Keeping up the Sunday tradition of posting pics of me and mine

[rosiespark]

This week's haul includes my new glasses, breakfast on my new garden furniture and someone who may be on the table but certainly isn't on the menu:



I'm not really this tanned - I think the camera is compensating for the bright white walls all around me...



Tea and toast: Earl Grey and marmalade, and a good book, are essential breakfast ingredients...



I'm pleased with this shot because Pablo is extraordinarily difficult to photograph effectively. Much like staging Macbeth, according to Geoffrey Tennant. *g* Photographs make Pabs look mean or evil, and those of you who've met him will attest to the fact that he's neither, and is, in fact, a sweetie!


*g*

Comments

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

I want your tea. *looks down at her coffee*

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

The tea you can have. Now if you'd asked for the cat or for the new table, there would have been trouble. ;)

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Haha, Honey would hurt me if I asked for the cat, though I want to. Table I can do without.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I like your glasses. What color is the frame? It looks purplish/plum from here.

Pablo has most impressive whiskers. It's a pity he can't twirl them. And I like that over-the-shoulder head tilt :D

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I thought the colour was coppery when I chose them but you're right, it is a bit plummy. Or do I mean plum-like? I like it, anyway.

Both Pablo and Billy have catfish whiskers. Most impressive, in spite of the lack of twirling. I'm guessing that Behemoth twirls his. And yes, I did get a copy of The Master and Margarita but no, I haven't got round to reading it yet. *sigh*

The pose and the expression on Pablo's face are pretty characteristic. He's extremely elegant and dignified - except for when he's overcome with affection and is desperate for a cuddle. Little weirdo. *g*

PS Icon! I'm rewatching S&A with my mum, in weekly installments - it's her first time watching it and she's so impressed, she's talking about getting the dvds, even though she could always borrow mine. Yesterday we got to the end of Season 2. We both adore Geoffrey. If I'm really really good, do you think I can have a Geoffrey of my own for Christmas? Deliciously rumpled with a slightly insane glint in his eye is a very good look for PG. Hah, it'll be interesting to see what my mum thinks of Benton Fraser, if we progress to watching dS (It's the logical next step, no? *g*). Coming from dS, I couldn't imagine liking any PG character as much as Fraser. The toilet unblocking scene didn't convince me. I'm not sure I can identify a precise moment when it happened, but by two or three episodes in, I was in deep. And I'm still floundering.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

The toilet unblocking scene didn't convince me. I'm not sure I can identify a precise moment when it happened, but by two or three episodes in, I was in deep

Hee, I also can't pinpoint the exact moment I was sucked in (pun sort of intended :D), probably it was a steady build up. I saw parts of Due South ages ago, so Paul Gross seemed a little familiar, and also shiny and new and so very captivating. I remember I had tears in my eyes when he was explaining Ophelia to Claire(?).

Btw, I just finished watching season 3. So good! I should really reread King Lear and then watch it all again, I'm sure I missed a lot of references and etc. Heh, it's pathetic how I studied King Lear in a Shakespeare class and hardly remember anything (it was 9yrs ago, but still!).

And yes, I also wouldn't mind my very own SlightlyMadGeoffrey. I shall add him to my list of fictional boyfriends :P

[msilverstar]

Oooo, I had no idea what you looked like! I was thinking somehow rosier though? Anyway, you're very cute and someday I will come and visit.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I also posted some pics (http://rosiespark.livejournal.com/54561.html#cutid1) last summer. Which I like better than the one I posted here, but hey, new glasses!

It would be great if you did make it to Malta. Following in Francis Crawford's footsteps... :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Aw - that's a beautiful Pablo pic!

Nice glasses.

Good book.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I'm very pleased with the Pablo pic. And with the glasses. :) Less pleased with that photo of me which, when viewed on a normal monitor and not on my home one which makes everything too dark, is not very flattering.

And yes, TLotW is a good book. I'm enjoying a bit of an Ancient Greek phase at the moment, having also just read The Mask of Apollo. At the moment I'm making my way through Rosemary Sutcliff's Flowers of Adonis and finding it rather hard going. It's Alkibiades' story, told by various narrators, and it's sad but I can't seem to get a grasp of Alkibiades as a character and have no more than mild sympathy for any of the other characters. RS keeps talking about Alkibiades' great charm and charisma and I'M NOT SEEING IT AT ALL. Sooo frustrating. Anyway, back to Renault next - Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy. I love her Alexander. Hmm, I really feel that Mary Renault succeeded where Rosemary Sutcliff didn't, in taking a larger than life historical figure and showing us why he commanded such love while also giving him real flaws and weaknesses. It makes me wonder what MR could have done with Alkibiades if she'd chosen to focus on him rather than on Alexias and Lysis in TLotW. Not that I'd want that book to be any different, but it's fun speculating...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Rosemary Sutcliffe. I read all her books when young, and never found them moving or engrossing, although they had great subject matter. The Alcibiades one particularly - I kept thinking I was missing the point of the story, or of the character. I think Mary Renault is by far the better writer.

Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy (especially the latter) are two of my favourite books.

I'd like to see a Mary Renault Alkibiades book too; too bad she can't produce books from beyond the grave.

I wonder if this feels like a challenge. Not that I have the expertise in ancient Greek history - I'm not even a classicist. But ... well, he's be on my list of "characters I'd like to write about, just because they're intriguing".