Yesterday I got back from a whirlwind tour of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and I am exhausted! But there's no rest for the wicked; I have 4 short papers due in the next two days -- two days which are packed full with compulsory activities!!! Yay. . . I love how they plan this program. Plus I have to read 4 plays, reread 4 more, and work on line memorization. So I won't be unpacking just yet. Or blogging my pictures. Anyone who happens to read this will have to wait. But here are some questions to build the anticipation. . .
What is the best place to observe British class differences?
What is the scariest place to sleep in London?
Why do I love and hate England more deeply, passionately, and informedly now than I did two weeks ago?
What British celebrity might I resemble?
What was stolen from Scotland 700 years ago and only returned in the last decade?
What title of one of Akon's songs best describes Dublin?
What is the easiest and hardest thing in the world to lose, which when lost will cause an Irish woman to scream at an Irish man in the streets incessantly?
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Glad you're back Lauren and nice talking to you yesterday. I love these quizzes. Humbling. But i believe the answer to question six is the Stone of Scone. Could be wrong. I didn't think it was that long ago. Love you. Looking forward to your pictures... and our departure in 5 short weeks.
Dad
Lauren
Your Dad is right. The Stone of Scone was stolen from under the Coronation Throne by Scottish university students, decades in the past, and only returned fairly recently.
While in Dublin, you must have seen the sculpture of Molly Malone who °wheeled her wheel barrow down streets broad and narrow crying cockles and mussels alive alive o° One of our Irish acquaintances who knew her history said that was not what Molly really sold.
Now, a question for you. Who was Chandos and why is he relevant to your field of study.
love,
G & G
Molly Malone, a.k.a. "the Tart with the Cart". Yes, I saw her. I also saw the "Stiletto in the Ghetto". The "Floozie in the Jacuzzi", however, has gone the way of the dinosaurs.
This is what I found on Enc. Brittanica:
"Sir John Chandos
died Jan. 1, 1370, Mortemer, France
"English military captain, soldier of fortune, and a founding member of the Order of the Garter (1349).
"Chandos was a lifelong follower and companion of Edward the Black Prince, fighting under him at Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and Nájera (1367). Given the lands of the Viscount de Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin, Chandos was made constable of Guyenne in 1362 and was seneschal of Poitou from 1360 to 1372. He had administrative talent and was esteemed by friend and foe as an honourable negotiator. His great rival, the French captain Bertrand du Guesclin, was among his admirers. Wounded in a skirmish at Lussac-les-Châteaux near Poitiers, Chandos died at Mortemer. His herald wrote a biography of Edward that is a valuable source of contemporary information; the manuscript has been translated as The Black Prince (1842)."
Another member of the Order of the Garter is Sir John Falstaff, the Shakespearean comic creation, who is featured in Henry IV parts one and two and in The Merry Wives of Windsor, which may have been written for the Garter-Feast.
Lauren
As the cliche goes--’close but no cigar’.
In today’s Ottawa Citizen there is an article under the headline ’Shall I compare thee to a pork butcher’, Rachel Campbell-Johnston writes that nearly 400 years after his death, historians are trying to determine what Shakespeare looked like.
Of the six prime contenders the Chandos portrait remains the most likely to be Shakespeare’s likeness. It is so named because Chandos after the name of a previous owner.
Since her article first appeared in The Times of London you can probably Google it.
Love,
G & G
What is the best place to observe British class differences?
I might be wrong, but I'd have to say London's borough of Hackney... it’s filled with rich fashionistas and poor ghetto people.
What is the scariest place to sleep in London?
The Garden View Hotel?
Why do I love and hate England more deeply, passionately, and informedly now than I did two weeks ago?
Because you've been living in the place for longer!
What British celebrity might I resemble?
I think Princess Di, but she’s dead…
What was stolen from Scotland 700 years ago and only returned in the last decade?
Dad's right, it's the Stone of Scone.
What title of one of Akon's songs best describes Dublin?
I'd have to say "Ghetto".
What is the easiest and hardest thing in the world to lose, which when lost will cause an Irish woman to scream at an Irish man in the streets incessantly?
I have a guess, but it’s not blog-appropriate!
This quiz is creating quite a dialogue. Good answers Krissy! However, I disagree on one. I think the reason you have more intense feelings about England, Lauren, is that on the one hand, you know her better from your experiences in London, but you have also been directly exposed to the Scottish and Irish perspective of England, in which you see one of the ugliest side of English history, their in some cases brutal domination of those two countries. A Scottish or Irish nationalist can drum up a fair bit of hatred for merry old England. Am I on the mark?
Dad
Yes, Dad, that is a big part of the answer.
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