All ye oul wans and oul fellas out there! Wakey wakey, rise and shine!

looksee

*earworm* You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...

Lexicographer

You have a beautiful singing voice.

Lexicographer

Finally realised a life ambition am going to Royal Shakespeare Company next week to see Shakespeare, went on line to check tickets and I've booked a performance in Russian. Now I know I am getting old, didn't see that when I booked the tickets!!!! On the up side people around me are rolling on the ground laughing ...

Alice1

Lexicographer wrote: »

Finally realised a life ambition am going to Royal Shakespeare Company next week to see Shakespeare, went on line to check tickets and I've booked a performance in Russian. Now I know I am getting old, didn't see that when I booked the tickets!!!! On the up side people around me are rolling on the ground laughing ...

Shakespeare - in Russian? Wow, not many folk can say they've done that. Enjoy your individuality Lexi.

Jellybaby1

Lexicographer wrote: »

Finally realised a life ambition am going to Royal Shakespeare Company next week to see Shakespeare, went on line to check tickets and I've booked a performance in Russian. Now I know I am getting old, didn't see that when I booked the tickets!!!! On the up side people around me are rolling on the ground laughing ...

Lexi does that mean that you ain't got no words in Russian! Now that's what I call funny, darlin'. See, ah'm laughin' so much.....

Jellybaby1

Lexicographer wrote: »

Is it true we're having sunshine next week again?

Rubecula wrote: »

That is a good question, well phrased. It deserves a good answer.

Jellybaby, answer Lexi's question for her will you?

Well, I was going to check the weather forecast for you, but himself just said his bunions are acting up, so that's enough forecast for me. :rolleyes: It's gonna rain again soon.

Lexicographer

No Russian ... but to get through the performance I will bring medicinal vodka, not really a vodka drinker, but when in Stratford .... Talking about vodka, I really fancy a prosecco now.

Lexicographer

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Lexi does that mean that you ain't got no words in Russian! Now that's what I call funny, darlin'. See, ah'm laughin' so much.....

Didn't realise you were so attractive!

Rubecula

Lexicographer wrote: »

Finally realised a life ambition am going to Royal Shakespeare Company next week to see Shakespeare, went on line to check tickets and I've booked a performance in Russian. Now I know I am getting old, didn't see that when I booked the tickets!!!! On the up side people around me are rolling on the ground laughing ...

To me it would be just as easy to understand in Russian, Outer Mongolian, or English.

I have never been able to read right through any of his works and fully understand what was going on or what was said. Everyone says how good he is so I am not disagreeing. It could just be me being a bit thick.

Lexicographer

No, you are not thick, he is a playwright, not meant to be read, only enjoyable when watched, think of a film you love, not the same as the book, he was written for action. I just love his wit, he makes me laugh, sometimes cry, Romeo was a prat, and Shakespeare thought so to. Having said that I will qualify, if a book is written, it is meant to be read, if a film is written it is meant to be watched, so I always think book is better, but if a film is written and then they write the book, the film is better. Rant over, think I will have that proscesso now. I like words, I like how people speak, but it doesn't have to be 'perfect' english, I like different things, Roger Gough is one of my favourite poets, and he is a huge kids favourite, but sometimes he makes me laugh, and Defying Gravity makes me cry. Maybe I am too old ...

Rubecula

No not too old. Indeed if we all had the same tastes in literature the world would be an awful and boring place. My tastes have always been a little different to many others. Classic literature to me is more Victoriana than Elizabethan. But that is just my taste.

Oh and I still really enjoy The Scarlet Pimpernel Stories, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and such like.

Lexicographer

Gravity is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Let go of the book and it abseils to the ground
As if, at the centre of the earth, spins a giant yo-yo
To which everything is attached by an invisible string.

Tear out a page of the book and make an aeroplane.
Launch it. For an instant it seems that you have fashioned
A shape that can outwit air, that has slipped the knot.
But no. The earth turns, the winch tightens, it is wound in.

One of my oldest friends is, at this time of writing,
Attempting to defy gravity, and will surely succeed,
Eighteen months ago he was playing rugby,
Now, seven stones lighter, his wife carries his aw-

Kwardly from room to room. Arranges him gently
Upon the sofa for the visitors. ‘How are things?’
Asks one, now wanting to know. Pause. ‘Not too bad.’
(Open brackets. Condition inoperable. Close brackets.)

