Tuesday, December 30, 2008
When you find something special...
Poviem vám, tak dlho som ešte pred žiadnym výkladom nestála. Dokonca ani pred kníhkupeckým :-) Išla som len tak okolo a náhodou som doň nazrela. Aj keď viem, že náhody neexistujú. Ale také objavy sú najkrajšie. Zastavila som sa a stála som tam aspoň polhodinu. Dokonalý nádherný model vianočného mestečka zo starých čias. Mám rada, keď sú veci vypracované do detailov, a pri pohľade na toto dielko mi sánka spadla a už viac nevstala. Objavila som pri ňom nielen nanovo vianočnú atmosféru... A stále pozerám, čo všetko na nich (a pri nich) objaviť... (A ešte je to dobré na cvičenie pozornosti...;-))
(PS: prosím ospravedlňte nie stopercentnú kvalitu, ale môj Sony robil, čo mohol)
Labels:
Christmas,
discoveries,
Dublin,
everyday joys
Sunday, December 28, 2008
"Glad to oblige you, Mrs Flesh..."

I tell you, some costumers think that we should be extremely happy to tie their shoe-strings and if we are not, they get extremely angry. But after I have read this... I think it's not so bad... It gives mi strenght...;-)
They had been making for the tradesman’s entrance, but now the front door of Toad Hall opened and a woman emerged and stood staring at them from the top step.
“Is that you, Baltry?” she said in a voice of such sharply disagreeable command that it sent a weary rook that was resting on a nearby wall flapping for cover.
“It is, ma’am, said Baltry respectfully.
She was of solid, stocky build and though not quite large, nor yet quite broad, she was by any measure formidable. As she came down the steps and crunched across the gravel towards them she gave the impression of an army of Prussian soldiers engaged in an assault on an enemy position. When she arrived alongside she towered over Mr Baltry and also over his horse, which snorted feebly and dropped its ears in submission.
“Let me have a proper look at that goose,” said Mrs Ffleshe, leaning into the cart.
She fingered the legs and breast of the bird assertively, leaving numerous dents in it. Then she turned her attention to the venison, bending down and sniffing at it, as a vulture might examine carrion.
“Passable,” she said, “just.”
Then her eyes fell on the side of pork.
“What’s this?“
Mr Baltry sighed and said: “That’s spoken for by His Lordship the Bishop’s wife.”
„Nonsense. I must have it,“ said Mrs Ffleshe at once, “for we have an extra guest at Christmas luncheon.”
“I promised to deliver it to her this afternoon,” said Baltry a mite feebly.
“Well, it’s mine now,“ said Mrs Ffleshe, attempting to heave it out of the cart.
“Really, Mrs Ffleshe, if I was the King of Siam –“
“You’re not and not likely to be,“ said she.
Then she pointed at the Mole and said: „Get your apprentice here to take it into the kitchen at once.”
Before Mr Baltry could say anything the Mole was heaving the side of pork on to his own shoulder.
“Glad to oblige you, Mrs Flesh,” said the Mole in a mischievously obsequious way.
“Its ‘Ffleshe’, with an ‘e’,“ said Mrs Ffleshe; “and that’ll be a tuppence a pound off your price, Baltry, for your lad’s insolence.“
William Horwood - The Willows at Christmas
(...of course, Mole is not his apprentice, only a fellow with good sense of humor. Mr Baltry just gave him a lift...:-))
PS: I don't like when some writers takes over the characters and story from another writer, but this is an exception that proves the rule. This book is brilliant!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Z vianočných prechádzok

Tie cd-čká sú pre mňa záhadou... Ale vyzerá to zaujímavo
...v noci pôsobia ešte viac záhadnejšie...
Súmrak padá na krajinu... Vtedy na chvíľu všetko zmĺkne...
Labels:
Christmas,
Dublin,
Dublin's parks,
nature
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Prečo zvonia Vianočné zvony

Raymond MacDonald Alden
Labels:
Christmas,
paint pictures,
stories,
Winter
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
My Christmas trees
Keďže nebudem mať v obývačke svoj vlastný, tak trochu som si privlastnila tie ostatné. Sú aj nie sú moje, každý z nich krásny svojím spôsobom a v niečom naj. Dokopy tvoria môj tohoročný vianočný stromček...

Najkošatejší...

...najokázalejší, ale ladený do peknej fialovomodrej farby...

...najúspornejší...:-)

...najsmutnejšie... hoci sú až tri, sú schované v kúte, kde si ich nikto nevšíma...

...najokúňavejší... krásny modro svietiaci, ale nechcel sa dať ostro odfotiť, ani keď som ho fotila z vozíka Molly Maloneovej...

...najdomáckejší... v našej Easonskej kantíne

...najmodrejší...:-)

...najvoňavejší... pri Múzeu moderného umenia

...najobľúbenejšie...

...najbizarnejší...

...že ho dávam až dvojmo...

...a naj... naj... naj... fotografovanejší... :-)
Najkošatejší...
...najokázalejší, ale ladený do peknej fialovomodrej farby...
...najúspornejší...:-)

...najsmutnejšie... hoci sú až tri, sú schované v kúte, kde si ich nikto nevšíma...
...najokúňavejší... krásny modro svietiaci, ale nechcel sa dať ostro odfotiť, ani keď som ho fotila z vozíka Molly Maloneovej...
...najdomáckejší... v našej Easonskej kantíne

...najmodrejší...:-)

...najvoňavejší... pri Múzeu moderného umenia

...najobľúbenejšie...

...najbizarnejší...
...že ho dávam až dvojmo...
...a naj... naj... naj... fotografovanejší... :-)
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