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I've had two Orlandos, named after Kathleen Hale's Marmalade Cat.
Each with 'green eyes like twin gooseberries', I hope  Kathleen Hale was another distinguished resident of Aldeburgh at one stage of her life was she not?* One of my treasured possessions is her original artwork for Orlando's birthday party. Unfortunately I can't find an image of it on the web to post. [*Ah, correction. She just spent long summer holidays there, I now discover. Or 'Owlbarrow-on-Sea' as it becomes when Orlando and his family spend their holiday there.] |
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« Reply #61 on: 16:27:42, 01-08-2007 » |
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The house where Kathleen Hale used to stay in Aldeburgh is called Orlando, and you can spend your holidays there! It's in King Street. I don't think this image can have been drawn by her, but it's a nice idea.  |
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« Reply #62 on: 16:31:18, 01-08-2007 » |
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# 52 "I know (knew?) someone with a son called Tarquin."
Laurence Olivier, Milly?
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« Reply #63 on: 16:36:55, 01-08-2007 » |
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Nope. No-one nearly as illustrious. Somebody local - amazingly. Poor kid, you can imagine what he went through at school.
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #64 on: 17:04:31, 01-08-2007 » |
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A friend of mine finally caved in and allowed her children to have a goldfish. They called it Gelfilte. No word of a lie!
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« Reply #65 on: 17:14:59, 01-08-2007 » |
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My nephew had a gerbil and named it Badger. Go figure. His current guinea pigs are called Napoleon and Bon Idee. Go figure again.  |
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« Reply #66 on: 17:33:51, 01-08-2007 » |
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# 63 Sure, Milly. Instead of "Donald, far's yir troosers?" it'll probably be "Tarky, far's yir paulin?"  |
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« Reply #67 on: 17:41:27, 01-08-2007 » |
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Our cat's called Marlowe (as in Kit Marlowe); unbeknown to us, on the same day as we got her, friends of a friend - Mr and Mrs Kitty (sp?) - had a daughter, named Marlo. Kit Marlowe and Marlo Kitty have yet to meet.
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« Reply #68 on: 17:42:26, 01-08-2007 » |
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My old teacher Robin Holloway has a cat called Celeste.
Someone told me that another composer, Diana Burrell, has two cats named after pieces by Xenakis - one's Pithoprakta, I can't remember the other one.
I haven't contributed to this thread because I was overwhelmed by the subject. I love names! I love some of the quite obscure ones - Torquil would be fine by me, Mary! But I also love names that can be abbreviated in different ways (possibly because my own name, John, can't be abbreviated at all, and I don't have any middle names either). My favourite is Alex, which can also be turned into Sacha, Lexie, Sandy ...
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #69 on: 17:44:41, 01-08-2007 » |
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Likewise Elizabeth - I would love to meet someone who abbreviated this as 'Zab'...
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« Reply #70 on: 17:47:15, 01-08-2007 » |
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possibly because my own name, John, can't be abbreviated at all, and I don't have any middle names either
Not fond of "J" then I take it? I wish my name, "Stephen", wasn't plagued by this alternative spelling that I am not comfortable with having applied to myself because the other rather invites people to accent the second syllable more. And I just don't like that. Likewise Elizabeth - I would love to meet someone who abbreviated this as 'Zab'...
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« Reply #71 on: 17:48:10, 01-08-2007 » |
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I think it is Katherine Whitehorn who had a cat called 'Ceremony'. She just liked being able to say to guests, 'Do come in. And please don't stand on Ceremony'.
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« Reply #72 on: 17:50:56, 01-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #73 on: 17:53:48, 01-08-2007 » |
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To raise the tone here a little, I will relate how a late aunt of mine had a cat which was renamed "Max" following the loss of its tail in a road accident. "Max Bare Bum", that is.
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« Reply #74 on: 17:57:42, 01-08-2007 » |
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To raise the tone here a little, I will relate how a late aunt of mine had a cat which was renamed "Max" following the loss of its tail in a road accident. "Max Bare Bum", that is.
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