Plenty of pretty camera shots in the film Becoming Jane, which purports to chronicle Jane Austen's life. I thought her character very well depicted.
Depicted is what happened to Scotland when we tamed them a bit after Culloden. It's quite a story and it isn't over yet.
Yet England is overrun with the buggers. They run the place.
"Place the leg on this side over here and the leg on the other side over there. Now lie back and think of England".
"Fngland expects that every man this day shall do his duty": how can you say that with just a few flags? Another urban legend, or in this case, maritime.
Maritime history is both fascinating and educational. Read about the grain races round Cape Horn which tells us the story of the great sailing ships that raced from Australia to Europe carrying grain, from the 1920s to 1949, it captures the excitement of the world's last great sailing ships that raced on the world's trade routes.
Routes were indeed a great speciality of Eric Newby. Whp could forget his account of a journey through the Hindu Kush, or his marvellous book "On the Shores of the Mediterranean"?
Mediterranean Sea is an inland sea surrounded by Europe, Asia, Asia Minor, the Near East, and Africa. It connects with the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar; with the Black Sea through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus; and with the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.
Canals are a wonderful invention and great places for holidays if you love messing about in boats with none of the skill and danger of seagoing voyages. My best canal holiday was in Friesland.
Friesland is the most northern province in the Netherlands. The place is as flat as a pancake with no industries but plenty of agriculture.
Agriculture is quite in evidence where I live, but we no longer have the large red Devon cows that were a feature of the landscape in my youth. Now we have Dutch black and white Frisians.
Frisians are quite distinct from other Dutchmen. What is not well known, they speak a complete different language.
Language of English is more akin to Frisian than any other language. So we are sort of Dutch.
Dutch Frisians will be surprised to hear this. My best friend comes from Friesland I will ask him about your suggested theory.
Theory substantiated by many linguists. English is a sort of dialect of Frisian, you see.
See Naples and die. A famous phrase, but is this a good slogan for the Italian Tourist Board?
Board games are always popular and we used to play Spin the Bottle. We used to sit round a board and spin one of the empties on it and who the neck pointed at had to pay a forfeit at the behest of the person on the right who was always a lady spinthebottler if the randomly chosen victim was a chap and always a chap if the randomly chosen victim was a lady but you couldn't go twice with the same one to prevent relationships forming and all the trouble and strife that causes from which it is very difficult to escape.
escape to nirvana ! that is the cry of the existentialist .
Existentialists say you talk too much. Always have, you have to talk to make sure you're alive.
Alive as I consider myself to be at starting a sentence with any word anybody can ever think of I must confess to being stumped by trying to start one with the word "alive". Maybe I should go back to school.
