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Thursday, 3 May 2012
Edward Lear and Sir George Bowen, Corfu
Glad to find this posting about Lear and Bowen in Corfu. I'd missed it when first published in 2010.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Royal Visit to Sherborne and the South-West
BBC report on Sherborne, and the Diamond Jubilee Tour.
An old friend phoned to tell me that he'd just attended a luncheon in Salisbury, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.
Telegraph report
Why has the Queen never visited Greece? (BBC)
An old friend phoned to tell me that he'd just attended a luncheon in Salisbury, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.
Telegraph report
Why has the Queen never visited Greece? (BBC)
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
A Letter from Lear (January 1858)
An Edward Lear letter, 10 January 1858.
Suitable for May Day. A warning to all?
See the final paragraph:
"Bye the bye I heard rather a good thing yesterday, Lady H. (with an aide de camp,) has been “doing” the sights of Corfu, & among others the churches. At the Greek Cathedral a beggar came and importuned the glittering Marchioness, who at the moment was indulging in the natural & pleasant act of sucking an orange. Lady H. after a time paused & said or implied “silver & gold have I none,” but such as she had, (being the half sucked orange,) she politely gave the beggar-woman, who (oranges being any number for a half-penny,) threw the fruit in her Ladyship’s face, and rushed frantically out of the desecrated edifice."
Suitable for May Day. A warning to all?
See the final paragraph:
"Bye the bye I heard rather a good thing yesterday, Lady H. (with an aide de camp,) has been “doing” the sights of Corfu, & among others the churches. At the Greek Cathedral a beggar came and importuned the glittering Marchioness, who at the moment was indulging in the natural & pleasant act of sucking an orange. Lady H. after a time paused & said or implied “silver & gold have I none,” but such as she had, (being the half sucked orange,) she politely gave the beggar-woman, who (oranges being any number for a half-penny,) threw the fruit in her Ladyship’s face, and rushed frantically out of the desecrated edifice."
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