Books, plays and poems.

[Nurse Duckett]

urchin said:

Isn't that tip actually from the equivalent book for men over 40?

I thought it was "don't try to chew gum and tie your shoe-laces at the same time".

Or was that President Ford, who couldn't do both? Maybe he needed lessons in shoe-lace-tying.

Or something------

[Captain Nudnick]

It was originally said that Ford couldn't fart and chew gum at the same time...

[Crusoe]

nurseduckett said:

Schoolmaster: That depends on you Foster. The army is not yet so depleted in numbers that it will take someone who cannot master Latin gerundives.

;D

benbow said:

If you want to post a picture or a few lines (especially Alan Bennett) that's fine by me.

Me too.

[Benbow]

Ahem... (clears throat noisily)


'Tales From Shakespeare' - Charles and Mary Lamb

[Nudnick]

'Cautionary TAles' -- Hilaire Belloc

[Pooka]

GoThiC TaLeS
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

[sea horse]

Pooka said:

GoThiC TaLeS
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"The Blood Countess, Erzébet Bathory of Hungary (1560-1614) : a gothic horror poem of violence and rage"

Poem (with correct full title) by Robert Peters






P.S. Yes, it's true what Dulcinea always says; Dracula was a woman!

[Captain Nudnick]

'Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination' -- Daphne Du Maurier

[Benbow]

'Tales Of Mystery And Imagination' - Edgar Allan Poe

[Nurse Duckett]

Tales From A Long Room: Peter Tinniswood

I cannot find an image of the cover so, since no one can stop me here is a taste of it:

"The lady wife, like most members of her sex, has an inordinate number of birthdays. As she grows older these undoubtedly increase in frequency.

Ineeed I am of the opinion that she is now celebrating as many as one per annum.

This year, I suppose, she will have a birthday on the Saturday of the Lords Test.

She usually does."

---------

"I remember to this day the surge of emotion that coursed through my veins when I first caught sight of her. The rose garden at dear old Castle Arlott slumbering with honey-laden bees. The Benaud bush aflame in scarlet bloom.

And into my view she glided, a tall, slim, sylphlike figure in purest white.

My heart missed a beat. The sap rose in my loins.

Dear God, she was the spitting image of Herbert Sutcliffe."

-------

"My wife as she approached her prime grew to look more and more like that great Gloucestershire all-rounder, T. W. Goddard.

It was a source of much pride and satisfaction to me, none more so than on that sun-dappled post-prandial session at the Cheltenham Festival, when we were sitsting with friends idly nibbling chilled Zubes and supping our mulled Chateau Dipper.

Our peace and serenity was rudely disturbed when the Gloucestershire skipper, Mr. B. O. Allen, strode up to us angrily, pointed an accusatory finger at the lady wife and said in a most hectoring manner:

'Goddard, what in the name of blitheration are you doing sitting there in women's togs? Get yourself off to the dressing room this instant."

This the lady wife did. And at the end of the day she had the satisfaction of returning home having taken seven Leicestershire wickets at the cost of a mere seventeen runs."

[Benbow]

Did Peter Tinniswood know my Aunt Lucy, by any chance?



'Room At The Top' - John Braine

[Tiger Lil']

A Room With A View - E.M. Forster

[Pooka]

"A Room of One's Own" ~ Virginia Woolf

[Crusoe]

nurseduckett said:

“The lady wife, like most members of her sex, has an inordinate number of birthdays. As she grows older these undoubtedly increase in frequency.”…

…“And at the end of the day she had the satisfaction of returning home having taken seven Leicestershire wickets at the cost of a mere seventeen runs.”

;D

Wonderful stuff, Nursie.

[Nurse Duckett]

webb said:

;D

Wonderful stuff, Nursie.

Glad you spotted it, Crusoe. Glad you liked it.

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