Travels that remind me of Plan B

[MajGenl.Meade]

What would LJ find the most exciting? Watching a metropolitan line train pass or enjoying some amateur cricket in Northwick Park? There's no official umpires LJ - the batting team puts two men in to ensure fair play. That's the kind of game it is.




And Gob... what would he make of the decline of Whitehall?





rubato, does he reflect this deeply all the time?



One may never know

Meade

[dales]

[Lord Jim]

What would LJ find the most exciting? Watching a metropolitan line train pass or enjoying some amateur cricket in Northwick Park?

There's my nominee for Rhetorical Question Of The Year...

The choo choo of course....


ETA:

And I might add that from the other options available in that picture:



both imagining what the cloud formations look like (I believe I see a profile of Richard Nixon) or watching the grass grow would rank as greater heart pounders....

[rubato]

Out last stop ... last but one ... at St Orres there was a pair of wild turkeys scampering around and providing general entertainment. The Tom was doing his best to appear "BIG and IMPRESSIVE" to the hen who feigned indifference but not ever from very far away.

Twice I saw him displaying to his reflection in a chrome bumper on a pickup truck.

http://www.saintorres.com/



Wild turkeys are pretty good-sized so they made quite a racket when they scooted over the roof early in the morning. There are a few neglected cherry trees on the property and they will be your friends for life if you pick a few cherries and toss them their way.


yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Good on yer, rube!

[rubato]

Great dining room too. Worth a special trip.

[MajGenl.Meade]

To which may I add:

The Sundial, Herstmonceux



and a special place

Thornbury Castle


(but for the best ambience, eat outside on the tables set between the castle hall and the outside curtain wall)

Meade

[rubato]

Why are the chairs so low? Thornbury built by/for midgets? People with odd proportions? Some people have stumpy little legs on longer torsos ...


yrs,
rubato'

[MajGenl.Meade]

Silly goose! It's so one can put one's shoes up on the little table without elevating one's feet unnecessarily!

[rubato]

That would explain lower tables and higher chairs .....


yrs,
rubato

[Rick]

It's just an obsticle allusion.

The servers knees are at the correct elevation in relation to the furniture.

Or they actually are low so the servers may catch a glimpse down madams dress...

[Gob]

Why are the chairs so low? Thornbury built by/for midgets? People with odd proportions? Some people have stumpy little legs on longer torsos ...


yrs,
rubato'

It's period furniture. Another subject on which you can display the vast range and depth of your ignorance if you wish.

[MajGenl.Meade]

So, it's a bloody waste of furniture time?

[rubato]

Why are the chairs so low? Thornbury built by/for midgets? People with odd proportions? Some people have stumpy little legs on longer torsos ...


yrs,
rubato'

It's period furniture. Another subject on which you can display the vast range and depth of your ignorance if you wish.

"Period furniture" only says that "that's how they did it back then" but gives no explanation of why they did it that way. Since my question was directed to motive, your response is pure meaningless bullshit.

You stupid jackass.

yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

The chairs are low because they were made to be placed around a small low table.

[Gob]

"Period furniture" only says that "that's how they did it back then" but gives no explanation of why they did it that way. Since my question was directed to motive, your response is pure meaningless bullshit.

It's done that way as it's period furniture, do you not understand why? Please continue to demonstrate your unrivaled depth of ignorance.

[MajGenl.Meade]

This theory which belongs to me is as follows. Ahem. Ahem. This is how it goes. Ahem. The next thing that I am about to say is my theory. Ahem. Ready?

A similar chair height? (key words in bold):

A Regency style mahogany open back low library chair, gadrooned carved front legs & sabre back legs ending on bronze sabots with wheels, English or Continental mid 19th, as is

Width- 24" Depth- 28" Back height- 35" Seat height- 14"

The Thornbury chairs have a Louis XIII appearance and seem to be about the same seat height as the couch, which is correctly below the bend of the knee. The chair seat height is probably 15-16". The chair I'm sitting on now at my computer table is 17" and I find it impossible to stretch out my legs in chairs of that height - my heels leave the floor (well I'm only 5' 6") - and I'd need a small footstool (or low table) to put my feet on to be comfortable while reading a book and enjoying a nice fire. The lower period library chairs obviate that need. I find that reading in a chair that forces one to sit at several angles of 90 degrees is not pleasant. My legs want to stretch out; my spine would prefer to be pressed a little more to the chairback. Lower legs on a chair facilitate a more reclined attitude.

That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.

Meade

[Joe Guy]

Oh... I see.

They're Munchkin chairs.

[MajGenl.Meade]

"averageheightkin" please!