and while on the subject ... a smart navyboy

[nodbear]

I have so many times recently decided to post and not got around to it that I have an awful feeling that this will be a sort of hybrid post of joy,snags and even s mini rant

Comments

[eglantine_br]

Stories are always in the context of their times, of course. Real life too, always in the structure of history. I love this, how history leads us to fiction, or the other way. (Endless books to read-- 3 lifetimes would not be enough. I love that too, the sensation that I will never 'run out.'

I am writing a little today-- I think the ideas you had yesterday have unstuck me a little. We will see if it is any good-- but the cloggy feeling is gone.

I like this sailor boy. He looks optimistic.

[nodbear]

Writing a little is good - glad I might have unstuck you just a bit :)

He is rather hopeful the young sailor boy - I wonder what his story really was ?

I have been thinking about prize crews today a great deal and about those proud young middies sailing in splendour into Falmouth with the Indy's latest prizes - that is when not getting captured :( then escaping :) and being rescued by the "bloody Indy" - yes it really happened - with that ship and that crew fact always bests fiction so it seems !

[esteven]

What a young man! I will be looking forward to the BB programme. :)

It's good to read from you again, and I commiserate with you about your house-hold appliances. Everything comes in threes is a saying we have over here.

May I point out, that I am esteven? Estevan is certainly a nice person, but they are not I.*g*

[nodbear]

Yes =or everything you don't really want seems to come in threes!
noted=sorry was being so dense

[esteven]

It can only get better:D

Don't worry, anteros likes the version with the "a" too.

May God set a flower upon your head.

[mylodon]

Oh, he's lovely. And so modern looking. Could have come right out of one of the boats at Eton Dorney.

[nodbear]

Yes indeed = another great day at Dorney today - I almost was thinking I could hear the roar of the crowd today in the garden
( it is just under five and a half miles from my house so maybe I am not being too fanciful :)

lovely hands he has - the unknown navyboy

[anteros_lmc]

Mmmmm he's pretty! But, yes, I can appreciate that shifting the date must have had a serious impact on the production.

anteros_lmc and I spend rather a lot of time in 1797 these days
Best place to be these days :/

[nodbear]

It is a good place to be - though not without its own problems in terms of organisational malaise of course

but sorry that 2012 is sometimes a horrid place to be :(

shifting the date = yes I am by no means against " relocating" operatic settings when they add something and make you think
but some libretto just does not lend itself to that happening and this is one of them.

[anteros_lmc]

It is a good place to be - though not without its own problems in terms of organisational malaise of course
Never a truer word spoken.