IT HAD TO HAPPEN. Had to happen to me as well: our washing machine has broken down, impounding a whole load of my clothes, including irreplacable £13-from-Covent-Garden-market rainbow-stripey Indian trews that I use as pajamas... and nearly my entire towel collection. When I came back yesterday I was surprised to hear it still grumbling away more than two hours after the number four programme had supposedly kicked off... now I'm periodically turning it off, clicking the dial forward and hoping I might eventually get my garms back before time and an Aerial Ultra overdose turn them to shreds...Anna Karenina really has got into my subconscious... somehow I keep having Merchant-Ivory-style costume drama dreams. Merchant Ivory never made an Anna K (as much as anything else it's too long to do justice in 90 mins) and I've never seen it on TV. Which is unusual for me. Usually I have to see a classic novel on screen first; then I'm empowered to bluster past the worst of the Victorian guff and the pages freely turn...
"Baby" Itchy (OK not exactly her but her precise lookey-likey) has a starring role in 2009's Guiness Book of Records, posing in a desert spoon as World's Smallest Hamster!
By the way can anyone tell me why, when she does her pinging up the sleeve trick and spends any time in the vicinity of my armpit she appears to go pale, nauseated and dizzy? What do you think this could be? Is it because armpits are so hot, or somthing...??...:(!!!)
MUSIC:
I am not normally into girl groups. Though I have to say they're nowhere near as bad as those smarmy boybands ~ specially when they pull that "mature and serious: I'd be a really good father to your baby" number. Ukh! Anyway these two tunes are rather good:
SUGABABES: (HERE COME THE) GIRLS
Isn't Heidi Range (the blonde) a stunna? And what a rockchick roar she's got on her; straight from the Choir of Cigarettes and Alcohol..(!)
SUGABABES: SHAPE (OF MY HEART...)
A haunting tune. This version being far superior to Sting's original...
Hey I found some Anna K online... here's Princess Kitty Scherbatsky dancing the quadrille or walz at the ball (before she rejects Levin for Vronsky (who subsequently goes off with the (married) Anna K of the title...)
Do you know what I'm frequently told I have pretty bad taste and I do lurve the aristocratic country house style. But I have to say that even I found these rooms over-guilded and garish and, dare I say it?~ rather vulgar(!!)
And here's a trailer for the Sean Bean version...
(Wait--is this Gledwood's page? I think by the looks of that top picture I clicked House Beautiful in my "Favorites" by mistake again!)
ReplyDeleteI share your washing machine blues. Mine's started screaming during the spin cycle and doesn't pump properly so I have soggy slacks! Re the armpit problem . . maybe your deodorant or lack thereof! hehe!
ReplyDeleteOh it is my worst nightmare something going wrong with my washer! It usually happens just as I get back off holiday and have a mountain of washing.
ReplyDeleteYou've had rather an eventful time, Gleds. Clothes getting well and truly washed, more dreams (!) and a hammy who has an aversion to your armpits. Poor little thing.
ReplyDeleteAs for Anna K, I saw the TV version back in the 70s, along with War and Peace...both really good, gritty series. Love the classics.
At present Brideshead Revisited is on at the movies...I shall have to revisit that sometime and hope that I fall in love with Sebastian all over again...
ZEN WIZZ: hey my house looks far more like from the ballroom scene (top Anna Karenina clip)...honest!
ReplyDeleteBAINO: hey I do wear deodorant... imagine if I did not poor Itchy would be put in anaesthesia!!
AKELAMALU: yes they are highly annoying. I did manage to get my clothes out... but only through cheating & turning the machine off and clicking clandestinely ahead to the end where another clunk!! and wahey!~ liberation of my garments!!!!
PUSS IN BOOTS: o yeah I heard about that new film. I think they've done a new TV as well. Aparently the same house was used throughout...
The only Evelyn Waugh I've read was one about a young man not yet come into his inheritance who had to face the horror of getting a job! And so found himself in a dreadful public school... from where a string of unfortunate occurences occur, terminating in his imprisonment... and whatever the message of the story was I have no idea!
The other weekend I also thought that my parents' washing machine was broken. When I walked into the laundry the floor was wet and thankfully it was only the tap it's connected to which needed a washer replaced. Will someone replace the machine?
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Glad you got your clothes out of the washing machine at last and hope they weren't damaged. Thanks for your comments but I don't know about living to be 100 - depends how things go I guess. I am fine at present and I hope you can turn around before then. You can do it !! The specs were interesting, but probably not easy to acquire. With the opticians doing all they can to stop us. I will check up on Wikitedia or on Google. Take great care, my friend, Regards, Merle.
ReplyDeleteOh now I want to see it! Wouldn't you love to dance like that?
ReplyDeleteSsshh, I have a new computer and I think it's not going to freeze as my old one did when i visited. Let's see what happens when i post.
Yay, it worked!
ReplyDeleteI think Itchy would come over funny if she spent time in anyone's armpit!
I hope you got your washing out of the machine.
Oh, I have an itch. Excuse me. I must scratch.