Five Questions answered
Nov. 23rd, 2022 06:51 pmThe Five Questions meme. I will ask, if anyone would like questions from me.
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1. What would you like your garden to grow that it doesn't, for whatever reason?
Brugmannsias! Utterly the wrong climate: too hot, too wet. I could grow daturas, but they're too close to the ground, my witless cats would nibble them and be very sick if not dead...
2. If you could conjure up a couturier from the past to design a wardrobe for you, who?
Madeleine Vionnet. I'd love Erte or Poiret or Callot Soeurs or in fact any of the great 1920s couturiers, or even Worth post 1910 or thereabouts (and Lucille for my loungewear...), but Vionnet was the mistress of them all. Or of course Issey Miyake, who sadly would now qualify too...
3. Seashore or mountain?
Mountain, absolutely, especially when cool and forested, with onsen at judicious intervals. What with tsunami and cyclones and riptides, and too much sun, I regard the sea with vast suspicion. I suppose the seashore in a temperate climate and not in summer might be all right.
4. A book that has not been written that you wish would be or had been?
Too many, so for 'wish they had been written' I'll go with The Universal Pantograph, and Hope Mirrlees' second novel. For 'wish they would be written'...City of Opal and City of Pearl by Jane Emerson aka Doris Egan.
5. Favourite poet/s?
Rudyard Kipling, with Edna St Vincent Millay and Ogden Nash close behind.
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oursin:1. What would you like your garden to grow that it doesn't, for whatever reason?
Brugmannsias! Utterly the wrong climate: too hot, too wet. I could grow daturas, but they're too close to the ground, my witless cats would nibble them and be very sick if not dead...
2. If you could conjure up a couturier from the past to design a wardrobe for you, who?
Madeleine Vionnet. I'd love Erte or Poiret or Callot Soeurs or in fact any of the great 1920s couturiers, or even Worth post 1910 or thereabouts (and Lucille for my loungewear...), but Vionnet was the mistress of them all. Or of course Issey Miyake, who sadly would now qualify too...
3. Seashore or mountain?
Mountain, absolutely, especially when cool and forested, with onsen at judicious intervals. What with tsunami and cyclones and riptides, and too much sun, I regard the sea with vast suspicion. I suppose the seashore in a temperate climate and not in summer might be all right.
4. A book that has not been written that you wish would be or had been?
Too many, so for 'wish they had been written' I'll go with The Universal Pantograph, and Hope Mirrlees' second novel. For 'wish they would be written'...City of Opal and City of Pearl by Jane Emerson aka Doris Egan.
5. Favourite poet/s?
Rudyard Kipling, with Edna St Vincent Millay and Ogden Nash close behind.
