Comments | tryfanstone: New Year

tryfanstone

New Year

Dec 31, 2006 17:34

Just about to head out into the gale - the wind is rattling the streetlights and lifting the dustbin lids. So,

Happy Hogmanay to you all.

Or happy Eid. :)

One final rec for the year.
I spent the afternoon, after a bracing walk up the Water of Leith, in the Cumberland Bar on Cumberland Street. If you are ever in Edinburgh, you MUST visit the ladies ( Read more... )

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geniusartist December 31 2006, 17:49:44 UTC

I'm off off myself to the wild streets of Manhattan. *snickers*

Enjoy your New Year's Eve! Happy early 2007. :D

tryfanstone January 1 2007, 13:19:42 UTC

And yourself - trusting you survived the wilderness! :)

unovis December 31 2006, 18:04:10 UTC

Happy back to you, Coal fairy!
In Manhattan, try the decorous rest room in the National Academy of Design. It's spacious and Jeffersonian and makes me feel as though I should be balancing my watercolor sketchbook on my knees (Lord knows how the men manage).

tryfanstone January 1 2007, 13:22:22 UTC

Ah. You have been first footed, although given the amount of work you have to do - oh, best of luck.

I am so pleased to be saying I shall see your Jeffersonian rest-room.

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tryfanstone January 1 2007, 14:19:23 UTC

Indeed so!

And a very happy New Year to yourself.

cordelia_v December 31 2006, 18:24:36 UTC

Happy New Year to you, too, dear!

And that dusky-pink shade is called mauve. It was the color of that decade, because (I have read) the chemical process for inducing it in fabric and other sorts of dying was perfected just at about that time. So, because now they *could* produce that color, a lot of things were done in that color for about a ten-year period. Indeed, some historians call that the "Mauve Decade."

There are no limits to my historian geekiness, evidently. Hope you had a lovely evening.

Mauve tryfanstone January 1 2007, 14:23:12 UTC

Ah-ha!

I do love, truly, these giftings of knowledge. And at the back of my mind ... ack, was this something to do with the Great Exhibition? There's something about Albert and colour ...

lizardspots December 31 2006, 20:13:14 UTC

Eid Mubarak! ^_^ Actually, Eid was yesterday, but it says it's today on my calendar, haha

tryfanstone January 1 2007, 14:26:21 UTC

Ha! I knew there was a phrase, but my arabic is archaeological and so damn rusty. :( (Took me ages to work out there was more than one Eid, though.)

I was lucky enough to celebrate Eid in Jordan once, and have never forgotten. I was reminded yesterday when coming across a group of ladies in the most beautiful clear, bright saris, such a contrast to the dreich gray of the day.