#mill-sixpence

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Script:

At the edge of a forest. The Queen and Servant are standing together, clearly scheming 

Q: sing a song of sixpence… 

Q presses a golden torc/money into S’s hands. S stares at the torc and then at Q. 

Q: Pocket full of rye… 

Q ties a satchel of rye to S’s belt. She moves her hands up to S’s shoulders. S looks nervous. 

Q: 4 and 20 blackbirds… 

S puts a hand on the fabric net on their belt. Q twists S to face the forest 

Q: Baked into a pie 

Q lightly pushes S forward and begins to walk away. S stumbles forward and walks to the beat of the song. Instrumental. 

S places the necklace around their neck and takes a deep breath. As theyre walking they take the net off their belt and the fabric flows behind them. S starts repeating the instructions to themselves  

S (quietly singing/whispering): sing my song of sixpence.. 

S stops as they hear the sound of chirping and scraping. They dip their hand into the pocket of rye on their hip. 

S: pocket full of rye… 

S scatters the rye onto the ground in front of them. They bend their knees and get into a fighting stance. 

S: four and twenty blackbirds… 

S reaches for the net and unfolds it. They hold it with two hands spread wide, readying to catch something. 

Instrumental bit. Several Big Birds start creeping out from the shadows and grazing at the rye. The Birds are so close together that they form a massive blob of shadows. 

S (nervously): four and twenty blackbirds… 

S begins creeping closer to the birds, arms still spread out and ready to catch them. 

The birds notice and 1 bird shrieks loudly. The other birds follow suit and start to aggressively flap their feathers. The birds form a giant massive bird. B sees the necklace and lunges at the shiny object  

S (surprised and scared): wait- 

S jumps out of the way and holds the net protectively in front of themselves. B recovers from its lunging attack and strains its neck to look behind it at S. The neck angle is unnatural and the body follows the pose a couple seconds late.  

Instrumental. The Bird keeps lunging at the Servant with its wings flared out behind it. S mimics these shapes with the net as they jump and shuffle back. It’s mostly poses and arm movements (Madame butterfly as a reference) 

B lunges again. S side jumps, plants their hands on the head of the Bird and ‘leap-frogs’ onto its back. S covers its head with the fabric net and the bird thrashes until it’s calmed down.  

The Bird begins to separate again into smaller birds. S scoops up the formless shadows into the net. 

S heaves true net over their shoulder and begins tiredly walking back. 

S: song of sixpence? I should’ve sung a ballad. Ahahahahahaha laugh track 

Now in the ‘kitchen’ 

S opens the door covered in feathers and grumpy. The bag is still slung over their shoulder. 

S (trying to sing, heaving with effort): 

four - and TWENTY. BLACKBIRDS.. 

S heaves the bag onto the table. It begins wriggling. S throws themselves onto the bag until the wriggling stops 

S (talking, contemplative): Baked into a pie. 

The music swells. There’s a montage. 

S grabs ingredients, mills some flour, kneads the dough, etc. setting an open fire and making a fulacht fidagh.  

S approaches the bag again, armed with a PERIOD TYPICAL WEAPON OR COOKING UTENSIL. S couches down, furrows their brow and leaps at the bag, tearing it open. The shadows flow out of the bag slowly. low viscosity. The shadows begin to split into smaller forms.  

S grabs the pie base and sprinkles rye into it. The shadows start lurching towards the pie base. S scraps the extras into the base and drapes the pastry on top, sealing the pie. It’s still moving. 

S drops the pie into the fullacht fiadgh. The water turns black and starts bubbling. S takes a couple steps back, clutching the torc on their neck. The birds cry out, and S turns away. 

S: Sing my song of sixpence 

Thought the shadows crow  

She’s promised me a luxury  

I through I’d never hold  

Swap my tattered tunic for  

A collar made of gold  

In gleaming light the guilt begins to dull 

New scene,  

The king is counting his jewellery pieces and humming a tune to himself. He’s carefully assessing each piece and putting them back in their places. He looks over his jewellery and notices some of its missing. He stops humming and looks puzzled.  

In the same room, the Queen continues humming her own tune. She’s dipping some bread into honey, looking very pleased with herself. She’s crumbling some bread to feed the weird ass birds next to her. 

The puzzled expression turns to a long stare. Q looks behind her and glares. 

Q: You look confused. Trouble counting all your gold? 

K: There’s fewer than before. 

Q: You’ve miscounted. 

K: I’ve double checked- 

Q: You call me a thief, then? 

K: Not at all. 

Q: then why ask me?  

(We either need a dialogue or music transition to get to this bit. Or just cut this out entirely) 

K (playfully) :Must you feed those wretched things? 

Q: soon enough you’ll hear them sing. 

Q (cooing at them): -a dainty dish fit for the king… (ahaha evil giggling to herself she’s crazay) 

  

K (happily): You and all your mutterings🥰 

He keeps looking at her with little hearts around his head. Q looks incredulously at him - is he that naive? 

Scene ends 

New scene 

Festival or ritual 

S watches through a crowd of dancers as they dress the other staff nearby. They’re still wearing the torc under their tunic. 

S starts mumbling under their breath. 

WIPPP 

S: sing my song of six pence. 

A waning enthral.  (Haha lunalae joke) 

Did the lustre of this gold 

Rust into a bronze? 

Watch desire turn to  

An indented call 

Something something 

1234 alll 

S watches on and makes eye contact with K. S panics and ducks behind someone. K looks suspiciously at S’s torc. Q notices and taps him on the shoulder. K looks away. 

Q: gaslighting there is no servant  

K: okay 

Someone placed a pie in front of K. K looks expectantly at the waiter. The waiter hands him the knife to cut the pie.  

birds. He cuts the pie open and shadows pour out.  

bird theme 

The shadows begin to form a dozen small shadows, but quickly form back into a large bird. B begins creeping towards K, cawing aggressively. K looks scared but concentrated.  

K takes several steps back and the light shines on his jewellery. B’s eyes sparkle and lung for the jewellery. K realises and steps back.  

K takes off his jewellery and tosses it to the crowd. S scrambles out from the crowd and makes a grab for the jewellery. 

B sees the torc from before and gets angry and vengeful. B attacks and mauls S. 

K watches in horror. K looks at Q and points a finger at her. Q makes a run for it. 

Q runs into the woods with gold in her hands. B sees the gold and follows her. Q is cornered. 

