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Comment on Decorating Advice

Jerome — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:59:37 GMT

I do hope you're not letting the truth of fiction down for some decorating advices... and what about the cleaning of these draperies?

Comment on Decorating Advice

philip — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:14:21 GMT

There are many rules in the game of window treatments.

Comment on Unionville, Ohio

Nancy Barclay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:29:29 GMT

I knew the woman who made the corn fritters and I was one of the very few locals employed at the Old Tavern. They wouldn't let just anyone work there. Once I could remember who lived in every house in Unionville. Now I'm at a lose at the fritter maker's name. She was a thin, quite old, and very nice woman.

I loved the stone wall and the side garden and glancing in the side porch window to see all the beautifully dressed women.

I thought that I'd live in that town forever. I thought I owned that block, the creek behind the Big Field, the pond behind the Maltbe's. Now I seldom return and there aren't nearly as many good memories as there should have been.

You brought back some of them. Thank you.

Comment on Connected, Continued

George Snyder — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:17:10 GMT

Indeed. Hence his surprise on this visit when he was not sent to the Servants' Hall for lunch but was permitted instead to dine with his lordship.

J L-M did not always have an easy time of it. Persuading owners like Lord L. to turn their properties over to the NT could be a harrowing business. Sometimes I think the question is not why there are so few of these great houses surviving, but rather how any of them have managed to survive at all.

Comment on Connected, Continued

Graham Page — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:31:53 GMT

I came across an earlier diary entry of JL-M's from July 1945. This visit, possibly his first to Petworth went less well: Lord Leconfield impressed him as 'a pompous old ass, with a blue face and fish eyes'. After the interview Lord L 'led me to the street door where he dismissed me. Pointing to a tea house with an enormous notice CLOSED hanging in the window, he said, "You will get a very good tea in there. Put it down to me. Goodbye."'

Comment on What Is Said, Unsaid

bd — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:11:54 GMT

ps. studying the bird? he could tell who'd been there by studying the bird? now i'm thinking, 'why'd i give my bird away?' oh, oh. i'm not alan delon.
xxx

Comment on What Is Said, Unsaid

bd — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:06:14 GMT

'she could stop the grass growing...'

no more to be said.
xxx

Comment on A Footman's CV

Jerome — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:07:59 GMT

It is a less comtemplative post this time... Are you someone who changes with world? Are you regretting it and therefore dream of beautiful lost worlds? Mais "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"

Comment on Writing and Photography, Limits of

bd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:28:36 GMT

why did this make me well up?
i don't know.
probably the doubt. and i want to say, how could you possibly doubt when you write like you write?
but i know why...i wish i could take it away...from
all of us. too bad, no can do.
the other thing is this. i am always, let me repeat,
always jealous of your eye.
love you, dear george, love you.

Comment on House Beautiful

bianca — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:51:48 GMT

perfect!!
it made me laugh out loud. your vision is so much funnier than mine. only one mistake. we pretended we were indians, not cowboys. we were very ragged...and as you mentioned, barefoot.

love you.
oh, and i do know where adelaide is. we were right there, at the top of the hill on the other side
of the canyon.
next time.
xxx
bianc