Friday 8 December 2017

HIM with the tea


Queen Victoria and the Christmas crow. There's a children's story in there.

When Step Daughter was a child and living in this compact but adorable city apartment, she - having been staring at the Queen since she was about three - looked again at the orb in Her Imperial Majesty's left hand and suddenly asked her mother, "Who's that lady bringing in the tea?"
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19 comments:

  1. Maria8 December 2017 at 03:51

    Love it. The innocence of a child.
    Greetings Maria x

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  2. Minigranny8 December 2017 at 04:10

    Love that story! From the mouths of babes.

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  3. Cro Magnon8 December 2017 at 04:48

    QV looks quite young and sexy in the statue; was she ever thus?

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    1. Vivian8 December 2017 at 05:42

      I was wondering the same thing. She has a waist!

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    2. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 06:06

      She was quite a beautiful young woman, and I think that this statue is pretty much true to life when carved. Maybe a little bit flattering around the waist area.

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  4. Rachel Phillips8 December 2017 at 05:06

    What's a crow doing in the centre of Bath? Lost its way?

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    1. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 06:11

      I've just listed the hundreds of different birds here, and Google lost the list.

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    2. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 06:12

      Oh, there it is below.

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  5. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 06:10

    Bath has crows, magpies, two different type of wagtail, two different types of gull, robins, blackbirds, three different kinds of hawk, wood pigeon, loads of different finches, ravens fly over, owls hoot at night, herons fly over, but in recent years the thousands of starling have stopped roosting here. I miss them, and I miss the dunnocks.

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    1. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 07:06

      I didn't bother to mention the feral pigeons...

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    2. Rachel Phillips8 December 2017 at 08:41

      Oh you didn't have to list them all but thank you. I have never seen a crow in Norwich city centre, nor a magpie or a robin or a starling but there are lots of wagtails which always surprises me. And the gulls make it sound like Norwich-on-Sea.

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  6. The Weaver of Grass8 December 2017 at 08:33

    Love that story - wonder if Queen V ever touched a teapot in her whole life.

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    1. Bea8 December 2017 at 11:18

      Probably not.

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    2. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 12:21

      Oh yes she did. She spoke fluent Arabic so that she could write her saucy diaries without courtiers looking in. She was much more fun than many people were told.

      Conversely, I know an ex friend of the Queen Mother, who recounted a tale about her being handed a fountain pen to sign a visitors book, but nobody had taken the top off for her as they had done all her life, so she did not know what to do. I have signed a visitors book with her, her mother's and her mother's signature in it before now. Not on the same page though - that would have been a trifle rude.

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    3. Tom Stephenson8 December 2017 at 12:23

      I mean daughter's - plus a few other assorted dukes and suchlike.

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  7. John Going Gently8 December 2017 at 13:15

    Do the Christmas lights bother you?

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  8. Frances9 December 2017 at 00:26

    Is that a giant in the art gallery?

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  9. Frances9 December 2017 at 00:28

    ps I didn't write that comment at 00:26.......it is 8.26am !

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  10. Tom Stephenson9 December 2017 at 03:16

    One at a time, please.

    John: No, they don't bother me unless they stay on all night, as happened last year when they forgot to use the time-switch. I like all that tat.

    Frances: There are six faces in all, and four of them stare straight at you. I quite like them too.

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