Q (nervous): S - Sing your song of sixpence- 

B: CAWWWWW (is a bird) 

Q throws gold at the bird. B is unaffected and creeps further forward. 

B kills Q. K watches from the outskirts, turns away and walks back home.  

K walks towards the crumpled form of S. S has their face cradled in their hands 

K looks at the torc and the bloody hands of S. He extends a hand to S and they look up. S reaches forward to grab the hand. 

✨🌸🌸✨🌸✨The End 🌸✨💅🌸🌸 

Musical Motifs for Q and S

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Sabato 4 febbraio

Curiosità del giorno: nella Cappella Scrovegni, affrescata da Giotto a Padova tra 1303 e 1305, raffigura il primo bacio e la prima lacrima della storia dell’arte. (GB)

Citazione del giorno: Pictor nostri evi princeps / Il pittore che detiene il primato della nostra epoca. (Petrarca parlando di Giotto)

Canzone del giorno: Kiss me, Sixpence None The RIcher

Perché la Cappella Scrovegni è così importante? Perché Giotto riesce per la prima volta a riscoprire il vero dei sentimenti, delle passioni, della fisionomia umana, della luce, e dei colori, aspetti che durante il Medioevo si erano persi. E per altri mille motivi, ovviamente, ma rimaniamo sulla lacrima e sul bacio.

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Sunday 8 January 1837

8 40

12 10

no kiss finish hazyish morning and F36° now at 9 35 am and breakfast and sat talking till 11 – with A- helping her to tidy the kitchen chamber and pack (school things etc) till off at 2 – what with Cookson inside and packages, we had not much spare room – a minute or 2 at the school going – to unloaden – and returning to look about the grates newly re-set etc – Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty – preached 22 minutes – from the 1st Epistle general of St. John ii. 17 – found 2 Miss Mill-house Rawsons and the 2 Miss Thorpe Priestleys at Cliff hill – about ½ hour there – Mrs. AW- asked me to stay to tea – said I should have been happy to stay but the road was slippery and bad, and there were carriage candles, and no moon – left A- to stay till Wednesday – home at 5 35 – till 6 ¼ tidying the blue room and washing hands for dinner at 6 ½ - just before dinner wrote and sent by Frank note to ‘Robert Parker Esquire the Square’ inclosing a check (dated tomorrow no.     ) for one hundred and fifty pounds five shillings and sixpence bring the amount due to Mr. Wainhouse up to the 8th instant dinner in ½ hour – came upstairs at 7 – had John Booth – gave him the Halifax guardian for his song John to take to A- at Cliff hill in the morning – wrote on the envelope ‘à quoi pensez vous? à ce que je suis triste? vous avez bien raison ['what do you think? to what [why] am I sad? You are quite right]  Mr. Husband not at home (as I returned home this evening) – I have written him word to be at the school at 12 at noon on Tuesday – coffee – Looking over Ellis’s Tariff till 8 – Letter from Messrs. Gray – dated yesterday Mr. Watson will leave York for here on Tuesday morning – Roydelands to be included in the security – had just written all the above of today till 8 ½ - then wrote to Messrs. Gray to go tomorrow morning – shall be glad to see Mr. W- on Tuesday – then till 10 40 making memoranda and calculations about coal – fine day F40° and high wind and fair now at 10 50 pm

[spocks-evil-godmother]

Multiple of 7 for Spotify wrapped

Thank u and sorry this took me a hot minute

7. Man Called Marco - Adam Ant

14. Elstree - The Buggles

21. New Horisons - Flyleaf

28. I'll Follow the Sun - The Beatles

35. Now the Green Blade Rises - Celtics

42. There She Goes - Sixpence None the Richer

49. Die For You - Red

56. Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp

63. Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios - Adam & The Ants

70. Build God, Then We'll Talk - Panic! At The Disco

77. Ballroom of Romance - Celtic Woman

84. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

91. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

98. A Little Bit Alexis - Evan Mills

[howmuchdoessheread]

oct reads [2022

world without end - ken follett

the bad beginning - lemony snicket (reread)

a murder is announced - agatha christie

the reptile room - lemony snicket (reread)

freedom - jonathan franzen

odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century america - lillian faderman

4:50 from paddington - agatha christie

the wide window - lemony snicket (reread)

of human bondage - w. somerset maugham 

earthlings - sayaka murata

farewell to manzanar: a true story of japanese american experience during and after the world war ii internment - jeanne wakatsuki houston and james d. houston

the miserable mill - lemony snicket (reread)

cloud cuckoo land - anthony doerr

timequake - kurt vonnegut jr.

territory of light - yūko tsushima with geraldine harcourt

instruction in libraries and information centers: an introduction - laura saunders and melissa a. wong

the austere academy - lemony snicket (reread)

how beautiful we were - imbolo imbue

the mirror crack’d from side to side - agatha christie

moon of the crusted snow - waubgeshig rice

dnf:

pirate women: the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the seven seas - laura sook duncombe

the beautiful ones - silvia moreno-garcia

a beautiful mind - sylvia nasar

the moon and sixpence - w. somerset maugham

maybe in another life - taylor jenkins reid

[salus-in-arduis]

From 1560 the old sterling silver standard of 0.925 was restored.

Fig. 1. Hammered sixpence s2561, Pheon 1561 [ex G. Miceli, 1980] Fig. 2. Milled sixpence s2595, Star 1562 [ex R. Richardson, Midland Coin Fair Feb 2006]

Coins of exceedingly fine workmanship were produced in a screw press introduced by Eloye Mestrelle, a French moyener, in 1561. Despite the superior quality of the coins produced, the machinery was slow and inefficient compared to striking by hand.

Fig. 3. Hammered sixpence, Portcullis 1566 Fig. 4. Hammered sixpence, Coronet 1568

Mestrelle’s dismissal was engineered in 1572 and six years later he was hanged for alleged counterfeiting.