Soon now, the man that I love (not an armful of bones)
Will defy gravity. Freeing himself from the tackle
He will sidestep the opposition and streak down the wing
Towards a dimension as yet unimagined.

Back where the strings are attached there will be a service
And homage paid to the giant yo-yo. A box of left-overs
Will be lowered into a space on loan from the clay.
Then weighted down, the living will walk wearily away.


Hope I'm not a downer, but don't you love how he does Aw
kwardly ....
Hope the moderator is not annoyed with me.

Lexicographer

I also have a secret love of G. Heyer, hope I'm not on my own ...

Lexicographer

Three musketeers is one of those that is great as film and book.

Rubecula

I was just thinking that myself after I posted.

Jellybaby1

Lexicographer wrote: »

Didn't realise you were so attractive!

Oh, you!

I sooooo agree with you about Roger McGough. But, I can’t read his poetry, I must hear him read it because for me, that works better. His excellent delivery of his own words is absolutely necessary. Hence, I never buy and rarely read poetry. A philistine, me! There is always his Lily (the Pink, the Pink, the Pink) and I used to sing Lily for ages. As for Shakespeare, well I never studied him because I left school at a tender age long before William and I would have been introduced. However, I have been to some of his plays and enjoyed them immensely (isn’t this a bit like ‘Educating (Jellybaby) Rita?!). Now I find I am not the only fan of G. Heyer, (hurrah!). Georgette was my main reading material when I was in my early teens. I also read Cartland but too much bodice-ripping there be, for me.

Rubecula

Just wanted to let you guys know I will be offline for a few days. See you when I get back.

Alice1

Ok Rubes. I will probably not be online much myself for a wee bit. My daughter had an operation on her back on 7 Aug and came home from hospital today. She will need a bit of care for the next while.

Jellybaby1

Rubecula wrote: »

Just wanted to let you guys know I will be offline for a few days. See you when I get back.

See ya later alligator!

Alice1 wrote: »

Ok Rubes. I will probably not be online much myself for a wee bit. My daughter had an operation on her back on 7 Aug and came home from hospital today. She will need a bit of care for the next while.

Ali I hope your daughter has a speedy recovery from the op. Family comes first!

Chucken

Hi all Been a busy bee for the past little while.

Alice I hope your daughter is recovering well xxxx

Ramette

Hey Chuckey

How is the grandma to be?

Chucken

Hey Ramette
Im great!! Having great fun buying little tiny clothes

Rubecula

* Avoids stepping in Chucken's soup in case it rots his boots *

Thinking of you Alice. Bless you all.

Not long to go now Chuck??

I am back by the way, I would have been in sooner but had to go along to the hospital for a while.

Hopefully everyone is in fine fettle and not bothering Nurse too much.

Ramette

Hey Rube
How is life treating you? I always picture you on the edge of a wind ravaged cliff (dont know why!:P) I feel i should be knitting you geansai's from aran wool

Chucken

Rubecula wrote: »

* Avoids stepping in Chucken's soup in case it rots his boots *

Thinking of you Alice. Bless you all.

Not long to go now Chuck??

I am back by the way, I would have been in sooner but had to go along to the hospital for a while.

Hopefully everyone is in fine fettle and not bothering Nurse too much.

I'll make MORE soup if you dont watch it

117 days to go Rube His pic is up next door!!!

Ramette wrote: »

Hey Rube
How is life treating you? I always picture you on the edge of a wind ravaged cliff (dont know why!:P) I feel i should be knitting you geansai's from aran wool

Like Heathcliff???

Ramette

Chucken wrote: »

ILike Heathcliff???

Yep I do like my men all silent and broody (swoon)

Chucken

Ramette wrote: »

Yep I do like my men all silent and broody (swoon)

....not rube then

Ramette

Chucken wrote: »

....not rube then

*Awaits Rube's retort with interest*.....

Chucken

Ramette wrote: »

*Awaits Rube's retort with interest*.....

He'll never get the better of me!

I'll threaten him with more soup :cool:

Ramette

Chuck did you not know that Rube pours your soup into Alice's plant pots?

Anyone feel that it got dark really early this evening