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« Reply #3480 on: 12:44:47, 11-02-2008 » |
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All this talk of daffodils has brought back a very distant memory of a rhyme. Something about daffydowndilly is coming to town. Something about a gown? I can only grasp fragments of it. Does anyone remember it?
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« Reply #3481 on: 12:51:26, 11-02-2008 » |
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I've had the pleasure of visiting Dove Cottage a number of times. It's a really beautiful place. It would have been very bleak in those days though. So cold - no hot running water or indoor lavatories. Did you go in the room that is "wallpapered" with newspapers? That was done in an effort to be a bit warmer by trying to keep out some of the draughts! A visitor there remarked that there were "three meals a day and two of them were porridge!".
 I went in winter and the rooms with fires are warm, i think traditionally you always had hot water in such places as always had a fire going so could put some water above that to boil. I would have liked to have lived in those times, though with a radio and some modern walking gear. Porridge is actually very good for you. http://www.quakeroats.co.uk/ProdQuakerOatsRealFruit.aspxHe lived a long and healthy life, which for a poet is unusual, i rather think byron should have visited the area, for holidays and been a little nicer to wordsworth. Yes except that they only had big fires and hot water if they could afford the fuel. If you read the history of the cottage, they admitted to being freezing cold and without much food which is why they ate so much porridge. Admittedly it is very good for you but boring if it's a staple diet. Don't fall for the romantic Hollywood image of roaring fires and cosy meals...didn't happen! (Well it might have done occasionally....  ) Did you see the little suitcase that he used to take on his travels for months on end? All it contained when he went away was one clean shirt!!!!! No change of underwear, socks....  Sort of takes a lot of the romance out of it really doesn't it? However he did live a long and healthy life so maybe central heating and hot running water have made us all a bit soft! |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #3482 on: 12:51:54, 11-02-2008 » |
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Daffy-down-dilly
Daffy-down-dilly
Has come to town
with a yellow petticoat
And a pretty green gown.
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« Reply #3483 on: 12:58:06, 11-02-2008 » |
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Ta Mart  I was almost there then! Where does it come from though? I can see that this will be circling my brain for the rest of the day  |
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« Reply #3485 on: 13:00:19, 11-02-2008 » |
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milly, oooo, sounds cold, i do not like the cold, he should have got a job and bought some coal ! I liked the idea of the box, but think if your going tramping around italy, best do it in style,well, with a tent anyways. http://www.camp-sites.co.uk/canvas_holidays/italy/tuscany.htmHe was an extremist, like byron, i think 'the middle way' is the best way. |
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« Reply #3486 on: 13:13:42, 11-02-2008 » |
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That`s an intriguing site, Mart. I`ll bookmark that to trawl through when I need an excuse not to hoover |
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« Reply #3487 on: 13:27:54, 11-02-2008 » |
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And then there's Shakespeare, from Winter's Tale:
.................Daffodils, that come
Before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.
February doesn't scan.
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« Reply #3489 on: 14:04:42, 11-02-2008 » |
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Mort and martle. You both got me at it, before a solution was provided.
" Lavender blue,dilly dilly
Lavender grey...
If you were queen, dilly dilly....."
The 11 o'clock number from the musical "Irene":
"In my sweet little alice blue gown,
When I first wandered down into town,
I was both shy and gay......" or
Noel Coward's "London Pride":
"All Park Lane in a shimmering gown..."
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« Reply #3490 on: 15:26:06, 11-02-2008 » |
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do you like my bourne end to henley walk pics ?
Looks like the water's still pretty high... I don't think I've ever done that walk before, but I'm very familiar with Henley (having spent 'the best years of my life' there). |
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« Reply #3492 on: 20:16:53, 11-02-2008 » |
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Well it's certainly nice to visit.
Not sure I'd rate it too highly on the culture stakes (at least certainly not from the musical perspective - the literary festival took off after I'd moved away) but if there's a countryside engraved on my soul, it's the hills of Oxfordshire.
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« Reply #3493 on: 08:31:02, 12-02-2008 » |
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Well Ive the South Downs as my back drop!! Not bad , yes? Lovely waslks etc. I am not too far from Ditchling Beacon. My mum and dad live in Dithcling, so very convenient. So does Herby Flowers and good old Dame Vera!!
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« Reply #3494 on: 09:37:11, 12-02-2008 » |
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That`s an intriguing site, Mart. I`ll bookmark that to trawl through when I need an excuse not to hoover You need an excuse not to hoover?? I just say... NO, not doing that today !! A |
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