Fig. 5. Penny, Greek cross 1578-9 Fig. 6. Halfgroat, Tun 1592-5

Fig. 7. Penny, 6th issue 1582-1600, bust 6B Fig. 8. Shilling, Wool pack 1594-6

[mei-ariake]

Full names: フルネームは？ Kevin Michael Godley and Laurence Neil Creme. ケヴィン・マイケ��・ゴドリーとローレンス・ニール・クリーム。 Ages: 年齢は？

Lol: 37. ロル：37。 Kevin: 39. ケヴィン：39。 Born: 生まれは？ Kevin: Manchester. ケヴィン：マンチェスターさ。 Lol: Me too. ロル：僕もだ。 Nicknames at school: 学校での綽名は？ Kevin: For a short while I was called Crowville for some reason... Yours was Igor wasn't it Lol? ケヴィン：ちょっとの間何故かクラーヴァルって呼ばれてたよ…。ロルはイゴールじゃなかった？ Lol: I've been called all those things like Brill Creme, Hair Creme, Whipped Creme... I've been through the mill with my name. ロル：ずっとブリル・クリームとかヘア・クリームとかホイップ・クリームみたいな感じに呼ばれてたよ…。名前のせいで酷い目に遭ったな。 Were you bullied at school? 学校ではいじめられていましたか？ Lol: No, I was the bully. ロル：いや、いじめっ子だったよ。 Kevin: I was, but I used to get out of it beacause I could draw, so I'd do pictures for them. I used to draw pictures of nude women beore I knew what they looked like and sell them for sixpence. What I used to draw 'down there' I can't imagine, because I hadn't a clue what was going on. ケヴィン：いじめられてたけど、絵が描けたことで逃がれられたよ。いじめてくる奴らのために描いてたんだ。���性の裸なんて知らないままヌード画を描いて六ペンスで売ってたもんさ。あそこなんてどう描いてたんだか、想像もできないね。何がどうなってるんだかさっぱり分からなかったんだから。 Did you have any jobs before becoming a musician?

ミュージシャンになる前何か仕事をしていましたか？ Lol: I used to take jobs when we were at college. I was an ice cream salesman, I drove lorries, I was a navvy for an afternoon, I had a job smashing up damaged toilets with a sledgehammer... ロル：二人で大学に行ってた頃仕事してたよ。トラックを運転してアイス売りをしてた。午後は土木工事員で、ハンマーで傷んだトイレを壊す係だったな…。 Kevin: I used to help out at my dad's shop on Saturdays, but I was incredibly hopeless. I couldn't work the till. ケヴィン：土曜日に父さんの店を手伝ってたんだけど、全くダメだったね。レジをうまく使えないんだ。 What did you dream last night? 昨夜はどんな夢を見ましたか？ Kevin:I had one of those dreams this morning where you hear your next wonderful number one single... and you wake up and you can't remember a thing. ケヴィン：次の素晴らしい第一位シングルが今朝夢の中で聞こえて…、目覚めると覚えてないんだ。 Lol:I dreamt that Kevin went bald... I was looking at him and all his hair began disappearing. ロル：ケヴィンが禿げる夢を見たよ…。彼を見つめてると髪が根こそぎなくなっていくんだ。 Do you have any vices? 何か悪い癖は？ Lol: Do think we're stupid enough to confess to any vices we've got? ロル：自分から言うほど僕たち馬鹿だと思うかい？ Kevin: We're suckers for technology, any devices or technical toys. ケヴィン：テクノロジーに目がないね。あらゆる機器、技術的なつまらないものさ。 Lol: I must admit I pick my nose occasionally. ロル：たまに鼻をほじることは認めるよ。 Kevin: I pick his nose as well. ケヴィン：私も彼の鼻はほじるよ。 Do you lose your temper? 怒ることはありますか？ Kevin: Not really. ケヴィン:あまり。 Lol: I think we're quite laid back really. ロル：僕らはほんとのんきなもんさ。 Have you ever considered becoming a vegetarian?

菜食者になろうと考えたことはありますか？ Lol: I have never ever considered it. ロル：一度もないな。 Kevin: I'm thinking about it... I'm trying to become one. ケヴィン：考えてるところなんだ…。やってみようとしてるよ。 Lol: Well he is a vegetable, so he might as well follow the whole thing through. I'm considering eating more junk, more stodge, more fried, fatty food.

ロル：あぁ、怠け者なんだからやり抜いてみたらいいんじゃない。僕はもっとスナック菓子とかこってりしたもの、揚げ物、脂っこいものを食べることにするよ。 Favourite drinks: 好きな飲み物は？

Kevin: Iced tea... and I like Slammers - that's a shot of tequila and a shot of ginger ale in a small glass. You bang it up and down 'til it turns into a froth, then you knock it back in one.

ケヴィン：アイスティーだね…。それとSlammersが好きだ。小さいグラスにテキーラのショットとジンジャエールのショットが入ってるんだ。泡になるまで叩きつけてから一気にぐいっと飲むんだよ。

Lol: Milk or any good champagne... But I can never get drunk however hard I try. I can get a bit tipsy sometimes, but my metabolism doesn't answer to the call of alcohol. I'd love to try it but I drink and drink and drink and I'm lucky if I get slightly merry.

ロル：牛乳とかいいシャンパンならなんでも…。だけどどんなに酔いたくても酔わないんだよね。時々ちょっとだけほろ酔いになるけど、体質的にアルコールに反応しないんだ。やってみたいんだが飲んで飲んで飲んで少しでもほろ酔いになったらツイてるね。 Favourite TV programmes:

好きなテレビ番組は？ Kevin: Hill Street Blues. I liked I, Claudius from years back... and things like Top Of The Pops, Whistle Test, The Tube and all that.

ケヴィン：『ヒル・ストリート・ブルース』。『I, Claudius』はずっと好きだったな…。『Top Of The Pops』とか『Whistle Test』、『The Tube』とかそういうのは全部好きだよ。

Lol: I used to try to watch Auf Wiedersehen Pet, and I loved Brideshead Revisited. I really want to relax there's nothing like a really trashy movie.

ロル:『Auf Wiedersehen Pet』を何とか見ようしたものさ。『Brideshead Revisited』がすごく好きだったな。本当に寛ぎたいときは本当にくだらない映画を見るに限るね。 Favourite board games:

好きなボードゲームは？ Kevin:Trival Pursuits. ケヴィン:Trival Pursuits。 Lol:Backgammon, and I like Kensington. ロル:バックギャモンとKensingtonが好きだな。 Which of your videos are you proudest of? 一番誇りに思うビデオは何ですか？ Kevin:There's none that stand out, but I suppose if I had to choose it'd be Frankie's, or Harbie Hancock, or our one for 'Cry'...

