Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant hapus!!
Mar. 1st, 2011 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelOr at least, I hope that's right. For non-Welsh speakers, happy St David's Day, anyway.
Here - have a leek.
Early 19th century glass and silk floss, as worn by Lady Llanover, aka Mrs Benjamin Hall. He was the chap they named Big Ben after. One hesitates to speculate why.
Here - have a leek.
Early 19th century glass and silk floss, as worn by Lady Llanover, aka Mrs Benjamin Hall. He was the chap they named Big Ben after. One hesitates to speculate why.
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Date: 2011-03-01 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-01 07:13 pm (UTC)Whereas I prefer to remember the bowmen in the garden at Crecy with mud to the eyeballs, shoving leeks in their caps so they didn't accidentally kill each other in the melee.
How's the shoulder? Improving?
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Date: 2011-03-01 07:05 pm (UTC)I was asked today why I wasn't wearing a daffodil - my reply of "they're not out yet" occasioned surprise. Apparently, they are out in Welshpool (20 miles away and a few hundred foot lower than us!)
As for Big Ben - maybe he was really noisy?
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Date: 2011-03-01 07:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-03-09 06:22 pm (UTC)We have her hat (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39946000/jpg/_39946501_ladyllanover300.jpg) as well, you can see the leek in the picture, and some of her clothing (http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/design/fashion+and+costume/art66009).
At the moment we have an exhibition of old wedding gowns, mostly Victorian but one lovely Regency muslin with an Empire line redingote over it. Fantastic stuff.
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