tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post113476685531376563..comments2024-02-29T08:34:45.287+00:00Comments on A Lot On My Plate: Round RobinsZabeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204594909909378615noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post-88571513795798195122020-04-10T11:43:38.358+01:002020-04-10T11:43:38.358+01:00Wonderful great going, I love your work and look f...Wonderful great going, I love your work and look forward for more work from your side. I am a regular visitor of this site and by now have suggested many people.<br /><a href="https://www.akccommodities.com/organic-rice-producers/" rel="nofollow">organic rice products</a><br />Akc Commoditieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924762381429965162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post-85728547055089519802007-02-17T05:11:00.000+00:002007-02-17T05:11:00.000+00:00Cool blog, interesting information... Keep it UP &...Cool blog, interesting information... 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Maybe I won't give it up after all... let's see how I feel next year...Zabeenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204594909909378615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post-1135270933440923992005-12-22T17:02:00.000+00:002005-12-22T17:02:00.000+00:00Okay, Zabeena, here is our round robin, sent out l...Okay, Zabeena, here is our round robin, sent out last week. I think you should carry on - me, I LOVE getting them, even the sort SH looks down his nose at, what's the point in a card that just says, "love John and Jane"? Especially when you have no idea who John and Jane are.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Once again, apologies to those who don’t like them, a round robin, but Lucius doesn’t see the point in sending a Christmas card with no news, and if we tried to write the news by hand, we’d be lucky to get them done by next Christmas.<BR/><BR/>Mostly, Lucius is busy with work, too busy to get on with many projects around the house. However, a few weeks ago, he and our friend Luke Hughes, the furniture maker, volunteered to put up a couple of chandeliers which I had bought in a junk shop. Easy, they said, we’ll be finished by lunch they said, then what shall we do, they said. A few minutes later, in a state of great excitement, they announced that they had found lovely solid oak beams under the plasterboard, and why didn’t we take down the whole ceiling in order to expose them. In a moment of madness I said yes.<BR/><BR/>Next thing I know, the dining room is full of broken plasterboard and dust, and the solid oak beams turn out to be stained pine with oak veneer on the sides but, crucially, not on the bottom. I carry on cooking lunch, they carry on making a mess. Plans are made for a wooden ceiling, lots of clever design by both Luke and Lucius. Polly, Luke’s wife, volunteers Luke to return and help rebuild the ceiling in due course. That night, I wake up at about three o’clock and remember that we are having a houseparty the following weekend, and that we will be about 14 for three meals. Too many for the kitchen. At this point Horatio and Alfred are volunteered to clear up the mess made by the grown ups, and, as it is half term, they oblige. Much cleaning, more than is normally achieved in a month of Sundays at Huntswood, and the room is ready for use, despite the lack of a ceiling. On Saturday morning, beginning to lay the table, I find Lucius drilling the first batons to the ceiling, and chase him out to the workshop.<BR/><BR/>By the time our guests have gone, Lucius has planed a great deal of beech from the wood, and is ready to get on with fixing the new ceiling. Once he begins, he abandons all the early plans to reface the beams, and makes it flat. It is really beautiful. When I tell my friend DD about this over the phone, she suggests that the room would be even better if Lucius panelled the walls too. So that is what is going to happen. In the meantime, we have a lovely new ceiling, with two junkshop chandeliers. <BR/><BR/>Otherwise, Eleanor occasionally drags herself home from her drama school life in London; she has moved from a student hovel in Golders Green to a studio flat in Swiss Cottage (about three minutes’ walk from the college bar). Horatio is applying to various universities to read engineering. He has been taking part in a physics Olympiad (described, accurately, by someone in the kitchen as “voluntary exams”), which results in much poring over physics textbooks by Lucius and Horatio and any visitor thought to be even slightly interested. Lettice plays a great deal of hockey, sings, and has GCSEs in the summer. Alfred has just started at Marlborough, which he seems to be enjoying. <BR/><BR/>Love to you all <BR/>From<BR/>Lucius, Joanna, Eleanor, Horatio, Lettice and Alfred<BR/><BR/>PS I was going to illustrate this letter with pictures of Lucius working on the ceiling in unsuitable clothing (DJ, best suit, etc), and with a picture of the finished product, but have been beset by technical problems (ie total incompetence on my part, also – bad workman that I am – a hopeless printer).Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790888857849562408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post-1135032983592018132005-12-19T22:56:00.000+00:002005-12-19T22:56:00.000+00:00Oooh, I don't have the polar express! (I haven't s...Oooh, I don't have the polar express! (I haven't seen the film either... but you never know what Santa's going to bring the kids...)Zabeenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204594909909378615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14927468.post-1134867056586606652005-12-18T00:50:00.000+00:002005-12-18T00:50:00.000+00:00Oh I love Christmas books. They're so fun to read ...Oh I love Christmas books. They're so fun to read and always put me in the spirit. I haven't heard of this one you mention...though I guess I'm better off for it. My favorite is definitely the kids' book Polar Express.Monahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469571326622289367noreply@blogger.com