ケヴィン:突出してるってのはないけど、選ばなきゃならないならフランキーかハービー・ハンコックか、私たちの「クライ」だね…。 Lol:...or the ones we did for The Police. ロル:…それかポリスのビデオだな。 Is there a video that you wish you'd never done? やらなければよかったと思うビデオはありますか？ Kevin:Yeah... but we're not telling which. ケヴィン:ああ…。でもどれかは教えないよ。 Who's the best subject you've worked with? 一緒に働いた人の中で最もカメラ映えしたのは誰ですか？ Lol:That's an impossible question to answer... ロル:それは答えるには不可能な質問だね…。 Kevin:... because they're all totally different. I suppose Sting's got to be one of the best. ケヴィン:…みんな全く違うからね。スティングはベストに入ると思うよ。 Who would you most like to do a video for? 一番ビデオを撮りたい人は？ Kevin:Marvin Gaye! ケヴィン:マーヴィン・ゲイ！ Lol:Michael Jackson, that'd be nice. ロル:マイケル・ジャクソン。いいだろうな。 Most ridiculous location for a video shoot: ビデオ撮影で一番変わっていた場所は？ Lol:Isral was fairly ridiculous... ロル:イスラエルはちょっと変だったな…。 Kevin:...for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Power Of Love'. We shot the nativity there. Directing the Virgin Mary was a rare achievement.

ケヴィン：…フランキー・ゴーズ・トゥ・ハリウッドの「パワー・オブ・ラブ」でね。私たちはそこでキリスト降誕を撮ったんだ。聖母マリアを監督するのは貴重な経験だったよ。

Lol:... and the watching the Virgin Mary smoking a cigarette in between shots. ロル:ショットの合間に聖母マリアが煙草を吸っているのを見るのもね。 The sternest words you use to people you're directing: 監督している人に対して使う最も厳しい言葉は？ Lol:'Please', or 'Goodbye'. ロル:「お願い」か「さよなら」。 Kevin: We never really have to say anything strong. ケヴィン:何か強い言葉は全然言わなくていいんだよ。 What do you most want to do next? 次に最もやりたいことは？ Lol:We'd like to do a movie... a complete film. ロル:僕たち映画がやりたいんだ…。完全な映画ね。 Do you ever act outrageously at parties? パーティーで大はしゃぎすることはありますか？ Lol:I don't. ロル:いいや。 Kevin:I don't know. (Uproarious laughter) ケヴィン:さあね。(けたたましい笑い) Do you have any phobias? 何か恐怖症はありますか？ Kevin:No. ケヴィン:ないね。 Lol:I have a phobia of cold food, I hate it. ロル:冷たい食べ物がやだな。嫌いだよ。 Have you ever been in trouble with the police? 警察沙汰のトラブルにあったことはありますか？ Kevin:Yes, I have as a matte of fact, but I was completely innocent. This burly great man took me down to the station to answer some questions and I was charged with demanding money with menaces, but it was someone else who'd been using my name. I wouldn't have minded but they eventually showed me a photograph of this character and he was revolting.

ケヴィン:うん、実際あるんだが、私は全くの無実だよ。図体のでかい男に聞きたいことがあるからって署に連れて行かされて、脅迫して法外な金を要求した罪で告発されたんだけど、それは私の名を騙った誰かだったんだ。私は動じなかったけど、結局その人物の写真を見せられてね、反吐が出るような奴だったよ。 What's the worst mistake you've ever made?

今までで最悪の過ちは？ Kevin:He is (pointing at Lol). ケヴィン:彼さ (ロルを指差す)。 Do you play any sports? スポーツはしますか？ Lol:Definitely not! ロル:絶対やらないよ！ Kevin:I swim if I get the time. ケヴィン:時間があれば泳ぐよ。 Will you be watching Wimbledon? ウィンブルドンは見るつもりですか？ Kevin:Yes. ケヴィン:ああ。 Lol:I try and go there occasionally too. ロル:僕も時たま見に行くようにしてるよ。 How hard do you work? どのくらいハードに仕事しますか？ Lol:Very hard. ロル：すごくハードだ。 Kevin:We work in bursts, we don't work regular hours. We work for like eighteen to twenty hours a day for three weeks and then we stop for a few days.

ケヴィン:私たちは一気に仕事するんだ。規則的な時間で働かないんだよ。三週間、一日に八時間から二十時間くらい働いてから、数日間やめるんだ。 What cars do you drive?

車は何を運転していますか？ Kevin:I drive a Bristol. ケヴィン:ブリストルに乗ってるよ。 Lol:I've got a Mercedes. Two in fact. ロル:メルセデスを持ってるよ。実際二台ね。 Do you collect something? 何か集めていますか？ Kevin:Debts. ケヴィン:借金。 Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with? エレベーターで乗り合わせたら一番嫌なのは誰ですか？ Lol:Adolf Hitler. ロル:アドルフ・ヒトラー。 Kevin:Molly Parkin. ケヴィン: Molly Parkin。 If you ruled the world... もし世界を征服したら… Lol:We'd legalize certain substances. ロル:例の薬を合法化するよ。 One phrase to describe yourselves: 自身を形容するワンフレーズは？ Kevin:We're in The Salvador Disney business. ケヴィン:私たちは「サルヴァドール・ディズニー・ビジネス」にいるのさ。 Questions set by Duncan Bagel. (一連の質問はダンカン・バージェルによる)

[historyunearthedltd]

A nice collection of milled silver coins found in different fields in Shropshire by Jack Watton (2020). Two Queen Victoria Gothic Florins, a George III Sixpence and a William III sixpence . . . . . #coincollecting #coin #silver #treasure #queenvictoria #kinggeorgeiii #kingwilliamiii #milled #antique #metaldetecting #history #historyunearthed #finds https://www.instagram.com/p/CHoTjKQHXXq/?igshid=1c6sj79ozjceu

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Anthony Valentine: Actor who made his name playing a hitman in Callan and a Luftwaffe officer in Colditz

Valentine exuded charm and sophistication but made his name in psychopathic and ruthless roles in the 1970s

Anthony Valentine exuded charm and sophistication but made his name on television as psychopathic Toby Meres in Callan and ruthless Nazi Major Mohn in Colditz. Both roles, which brought him fame in the 1970s, typecast him as a screen "nasty" for years. "There must be something in me that other people see," the former child star once told me. "They must have a sixth sense that says, 'He looks a bit dodgy,' or, 'I don't like him.' I find that strange because, inside, I feel just as warm and friendly as the next guy."

Alongside Edward Woodward's title character in Callan (1967-72), a brutal drama set in the world of intelligence and intended as an antidote to the James Bond films, Valentine chillingly portrayed fellow agent Meres as a cold-blooded licensed killer, an upper-class thug who enjoys his deadly work.

