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Simon Peel & Oliver Smallbridge

(Handmade Soft Toy Lion and Dragon inspired by British Sitcom “Never the Twain” and brilliantly played by Donald Sinden & Windsor Davies)

~ Happy Birthday Donald Sinden ~

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Horatio Hornblower on Being Named Horatio Hornblower ("What an infernal piece of bad luck for you!")

Yes, it is canon, @quatregats!

From Hornblower and the Hotspur:

Hornblower forced himself to smile down at her, concealing the newly discovered fact that he disliked being called ‘Horry’ even more than he disliked being called Horatio. .

He used that initial in all his letters to her; he did not like his first name and he could not bring himself to sign ‘Horry.’

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From Flying Colours:

He never could contrive to feel proud of himself; there was something vaguely ridiculous about the name “Sir Horatio Hornblower,” just as he always felt there was something vaguely ridiculous about himself.

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From Lord Hornblower:

“Horatio the First, King of the Cannibal Isles,” laughed Hornblower. The clearest proof of his present mellowness was this joke about his name—a sore subject usually with him.

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There might be something grotesque about the name of Hornblower, and yet he was fond of it, and he had no desire to lose it in the almost anonymity of Lord Smallbridge or Lord Something-else.

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“ ’Oratio,” she said—why should it stir him so frightfully to hear that ridiculous name of his pronounced in that fashion?

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From Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies:

When it came he fingered the visiting card with its plain “Mr. Charles Ramsbottom” and found some small satisfaction in deciding that he had at last come across a name more unlovely than his own.

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[madschnell626]

#oneway #firstcomes #smallbridge (at Carmel Valley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeKwJDRuZSZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Scenes From My Walk - Rural Summer Scenes In A Semi-Rural Part Of Agua Fria. #ScenesFromMyWalk #GoldenCrownbeard #SmallBridge #Corral #RuralAguaFria #NewMexicoSummer #IdylicNewMexico #CanonPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7PA2rLSMa/?utm_medium=tumblr

[whitedisk]

Office cleaning in Smallbridge today. Doing this office three times a week now #whitediskcleaning #07951532428 #cleaningservice #smallbridge #rochdale #office #cleaning #regular #regularcleaning (at Smallbridge, Greater Manchester)

[thewasteland2]

Ales (Sardinia). Via Br. Sassari. Walking through Ales. Slim guide for passengers and wayfarers. This is the last way we have to go in the Santa Maria neighborhood. Also this very long and twisted, is a bit the periphery of the primitive village gathered around the church. This street, whose initial part is now close to the center, in its continuation presents nothing in particular, only rather popular houses and others renovated. One of its characteristics was "su pontixeddu" (the small bridge), which allowed to avoid the stream that flowed there, coming from the countryside of Pau, made underground and joined to the one that descends from via Marconi. Today that characteristic corner has been further modified (only a piece of the retaining wall remains) and made unrecognizable, it was not a good idea. To find something still ancient we have to go to the end of the street, but there are only residues of road pavement, dry stone walls and the ground road ascent (for chariots) that leads to the exit of the village towards the north-east. #neighborhood #twisted #periphery #village #smallbridge #allowed #countryside #sardinia #ales #underground #notagoodidea #pavement #northeast #exitvillage #passengers #joined #igersales #instasardinia #travel #traveling #visiting #instatravel #travelling #tourism #instatraveling #travelgram #travelingram #massimopistis #sovVERSIvi #estremisti Information for the purchase of my new book "Estremisti!": the book at a cost of 12.00 euros (120 pages), can be ordered in bookstores (ISBN 978-88-591-5719 -9 - Publisher Aletti) or online on the page http://www.alettieditore.it/emersi/2019/pistis.html from the link below. https://www.instagram.com/p/B84-2scIu-k/?igshid=lkmzpg0swipi

[briantaylor709-blog]

#art #drawing #sketch #thecreativeadultisthechildwhosurvived #structure #bridge #smallbridge #computerartist #drawnonthecomputer #computerart #creativity #artislife #artist #artisastoryinshort #artisastory #artisastorytellingtool #creative #creativityisintelligencehavingfun💡 (at England) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bycz1SIJpgs/?igshid=cu7vbouit6pt

[projectlifetimeme-blog]

#afghanistan #faizabad #feyzabad #smallbridge #2005 #bridge #picoftheday #instapic #nature #lostplaces #project_lifetime (hier: Feyzabad, Badakhshan, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwuMWApn4rL/?igshid=yk108548dwut

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You can rely on me.

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Hornblower AND WHO, though? (Or is it Hornblower and what?)

The title is a bit of a place holder as I don't have a proper name for the story yet. The idea was developed together with the wonderful @nordleuchten, who was just as distraught over Bush's death in the novels as I.

But, see, they never recovered any body(-parts) that were identfiably Bush... The story is set in 1824. Hornblower, a national hero, is trying to convince himself that the domestic idyll of having a wife, a son and a vast estate is all a man needs, but secretly suffers from severe nostalgia for his old days at sea.

