Posts by Leopold
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Oh, you can find decent tea if you look (not from Ak btw), but not the variety of shops you coffee drinkers seem to have.
Amazed that there are so many responses on such a trivial matter (yes, tea is trivial too), esp, when compared with complete lack of comment on the opening shots in the election campaign - -
You filter coffee drinkers think you have it tough... what about us tea drinkers? All you seem to get these days, is a teabag ... the doffeee equivalent of instant - oh for decent teashop, specialisng in serving properly made teas...
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Anything left of your ratepayer-funded sand after this weekend? May have to drop paying for swimming pools while they truck in replacement sand for the rich...
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For both Mr Whittall and Ray Knowles:
F you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; -
Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
John Lackland. That’s why it’ll never be resurrected. (Plus the Robin Hood legend, which has deeply unfairly cast Richard Coeur-de-Lion as some sort of hero, despite the fact that the man viewed England largely as a tax base. Then again, so did John.)
Yet John was being rehabilitated in the 17th century, after being given a rough ride by monastic chroniclers - you don't cross the Church without some payback! - Shakespeare, secret Catholic or not, was aware enough to know on side his bread was buttered by giving a reasonably sympathetic portrait in his play. Dunno when the Robin Hood legend was attached to a specific king - 15th century mebbe? luck of the draw there - could have just as easily been Richard.
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Regnal names are funny things, tho' - George is perfectly acceptable, despite George III and IV. And James and Chas are still off-limits - don't discount tradition - surprising that John was never resurrected after reformation - first to take on the papacy, albeit unsuccessfully. I'd still plump for Alfred or Arthur, myself
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to FletcherB,
Regnal only for Belgium and the odd German principality. Lost favour as a name since Leopold II and his royal activities in the Congo
Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell. -
Pre-coronation and privately, the royals can use any name they like - It is the regnal name which is important - Edward VII was pre-coronation Albert (despite Vicky, was considered too Kraut), Ed8 was pre-coronation David, and Charlie, if ever gets to be king, has chosen George VII for his name (Charles just far too Stuartish). Elizabeth was in fortunate position of having her real name the same as an acceptable regnal name.
Willie will probably stick with William V as well.
Henry, Arthur and Alfred are for some reason off-limits as regnal names (despite their illustrious ancestry) -
Being able to circumvent queues and crowded foyers by bellowing out "let me through, I'm a doctor!" would one of the unacknowledged benefits of having a PHD
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To iterate. 'Cultural cringe' can only apply to those things we are responsible for - writers, film etc. Landscape and weather are out of our hands. We can neither apologise for them nor claim credit