He brought the same sadistic qualities to menacing Luftwaffe security officer Horst Mohn in the final series of Colditz (1974), based on Major Pat Reid's memoirs of his time in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Valentine also proved adept at depicting another side of Mohn's personality with his pathetic attempts to get the PoWs to testify that he treated them well as the Third Reich's imminent defeat becomes clear.

He played a more debonair character, albeit on the wrong side of the law, as the gentleman jewel thief in Raffles (1975-77), adapted from EW Hornung's short stories. AJ (Arthur) Raffles was a cricketer and amateur cracksman and, unlike Valentine's previous notorious characters, disapproved of violence.

He was born Tony Valentine in Blackburn, Lancashire, where his parents, Mary (née Walsh) and William, worked in a cotton mill. When he was six, the family moved to south London and Valentine's mother, a fan of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly film musicals, enrolled him in dancing lessons.

At the age of nine he was spotted tap-dancing in a stage version of Robin Hood at Ealing Town Hall and chosen to act in the film thriller No Way Back (1949). Then, while training at the Valerie Glynne Stage School and attending Acton County Grammar School, he appeared in the film The Girl on the Pier (1953) and had various roles on television, including Trout in Emil and the Detectives (1952).

On leaving school, children's TV kept Valentine busy, casting him as Humphrey Beverley in The Children of the New Forest (1955), JO Stagg in Rex Milligan (1956) and Lord Mauleverer (1955), then Harry Wharton (1956-57), in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School. He also sang in the children's magazine show Whirligig – accompanied by Steve Race on the piano – and for two seasons in operas at Sadler's Wells Theatre.

Making the successful transition to adult acting, Valentine performed in repertory theatres around the country. He also enjoyed invaluable experience at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958 with roles in John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon and Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley. Back on television, he played Gerald Quincey in the Francis Durbridge serial The Scarf (1959) and, switching to the classics, took a dozen parts in An Age of Kings (1960), the BBC's Shakespeare anthology series.

Fame in Callan led Valentine to be cast in two other thriller series, playing Vickers in Scobie in September (1969) and Philip West in Codename (1970). He also acted barrister James Eliot (1974) in the final series of Justice, a popular legal drama starring Margaret Lockwood.

This celebrity made him a popular panellist in television game shows such as Call My Bluff (between 1974 and 1981), but he began to find good, strong starring roles hard. So he simply made guest appearances – as streetwise gambler Maurice Michaelson in Minder (three episodes, 1979-83), charming black marketeer Squadron-Leader Dickie Marlowe in Airline (1982) and evil sorcerer Baron Simon de Belleme in Robin of Sherwood (1984 and 1985).

He then bounced back with several leading roles. After acting sinister Tony Slater, one of the partners in crime, in The Fear (1988), he was cast in Body & Soul (1993) as Stan Beattie, the stubborn manager of an ailing north of England mill coming into conflict with the young nun (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) who takes charge of it after the death of her brother. Then came the part of smuggler George Webster (1994-96) in the Customs & Excise drama The Knock.

Guest roles continued, including a 36-episode run in Coronation Street as George Wilson (2009-10), the grandfather of Simon Barlow (Alex Bain) and father of Lucy Richards (Katy Carmichael), who had died after splitting up with her bigamist husband, Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne). On discovering his newly found grandson, retired builder George spoiled him and offered to pay for a private education, to the annoyance of Simon's other grandfather, Ken Barlow (William Roache).

Valentine's occasional film appearances included Joey Maddocks, a bookmaker contending with James Fox's east London gangster, in Performance (1970), SS Major Volkmann, the sadistic town commandant, in Escape to Athena (1979) and the British ambassador in Jefferson in Paris (1995). On the West End stage, Valentine acted in The Shifting Heart (Duke of York's Theatre, 1959), Two Stars for Comfort (Garrick Theatre, 1962), Half a Sixpence (Cambridge Theatre, 1962), No Sex, Please – We're British (Strand Theatre, 1971-72), as the assistant bank manager, Peter Hunter, Sleuth (St Martin's Theatre, 1972) , Hans Andersen (London Palladium, 1977) and Art (Wyndham's Theatre, 1999-2000).

Valentine, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2012, was married to the actress Susan Skipper (née Cook), who met him when she guest-starred in Raffles. They also appeared on screen together in the 1979 television production of the Ivor Novello musical The Dancing Years.

Tony Valentine (Anthony Valentine), actor: born Blackburn, Lancashire 17 August 1939; married 1982 Susan Skipper; died Guildford, Surrey 2 December 2015.

source: independent

[anne-lister-adventures]

Tuesday, 23 April 1839

8 5/’’

12 55/’’

Rainy morning – Had Mr. Shackleton (A-[Ann] had him first) at 8 3/4 she for 1/4 hour and I for rather longer – Dressed – Breakfast 9 3/4 in 35 minutes then had Mr. Harper – Before settling with him about windows &c. wrote and sent by George note as follows:

“Mr. Gray junior Petergate

Mrs. Lister and Miss Walker would be glad to see Mr. Gray at 12 at noon today, if that hour will not be inconvenient to him –

George Inn. Tuesday morning 23 April 1839”

 Note in answer would come at 11 1/2 having an engagement soon after 12 – Settled with Mr. Harper about windows and a long list of items to be done in our absence so that we might find all comfortable on our return – (Vide rough book entry of all directions) –

Mr. Gray came at 11 1/2 and staid till 12 20/’’ – Old G-‘s[Gray’s] money when paid in to be invested in the funds – So that there will be no difficulty about A-‘s[Ann’s] paying it in a little sooner or later – By the way sooner was not hinted at – My estate safe from the mortgage till some one should come into possession who could cut off the entail, and pay off the mortgage – The money not likely to be wanted during Miss Jane Preston’s life – And if wanted Mr. G-[Gray] will transfer the mortgage without giving me any trouble whether I may be in England or abroad desired him to prepare a little codicil to my will giving A-[Ann] and him as executors and trustees the discretion to sell all or part of my property in H-x[Halifax] to pay off the mortgage – He gave me a sheet form of agreement for letting the colliery from year to year – To see him again on our return from North Cave – He will be at home all the day on Thursday – But not after 10 tomorrow morning –

An agreement to take requires only a 20/- stamp – An agreement to let requires a stamp according to the amount of rent; but if the amount is altogether uncertain, vide Kearsley’s Tax Tables what the stamp will be – Something considerable –

Mr. G-[Gray] went at 12 20/’’ and then seeing that we could not get off till Thursday wrote and sent as followed (on 1/2 sheet of note paper) to Mrs. Oddy, Shibden Hall, near H-x[Halifax] to be delivered immediately:

“York – Tuesday morning 23 April 1839.

