I had to explain something kind of complicated to my German class and drew a series of stickmen on the whiteboard in class. Done in under ten minutes, I thought I might preserve them nevertheless. If you want to hear about the whole story, it’s … Continue reading I’m not Teaching Art
When we got married we treated it almost as a joke; various external reasons compelled us to take the step, and we both agreed that if it wouldn’t work there’d be no hard feelings.
That was 45 years ago.
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In times gone by we bought the Sunday papers because of the thick property section. Not quite as thick but much more entertaining to me was the cartoon supplement. I had my favourites, and one of them was Hägar, the Horrible. I kept a few strips (cut out and pasted in a scrapbook) and they are mostly about Hägar’s softer side. Little did I know then that 40 years down the line my husband and I might resemble the two Vikings more than I suspected.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be—
William Shakespeare: Sonnett 1
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
“Gulch” must have been one of the first words I learned in English (I probably pronounced it “goolsh” and had no idea what it meant). It came up quite often as a place name in one of my favourite cartoons.
The Daltons – the arch enemies of Lucky Luke – tried their luck in Killer Gulch, in Paradise Gulch, in Bottleneck Gulch, in Tortilla Gulch, and others.
If I remember correctly, Lucky Luke has grown up in Nothing Gulch.
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