Socks!

[pensnest]

I have socks! Magnificent socks!



When turlough first offered me socks, she asked what my favourite colours might be. All of them, was essentially my reply, and she has not forgotten!

They are also *perfectly* comfortable. Even better than the first pair. Thank you, turlough!

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Beast and I watched the 'Twelfth Night' from the National Theatre a couple of nights ago. It's a very good on. I felt *so* sorry for Malvolio - the production, and the acting, really brought out the nastiness of what happens. And brought out various aspects of the characters to jolly good effect, too. Watch it on YouTube for the next couple of nights!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aig5ObghHS4&t=10s

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Oh, and on the subject of Shakespeare, this is a brilliant comic showing how quarantine could have helped prevent so many tragedies!

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Also, while you're on YouTube, Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong is entertaining and informative. I really enjoyed the Velociraptor one, Stegosaurus next, I think.

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Something else that has entertained me today, is a post on MetaFilter about the scorpion and the frog fable. Read the linked page first. and the comments here enhance it all.

INSIDE EACH OF US THERE ARE TWO FROGS.
No, I think those are kidneys.

Comments

[brandywine28]

Those are some excellent socks!

Malvolio! Poor guy. It's been four hundred years and I'm still not over it! (I saw a production once where everyone surrounded him at the end and pointed and laughed and -- oof. Nope. NOPE.)

[pensnest]

I think it must be very hard to present a Malvolio who *deserves* what happens to him. Or a Malvolia/her, in this case. This production makes it pretty clear that ok, Malvolia has eaten too many lemons, but is being *tortured* while the silly romance plot with the Viola/Sebastian confusion is going on.

[dine]

those are fantastic socks! how terrific - wear them with joy

[turps]

Those are such fantastic socks!

[rikes]

Wow, the socks are fantastic!

[frausorge]

Those socks are fantastic! What a felicitous spectrum of colors. Turlough does such excellent work.

The Shakespeare comic made me LOL a little. Alas that this ~helpful~ circumstance was denied to all those characters.

[pensnest]

She does!

It was a very clever comic, definitely. The play - but, it was the Thing!

[turlough]

They've arrived, hooray!! (I mailed them Easter week so they didn't take that much longer than usual.) I'm so glad to hear that you like them and that they fit. I so seldom use the under-foot gusset so I was worried the fit would be wonky.

The Shakespear comic is fabulous!

[pensnest]

They are probably the most comfortable socks ever! The magenta ones are really good, just a smidge tight around the opening, but these are sublimely comfy. Perhaps it's a happily perfect match between sock pattern and the shape of my particular feet. Anyway, thank you very much!