Mrs. Oddy.

We shall not be at home at home till Thursday, but expect to be there on that day in the course of the evening – You need not sit up later than eleven o’clock at night – We shall not want dinner –

A Lister”

Kind note this morning from Miss Henrietta Crompton enclosing the card of ‘the Miss Cromptons’ for A-[Ann] regretting that the rainy morning prevented her calling – Had just written so far at 12 50/’’ – Then did up our imperials &c. and got all ready for being off to North Cave, to see Marian –

Had ordered up luncheon (our cold loin of roast mutton of yesterday and bread and butter) at 2 and had nearly done when I[Isabella] N-[Norcliffe] came soon after 2 and staid above an hour – Determined to go abroad this summer but unfixed when and where – will be away the Winter –

Off at 3 48/’’ to return to dinner tomorrow – But took all with us – Changed horses at Bamby[Barmby] Moor at 5 10/’’ – Passed the Inn (Devonshire Arms) at Market Weighton at 6 1/4 – 6 miles from there to Mill Cottage N.[North] Cave but they charged using (at Bamby[Barmby] Moor i.e. 6 miles B.[Barmby] Moor to Market W-[Weighton] and 8 from there to N.[North] C.[Cave]) and it was 7 22/’’ before we alighted at Marian’s door – 

I had not written – She had no notice of our going – She was upstairs – Lucky – Mrs. Button dangerously ill; and she had only left her and returned home yesterday – The girl woman servant did not know me – I gave no name –

Marian soon came down looking thin, and pale, and nervous – I soon set all parties at ease – I had done right to give no notice – Marian owned if I had written she should not have known what to do – Should have feared she could not make us comfortable – Should have sent to Hull for things the bed had been slept in last night – 

No trouble to re-sheet it and light the fire – We had perfumed Russian tea, and good coffee and bread and butter and toast &c. and reindeer’s tongue and all very comfortable in a few minutes and I believe poor Marian was very glad to see us – We never stirred till A-[Ann] went upstairs to bed at 10 20/’’ and I followed at 11 50/’’ –

Talked over everything – It seem she did not expect A-[Ann] to give £600 for Lee Lane – Thought it was only £500 she had bid before – Marian would have taken £550 as Mr. Parker knew – Mitchell had valued the place (coal and all) at £500 – all parties behaved very handsomely Marian in telling this and A-[Ann] in rejoicing that she had the £600 to give as she thought the place worth it –

Marian had had some trouble in determining but had at last made up her mind to sell High Royds – Mitchell’s valuation of it = £2268, odd – Had told Mr. Parker to offer it to me first – And then to Holt at £2300 he having to pay for Copperas House which Marian bought and for which a title is now about to be made – But she would take £2,000 of me – No! No! Sorry I could not give her the valuation – Sorry I could not buy it – She wants £2400 for immediate use – But not necessitated to sell High Royds at the moment as the £600 for Lee Lane will pay the bank debt – Had this money towards the end of last month – Knows that borrowing at a bank (a new and said to be liberal bank at North Cave) costs one way or another 6 p.[per] c.[cent] – Has £200 of Mrs. Button who cannot continue long, and Marian would like to be prepared to pay this off – Expects a legacy but only of one hundred – The debts on Highroyds = £1600 – These 3 sums = £2400. Skelfler is at the same rent as in my father’s time – Not quite £600 a year? Or not more than £600 her present income net from £200 to £300 per annum – And yet she every year lays out money in [marling] &c. to say nothing of accidents –

The great wind (7 January last) blew down the barn at the Grange – Butterworth End cost above £120 - £10 of damage done by the great wind at High Roydes (chimney blown down) – And she gives £20 a year to Mr. Edwards of Market W-[Weighton] for looking over the Skelfler Estate seeing that the drains are kept open &c. for she herself receives the rents which she says are now paid at the day –

I remonstrated on this over payment to Mr. E-[Edwards] for doing nothing – Yes! He would look after the barn building up again – He said it was more than he expected but Marian herself offered it because Mr. Robinson the attorney employed by my father had had this sum (independent of law expense) for receiving rents and doing everything –

Poor Marian – The thought of all this makes my heart ache – But what can I do – She will not hear of giving Mr. Edwards less – I said a professional land agent would go over the estate and note its state of management and repair – (its condition and value) 2 days per annum at 2 guineas a day and expense which could not exceed 3 guineas a day –

I advised the letting the tenants farm in a proper husbandlike manner without her laying out one sixpence more especially as she says the rents are very low – And in the case of Skelfler she is so persuaded of the hundreds that the tenant has in the land that when she made her will on going to Market W-[Weighton] on my fathers death (the summer of 1836) she willed that the tenant had the farm for ten years from that time at the rent he then paid –

She said however that tho’ she had consulted Mr. Robinson about this (and she did not say he had made any objection) that the tenant himself knew nothing about it – I advised her to sell – The Estate nets under £600 (I should think from my remembrance of the outgoing drainage &c. &c. above £30 per annum that the net income is about £560) she says (in spite of this hampering about the tenant right) she would not take less than £20,000 for it!

