Daily Thought

[Lelly]

Re. Irish rain:

"If you want lovely green countryside, you have to put up with the rain"

My husband, on holiday in Wales, where it rains sideways

[Francesca]

Merci beaucoup, Francesca.

J'ai juste traduit cela par l'intermediaire des Babel Fish, et l'ai trouve' beau.

Desole je ne sais pas ajouter des accents!





Sinceres amities.

Merci à vous Sherlock et bravo pour le français

[Francesca]

Encore un peu de Verlaine pour notre ami Sherlock :

La lune blanche
Luit dans les bois ;
De chaque branche
Part une voix
Sous la ramée...

Ô bien-aimée.
L'étang reflète,
Profond miroir,
La silhouette
Du saule noir
Où le vent pleure...

Rêvons, c'est l'heure,

Un vaste et tendre
Apaisement
Semble descendre
Du firmament
Que l'astre irise...

C'est l'heure exquise.

Paul Verlaine (La bonne chanson)

[Michelle]

Re. Irish rain:

"If you want lovely green countryside, you have to put up with the rain"

My husband, on holiday in Wales, where it rains sideways

How true... I do object, though, when the countryside turns into a sloshy brown colour...

[Sherlock]

Merci beaucoup, Francesca, de cela qui offre plus loin de Paul Verlaine. Malheureusement, je peux seulement le lire dans la traduction parce qu'on m'a enseigné le français à l'école par gaffer, marmonnant le vieil idiot d'un Anglais qui personne n'a écouté ! S'il nous avait lus la poésie de M. Verlaine, nous aurions été beaucoup plus intéressés. J'espère que le Babel Fish ne me fait pas vous écrit trop de non-sens, et que ceci pourra être compris raisonnablement clair !

Encore, beaucoup de mercis.

[carolina1954]

It is not the mouth it comes out of, but the mind it goes in to......

[Sherlock]

It is not the mouth it comes out of, but the mind it goes in to......

Guilty, as charged.

I was making paper aeroplanes, at the time....

[Signora Innamorata]

We savor life's simple joys,
for we are the dreamers.
The silent music makers,
and the followers of fancy.

- flavia

..... Dedicated to M, Claire
..... Juliet, Darcy and Sherlock

[Signora Innamorata]

Carolina..... eheheh... ahahhaha! *smiling*

[Sherlock]

Signora:

Thank you, dear lady.

Hope to "see" you in the chat room. Assuming I can ever find it...


God bless you, Signora.

[Signora Innamorata]

If 'you' find it - sheesh, let me know where it is, per favore.... I have searched high and low. Am tip toeing around, quitely doing so... eheh!!

Sorriso

.... ditto a te... God bless you too, Sherlock.

[Sherlock]

My lovely Signora: Your "quiet, tip-toeing around" is every bit as LOUD as Darcy's - and mine!

I shall certainly let you know where it is, when I find it, Signora. (None of my family has any sense of direction.)

Help...someone...?

(Sssssh, Signora - we're off-topic, AGAIN!)

[Signora Innamorata]

Oh tee hee, we surely are, aren't we? Well, slap the dickens out of me here!! Well, not to worry, I am sure this will be deleted and the thread can stay on track as should be. I sure want to respect the forum rules, but I dooo tend to say a few words too many and some of them can veer off topic, so I am sitting here having my coffee and trying to concentrate on Bocelli-Bocelli-Bocelli (and words to go along with that theme).

He is bello.... He has a magnificent voice... I prefer his pop songs... I want my discs back... I am adoring sooo many of you in here.....I love the baby blue back ground in this forum.... many, many of you (his fans) are so very, very lovely... and now - to find the chat room.

Si si... those are my daily thoughts of the day (my attempts of staying on topic in said Daily Thoughts thread)

oh hee!

[Signora Innamorata]

Completely on topic now ~

If you obey all the rules ALL of the time, you'll miss most of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

(eheh)

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. (this is so bella... one of my favorites.... chirp chirp)
- unknown

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.
- unknown

....... this has always been a beautiful thread. Complimenti, a tutti!

[jackyd]

If you obey all the rules ALL of the time, you'll miss most of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

This is a great one. Seems to play true.

[Juliet01]

This is a great one. Seems to play true.

Certainly does, Jacky.

Sherlock told me of the changes and I had to borrow a computer to pop in quickly and see for myself...

Although I like to keep D & S in line, I do so with my tongue firmly stuck in my cheek, and I think dear Mr. B. might find a website containing only facts about himself rather dull... Only conjecture, of course, as I don't have a clue what he really might think about it.

Seems a shame, to me, though, to curb the "Jolly Gang". Hope you find another outlet to express the fun of your free spirits.

Lots of love to you all: Michelle, Jacky, Boots, Alexandra, Tesora, etc. etc. (Hope you see this before it is deleted!!)

X X X X

[Alexandra]

Thanks, dear Juliet!!! The same to you ))) To bring you back to the right path, I'll immediatly post something about love... Let me see... May it be banal, but I always liked this one:

William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVI

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

[Michelle]

Don't worry - I don't think anyone would describe ol' Willie as 'banal' Alexandra!

[Alexandra]

Oh, what a relief!!! Actually, I don't think old Willie is banal either, Michelle )))

[Michelle]

By the way Alexandra - Tesora and I are in the chat-room right now if you have time to pop in!

[Darcy]

A truly WONDERFUL sonnet, Alexandra, and one which I love. I shall tell Juliet you posted it for her. Thank you.

In order to stay "on topic", here is one for all my friends on Andrea's website:

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding, in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden." (Goethe)

And to my fellow members of what Juliet has dubbed "The Jolly Gang":

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." (Author Unknown)


Things have become rather QUIET around here, lately, haven't they? Is this Cecil's Cunning Plan to bore all the "noisy" folk off the website...? If so, I think (yawn) that it may just be working... The good news about this is that I feel this will probably cure Sherlock and me of our addiction, and that we may well be able to return to what passes, in our case, for "normality", and actually get some real writing done! Pass that pillow, someone... Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z z z ........

[Michelle]

Those are beautiful Darcy, truly beautiful... Grazie.

[jackyd]

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding, in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden." (Goethe)

And to my fellow members of what Juliet has dubbed "The Jolly Gang":

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." (Author Unknown)

BEAUTIFUL !

I hope and pray they have not gone! It is very quiet.

[Tesora]

Things have become rather QUIET around here, lately, haven't they? Is this Cecil's Cunning Plan to bore all the "noisy" folk off the website...? If so, I think (yawn) that it may just be working...

Not to worry, Darcy. We're all still tip-toeing about in here, trying not to stir up trouble. Michelle, Alexandra, Jacky and I (and I just missed DueBaci the other night) have been "running" into each other in the chat room to get all that bantering out of our systems. Hope to see you there sometime!!

[Alexandra]

thanks for those gems, dear Darcy, they are wonderful. You are right, it is rather quiet here, we try to behave ourselves
here is a good poem for those who is going to use this silence to do some work :-):-)


Heart! We will forget him!
You and I - tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave -
I will forget the light!

When you have done, pray tell of
That I may straight begin!
Haste! Lest while you're lagging
I remember him!

Emily Dickinson