Also had someone very definitely trying to do the "Remember I Am Nominally Senior to You" on calls today. Off you trundle then sugar tits, looking forward to you handling EVERYTHING then.
I mean, this bastard thing has consumed my life and yet it is A Surprise to some I am allowed to go along to a meeting where it isn't about being lumbered with stuff.
There is a meeting about The Accurséd Project tomorrow, which I am going to. Three people today have said "oh, so you're going along as well". Strangely enough, yes I am.
I will never view it the same way again.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
Lor' Ava Gardner was such a beauty, and nobody does awkward as well as Anthony Perkins. And let's not forget Gregory P.
Fred Astaire playing a grizzled old soak well worth it.
Never noticed she wore a watch!
That's the one, definitely not the atomic war one at all.
Taking my mind off the general world gloom with a nice cheery classic film at the flicks...
...On The Beach
I mean, it's a lot of skill and also nope..
As long as there is a huge cartwheel f-off feathery hat to go with it.
Enjoyed the walk a lot, despite the headache inducing cold and grey which was The City today.
Today we have a double debunk:
1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain
2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄)
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Going on a Guided Walk in a bit and debating whether to dare suggest to Mum I drop in later; still a bit wary after the "You'll interrupt my Bible Study Group Prep" pushback.
OH (and colleagues) got into work y'day to be told it was employee appreciation day, some bacon baps had been ordered for them later in the day. The baps arrived... but so did the bill, as no one had paid for them. So they had to pay for their own 🤣. Now that's appreciation for you. Not funny/funny.
Da Da Da - well that where a lump of Mr E's Beautiful Blues is from then #OneHitWondersAtTheBBC
Slow cooker soup success (sucess being remembering to turn it on earlier). Beetroot, lentil with carraway seeds and a bit of rosewater.
Brother and Sister born at Thorpe Combe Hospital.
There should be a plaque! Have enjoyed the standard meander there, then around the Old Village and Vestry House in my time.
Isn't it so, I could wear something like that at the drop of a hat (and about 8 dress sizes)
Hmm, I have never had an enjoyable visit to the Wetlands as trying navigate the endless buggies takes the shine off.
See,I have never managed to venture there - but there was a film showing the workers there.
Well got to have something to tickle yer lady's fancy.
Twas very good. Although a wiki rabbit hole did lead me to the excellence of Blue Jeans On.
LONDON FASHION DESIGNERS Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) 1963 Bromide fibre print on card mount This photograph shows key members of the Swinging Sixties London fashion scene, many of whom made regular use of Liberty fabrics in their fashion designs. First row from left: Mary Quant, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, Kenneth Sweet. Second row from left: Jean Muir, Gerald McCarn, Kiki Byrne, David Sassoon. Hanging from lamp-post: Sally Tuffin, Marion Foale, James Wedge. National Portrait Gallery
Groovers indeed
WEDDING DRESS IN 12 LIBERTY PRINTS LIZZIE HOUGHTON PUDDIFOOT (b.1948) 1978 Printed cotton and lace 'In 1978 was working in Liberty's cottons department and planning my wedding dress. It was never going to be white or cream for me. Surrounded by allthose glorious prints that had grown to love, I decided to use many of my favourite ones together.I had some of the fabric pleated and heat set, for the frills and sleeves. made the dressin the three weeks before the wedding."
Detail of a floral beflounced gown and fabric flowers
The Material Girl's wedding dress. Made with 12 different prints. It's a look.
A floor length overgown in brown and cream
1897 designed overgown in muted tones with frogging embroidery
Ideal for swishing around town in in the 1890s.
A board advertising a Women in Print exhibition
A Mary Quant designed outfit in a Butterfield designed print in flame ginger.
Don't often venture to the William Morris gallery due it being a bit of a trek on the buses but a very good exhibition on the Liberty Print Designers enticed me.
The edge of my clothes and the dianthus red and gren carpet.
Accidental blending in.
Curlaargh