Then one day, a curious letter arrives...:

Admiral Hornblower Smallbridge, Kent Grande-Bretagne.

My Dear Sir,

It is with some reservation I send to you this missive, for we have not been introduced to another, nor were we ever acquainted in another way, yet I am compelled to write to you following an incident in Le Havre—: at the harbour, I was approached by a sailor, a one-legged fellow who spoke French with an accent. At first, I was certain he would ask me for money, but he did not, though he appeared to be in some state of destitution and quite drunk: “Sir”, he pled with me, “Sir: from your dress, I can tell you are a man of import in this country, and thus beg your aid: I am but a poor sailor, and cannot write, and neither can I go home for the lack of funds that will not even allow me to send a letter: I have four poor sisters at home, and an ailing mother: will you please write to the good Admiral Hornblower of his Britannic Majesty’s Navy for me, with whom I served? He shall remember his old shipmate, and surely aid me, once he knows of my situation. He resides at Smallbridge in Kent, and shall no doubt accept the word of a gentleman such as you are.” I, moved by his speech and the destitution of the man, and no doubt his poor siblings and mother, asked him which name I was to give, but he was gone within an instant, only thanking me greatly, before disappearing from view amongst the alleyways.  

I have long thought on it, not wishing to accost a stranger with what might be but a mere trifle; yet those blue eyes seemed to haunt me until I put my pen to paper, and wrote this letter to you.

I am, etc. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette.

Thinking instantly that the man described can only be Bush (but how did he end up in this situation? He's supposed to be dead after all), Hornblower travels to Le Havre, who indeed finds Bush alive, and rather well; it appears that Bush had been rescued and returned to England by fishermen. Since at the time his demise had already been widely reported, Bush became an asset for the government as a spy, a position Bush only took on because the increased pay offered to him as compared to the Navy meant he could more efficiently care for his mother and sisters.

Bush admits to having tried to lure Hornblower over to France via La Fayette because he needs his help: the British government has received news that several British individuals are planning on kidnapping the Marquis on his way to his tour of the US as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of American independence.

The people behind the kidnapping are Irish nationalists who intend to stir up trouble between America and Britain by kidnapping La Fayette using a ship sailing under the British flag, their idea being that perhaps Irish nationalism will be received with greater political interest, credence and perhaps even support (especially from France; they have not forgotten 1798 yet) abroad if there is a rift between the US and UK. They also plan on maybe using La Fayette as a hostage to negotiate arms deliveries.

The head of the group of people Bush and Hornblower are up against is Lucy Anne FitzGerald, historically staunchly true to her brother's, the famed Lord Edward FitzGerald's, (political) legacy, who, rather inconveniently for Bush and Hornblower, was married to the Royal Navy captain Thomas Foley, so the threat is sort-of coming from within.

They are joined on their mission by Hornblower's son Richard, who has followed his famous, but largely absent, father as a stowaway.

The people Hornblower perceives as antagonists are not meant to be portrayed in a negative way, on the contrary; Hornblower and Bush are set up against people with good intentions and reasons Hornblower might, in other circumstances even understand or even sympathise with to a certain extent.

I always found that Hornblower's antagonists are a tad shallow, from Barry McCool to the infamous "Wolfe" of the TV series, I thought the topic of 1798, or the fight for Irish independence could be dealt with with much greater nuance.

And, I think it would be interesting to set the oh-so-moral and correct Hornblower up against (gasp!) a lady.

While I have the faint outlinings of an ending in mind, I haven't fully planned it yet; the idea is however that there isn't a clear triumph or victory for one or the other side; the journey is what matters, a journey on which the newly resurrected friendship of Bush and Hornblower is put to the test, and Hornblower and his son grow closer over the mutual adventure.

Thank you for the ask! :)

[spryfilm]

DVD review: “Never the Twain” (1981-1991)

DVD review: “Never the Twain” (1981-1991)

“Never the Twain” (1981-1991) Television/Comedy Sixty-seven Episodes Developed by: Johnnie Mortimer Featuring: Windsor Davies, Donald Sinden, Robin Kermode , Julia Watson, Honor Blackman, Teddy Turner, Derek Deadman, Maria Charles and Zara Nutley Simon Peel: [entering a cobwebbed room] “Nobody’s been in here for years.” Oliver Smallbridge: “It’s like the inside of your wallet.” Released on…

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The Valley of the Mills is one of the best-known walks on the Amalfi Coast 🌏 thanks to its geographical position and particular microclimate 🌿 You'll see some pretty waterfalls and the ruins of the old paper mills 📃 #papermills #valley #amalficoast #amalfi #valledelleferriere #valledeimulini #waterfall #nature #intothewild #intothenature #instanature #wild #adventure #water #walk #walking #ponticello #bridge #wood #smallbridge #costieraamalfitana #coteamalfitaine #oasi #riservanaturale #hiking #trekking #rocks #path #sentiero #waternoise (presso Valle Delle Ferriere, Amalfi)

[wilkycreative]

#smallbridge #lotsofpeople #cotswolds #fujixpro2

[anvsha]

#smallbridge #happyweather