Castle Aching

[Hroth]

...

 

There is a Lily Langtry lounge in the Christopher Hotel in Eton high street, just over the river bridge from Windsor Castle. I wonder why she chose to stay there?

I don't think she was there for Parents Day at the College....

[Hroth]

In addition, glancing at posts 9014/15, I feel that there should now also be a "Worried" rating.  "Informative" and "Like" are a bit difficult.....

[Compound2632]

Dunno, I find 'informative' often the safest bet. Perhaps I've had too sheltered an upbringing.

[Edwardian]

Well, I am not worried about people dressing how they want, for whatever reason.

 

These, however, we assume are both examples of theatrical 'drag', a fairly long established tradition in the theatre, and adopted of necessity in the sort of all-male environments that were more common in those days.

 

In this case, Princeton, which did not admit women until 1969, and, we are to suppose, the British Army on campaign.

 

I believe it was quite common to have men in drag in army concert parties (see It Ain't Half Hot Mum), and, indeed, prisoner of war camps.  The 51st Highland Division in WW2 did not let the absence of female partners stop them from dancing together, or, indeed, devising new Scottish country dances.  

[Northroader]

And it’s just as important to cater for broad and narrow gauge on here:

[Donw]

I went to the same school as my father had before me. There was two photos ( they were hung on corridor walls) in which he appeared one was a first XI cricket team the second was a school play. In the later he was one of the ladies. The school play had ceased by my time, I would have enjoyed playing a part whether I would have been convincing as a lady I do not know. 

 

Don 

[Edwardian]

I went to the same school as my father had before me. There was two photos ( they were hung on corridor walls) in which he appeared one was a first XI cricket team the second was a school play. In the later he was one of the ladies. The school play had ceased by my time, I would have enjoyed playing a part whether I would have been convincing as a lady I do not know. 

 

Don 

 

Well, if you've got the legs for it ....

[Compound2632]

And it’s just as important to cater for broad and narrow gauge on here:

 

Nobody mentioned Bertie...

[runs as required]

I believe it was quite common to have men in drag in army concert parties (see It Ain't Half Hot Mum), and, indeed, prisoner of war camps.  The 51st Highland Division in WW2 did not let the absence of female partners stop them from dancing together, or, indeed, devising new Scottish country dances.  

I may have posted this link to Major Baden-Powell in Malta before

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Before a family 60 year anniversary in Malvern this week-end, duty called wife and I to rapidly sample a boxed set of "Crown" we'd been given last Christmas. I was most impressed by Eileen Atkins's playing of Dowager Queen  Mary.

As a first year student at Liverpool in the mid 1950s, I seemed to make a habit of hurrying around corners late for lectures and bumping into her alighting (3 times - twice on the same day!) from her Daimler to re-open re-built bits of the city. She appeared to find my blushes and embarrassed mumbling faintly amusing.

The DVDs' train bits alll seemed to be rather dim distant views of GCR across Swithland reservoir Loughboro. cutting to Pullman interiors.

dh

 

Ed

adding marginally relevant bit about "Crown" and Edwardian Queens

Edited April 4, 2018 by runs as required

[RedGemAlchemist]

Aaaaand I am now completely lost. D*mn it.

[Northroader]

Aaaaand I am now completely lost. D*mn it.

I’ll send somebody out to look for you.

 

[Nearholmer]

How large IS your collection of pictures of plump, under-dressed young women up trees Monsieur Cheminot du Nord?

 

Anyway, shouldn’t you be on strike at the moment, huddled around a brazier, with a Gauloise stub in the corner of your mouth?

 

I said brazier.

Edited April 4, 2018 by Nearholmer

[uax6]

How large IS your collection pictures of plump, under-dressed young women up trees Monsieur Cheminot du Nord?

Anyway, shouldn’t you be on strike at the moment, huddled around a brazier, with a Gauloise stub in the corner of your mouth?

I said brazier.

I wouldn't braze wearing as little as that, just imaging a slight spit....

 

Andy g

 

I also haven't got the knees for it...

[Northroader]

I ‘ave to keep my eye on ze vital supplies, Kevin, mon ami, you naughty Engleesh, you misspell everysing wiz you brasszer!

A bientot, Routier du Nord.

[Hroth]

I’ll send somebody out to look for you.

 

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Given the fragility of her attire, I fear for whoever she's spotted.

 

But she does seem to be a jolly adventurous sort of gel!

[Nearholmer]

Bugguerre thees pour un jeu de soldats!

 

Nous avons draggued ouerselves orl ze weh back fruehm the Abysinienne French Dominion where we do ouer beet, to parque sur nos derrières on some urncomfirtable pieces de Junque in ze peesing pluie!

 

Meanwhuerl, les cheminots av beetled ouef for an uddel rond un couvert rempli avec bierre froid et deliciouse!

Edited April 4, 2018 by Nearholmer

[Northroader]

Brexit means Brexit..

[Nearholmer]

Ah, merci beaucoup pour l’explanation!

 

Urp to now, we av been unduer l’impression que nurbodee, leest of url votre Madame Mai et Monsieur Zhonsuenne, ad zee fanteeste idee wert eet actuelment meant.

[Edwardian]

Ah, merci beaucoup pour l’explanation!

 

Urp to now, we av been unduer l’impression que nurbodee, leest of url votre Madame Mai et Monsieur Zhonsuenne, ad zee fanteeste idee wert eet actuelment meant.

 

Well, if they do, they haven't told us!

 

Still, at least we will get those distinctive blue Franco-Dutch passports that the Canadians designed to be the same as everyone else's.

 

So it will all have been worth it!

 

plus ça change .....

[runs as required]

James et moi préférons ce jeu de soudure; cela semble plus facile à comprendre - pas de diagrammes électriques complexes.

Merci et bon nuit.

[Hroth]

Its all Greek to me.... 

[Hroth]

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Ok, who opened the box of British Imperial Infantry?

[Compound2632]

Re. Nearholmer's photo: C'est la thune qu'il nous faut! We need the dosh!

[Regularity]

Its all Greek to me.... 

Δεν νομίζω ότι είναι τόσο κακό ...

[Regularity]

Πού θα είμαστε χωρίς την Μετάφραση Google;