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OK, a few things-
Feb. 9th, 2009 02:05 pmI'm wearing big F-O boots at the moment, and just changing into shoes at work (as I do not wish to skid into traffic if it can be avoided); this means that if I, eg, nip across to the canteen in my shoes, it feels like wearing slippers outside. Which is amusing.
It makes me sad when Amazon has dispatched things and they haven't arrived, even when it's totally unrealistic to expect them.
I'm reading a book about coffee-houses at the moment, which makes me fancy a coffee all the time, and wherein I found this snippet: [King Charles II is trying to suppress coffee-houses for being places where commoners have the face to read newspapers and talk about the government and stuff, eurgh. He issues a highly dodgy proclamation, having dissolved Parliament:] "In the face of a recalcitrant Parliament, in October and November 1675, unwilling to vote supply for the King, Charles unexpectedly prorogued Parliament until 15 February 1677, so it would not sit again for fifteen months. (Unbeknownst even to Danby [the Lord Treasurer and head of the King's party], Charles had secretly secured a subsidy for his own expenses from the French and had no need of Parliament.)" [1]
Which is just - what? I mean, what? Is it just me, or is that actually, literally, treason? Blimey, it's no wonder we had to keep chucking the Stuart buggers out and getting foreigners in, if that's the sort of antics they got up to.
[1] Ellis, M. (2004). The Coffee-House: a Cultural History. London, Weidenfield and Nicholson.
It makes me sad when Amazon has dispatched things and they haven't arrived, even when it's totally unrealistic to expect them.
I'm reading a book about coffee-houses at the moment, which makes me fancy a coffee all the time, and wherein I found this snippet: [King Charles II is trying to suppress coffee-houses for being places where commoners have the face to read newspapers and talk about the government and stuff, eurgh. He issues a highly dodgy proclamation, having dissolved Parliament:] "In the face of a recalcitrant Parliament, in October and November 1675, unwilling to vote supply for the King, Charles unexpectedly prorogued Parliament until 15 February 1677, so it would not sit again for fifteen months. (Unbeknownst even to Danby [the Lord Treasurer and head of the King's party], Charles had secretly secured a subsidy for his own expenses from the French and had no need of Parliament.)" [1]
Which is just - what? I mean, what? Is it just me, or is that actually, literally, treason? Blimey, it's no wonder we had to keep chucking the Stuart buggers out and getting foreigners in, if that's the sort of antics they got up to.
[1] Ellis, M. (2004). The Coffee-House: a Cultural History. London, Weidenfield and Nicholson.
