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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
London (3) -- & Cookham
I can't work out why I can't reply to e-mails or send new e-mails on this cafe-machine.
While mother was suffering a session of TV watching Tim Henman behaving poorly, I was out of there after Andrew Murray won his first Wimbledon match. Another young hopeful: claimed as quickly as possible for Britain or even England, but he's Scottish, and has to keep on insisting on that to the press. Reminds me of Australians claiming Colin McCahon as 'Australasian'.
The event of the day was the gathering at Granny Mary Neale's house in Cookham Rise for her 90th birthday, with six bouquets, 50 [?] cards, 2 birthday cakes and a Balloon marked 90, in her little sitting-room: a merry small family party in the afternoon. The phone rang every ten minutes, with more birthday greetings, some of them sung. Sophie & Jonathan had taken her to lunch at the poshest part of The Compleat Angler in Marlow.
The result from the Rising Stars Latin at Cervia was a bit disappointing. 25th, missed the round of 24 by 1 mark As before, plenty of encouragement from friends and supporters and fellow-dancers, 'we daqnced very well' - but 'the worst possible judging panel'. That's how it goes. & Stefan had anticipated 3 weeks ago something of the sort would happen ther. Stefan & Zeudi refuse to be discouraged: just working hard & waiting.
Mrs Gaskell. Cranford (Chapter 7) : 'she had had a cousin who spelt his name with two little ffs - ffoulkes- and he always looked down on upon capital letters, and said they belonged to lately-invented families....When he met a Mrs. ffaringdon, at a watering-place, he took to her immediately; and a very pretty genteel woman she was - a widow, with a very good fortune; and 'my cousin', Mr. ffoulkes, married her ; and it was all owing to her two little ffs'.
cheers, fflap.
While mother was suffering a session of TV watching Tim Henman behaving poorly, I was out of there after Andrew Murray won his first Wimbledon match. Another young hopeful: claimed as quickly as possible for Britain or even England, but he's Scottish, and has to keep on insisting on that to the press. Reminds me of Australians claiming Colin McCahon as 'Australasian'.
The event of the day was the gathering at Granny Mary Neale's house in Cookham Rise for her 90th birthday, with six bouquets, 50 [?] cards, 2 birthday cakes and a Balloon marked 90, in her little sitting-room: a merry small family party in the afternoon. The phone rang every ten minutes, with more birthday greetings, some of them sung. Sophie & Jonathan had taken her to lunch at the poshest part of The Compleat Angler in Marlow.
The result from the Rising Stars Latin at Cervia was a bit disappointing. 25th, missed the round of 24 by 1 mark As before, plenty of encouragement from friends and supporters and fellow-dancers, 'we daqnced very well' - but 'the worst possible judging panel'. That's how it goes. & Stefan had anticipated 3 weeks ago something of the sort would happen ther. Stefan & Zeudi refuse to be discouraged: just working hard & waiting.
Mrs Gaskell. Cranford (Chapter 7) : 'she had had a cousin who spelt his name with two little ffs - ffoulkes- and he always looked down on upon capital letters, and said they belonged to lately-invented families....When he met a Mrs. ffaringdon, at a watering-place, he took to her immediately; and a very pretty genteel woman she was - a widow, with a very good fortune; and 'my cousin', Mr. ffoulkes, married her ; and it was all owing to her two little ffs'.
cheers, fflap.
Posted by: Tony Green / 10:21 AM 
