Panda channelling Greer Garson. Family & social history, Barbara Pym, Alan Bennett, the war poets and various crime writers.
The chaise-longue.
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Christine Kendell retweeted
Horticultural twitter - should this orchid, which has lain dormant on the windowsill for 3-4 years, be flowering now?
ALT Two small open orchid flowers on a stem, with more unopened ones
The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
King Lear #ShakespeareSunday
ALT A Dandie Dinmont.
O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts
Henry V #ShakespeareSunday
ALT Mars.
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns.
Hamlet #ShakespeareSunday
ALT Home From Sea: Arthur Hughes
Found Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise-Longue in the library today. #PersephoneBooks #FridayReads
I read it years ago and found it terrifying.
What makes that frontlet on?
Methinks you are too much of late i' th' frown.
Lear #ShakespeareSunday
ALT Medusa by Caravaggio.
If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it.
Coriolanus #ShakespeareSunday
ALT Ian McKellen as Coriolanus, 1984.
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.
Macbeth #ShakespeareSunday
ALT Ships In Distress In A Storm: Peter Monamy.
Every inch a king
Lear #ShakespeareSunday #HorribleHistories
ALT Jim Howick as George IV.
Christine Kendell retweeted
Wildlife Twitterverse, what's this? Suburban garden backing onto a park. We get various birds, plus squirrels, cats and the occasional rat. The hole is about 15cm in diameter, 10cm deep and that's half an empty shell to the right of it.
Like Patience on a monument
Twelfth Night #ShakespeareSunday
ALT April Love: Arthur Hughes
'She took cauliflower cheese from a silver dish. The cheese had seethed and bubbled and was a curdled mass.'
Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian #FridayReads
A drum, a drum!
Macbeth #ShakespeareSunday
ALT The Drummer Boy: William Morris Hunt.
Sunshine and rain at once
Lear #ShakespeareSunday
ALT The Blind Girl: Millais.