Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

ampersand

Hear! hear! kc.
I'm listening to Jelena Dokic fighting hard again, against Dinara Safina this time - doubt she can do it and liked DS at French Open(watched in bits while in France bossing post-stroke A at the time). But I do admire JD, too, not least for the way she nows speaks gratefully to Oz. I remember her first 'big' match when she beat Hingis.

boredofbeingathome

Good Morning Olive and all.

You do make me laugh Olive as at times the uncanniness of the little things are what sustain us.

My little pleasure is a 'snippet of time'. I shall explain; one morning whilst travelling to work, i passed a field..usually the field looked boring, nothing in it and a few pylons to the side..it does however, have uninterrupted views of one of our local beauty spots, i always allow myself a look.

This particular morning it was patchy fog and as i turned my head, well it was absoultely spectacular. The sun shone through a gap in the fog, the field was shrouded in mist and there were sheep in the field with just a hint of the morning gold on their backs. It was like the painting.. can't for the life of me remembered who painted it but the original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery and is reproduced on Cards usually..

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/

It took my breath away, just that tiny moment..and then it was gone. But i always think of the image and the gallery when i am down. Funnily enough the view is of Rivington Park which was owned by Lord Leverhulme ( who bought the gallery for his wife) and he manufactured soap..which is where i believe we came in.

Have a lovely day Olive, i am sure your boss will resolve what is after all an insignifcant little detail in the grand scheme of things.

Bob x

ampersand

A lovely carpe diem post, bob.
Thankyou for sharing.
We all need these little epiphanies - they go in the Memory Bank to be drawn upon and, unlike many savings schemes/deposits currently, do NOT lose interest.

boredofbeingathome

ampersand wrote: »

A lovely carpe diem post, bob.
Thankyou for sharing.
We all need these little epiphanies - they go in the Memory Bank to be drawn upon and, unlike many savings schemes/deposits currently, do NOT lose interest.

That's the right word..memory bank, it is my positive deposit.:D

OliveOyl_2

Oh you lot, what are you like?

I should, maybe, have warned you earlier, that I'm the most easily moved to tears person I have EVER met. (I can cry at an Andrex puppy advert - it appalls the teenagers)
So as I have popped in to catch up at work, I realise that I must re-read these posts carefully at home tonight, it isn't wise to continue reading your kind and supportive words in an open-plan office.

This forum is like a comforter blanket :A

Karmacat

Lovely. I did manage ten minutes in the garden yesterday, and the sun was just peeping above the horizon still. Then I went down to the bottom of the garden, and it was immediately gone behind the trees, its lower down down there. But both times the sky had such a glow to it, it was so beautiful. I look up and say thank you every time.

EDIT: Bob! I just looked at that link, and it has another link inside it to Sudley House - thats ten minutes from the last place we lived in before we moved over the water to Wallasey, its called Aigburth (Eggbuth) - I went to Sudley Infants School! Home.... dreaming.....

ampersand

OliveOyl wrote: »

Oh you lot, what are you like?

I should, maybe, have warned you earlier, that I'm the most easily moved to tears person I have EVER met. (I can cry at an Andrex puppy advert - it appalls the teenagers)
So as I have popped in to catch up at work, I realise that I must re-read these posts carefully at home tonight, it isn't wise to continue reading your kind and supportive words in an open-plan office.

This forum is like a comforter blanket :A

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Unfortunately Olive, A would say I am ' the most easily moved to tears person I have EVER met.'
Some triggers:
Michel Delpech singing 'Le Chasseur'.
Maxime Le Forestier, George Brassens, Catherine Lara singing...
Opening music and scenes of La Gloire de Mon Père' - the whole Pagnol thing, in fact.
'Adam Laye A-bounden'
The 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' chapter of Wind in the Willows.
Kettle's Yard and Alfred Wallis pictures and anterior associations.
Standing in a certain high place with ....
Some private horrors.
Watching Mrs Mummy shelter Princess Lucky under her wing on the perch when PL had been savaged by A's other chickens.
Seeing A carefully doing something mundane for me just before I left.

They'll do for this particular moment - yours?

boredofbeingathome

Mine too tend to be either musical or certain views and treasured pictures.The sheer laughter of my children because we decided to have a mad moment in the house.

Lovely little warm snippets.

Hmm i am in a retrospective mood now and have just come back from a couple of miles walk in the rain with DS..we have had a lovely afternoon and i am sure it is down to my withdrawing a tiny bit from my emotional bank.

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Lovely. I did manage ten minutes in the garden yesterday, and the sun was just peeping above the horizon still. Then I went down to the bottom of the garden, and it was immediately gone behind the trees, its lower down down there. But both times the sky had such a glow to it, it was so beautiful. I look up and say thank you every time.

EDIT: Bob! I just looked at that link, and it has another link inside it to Sudley House - thats ten minutes from the last place we lived in before we moved over the water to Wallasey, its called Aigburth (Eggbuth) - I went to Sudley Infants School! Home.... dreaming.....

I think i will have a look there and re visit some of my favourite galleries. Port Sunlight village is a wonderful place for a visit too and the Lady Lever Gallery is right in the middle of it all.:D Designed by Lutyens..too.

ampersand

I've never been, bob - it's been in the upper regions of my 'to do b4' list.
Lutyens, yes - we deliberately isolated ourselves for a tide at Lindisfarne day after A was 40, 4 wks ago.........and Gertrude Jekyll of course.
Nor have I yet been to Sissinghurst.
So much to do, and time to be made elastic to do it all in.