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Trying to get the tide to stop coming in is tiring work and the poor man needed a rest.
As William Makepeace Thackery's beautiful poem described the King's action:
Canute turned towards the ocean—'Back!' he said, 'thou foaming brine.
'From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat;
Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy master's seat:
Ocean, be thou still! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet!'
Having just departed their home base at Valley Falls Yard in Cumberland, RI Providence and Worcester local PR3 is now in the state of Massachusetts here at about MP 0.65 on the East Providence Running Track. At left is the big brick former Crown Manufacturing Company Mill dating from 1911 designed by the Providence based but nationally known firm of C. R. Makepeace & Company mill architects. The building was involved in textile manufacturing right up until about year 2000 and is now home to Comtran Cable...but alas they are not a rail shipper and the old sidings rust away derelict in the weeds.
After cutting through this tiny corner of Massachusetts, in about 3/10 of a mile they'll be back in Pawtucket, RI where they will trundle down along the Industrial Highway before looping around the new connection to head northeast via the old East Junction line and back into Massachusetts again to to work Metals USA in Seekonk.
Leading the short train are PW GP38-2 2006 (built new for the then only 7 yr newly independent road by EMD in Feb. 1980) and B40-8 4002 (blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4008) which is a bit unusual here as this local is almost always assigned two geeps.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday June 1, 2023
Nat Makepeace climbs out of "fully loaded" ZK356 shortly after arriving at the Royal International Air Tattoo 2016, RAF Fairford. Nat gave a hugely impressive display during the show
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Early morning in the back yard!
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face." - William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, writer and author of the 19th century. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing works that displayed a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts such as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine. In his earliest works, written under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards savagery in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. Source Wikipedia.
Dear Lucy, you know what my wish is,—
I hate all your Frenchified fuss:
Your silly entrees and made dishes
Were never intended for us.
No footman in lace and in ruffles
Need dangle behind my arm-chair;
And never mind seeking for truffles,
Although they be ever so rare.
But a plain leg of mutton, my Lucy,
I prithee get ready at three:
Have it smoking, and tender and juicy,
And what better meat can there be?
And when it has feasted the master,
‘Twill amply suffice for the maid;
Meanwhile I will smoke my canister,
And tipple my ale in the shade.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Spotted yesterday afternoon at RSPB Dungeness from the Makepeace hide during the heavy rain. Quite distant but you just about make out the yellow legs!!
cof098 "Nature / macro"
"mouldy old glow"
- referred to 1972: "Mouldy Old Dough" is an instrumental single, which was a hit for Lieutenant Pigeon.
It was written by Nigel Fletcher and Rob Woodward and first produced by them under the name of their other band, Stavely Makepeace.[1]
Recorded in the front room of Woodward's Coventry semi-detached house, it featured his mother Hilda Woodward on piano,[2] in a boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, ragtime style. The only lyrics are the growled title "Mouldy Old Dough" and "Dirty Old Man" by Fletcher. When Fletcher asked what they meant, their author, Rob Woodward, said he had no idea.[3]
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite book ~ I have both Chinese and English version.
"Jane Eyre is an 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë, published by Smith, Elder & Company, London. It is one of the most famous of British novels. Charlotte Brontë first published the book as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography under the pseudonym Currer Bell. The novel was an immediate critical and popular success. Especially effusive in his praises was William Makepeace Thackeray, to whom Charlotte Brontë dedicated the novel's second edition, which was illustrated by F. H. Townsend."
" Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. " William Makepeace Thackeray
For Week 199 in Poetography... A weekly Inspiration. The word/theme this week is Horizon
Entered in GhostWorks Texture Competition 112
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
Dundee
Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character behind Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.
