Six Degrees of Separation

[teamsaint]

An uncle of mine had a niece on his side of the family who married Max Mosley, thus linking me by marriage to the Devonshires via the Mitford sisters. Unity Mitford had a pash on Hitler, so that ties me in to him quite neatly!
On a vist to Chatsworth I cheekily announced that I was family, but they still made me pay!

That unity was a bit of a scamp, wasn't she? Interesting new book on her coming out this autumn.......

edit..they don't stay rich by giving it away...even to deserving rellies like you ,F !!

[Richard Tarleton]

Jessica was good value

[amateur51]

That unity was a bit of a scamp, wasn't she? Interesting new book on her coming out this autumn.......

edit..they don't stay rich by giving it away...even to deserving rellies like you ,F !!

I recently picked up a biography of her sister Decca (Jessica) in my local charity shop, whereupon the man next to me said "Decca eh? You collect records do you?"

Not the classiest chat-up line, you have to concede

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Jessica was good value

[johncorrigan]

Some years ago my son's godfather was working on a project on oral history in the south of England. One old man told how, as a young boy, he used to visit his sister who was in service at a big country house - he would be left downstairs in the kitchen and would be given a treat while he waited. One day a small man came in to the kitchen and was given a bowl of ice cream and the young boy was also given some - they ate together and at the end the man bowed and left - five steps from ice cream with Gandhi is the best I can come up with.

[Nick Armstrong]

Nicely told, Mr Corrigan!

[salymap]

Rethe Mitfords - Pa was an absolute monster, I thought.

[amateur51]

Some years ago my son's godfather was working on a project on oral history in the south of England. One old man told how, as a young boy, he used to visit his sister who was in service at a big country house - he would be left downstairs in the kitchen and would be given a treat while he waited. One day a small man came in to the kitchen and was given a bowl of ice cream and the young boy was also given some - they ate together and at the end the man bowed and left - five steps from ice cream with Gandhi is the best I can come up with.

Very classy, jc

[JimD]

so that's a link to RVW in two degrees (or is that one?).

The following quotation from Samuel Beckett's 'The Expelled' might help clarify this important question.

“There were not many steps. I had counted them a thousand times, both going up and coming down, but the figure has gone from my mind. I have never known whether you should say one with your foot on the sidewalk, two with the following foot on the first step, and so on, or whether the sidewalk shouldn’t count. At the top of the steps I fell foul of the same dilemma. In the other direction, I mean from top to bottom, it was the same, the word is not too strong. I did not know where to begin nor where to end, that’s the truth of the matter."

[MrGongGong]

An uncle of mine had a niece on his side of the family who married Max Mosley, thus linking me by marriage to the Devonshires via the Mitford sisters. Unity Mitford had a pash on Hitler, so that ties me in to him quite neatly!
On a vist to Chatsworth I cheekily announced that I was family, but they still made me pay!

I wonder
does a certain other sometime poster have to pay also ?



(It's a JOKE ..... maybe not a good one so if you really are offended take it away )

[Ferretfancy]

I wonder
does a certain other sometime poster have to pay also ?



(It's a JOKE ..... maybe not a good one so if you really are offended take it away )

Oh dear! But then, isn't repetition the soul of wit or something?

[Flosshilde]

Rethe Mitfords - Pa was an absolute monster, I thought.

Certainly sounds it in Nancy's books. But wasn't he called 'Fa' (which could be short for 'Fafner', I suppose - he roared enough )

[salymap]

Certainly sounds it in Nancy's books. But wasn't he called 'Fa' (which could be short for 'Fafner', I suppose - he roared enough )

Probably Flossie, I read so many books about the Mitfords and the Sitwells years ago that I'm probably mixing them. Both families had dotty dads.

I don't think I've read any of Nancy's books but remember all that U and non-U nonsense.

[Flosshilde]

I've read Love in a cold climate and The Pursuit of Love - quite entertaining, with a slightly ghastly fascination. The narrator, mostly based on Nancy, is supposedly a cousin of the children in the family based on the Mitfords,

[clive heath]

It has always warmed my heart to think that I have shaken the hand of someone who has shaken Fred Astaire's hand. This person was Tommy Tune ( for quizzers: who appeared in a film where his father was played by Vladek Sheybal). Partly because: long before I had discovered the delights of the Buzby Berkeley movies and Hermes Pan (especially in the cinema in the basement of the Mayfair Hotel where they had a series one summer) a friend at school had an LP of Fred with Oscar Peterson and his trio, Charlie Shavers and Flip Phillips and whatever you think of Fred's singing in the movies on this LP he is a joy as are his accompanists. It even has him tap-dancing! no mean percussionist. Also, somewhat bizarrely it has Oscar on Celeste, not tinkly like Fats but an up-tempo number. I promise to upload some of these gems before too long.