Just seen your post, Jez. If you're still in n Scilly your winds will be worse
than ours. I'm think that we have gusts to get over 30kts — not huge unless
you're in a caravan with a large awning attached :-)
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> On 4 Sep 2016, at 20:48, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We're not so far away - but there's a bit of water in the way - we're on
> the Isles of Scilly.
> Wills and Kate were here yesterday too...
> Jez
>> On Sunday, 4 September 2016, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I haven’t heard of Tenniel, but isn’t it amazing how Dodgson created a
>> whole world with “Alice …”
>>
>> I’m on a fast Internet connection slowed by my distance from the Access
>> Point. We’re in Cornwall, west of St Ives, having driven here from the
>> Quantock Hills in Somerset today; it’s piddling down with rain and the sea
>> and sky are grey, but it’s relaxing nonetheless.
>>
>> Chris in a Caravan :-)
>>
>>
>>>> On 2 Sep 16, at 20:46, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> <mailto:
>>> olymoose@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/2/2016 10:57 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> My apology. I guess I'm not modern enough. I interpreted going down a
>> rabbit hole as running into a dead end. Then I thought about it more after
>> your response and realized that it refers to going down an Alice in
>> Wonderland sort of rabbit hole.
>>>
>>> I've always had the second understanding, from long before the internet.
>> Alice is, after all, from 1865. One of the little treasures I have from
>> childhood is the 1946 Random House 'Special Editions' of Alice and Looking
>> Glass, with the John Tenniel illustrations, colored by Fritz Kredel.
>>>
>>> We saw an exhibit about both Alices, Dodgson and the books at the Morgan
>> in NY last year. A fair amount of interesting stuff, including many
>> different illustrations. Although I did later acquire "Alice's Adventures
>> Underground", which is mostly his original, hand lettered manuscript and
>> his own illustrations, the colored Tenniel illustrations will always be for
>> me the way the books 'should' look - well, the way Wonderland looks. ;-)
>>>
>>> One can see how Tenniel worked from Dodgson's original drawings, which
>> gives his illustrations an extra authenticity.
>>>
>>>> And, more particularly these days, going down that Alice in Wonderland
>> rabbit hole on the internet with links to everywhere.
>>
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