The Queen's Jubilee

[Beef Oven]

Thanks Mr GG - I didn't know about Tuva but I felt deep down in me Ugg boots that things would have developed productively if differently

Loved Brendel & bricklaying

ami, please tell me you don't wear Ugg boots.

[scottycelt]

You can see why scotty kowtows to both with a mindset like that

Scotty's infamous kowtowing and eccentric mindset are quite irrelevant, amsy ... it's the facts that are important!

[amateur51]

ami, please tell me you don't wear Ugg boots.

I don't Beefy - my feet are both spectacularly broad & spectacularly flat - when I find a shoe style that fits and is comfortable, I buy as many pairs as I can afford

[amateur51]

Scotty's infamous kowtowing and eccentric mindset are quite irrelevant, amsy ... it's the facts that are important!

Facts are important?!

Can I quote you on that, scotty?

[Beef Oven]

I don't Beefy - my feet are both spectacularly broad & spectacularly flat - when I find a shoe style that fits and is comfortable, I buy as many pairs as I can afford

There was a very wide shoe with 'stack-heels' that came out soon after platforms. I expect you had a few pairs of those?

[vinteuil]

For a real hoot - try the letters between Jane Austen and the Prince Regent's Librarian on the niceties of Royal Dedications.
I love the idea of her being requested to write a Romance on the House of Saxe-Coburg...

http://labrocca.com/ja/mja-ch07.html

[amateur51]

There was a very wide shoe with 'stack-heels' that came out soon after platforms. I expect you had a few pairs of those?

Scared of heights, Beefy - the highest I could manage would be a Birkenstock

[Flosshilde]

For a real hoot - try the letters between Jane Austen and the Prince Regent's Librarian on the niceties of Royal Dedications.
I love the idea of her being requested to write a Romance on the House of Saxe-Coburg...

http://labrocca.com/ja/mja-ch07.html

Miss Austen showed remarkable tact & firmness in declining both suggestions for future novels. I also liked Miss Bronte's (I've forgotten which one it was) explanation of why she couldn't write more like Miss Austen.

"Fanny Burney, afterwards Madame D'Arblay, was at an early age petted by Dr Johnson" The very idea of being petted by Dr Johnson at any age

[scottycelt]

Facts are important?!

Can I quote you on that, scotty?

Well, you already have, amsy, bless you ... and, yes, facts tend to be quite important however startling a revelation that may seem to the confirmed fictionist.

[amateur51]

Well, you already have, amsy, bless you ... and, yes, facts tend to be quite important however startling a revelation that may seem to the confirmed fictionist.

Yeah, right

[scottycelt]

Yeah, right

Well done, amsy! ...

[Mr Pee]

( but the current Royal Family are to culture what Brendel is to bricklaying)

So you know their musical and cultural tastes well, do you, then, Mr. GG? DO please enlighten us.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Prince Charles did a very good Parry documentary in BBC4.

[MrGongGong]

Prince Charles did a very good Parry documentary in BBC4.

and ?
all the wonderful music they have commissioned ?
and the wonderful buildings ? (Poundbury )

so he likes a bit of Parry ........... good for him

[Serial_Apologist]

Old queen

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/6142338/Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-We-owe-the-Queen-an-awful-lot.html