In fact, a sort of Anglo Saxon, middle school Madeleine, with more pedigree. The same sort of defiant, "don't care about the conventions" attitude, but without the sympathetic nun.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant wrote: > > *Rich here recommended I watch this:* > > *https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4271918/* > <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4271918/> > > *It was written in 1945. It's a single-shot movie, close to two hours. If > you want to spoil it for yourself, read the wiki page on it. It was written > by English playwright and novelest, J.B. Priestly, about whom Wikipedia > writes--* > > *Priestley was educated at Belle Vue Grammar School > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Vue_Boys%27_School>, which he left at > sixteen to work as a junior clerk at Helm & Co., a wool firm in the Swan > Arcade. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Arcade,_Bradford>* > > *Don't bother with those links, but you have to admit or correct me if I'm > wrong, but "Swan Arcade" would be a great or just unique name for a bike.* > > *I* think that Rivendell ought to make a nod to Flavia de Luce and make a > bicycle called "Gladys," for her BSA "Keep Fit." Or, if you want to be more > Wodehousian, "Gwladys." > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTJYMnMTU6I > > > > I have no idea if the movie lives up to the books, but the books are fun > in a well written, literarily interesting, silly way -- 11/12 year old > female scion of impoverished English aristocratic family in 1950-51, > precocious chemist with predilection for poisons, living in huge, ancient > barracks of ancestral home. Gladys is her dead mother's BSA Keep Fit, > amusingly anthropormorphised. > > I daresay Hollywood or whoever made the movie will mess up the story, but > the story series is fun. > > With a parting riposte: Foyle's War, and George Gently. > > Over and out. > View <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/479211216574135331/>Learn more at > bootsnburbs.blogspot.ca > <http://bootsnburbs.blogspot.ca/2013/03/read-flavia-de-luce.html> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique ************************************************************************** ************** *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
