We had a slow paced day as it was bitter cold outside, but I got my wish. It was snowing tiny specks of white fluff. I walked outside onto the wood porch painted grey without my shoes on to feel the weather on the bottoms of my bare feet. Didn't stay there long. Just long enough to say,"Thank you God for answering my prayer. Thank you, GOD."
I took a deep breath of winter air into my lungs and walked back inside the house that's heated by radiators.
The new year started with being allowed to sleep in. Have coffee after waiting a half hour after taking my meds. Visited with Family. Sorted through some papers. Shuffled some dishes. Washed some. Put some laundry in.
Began watching a mini-series that was televised in 2004 that I didn't see then. Based off of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel, NORTH and SOUTH.
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| Elizabeth Gaskell |
LOVED IT. There are four episodes that were chrome casted onto our large screened television. We took the afternoon to watch while taking breaks off and on through out the day.
The costuming, the interior decorating of the homes, and the acting were all excellent. I have grown to appreciate the verbiage they speak to one another in these Victorian Era stories. I would like to watch it again just to study the interior design. Who'd have thunk it that I want to look at wallpaper and draperies?
North and South is a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale,
a middle class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
North and South is set in the fictional town of Milton in the North of England when industrialisation was changing the city. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south,Margaret Hale settles with her parents in the industrial town of Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret despises.
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| Wouldn't it be l o v e r l y to dine this way just because you wanted to? |
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| This fine actor is now on Downton Abbey. |
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| Notice the modern man with baseball cap on his head to the side of the picture. |
Elizabeth lived to be 55 and died in 1865. But before she left this world she left her image at the age of 50. Do you like her paisley shawl?
Concerning her personal life, she'd use her experiences along with personalities types she knew writing them into her stories. Charles Dickens was one of her Editors.
Dialect usage[edit]
Mrs Gaskell's style is notable for putting local dialect words into the mouths of middle-class characters and the narrator. For example, in North and South Margaret Hale suggests redding up (tidying) the Bouchers' house and even offers jokingly to teach her mother words such as knobstick (strike-breaker). In 1854 she defended her use of dialect to express otherwise inexpressible concepts in a letter to Walter Savage Landor:
... you will remember the country people's use of the word "unked". I can't find any other word to express the exact feeling of strange unusual desolate discomfort, and I sometimes "potter" and "mither" people by using it.
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Fine television watching is still available.
What shall I watch next from You Tube that can be chrome casted onto the television?
Before I do, I shall be redding up our HOME.
I hope that I don't potter and mither you.
Oh the shame of it all.
We're off to a nice start to the new year!
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