^^ Hep- 1. I read a two volume biography of Jennie and it said that she had one tattoo around her waist and another around her wrist. This wouldn't have been as strange then as it would be now but, even having said that, John Julius Norwich and his ex-wife (intellectual toffs) both have discreet tattoos.

2. I am sure that the tie for this round will be justly yours, for the Farage thread. I am much more likely to be offered a length of rope, a beam and a chair than a tie from the boss around here (and it does serve me right) but, despite all that, I have a wild time poking sticks through bars and rattling cages. I have said that I don't need a tie (true) and I don't exactly need approbation (I think that is true) but, as an honest man, I have to say that I confess that it would be nice to win one of these ties; not for a very conventional reason, though - but just because it would be a win which is so, so, so much against the remote possibility of its happening!

PS on Jennie - she was no innocent and even Churchill, as a boy, noticed that she once went out with a ladder in one stocking and returned with the ladder in the other side...

Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2014-10-26 10:19:19)

^^ OK Doggie. On the Sharpe-Zwicker text - Dr Johnson by Reynolds (OK Johnson was not an aristocrat) -

https://www.google.com/search?q=dr+johnson+by+joshua+reynolds&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9xpNVJ61Jo3GggSkngE&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#i=0

Moreover, the use of rural settings for portraits was equally arguably a result of the romantic movement, which revelled in nature.This is PATHETIC as evidence of an aristocratic decline in intellectual concerns - moreever, protagonists of this bosh need to decide whether it happened in the 18th C or the early 20th C!!

^ Aw! And there was I thinking that you meant me!

Well, he seems to be more of the drive by snipe type than a full scale war enthusiast.


Anyway, I guess I was asking what sort of fights are happening? Are you inherently at war with other style writers, or just some in general?

Excellent, my preferred medium!

Last edited by formby (2014-10-26 13:23:47)

You only need to look at a case like Siegfried Sassoon, utterly work shy before WWI, spent his time fox-hunting and publishing private leather editions of his dubious poetry and that's all he was expected to do. At the grand old of age of 27 he earned his nickname Mad Jack in the trenches for his daring-do on night raids, utterly impervious to whizz-bombs and danger.