How can I help her – Advising is quite in vain – I urged her selling – Said she might in the course of a few years (which I believe) make her income a clear £500 a year on which, with her knife and fork at Shibden, she might live without being buried alive –

Her cottage here is damp, and too near the mill-dam – (Originally a paper mill, now a corn-mill) But pretty enough – The house is sufficient 4 rooms on a floor – 2 sitting rooms below with bedrooms over them and at the back good kitchen and pantries and rooms over them – A small cellar – A little sheltered nice bit of garden ground about 25 or more? x 15 yards and a little island (perhaps 60 to 70 square yards) in the midst of the water on which island she grows her potatoes – Good ones –

The man who does her garden, finds her all seeds and sets, and does all, for £5 a year – He might suit me – He is to speak to me tomorrow – Clerk, too, of the parish church – Ivy-covered and very picturesque – Close to here, and to the entrance gate to Hotham (Mr. Burton’s) – Marian pays £20 a year and has all taxes paid for her –

I congratulated her on her escape from her thought of marriage – I thought she had been much mistaken in her judgment in this matter – Mr Abbot not a gentleman mentioned his having called here          she did not explain how the thing was off             I conclude he let it die a natural death         she shewed neither pain nor pleasure on the subject – but said it was all off –

Light gentle rain in the morning fair the greater part of the afternoon – Poor A[Ann] had thought me long but behaved very well about it she got in to bed soon after my getting upstairs –

[symbols in the left margin:] ✓       N       N       ✓       L         N         ✓c

[in the margin:]          Mr. Harper

[in the margin:]          Mr. Gray

[in the margin:]          stamp for uncertain rent

[in the margin:]          Mill Cottage North Cave

[in the margin:]          Highroyds

Page References:  SH:7/ML/E/23/0026 and SH:7/ML/E/23/0027

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1824 Mar., Fri. 12

6 1/4

11 40/60

Soon after I got up, and gently, my cousin came – Gave Hotspur oatmeal and water – From 8 10/60 to 9, wrote out from page 148 to 153 volume 2 Anacharsis – The morning so snowy none of the workmen came. Cleared up a little about 9 – 

Went out for a few minutes after having called I[sabella] N[orcliffe] – and spoke to Washington who went to measure the new footpath along the wood etc. to the Dolt, to be ready if such measurement should be wanted – 

Sat down to breakfast at 9 1/2 – Alluding to what Mrs. P [Priestley] said yesterday, what large fortunes Marian and I would have, and saying they doubtless supposed all would eventually centre in Marian, as I should not marry. My uncle said no, if she was going to marry I should tell them she had not a sixpence more to expect than what she got from her father. ‘Your uncle Joseph wished it to go to the name and so do I.’ 

He wished me to do something to secure it, and I promised. I said I was glad he expressed himself, s[ai]d decidedly I should say what had been his wish, and that I acted accordingly or all the world would abuse me like a pickpocket. In fact, I shall not be at liberty of conscience to leave the estate to Marian or her mamily, when I so know my uncle means me to give it to the Listers in Wales – 

At 11, took the plan of the footpaths, and set off to Halifax. Went to Mr. James Briggs, Mr. Horton’s clerk, as advised yesterday by Mr. W[illiam] P[riestley]– Not at home – went there following and called at the Saltmarshe’s – Mrs. Catherine Rawson there. 

Sat with Mrs. S– [Saltmarshe] and her about 10 minutes – then took my leave, fancying them not sorry – I have long perceived a reserve in Mrs. S– [Saltmarshe]’s manner to me – It strikes me more and more, and I less and less like calling there. Seemed even something of the same in Mrs. Catherine R– [Rawson]. 

Called, as I went, at the bank and desired them to make out my account –  Called for it on having the S– [Saltmarshe]s’ – I have now got a banking-book, in which my account will be regularly settled 1/2 yearly – The balance in my favour including three half years interest is sixteen pounds nineteen shillings – 

Went to Whitley’s and staid a long while reading advertisements etc. Among the rest “The sweepings of my study” by the author of the Hundred Wonders – In awe of the very early pages, there is a hit against Dr. Todd’s new (large) edition of Johnson’s dictionary and some amusing observations on the change of their uncouth-sounding names by several authors – Maclaughlin to Macklin Mills to Morton etc. etc. – 

Went again to Mr. James Briggs and found him at home – Shewed him the plan of the footpaths – He thinks these will have no difficulty in getting that down our court-yard, turned down the Dolt, so we shall want no new track – Mr. Wiglesworth to send him the plan a few days before the view, and he will shew and explain it to Mr. Horton –

Then went to Mr. Wiglesworths office – Washington waiting there – Mr. W[ashington] not at home – spoke to Mr. Parker – Sent him down with Washington to shew the plan and speak to Mr. Carr about stopping the footpath along the brook, and going partly thro’ the Godley land – This to appear done to please and serve Mr. Carr, who sometime ago wished my uncle to join him in the expense of stopping it – Mr. C– [Carr] very glad and much obliged – Of course, for he will now get it done for nothing – 

Returned up the old bank and got home about 1 1/2 – Talking to my uncle and aunt 1/2 hour talking to I[sabella] N[orcliffe] – 1/2 hour upstairs before she set off to walk (as usual), to Halifax – From 2 1/2 to 4 I had 1/4 hour’s nap – Translated chapters 54, 55 and wrote out the first 9 lines of chapter 54 libro ii Thucydides – Dressed etc. and sat down to dinner at 4 1/4 – 

Just before had a (brought I know not how) from Savile Hill – an Armenian grammar sent me to look at along with a kind note from Miss Pickford (11 Gloucester Row, Clifton, Bristol) – The note in Miss P– [Pickford]’s usual pithy style – Everything necessary contained in less than one page of a halfsheet note – 

She hopes I had no occasion to go to Manchester – as if I did go, that it was of radical use. “It would really oblige me if you would merely, in the most concise terms, let me know per means of pen, ink, paper, and post” ..... 

Came upstairs after dinner at 6 1/2 – 1/2 hour talking to I[sabella] N[orcliffe] – Then in 3/4 hour wrote all this journal of today – Went down to coffee at 8 50/60 – Afterwards wrote out the remainder of chapter 54 and the whole of chapter 55 libro ii Thucydides – 

Came upstairs at 10 10/60 at which hour Barometer 5 1/2 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 39 1/20º – Perpetual showers of snow and rain, of rain, and snow, during the day – The ground whitened tonight – I escaped pretty well while out this morning – Behindhand the same as yesterday (vide the last line of the journal) –

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Thursday 18 May 1837

6 ¾

11 ½

very fine morning – a few minutes with A- out at 7 ¾ at the Lodge till breakfast at 9 to 9 40 – A- had Mr. Horner – out again at 9 50 – at the Lodge a little while – then at the meer, and thence by Wellroyde to Mytholm quarry and thence into Hardcastles’ to see about a road to the wood – then to Hipperholme quarry about rag for Mr. Gray – Frank and Zebedee carting from Mytholm quarry this morning and Hipperholme this afternoon – met Mrs. Robinson in the road – longish talk about the advanced rent – said I would not take so little from anybody else – would not give way about the notices to quit – Mrs. R- said her husband would never sign the lease I proposed – said I did not wish him to sign it – had no thought of making him the offer again – had he signed it, I should have thought it right to be very liberal – as it was whenever he left the place, he would just get what the law would give him – and said I would not lay

