Comments on: Feel the Width http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/ A Culture Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 21:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Peter http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49394 Peter Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:43:21 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49394 Does the brave new flattened out world have to look quite so severe and…well…flat?

]]> By: Susan http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49202 Susan Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:28:53 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49202 Coincidentally, I’ve been cooling down in France, malty – just back on the Eurostar (what a journey!) Love the description and the painting in your link – “legs gracefully bent,” on a couch of “sumptuously patterned yellow fabric” – more like legs dangling frog-like… and a gold brocade chaise longue. Looks like she is enjoying the afterglow.

]]> By: Susan http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49196 Susan Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:55:39 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49196 At least I can still afford to photoshop, Worm…

]]> By: malty http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49195 malty Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:26:42 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49195 Yes indeed worm, starts 7th Feb, Der Kölner Rosenmontagszug ist der größte Karnevalsumzug in Deutschland, as some bloke said to me a couple of weeks ago, as he started his own personal lead-in. Makes the Oktoberfest seem like a Prague hen party, over one million Germans, swimming, and drowning, in Kölsch.

]]> By: Worm http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49188 Worm Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:44:34 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49188 Shelley…is that you?

]]> By: Worm http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49186 Worm Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:42:57 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49186 …and not long at all until fasching, when Koln turns into its annual madhouse of carefully performed germanic crazyness

]]> By: malty http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49185 malty Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:26:31 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49185 Well, er, it was John. Louise O’Murphy, Louis second favourite can be admired in Köln’s Wallraf-Richartz, splendid picture, the lady seems to be allowing bits to cool down.

Interested parties please note, Lufthansa’s special offer for Feb, Newcastle-Düsseldorf …£99, no luggage restrictions, Düsseldorf-Köln on the REWE..25mins, she’s well worth it.

]]> By: Peter http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49177 Peter Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:03:15 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49177 Oh ye of little faith. No sudden improvement in your financial position from an unexpected source or anything exciting brewing between you and another person provided you take the initiative for you this month, Worm.

]]> By: John Halliwell http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49169 John Halliwell Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:20:48 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49169 ‘Standing in the receiving room was Madame de Pompadour.’ Sounds like an up-market knocking shop…..

]]> By: malty http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/01/feel-the-width/#comment-49122 malty Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:47:45 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=29504#comment-49122 Reading your post Susan I was transported to Versailles, Standing in the receiving room was Madame de Pompadour, her acolytes were jostling for position, who’s turn was it today to dress her. Meanwhile, in another room, Louis the umpteenth was reclining on a lounger, reading a small book whilst Francois Boucher, Pomps painter of court toy boys, was dashing off his portrait.

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