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F for Frangipani worn on a wrist or crowning a maiden's head fragrant and fresh flawless on a garden shed fair and dainty lovely as a bride's bouquet This post is linked with ABC Wednesday .

E for Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations Edward Elgar, Sir! You hid your Enigma well Out of its fourteen variations They have made some commotion Offering their solutions Friends portrayed theme not played.... Edward Elgar, Sir!  Puzzlingly they would confer. photo Enigma Variations is a set of a theme and its variations written for orchestra - Wikipedia This post is linked with ABC Wednesday .

Music Monday: Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar Monday Mayhem follows School. Your imagination must have gone rainbow-colored what with everything that school life is. Let me cut to the chase - it's great to graduate. . This post is linked with: XmasDolly of XmasDolly , Lori of Shewbridges of Central Florida , Larry of Cakeblast , and Callie of JAmerican Spice Denise @ Run DMT hosts Music Monday Blog Hop ****** Monday Mayhem: Ticked off Welcome to Monday Mayhem. This is indeed the coolest place to be on a Monday. Today we are going to share what ticked us off about. What a great way to vent! Be sure to have fun! 1. What made ticked off the most yesterday? a headache 2. What ticks you off about your local mail service? Hollow parcels. And as if it's not jarring enough the letter that tells you what to expect in the parcel arrives slashed. That's corruption, third-world style. 3. What ticks you off about the opposite sex?  Some of them 'care too much' they invad

Lumos Maxima! A bored muggle needed sufficient light to pore over the final Harry Potter book not once but twice, thrice or Voldy knows how many times. Yes, we can say the name now . These are lines I remember from The Deathly Hallows for reasons bubbling with toads and whiskers in my cauldron recently: 1. All's fair in love and war and this is a bit of both. - Ron Weasley 2. Mudblood and proud of it! - Hermione Granger 3. Of course it is happening in your head, but why on earth should that mean it is not real? - Albus Dumbledore to Harry 4. I think the answer is: a circle that has no beginning. - Luna Lovegood 5. We teachers are rather good in magic you know. - Minerva McGonagall 6. We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one, And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! - Peeves 7. It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up t

Music Monday: High upon this love, Dionne Warwick, The Bold and the Beautiful Monday Mayhem follows The closest I could get to a TV show is The Bold and the Beautiful. In the early 2000s I tempered vicious gradschool Stats with the entertainment  B&B offered.  Eric Marienthal renders a prominent saxophone feature and Dionne Warwick does the vocals. I love the combination. This post is linked with: XmasDolly of XmasDolly , Lori of Shewbridges of Central Florida , Larry of Cakeblast , and Callie of JAmerican Spice Denise @ Run DMT hosts Music Monday Blog Hop ****** Monday Mayhem: Hot Mayhem 1. Were you a fan of Amy Winehouse? Were you surprised about her?  No and no 2. What have you always wanted to try doing during a heat wave? Have you done it? What's holding you back? Heatwaves are an almost daily experience where I live. I'm probably too used to being dehumidified to think of exotic ways of dealing with the usual cold edibles, light clothing or freezing AC's. 3. &q

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If you like period films you must have seen most if not all of these titles. I am fond of such films but this list consists of what I haven't watched; except nos. 4 and 12: 1. Love on the Land   post civil war America 2. Versailles: The Dream of a King   Versailles, Europe's most splendid palace 3. Bleak House  mid 19th century England about British judiciary system 4. Under the Green Wood Tree   rural town life in the mid 19th century England 5. The Buccaneers   four American girls in London searching for husbands 6. Upstairs, Downstairs   servants and masters in Edwardian London 7. Angel   Edwardian Cheshire about an eccentric British writer 8. A Month in the Country   1920s rural Yorkshire 9. Circle of Friends   1950s Ireland 10. True Women saga of love, war and adventure; Texas Revolution thru the Civil War 11. Sally Hemings: An American Scandal   Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress 12. From time to time   ghost story spanning two worlds two centuries apart 13. Gl