Like Desperate Dan from The Dandy, she has a statue in Dundee. In 2021, Minnie the Minx featured on a commemorative UK postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark 70 years of Dennis the Menace. Quoted from Wikipedia
“The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
For six word story
A sentimental sunset place on Breydon Water, Norfolk. A favorite place too, for Uncle John Makepeace's bird-watching. Happy memories of a lovely gentleman, and Dad to my friends Linda and Bob x
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you ~
William Makepeace Thackeray
Explore highest #129
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Looks better in lightbox, or large, as the texture on the Paperwhite narcissus is awesome, I could not believe how it came out in the camera
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“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion;”
― William Makepeace Thackeray
“When I walk with you,
I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”
~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
This wonderful scene was in the window of a fascinating vintage fabric store!
(UNEDITED- MY OWN BUILD)
Inspired by the book Vanity Fair (1848)
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Dedicated to all the great Victorian illustrators of children`s books
My sincerest thanks to Elif Ayiter (Alpha Auer) for her very kind review :
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INFORMATION:
Taken at our home in Chandra with Armon Aeon, myself and my alts.
My own build and props.
Raw image, name added.
Avatars by Wynx Whiplash
All clothing by me except for:
Dante and Armon: Tiny outfits by Martini Discovola.
Chandra: Hat by Reghan Straaf (the best miliner in SL!)
Maria: hat by Nonko Noel.
Armon`s pose by Abramelin Wolf, ao`s used by Wynx Whiplash
Thank you to:
and with love to Armon Aeon for his patience and for appearing in this image
Pandora Popstar Kao Sands and Hiroro Mayo for their own sculpties.
Completely Unedited. (I do not edit images from Second Life)
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Quote: William Makepeace Thackeray
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still very busy around here, sorry for my absense in my contacts's stream lately!
The five UK Typhoons that featured in the flying display at Royal International Air Tattoo 2016, RAF Fairford. ZK356 is closest to the camera and was displayed in fully loaded configuration by BAE Systems chief test pilot Nat Makepeace. Next are ZK306 ED from 6 Squadron and ZK310 FL from 1(F) Squadron, both based at RAF Lossiemouth. These two aircraft flew in formation with the Red Arrows and F-35B Lightning II. The final two aircraft are ZK352 BV and ZK354 BY from 29(R) Squadron RAF Coningsby and were used by the 2016 RAF Typhoon display pilot Flt Lt Mark Long.
Taken down by the River Wey as it flows through Guildford . With the connection to Lewis Carroll a number of bronze statues can be found around the town , this one is at Millmead , a spot by the River Wey as it flows through the town.
An extract from a magazine " Surrey Life " from 2015 ---
To stumble unexpectedly upon these tranquil – yet ever-so-slightly ethereal – surroundings comes as a bit of a surprise. But for fans of Lewis Carroll (or the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as
he was really known), it’s a must-see part of their pilgrimage around the Surrey town, which remains steeped in his spirit.
While the writer was never actually a permanent resident of Guildford, the family home he established here for his six unmarried sisters meant that he became a frequent visitor to the town, and the local area the inspiration for some of his uniquely memorable work.
“Alice in Wonderland was published three years before Carroll first came to Guildford in 1868, so he was already a fairly famous man,” says town guide Roger Nicholas, who’s been walking in the writer’s footsteps for more than a decade.
“The railway line had been here over 20 years by then and he made use of it because he could get from his rooms in Christ Church College, Oxford, via Reading, to Guildford quite easily in those days.
And it’s said that another of the attractions of settling his sisters here was that he would be near to London to enjoy his favourite pastime, which was going to
the theatre.”
Happy home life
Whatever the reason, the death of their clergyman father in Yorkshire saw the 36-year-old Carroll duty-bound, as the head of 11 surviving siblings, to re-house his sisters, brother Skeffington and maiden aunt Lucy Lutwidge. And having found The Chestnuts in Guildford, an imposing eight-bedroom residence that had, in his own words, “a splendid view” overlooking the ruined Keep (interestingly, a vote in the Guildford constituency came with the £73 annual rental), this became home to the extended Dodgson family until 1930.
