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico.
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Post by maureen on Aug 31, 2008 12:40:06 GMT
I read the column and immediately thought of this... preview.tinyurl.com/5cs9fpHair's a bit red though it's the right length. I suppose the confetti on the floor is failed columns. I love the picture and the story. Seeing that and re-reading James' last article with my husband made me think of another appropriate picture. It was from Spongebob near the end of Frankendoodle when Mr. Lawrence was curled up in his dingy, moaning, because he was missing his pencil. Just the thought of that picture and the one you shared with us, Hypno, made me think of how rubbish James is feeling. After he finished reading it, my husband's exact words were, "He sounds like you when you're sick, a hypochondriac." ;D I told him that James really gets bent out of shape in his articles when he's ill. I hope he starts feeling better soon. |
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Post by lymaze on Aug 31, 2008 13:58:26 GMT
Lizzie Siddal has quite a "strong" face. I always remember reading about how Rossetti buried her with some poems such was his love. However, that love didn't last as when he was poor he had her dug up again seven years later so he could sell them. Legend has it her hair had continued to grow and was wrapped all around the coffin and she was perfectly preserved. |
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 31, 2008 14:01:24 GMT
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 31, 2008 14:02:40 GMT
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Post by astolatmaid on Aug 31, 2008 14:04:12 GMT
My favourite painting of Elaine above - I have a copy of this on my livingroom wall  |
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Post by maureen on Aug 31, 2008 14:19:16 GMT
That's beautiful, Astolatmaid.
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 1, 2008 16:00:43 GMT
Comments are finally up. Let's just say that I wasn't the only one to suggest it was just a bout of ManFlu. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by TheDaisy on Sept 1, 2008 16:19:31 GMT
He's running slightly short of sympathy this week LOL
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Post by lew on Sept 1, 2008 16:26:15 GMT
;D......well ;D
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 17:41:32 GMT
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Post by stigalicious on Sept 1, 2008 17:42:59 GMT
I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!! Somebody 'dropped' the engagement thing!!!! There's the line, now very firmly crossed!  I hope he doesnt get all defensive about it! |
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Post by dutchdiva on Sept 1, 2008 17:46:40 GMT
Oh I have missed that
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Post by stigalicious on Sept 1, 2008 17:49:55 GMT
Hats off to Ly- fantastic witty comment!
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Post by lew on Sept 1, 2008 17:50:03 GMT
I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!! Somebody 'dropped' the engagement thing!!!! There's the line, now very firmly crossed! I hope he doesnt get all defensive about it! Saw that I'm sure someone did that before and your right stiga very silly |
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Post by TheDaisy on Sept 1, 2008 17:52:38 GMT
Missed that too, among all the man flu stuff. |
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Post by lymaze on Sept 1, 2008 17:55:49 GMT
I saw that. Wordsworth? Ah well, not the first time. We will see what develops. Hope it wasn't anyone from here.  Thanks Stiga. |
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Post by maureen on Sept 1, 2008 18:04:45 GMT
I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!! Somebody 'dropped' the engagement thing!!!! There's the line, now very firmly crossed! I hope he doesnt get all defensive about it! Until I read this, Stig, I'd completely missed that. I went back through and saw that too from a Woodworth? OMG. Alot of great comments from our lot though. Wy, Manson, Ly, and WCH - once again, well done.  Y'alls are always a pleasure to read. I think I misspelled a word, but no big deal, really. |
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