Monday, 30 September 2024
Kris Kristoffersen Dead
Kris has died at the age of 88 after long career as song writer, singer and actor. RIP. Kris was born in Brownville, Texas and spent time in the military. He was also a Rhodes scholar and became a janitor in Nashville to try to sell his songs.
Friday, 27 September 2024
Nancy Mitford V
The Alconleighs are upset by his running away, though Uncle Matthew is not too angry about it, as he admires him for being active at soemthing, especially for fighting. Linda has become an ardent Communist, and supports her husband's beliefs.
Polly's baby is due, and when the child is born it dies almost immediately. Fanny goes to see her and finds that she seems indifferent about the baby's death.
Cedric and Lady Montdore come to visit and patch up the quarrel... and Fanny realises that Boy is very pleased to be friendly with Lady Montdore, and that Cedric is taking an interest in this new friend. Lady Montdore seems to be a little in love with Cedric herself but she is not aware of his true sexuality, and does not notice the young men he gives jobs to at Hampton.
Lady Montdore makes up with Polly, but Polly has by now moved on, and has become friendly with the DUke of Paddington, whose ancestor is the subject of Boy's latest book.. He is an older man and soon he is in love with Polly... and she leaves Boy to marry him while Cedric takes up with BOy.
We learn in another Mitford book that Polly loses her looks but is happy.. and that Lady Montdore dies just before the war, having been persuaded by Cedric to have plastic surgery. He becomes the Earl, but goes abroad when the war breaks out, which annoys the local gentry and he leaves England.
Linda's husband Christian decides to go to France, to work with Spanish refugees and Linda joins him. When she gets there, she does her best to do welfare work, and meets Lavender Davis, her old neighbour at home, who is now a welfare worker. Soon she realises that Christian has fallen out of love with her and is now closer to Lavender.....
She leaves the South of France, leaving a letter for her husband, and goes back to Paris, but her ticket is out of date and she cannot get back to Engalnd.
while she is sitting at the station, crying, she meets a middle aged, well dressed Frenchman who speaks English, and he takes her to lunch. He tells her that his name is Fabrice and that he is a duke, and well off.
Sunday, 15 September 2024
Nancy Mitford Part IV
Linda leaves her husband having fallen in love with Christian Talbot, a left wing but upper class man. Fanny worries that Linda has made a mistake again, as Christian, while a good man, is not interested in personal relationships and wont give Linda the love that she craves.
Fanny enjoys Cedrics company, but she is happy leading a quiet life with her husband and 2 children... Then Polly and Boy decide to come back to England. She is pregnant and he is writing a book about an English duke, and they open up their house, Silkins and go to live there.
Fanny realises that Polly is no longer in love with Boy, and Davey tells her that Boy is now getting interested in boys rather than girls.
Fanny is shocked, but goes on with her life. Lady Montdore has become a dropper in to her little house, and she does not have the toughness to snub her. Then Matt the younger son of Lord Alconleigh runs away from school to go to fight in Spain on the Red side.
Monday, 9 September 2024
Nancy Mitford Novels Part III
Polly comes to stay at Alconleigh, after a big row with her mother, who insists that she will be cut out of her father's will. Polly says that Boy has a small income and that Lord Montdore cannot leave her Hampton, so she does not care about the money. Lady Montdore is furious. Davey talks to Boy and learns that he is not really keen on marrying Polly, that he flirted with her as a young girl and did not realise that he had made her fall for him.
Polly and Boy marry and go to live abroad where its cheaper.
Lady Montdore is very lonely without Boy and Polly, but she takes an interest in Cedric Hampton, who is a Lord Montdores cousin and heir, He is flamboyantly gay, and becomes fond of Lady Montdore and Fanny.
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