We Have Normality!
Dec. 9th, 2010 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's warm out there! We're positively basking in typical December (yes, December!) temperatures. The driver's door of my car can now be locked and unlocked. Even the skooshers are working properly!!
Let's hope it stays that way...
A solitary roe deer wandered past our office this morning, looking quite depressed. The poor thing must be very cold and hungry,
I'm reading a historical novel about Mary Queen of Scots at the moment. It's a big, epic read, and quite an enjoyable one. But I've just come across a scene where Henry, Lord Darnley, violates the unfortunate Riccio. Is there any historical basis for this? Is it likely? Or is it an instance of an author taking too many liberties with her 'borrowed' characters. Perhaps she was deliberately trying to make Darnley extremely evil, rather than just foppish and useless, so that it's less of a shock when he gets murdered...
I shall leave you now with a seasonal image. I'm cheating, I'm afraid. This photo was taken in the Big Freeze #1, back in January (yes, January!). It shows Castle Semple Loch in the snow:-

Let's hope it stays that way...
A solitary roe deer wandered past our office this morning, looking quite depressed. The poor thing must be very cold and hungry,
I'm reading a historical novel about Mary Queen of Scots at the moment. It's a big, epic read, and quite an enjoyable one. But I've just come across a scene where Henry, Lord Darnley, violates the unfortunate Riccio. Is there any historical basis for this? Is it likely? Or is it an instance of an author taking too many liberties with her 'borrowed' characters. Perhaps she was deliberately trying to make Darnley extremely evil, rather than just foppish and useless, so that it's less of a shock when he gets murdered...
I shall leave you now with a seasonal image. I'm cheating, I'm afraid. This photo was taken in the Big Freeze #1, back in January (yes, January!). It shows Castle Semple Loch in the snow:-

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Date: 2010-12-09 07:47 pm (UTC)Of course initially it made matters worse as the water was falling on the icy pavements, making them utterly lethal, but if it keeps up, it should wash all the frost and the remains of the old snow away.
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Date: 2010-12-09 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-10 04:52 pm (UTC)Timmy Dalton as Darnley? I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
I liked him as Mr Rochester:-))