Tag: moored boats

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Last night I finished reading ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ by Anthony Trollope. Originally published in serial form, like other Victorian novels, this saga of family and politics was the forerunner of today’s television series. The book was the first of the Palliser sequence. It is longer than most readers would like in the modern world, but it repaid the time investment. I won’t give away any details, but can say that the author writes fluently and keeps us interested in the interrelated lives of his protagonists.

 

David Skilton’s introduction to my Folio Society edition is helpful and informative.

 I have to say, however, that the illustrations by Llewellyn Thomas were most disappointing. The drawings are heavy, wooden, and badly sketched. I attach two examples to make my point. In the first, we are to believe that the gentleman descending from the carriage is pointing at the other man, at whom he is not even looking. In the other, is it really credible that any of the limbs really belong to any of they figures from which they awkwardly dangle?

 

This afternoon we attended Birchfield Dental Practice in New Milton where we underwent new patients’ assessments by Matthew Hefferan. More of what is required anon.

 

 

After this we drove to Lymington where I wandered along a section of the harbour opposite the lifeboat station.

 

 

Its shop is seen on the right. Not visible in that shot are the jackets hanging in the window the left.

 

 

At the bottom of the slipway pontoon

 

 

stands a row of waste bins that were reflected in the still water on the other side.

 I had to admire the skill required to pack in the rows and rows of moored boats.

 

 

The juxtaposition of two signs, not too far apart, rather intrigued me,

 

so I had to Google: