Academy of Armitage Studies -- the Research continues

[Theresahollyinyourmind]

Welcome to our newest faculty building. Make yourselves comfortable and ignore the smell of paint. We cannot keep up with the demand for new premises.

Yeah, baby!

Here's a meanwhile

Stunning. Just the sort of vibe I was aiming for.

I really think they have everything on YT!
Lots of versions, and the sound balance wasn't too good on that one, but I was interested in seeing the instruments being played.

Yt is indeed a box of delights. Or the magic toybox.

And another for our bad Lancelot...

Speaking of which, .

I'm off for an early night. Sweet dreams, everyone.

Early night is a good idea, same to you

Did someone mention Bad Lancelot?

Morning everybody! Sorry I haven't been around much the last few days - have missed you all! Are we all ready for Christmas?

I love The lady Of Shallott - both painting and poem.I bought a poster of that painting years ago when I still lived with my parents. I asked for it back a while ago but they bought a gorgeous, ornate (and very expensive) wooden frame for it so there is now some contention as to who the painting belongs to :)

We've missed you too Twiggy - have you had a good weekend?
I've still got shedloads to do for Christmas - really can't get into it.
Am also only 2 days into a fortnight off with DH and DD and the pair of them are already driving me round the bend! DD is like the duracell bunny for about 14 hours a day, and DH is making his usual contribution to the festivities (that'll be sweet fa then).

Ok rant over - I think what I'm trying to say is thank goodness I can escape to the Academy when it gets too much !

Morning all. Is this seat of learning going to be open throughout the holidays, then?

Gosh, we're on Most Active!

Weekend wa good thanks, MrsLNP, apart from playing in the snow with DD which I detest but which has to be done. Nice lunch at Cafe Rouge yesterday. Well, I say nice - several tables kept giving us "oh, poor you" looks, wrt to the kids :o

I've got mose of my Christmas preparations done apart from the cooking (oh and I haven't wrapped a single thing) but I'm not feeling Christmassy yet :( Maybe some Xmas music will sort that out. Music is so evocative, isn't it?
I feel your pain about the Duracell bunny for a daughter!!

Missy, we won't be at home over Xmas but I will find the off moment to get onto the parents' PC if it kills me :) Their PC is in a busy area, with the screen facing out to everyone though so I may be brief :o

goodness, I must learn to proof-read before posting! Odd moment, not off. Plus countless typos, sorry. I can spell, unlike TeenageTwitterLucas, I just can't type :) TTL was apparently in a "shopping isle" the other day

TTL is getting v. OTT - much prefer John Porter.

I take it your DD is slightly excited too then, Twigs? Mine doesn't stop talking/fidgeting from the moment she wakes up, and there's so much she wants to do (usually with me, which is lovely but...)

I feel your pain wrt playing in the snow - we've not had enough here at the mo but it's trying. Took her to.miniature steam railway with my olds yesterday which wad freezing!

I hope we'll be open. Will be needing to escape somewhere...!

Oh God yes, the talking, the talking... My DD even tried to hold a conversation with me whilst I was in the garden shed looking for a spade and she was inside the house with the door closed!!

TTL is definitely getting worse, I agree.

If my DD isn't talking to me she just carries on talking to herself!

She did make me laugh yesterday though. DH had been showing her how to make a playlist on Spotify and she tottered unto the kitchen with "Mummy, can you help me find that Missy Elliott song I like?"

I didn't know she'd even heard of her!

I just wish I had done something exciting last night, to feel so rough.
I think I know the reason why, however.

I had another go at LOTN and was quite happy listening to him roistering about in ninth century Britain, even though his sword seemed a bit smaller than Guy's. But now he has been betrayed into slavery by a man he thought was his friend and lord. It's only in sound but we all know that pale, thin, unkempt and angsty look, don't we? Time to break out the hot soup and blankets.

On a lighter note, I noticed that poor Guy's storied leather keks looked a wee bit snug in that last photo of Missy's last night. He looked quite cross about it, so I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the help at the Locksley brand of Ye Sketchley's, this morning. (or is it Johnson's, these days?

I am so relieved to hear I can look forward to seeing you all over the festive season, as much as we can manage. I am faced with the prospect of house guests for several days, as well as wall to wall family.

Holly - have just picked up LOTN from the library

Pleeeeese tell me there's more Old English in it apart from opening quote from Beowulf which was thud inducing in the extreme

I suspect the makers of The Hobbit must have heard him read that as it fits perfectly with that genre too - sounds a bit Elvish

I do like him in slightly Northern mode too

Your library is wonderful, MrsLNP. Did they comment at all on how they got hold of such an unusual item?

Sorry to have to tell you that I have now listened half-way through and so far no more Beowulf. Now there's an idea for a new Naxos audio book, and look how intellectual we would seem, asking for it. Quite a bit of shouty stuff however.

Funny how a mere voice can be so thud-worthy.
And has got me so worried about the poor hard done to slave.

Thinking of buying The Sonne in Splendour next, purely out of curiosity.

Holly - am so glad it's not just me - I've got that on my reading list too

Have also picked up Wuthering Heights to re-read from the library this morning, and had Birdsong land on my doormat too!

If nothing else my regressing to age 15 is at least broadening my literary horizons!

I don't think the library have put 2 and 2 together yet (or they are too polite to say anything!). I have pretty much exhausted their stocks now though, They don't appear to have Sylvester or The Inconvenient Marriage or Moving On.

They have the boxed set of Series 8 Spooks, but would take so long to get through I may as well buy it with what it would cost in hire charges.

I made it back

Where have you been Snowy?