SH:7/ML/E/20/0063

out a sixpence – walked into the garden to talk for Mrs. R- did not wish to be overhead – told me how well they were now doing – she had just bought a hundred pounds with leather and paid for it too – said they were very high rented – I answered that I really did not think so – she mentioned some wheel being broken – and asked if it was not for me to repair it – answer – I should suppose not – she said it was customary – yes! but said I it is customary for mill-tenants to pay the insurance and if I made any charge in the mill agreement I should take care that Mr. R- paid me for the insurance – However she gradually mollified – hoped she should not offend me, etc. etc., and we parted very good friends but I fear there is something wrong – I fear it from her great boasting of security – sauntered back by the walk – John Booth came for me – Mr. Hoyland the painter waiting for me – (home about (before) 1 ) about painting the ceiling of the quondam upper buttery – agreed to put 1st a coat or 2 of paint on, and then do the pattern in distemper – Mr. Gray agreed that this would be best – it was he 1st advised against oil colours – said they would change a little – turn yellow – Mr. Hoyland had wine and spoke of my uncle L- with great respect – no praise more grateful to me than that of my uncle – then sat with and wrote all the above of today till 2 pm – when went down to Hannah Pearson formerly cook here – then out again and at the Lodge from about 2 ½ to 7 overlooking the gardener and Joseph Booth sodding the embankment opposite the Lodge and Robert Mann + 6 doing up the rough walling – (Sam Booth Jack Green and Michael + 3) – dressed – dinner at 7 20  - coffee at 8 ¾ - skimmed over tonights’ paper – Marshall’s interest tables and 1st volume of Edinburgh cabinet library came this evening from Whitley’s – Blythe returned this evening from York (went last Saturday morning at 5) and brought me 3pp. ½ sheet note from Mr.  Harper – prevented by illness from coming here as he intended – has not heard from Mr. Husband since he (Mr. Harper) was here last, and wishes to hear what estates have been received about the Listerwick mill machinery – came upstairs at 9 55 a minute or 2 after A- sent Mr. Gray this evening Sir H. Davy’s consolations in travels – very fine day. F42° now at 10 10 pm

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Blog Tour: The Stories She Tells by L K Chapman

Blog Tour: The Stories She Tells by L K Chapman

I am delighted to be able to share with your a guest post from L K Chapman, as part of the blog tour for her latest book, The Stories She Tells.

There are still a few remaining stops on the tour, here’s where it’s heading next.

Synopsis

When Michael decides to track down ex-girlfriend Rae who disappeared ten years ago while pregnant with his baby, he knows it could change his life forever. His…

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for the song asks- 2, 7, 14, 17, and 23 !!! <333

2- coffee breath by sofia mills or soldier poet king by the oh hellos

7- tutankhamun by aja (i usually dont like rap music but i vibe w this one!!)

14- kiss me by sixpence none the richer

17- MONEY MACHINE BY 100 GECS

23- boy with the winfields and the wild heart by flowerkid, ramblings of a lunatic by bears in trees, high definition by waterparks, or how to never stop being sad by dandelion hands

[veryfineday]

Thursday 18 May 1837

6 3/4

11 1/2

√  √  +  L  +

very fine morning – a few minutes with A-[Ann] out at 7 3/4 at the Lodge till breakfast at 9 to 9 40/.. – A-[Ann] had mr. Horner – out again at 9 50/.. –

at the Lodge a little while – then at the meer, and thence by Wellroyde to mytholm quarry and thence into Hardcastle’s to see about a road to the wood – then to Hipperholme quarry about rag for mr. Gray – FranK and Zebedee carting from mytholm quarry this morning and Hipperholme this afternoon –

met mrs. Robinson in the road – Longish talK about the advanced rent – said I would not take so little from anybody else – would not give way about the notices to quit – mrs. R-[Robinson] said her husband would never sign the lease I proposed – said I did not wish him to sign it – had no thought of maKing him the offer again – had he signed it, I should have thought it right to be very liberal – as it was whenever he left the place, he would just get what the law would give him – and said I would not lay out a sixpence –

[margin: mrs. G.R.[George Robinson] Lower brea]

walKed into the garden to talK for mrs. R-[Robinson] did not wish to be overheard – told me how well they were now doing – she had just bought a hundred pounds with of leather and paid for it too – said they were very high rented – I answered that I really did not thinK so – she mentioned some wheel being broKen – and asKed if it was not for me to repair it – answer – I should suppose not – she said it was customary – yes! but said I, it is customary for mill-tenants to pay the insurance and if I made any change in the mill agreement I should take care that mr. R-[Robinson] paid me for the insurance – However she gradually mollified – hoped she should not offend me, etc. etc.; and we parted very food friends but I fear there is something wrong – I fear it from her great boasting of security –

sauntered bacK by the walK – John Booth came for me – mr. Hoyland the painter waiting for me – (home about (before) 1) about painting the ceiling of the quondam upper buttery – agreed to put 1st a coat or 2 of paint on, and then do the pattern in distemper – mr. Gray agreed that this would be best – It was he 1st advised against oil colours – said they would change a little – turn yellow – mr. Hoyland had wine – and spoke of my uncle L-[Lister] with great respect – no praise more grateful to me than that of my uncle –

[margin: mr. Hoyland]

then sat with and wrote all the above of today till 2 p.m. – when went downstairs to Hannah Pearson formerly cooK here – then out again and at the Lodge from about 2 1/2 to 7 overlooKing the gardener and Joseph Booth sodding the embanKment opposite the Lodge and Robert mann + 6 doing the rough walling – (Sam Booth JacK Green and michael + 3) – dressed – dinner at 7 20/.. – coffee at 8 3/4 –

sKimmed over tonight’s paper – marshall’s interest tables and 1st volume of the Edinburgh cabinet library came this evening from Whitley’s – Blythe returned this evening from yorK (went last Saturday morning at 5) and brought me 3 pp.[pages] 1/2 sheet note from mr. Harper – prevented by illness from coming here as he intended – has not heard from mr. Husband since he (mr. Harper) was here last, and wishes to hear what estimates have been received about the ListerwicK machinery –

Came upstairs at 9 55/.. a min[ute] or 2 aft[e]r A-[Ann]  Lent mr. Gray this evening sir H. Davy’s consolations in travel – very fine day. Fahrenheit 42º now at 10 10/.. p.m.