With the wind whipping my cape, I thought I looked every inch of Meryl Streep in "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
Mysterious, ethereal and windswept.
The truth was somewhat different , for as the Son ( of the RFWF) went passed in his landrover, he noticed that the gales had " filled" the poncho and quipped cheerfully
" you look like the Hindenberg"
Everybody's a critic
waahahahhhhhh, great way to start the New Year !
ReplyDeletecheers, parsnip
Definitely a wet and windy start to the new year.
ReplyDeleteI guess we never appear to others how we imagine ourselves to look. Now every time I see Meryl I will think of you ;-)
I'm flattered xxx
DeleteI love your neighbors!!! Life is never boring.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
He makes it up. It's really like my neighborhood. Haven't seen anyone in days. Go 2015!!
DeleteEVERYONES a cynic x
DeleteHappy New Year to you, Chris, the animals and all your readers xx
ReplyDeleteWearing a cape can be especially hazardous when you're scantily clad underneath - or with even less. (Do NOT ask!)
ReplyDeleteDo Welsh men do that too? I thought it only applied to Scotsmen in kilts?
DeleteNo we don't!
DeleteHNY to all in trelawynd!
ReplyDeleteYou too dearheart xx
DeleteWe must hope your voluminous cape is never filled with your (possibly) copious flammable gases above a carelessly discarded cigarette butt, or at least if it is that the Hindenberg Disaster (Take 2) is filmed for posterity.
ReplyDeleteMerry New Year, or whatever (I get confused)
Happy Hanukkah
DeleteOh, how stinging! I prefer to think of you as Meryl.
ReplyDeleteIn The River Wild?
DeleteIf you wish, although I was thinking more along the lines of Mamma Mia!
DeleteI bet you looked very dashing, well that's how I imagine you.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year
Twiggy
You're no fool!
DeleteNow that just wasn't very nice lol. Windy and cold here too John with little bouts of snow thrown in for good luck. I'll stay inside I think.
ReplyDeleteWhere your undies on the outside next time and be the Caped Crusader...
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see you have returned from your adventures Bilbo
DeleteWhere are you from again?
ReplyDeleteThat was a good one - love your neighbors! We all do see ourselves differently, don't we? (Says the sweet little gray haired old lady - that her neighbors probably see as a banshee)
ReplyDeleteSounds like miserable weather.
Fun neighborhood, the Zeppelin company offers sight seeing tours, on the wish list for this summer.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have had my New Year's laugh for the day. Love you John! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHEATHCLIFF!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCATHY!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI've never seen you as a Meryl. Happy New Year John! x
ReplyDelete"Oh the humanity"
ReplyDeleteJane x
Happy New Year, Miss Streep.
ReplyDeleteYou have given me the first hearty laugh of 2015 and for that I thank you greatly! It's cold and rainy here and I'm feeling like the Hindenburg today after all the holiday eating.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you both and your entire menagerie.
From Houston to Trelawnyd!!
Oh how rude & deflating!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful 2015 & look forward to your blog this year!
And what do you do?....
ReplyDeleteHa-ha, you make me laugh. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteAs long as the hens don't go the same way as Bolshy cockerel...it's worth it!
ReplyDeleteI am sitting here at the table laughing and I am so sorry. Happy New Year!!!
ReplyDeleteMay 2015 be the year for many more 'curtain calls', John!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
You too jimbo
DeleteWait until they call you Hindenberg when you are not wearing a wind filled poncho.
ReplyDeleteJohn ,life is funny(as is your blog) ! How we see ourselves and how others see us ! Personally I much prefer your vision than your neighbours . Hey ho
ReplyDeletePour vision is right xx
DeleteHappy New Year ! Looking forward to a big year in 2015.
ReplyDeleteIt's how you see yourself that matters John...keep weaving your magic in 2015.
ReplyDelete<<"Everyone's a critic.>>
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious. Happy New Year, John!
Must be time t go on a diet so you can fit into that wedding dress soon.....lol
ReplyDeleteyou are a little more successful than the hindenberg!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that others are always happy to burst our bubble? Makes me think of Robbie Burn's quote from his poem Louise - "O would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us".
ReplyDeleteI hope 2015 is an amazing year in your life and when you look back on it a year from now you will be happily married to a man who will make your heart beat a little faster each time-you see him,
Nasty minus 6 C frost here, but with sunshine.
ReplyDeleteIf anything, the Hindenberg WAS ethereal...
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I think the Hindenberg was a very handsome airship.
ReplyDeleteSorry old chap - Marie Dressler maybe, Meryl Streep never!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness you didn't take flight !
ReplyDeleteThe joys of rural living. It's been rough here in Ireland too. Happy New Year John.
ReplyDeleteOn Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen). One worker on the ground was also killed, making a total of 36 dead. A repeat disaster in Trelawnyd would decimate the village's population.
ReplyDeleteLook on the bright side - at least your weren't on fire.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful image of you in my mind John....happy new year! xx
ReplyDeleteMay I say John that I actually saw the Hinderberg when I was a small child, and you look nothing like it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ReplyDeleteDid you pat? Bloody hell
DeleteMysterious, ethereal and windswept? Goodness, not how I picture you at all. Not in any way mysterious (you regale us with every pleasant and unsavoury aspect of your life), and not in any way ethereal (a very tangible human being). Windswept maybe as you often have to tend to your charges in biting gales....
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