Mystifyingly missing a blue plaque, there’s nothing to identify this striking red brick house today. Instead, a short walk down Castle Hill to Guildford Museum reveals some of the treasured childhood playthings and everyday domestic objects that once belonged to The Chestnuts’ former occupants. As collections officer Catriona Smellie explains, it’s a glimpse into their earlier upbringing and of the Alice ‘effect’ that later swept the country.
“The homemade cut-out dolls are typical of what a lot of middle class Victorian children would have created for their own entertainment, while the shop-bought toys” – the mini wooden croquet set stands out – “show that the family was willing to spend money on their children and that it was probably quite a happy household,” says Catriona.
“These toys were kept for a long time. They were passed down from family member to family member. It’s possible this was for sentimental reasons and, perhaps, because they were aware that Carroll was becoming a celebrity.”
It’s certainly possible to picture the hullaballoo that followed the creation of one of the original female heroines in children’s literature. Amongst the items displayed are Alice-inspired jigsaw puzzles and a biscuit tin, dozens of which Carroll apparently gave away to the children he befriended. There’s also a postage stamp set, intended to encourage younger letter writers, although competing with this prolific correspondent who penned an astonishing 100,000 missives would have been a tall order.
What is more, to celebrate this year’s 150th anniversary of the book, a selection of Sir John Tenniel’s famous illustrations will be going on display at the museum from the autumn in a special exhibition entitled Looking in Wonderland.
“We’re so excited about the exhibition,” says Catriona. “It will be lovely to have these famous illustrations brought to Guildford in this special anniversary year. The drawings even influenced women’s fashion at the time, and of course the Alice band comes from these too. The stories have captured people’s imaginations like no other.”
A unique archive
While Guildford Museum remains an important focal point for fans of the books, it’s not the only place in Surrey to hold a collection of the author’s possessions. A few miles away, at Surrey History Centre in Woking, they have some uniquely personal items, including letters, papers and the last will and testament. According to Isabel Sullivan, an archivist at the centre who specialises in the Dodgson family archives, it’s a collection of some significance.
“In terms of Lewis Carroll, as a writer, mathematician, thinker and photographer, it’s a fairly random collection but nevertheless does include some very interesting material,” she says. “We know that he loved walking in the Guildford countryside and that he wrote the final line of The Hunting of the Snark whilst crossing the Hogs Back. We also have his diaries so know a huge amount about who he met and what he did. He was quite involved in Guildford life.”
To take just one example, a copy of the Guildford Gazette Extraordinary, a spoof newspaper that Carroll wrote in 1869, reportedly contains a theatrical review of an evening spent in Woodbridge Road – where his friend, the author William Webb Follett Synge had a house – in the company of fellow novelists Anthony Trollope and William Makepeace Thackeray.
And from lecturing in logic at Abbot’s Hospital to preaching at St Mary’s Church, this notoriously reserved man embraced the town and its citizens during his many visits; seemingly dividing his time between work and hobbies, in much the same way as he did as an Oxford don.
Perhaps most importantly of all, though, while Guildford doesn’t lay claim to inspiring Alice’s first ‘adventures’, it’s here that the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, was completed in 1871. This explains why, in the now public garden next-door to The Chestnuts, Jean Argent’s lifelike sculpture takes pride of place. Sadly, neither this, or the bronze Alice and the White Rabbit tribute by Edwin Russell on Millmead, would have been there when Carroll’s original muse, Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell), accepted an invitation to attend the town’s 1932 centenary celebrations honouring his birth. However, it’s tempting to imagine that, at some point, her gaze turned across the river towards The Mount Cemetery. Here, Carroll lies beneath a simple stone cross, having caught flu whilst in Guildford for a family Christmas in 1898.
“There’s the famous story of the grave being restored in the 1980s because it was very close to a pine tree,” says Roger Nicholas. “Apparently, the work was paid for by the Lewis Carroll Society of Japan. I’ve no idea what his words sound like in Japanese, but it just goes to show how widespread the interest still is.”
Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and later Through the Looking Glass, people’s love for the books shows no sign of abating – and, here in Surrey, we can be proud that our county played a part in the story.