Mundane News

[mybike]

Well, there's a great day for discoveries. My mother was the fisherman's friend and I've got a bottom half called Hugo.

Figures.

 

[Speicher]

Warm, still and occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well, though I did have a very disturbing dream that made me wake up at about half six this morning. But I turned over and went back to sleep. Spent the morning doing some writing - well, making notes for suture chapters and making sure that elements of the plot are keeping their continuity. It's important in a story that hops backwards and forward through time.

I've also made a nice big pot of alphabet soup. As well as the alphabet (pasta) it's got onion, carrots, leek, celery, salad onions and a big bunch of parsley in it, along with some stock cubes.

It is time for luncheon, so I shall be back later.

Glad to see somebody else has autospell or whatever causing misunderstandings. Sometimes when I have written something it might as well be alphabet soup before I get back to correct it if I happen to notice.

I think it is suture as in "cut and paste".

 

[mybike]

View attachment 661961 Good dog ...!

We've got one of those as well.

 

[mybike]

Yes . I can remember doing that for our CSE's back in the 60's . Something about Laburnum woods going to Dunstable !

Well it's better than Luton.

 

[mybike]

I haven't got a television ebike either.

I've got a television ebike.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with roast beef, the other with sliced avocado, plus a nectarine, a banana and the obligatory two

I had a walk planned with a friend this afternoon, but she's just phoned to say she's been called into work (she's a receptionist at one of the local vets) as someone went off sick this morning. In that case, as I'd kept the afternoon free, I shall get kitted up in a little while and go for a bicycular bimble instead.

 

[Reynard]

I find "Macbeth" interesting because it seems to have been written specifically for King James: It's packed with references to his personal life and opinions. It seems to be Shakespeare's pitch to the new king, to try and secure royal patronage.

Pretty well much all of Shakespeare's "historical" plays are propaganda. Patronage was how writers, artists etc made a living, and well, you've got to please the person who is paying the bills.

You've also got to bear in mind that some of the plays (Richard III, the various Henrys) are written, in part, to legitimise the Tudor dynasty in the eyes of the public, given that their claim to the English throne was very tenuous anyway - especially when you throw salic descent and male heirs who had a better right into the bargain.

P.S. I did my English GCSEs in 1991. Got an A for language and a B for literature.

 

[fossyant]

It's piddling doon here !

 

[Reynard]

Glad to see somebody else has autospell or whatever causing misunderstandings. Sometimes when I have written something it might as well be alphabet soup before I get back to correct it if I happen to notice.

Actually, no. I do not use any kind of autocorrect as it does my head in. Any typos are purely my own.

One of the issues I have at the moment is a callus on the tip of the middle finger on my left hand, and given that I touch type, it does occasionally add to the odd oops moment.

 

[Illaveago]

Light and Land also do on-line tuition, including Landscape Photography with your mobile phone.

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I'm sorry but the beginning went on too long for my small brain so I gave up before it started !

 

[Illaveago]

Warm, still and occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well, though I did have a very disturbing dream that made me wake up at about half six this morning. But I turned over and went back to sleep. Spent the morning doing some writing - well, making notes for suture chapters and making sure that elements of the plot are keeping their continuity. It's important in a story that hops backwards and forward through time.

I've also made a nice big pot of alphabet soup. As well as the alphabet (pasta) it's got onion, carrots, leek, celery, salad onions and a big bunch of parsley in it, along with some stock cubes.

It is time for luncheon, so I shall be back later.

Ah! The beginnings of a new detective thriller where the blackmailer uses alphabet soup letters to write the letter !

 

[Illaveago]

It's piddling doon here !

Brother of Lorna ?

 

[Reynard]

I think I'm going to pootle off for a bicycular bimble.

 

[Andy in Germany]

See how big you can get one of them, without it bursting. Eight foot diameter should be easily reached.

That's what I told my volunteer: I have to have some fun...

 

[classic33]

That's what I told my volunteer: I have to have some fun...

Did you manage to get one to eight foot?