The ocean wind cold on our lips

[sovay]

Earlier this year I learned that George VI had to be talked out of personally showing up for D-Day, a brilliantly medieval conceit of which he was fortunately disabused before he could challenge Richard III's record for last English king to die in battle.

If it turns out that anyone did the same for the plumber for whose sake I got up on forty-five minutes of sleep to escape the house before he pulled out our bathroom ceiling as scheduled, someone is going to get buried under a car park.

ETA: The plumbers did arrive and spent several hours dismantling a chunk of the ceiling, so I feel justified in my flight, but also exhausted. It is far from clear when our ceiling will be remantled.

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[cmcmck]

Good company as Matoaka (aka Pocahontas) is known to be under a car park in the town of Gravesend close to where I grew up. It's also the home town of one of my all time favourite poets, Thom Gunn.

[sovay]

Good company as Matoaka (aka Pocahontas) is known to be under a car park in the town of Gravesend close to where I grew up.

I hadn't realized the car park option was so popular. They paved Paradise, indeed.

[luzula]

I would not choose to know that George II was the last British king to fight in a battle (in Dettingen in 1742), but nevertheless it is a thing that I know.

I'm so sorry about your lack of sleep.

[sovay]

I would not choose to know that George II was the last British king to fight in a battle (in Dettingen in 1742), but nevertheless it is a thing that I know.

Hey, now I know it as well!

I'm so sorry about your lack of sleep.

*hugs*

Thanks. It's just been a brutal week.

[minoanmiss]

That is a glorious historical factoid

[sovay]

That is a glorious historical factoid

A dear friend who is mostly not on DW heard it on a podcast and told me; I found a source for it here; I am frankly delighted. It feels very characteristic of him.

[nineweaving]

It feels very characteristic of him.

So it does! And the Queen was all for it.

I hope to hell they get that bathroom done and you get your house back.

Nine

[sovay]

So it does! And the Queen was all for it.

Which also feels characteristic of her: "I won't leave without the King, and the King will never leave."

I hope to hell they get that bathroom done and you get your house back.

Thank you. We do technically have it, we just don't have . . . all of it . . .



In view of all the exposed wood and insulation, I am skeptical of the plumbers' assertion that it is perfectly safe to shower in the bathroom as is, but I don't know our options if this situation is not very shortly resolved. I washed my hair last night out of paranoia, but spatch is used to showering each night when he comes home from a shift at the theater and reasonably so.

[aella_irene]

I recall hearing that either he was trying to put Churchill off volunteering, or Churchill volunteered to try and put him off.

[sovay]

I recall hearing that either he was trying to put Churchill off volunteering, or Churchill volunteered to try and put him off.

The version I found to corroborate made it sound sincere on both of their parts, but Churchill took longer to come around, which I was also willing to believe.

[choco_frosh]

George VI had to be talked out of personally showing up for D-Day, a brilliantly medieval conceit of which he was fortunately disabused before he could challenge Richard III's record for last English king to die in battle.

WHAT.

Relatedly, on the EXTREME off-chance that this hasn't already crossed your dash: The New Yorker D-Day Issue

Anyway, I continue to be sorry to hear about No Sleep.

[sovay]

WHAT.

From the Department of Mythically I See Your Point, Logistically We Just Had a Succession Crisis!

Relatedly, on the EXTREME off-chance that this hasn't already crossed your dash: The New Yorker D-Day Issue

It hadn't, actually! Thank you. Wow.

Anyway, I continue to be sorry to hear about No Sleep.

Thank you. It's just been a horrible week.