Tomorrow I am departing for a brief mountaineering expedition the fabled peaks of the United Kingdom, and since I don't believe God has supplied Wi-Fi access atop the jagged and frosty summit of Ben Nevis, there will probably be nothing new posted here until October 3rd when I return from the aforementioned excursion.
However, midweek I will be taking a short detour from lofty locations to visit my grandmother in the Berkshire village of Cookham where the artist Stanley Spencer once pushed his pramful of paints, unfolded his easel, and then proceeded to render images of himself and his wife in the nude looking like a pair of lamb chops.
For those of you that are wondering, since the philistine swine printed a disgracefully negative review of "Our Stan" and his work some years ago, Granny and I will be giving the bird to anything connected with the New Criterion's British Initiative.
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It won't be "God", it'll be Archie McPhee who lives in a caravan at the foot of the hill who gives you wiFi from Ben Nevis.
Enjoy your vacation: although your choice of title is peculiar. It suggests you've had your head cut-off, but will come back rejuvenated in October as Stephen II, dressed to the nines in pantywaist lace, silver-buckled shoes, crowned with a three-foot diadem of other people's hair. Back you shall flounce, trailing behind you a coven of "Nell's" and other floozies. My Lord.
Posted by: Fcb | September 21, 2005 at 16:31
Ah, Bonny Prince Bearded! Ye've foond oot me sacret. (I realize that that was a very poor version of Scots dialect and I apologize unreservedly). But anyway, since I consider each blog posting to be a little mind-fiefdom unto itself, a break between posts is consequently an interregnum.
Posted by: stephenesque | September 21, 2005 at 16:38
Have a great trip. Hope the thin air doesn't affect your return to posting; you've been on quite an admirable roll.
Posted by: DarkoV | September 22, 2005 at 10:02
Ha. We can do ANYTHING WE LIKE here while he's gone. Of course, we may wish to clear out when those perishables really start to go bad.
Posted by: Bleak Mouse | September 26, 2005 at 16:05
For crying out loud, Stephen, please return! We're lost without you.
Posted by: The Crack Young Staff | September 30, 2005 at 11:54
Yes, Stephen, you'd better return, and be right quick about it. The Crack Young Staff are all nice enough youngsters ordinarily, when they have the benefit of a solid social structure. But they're starting to get a bit out of hand -- filling up the sink with dirty dishes, breaking things, generally getting a bit vulgar. The liquor isn't helping. The one called "Chip" is being especially excessive.
You must return and reassert order.
Posted by: Bleak Mouse | September 30, 2005 at 15:45