![]() But, folks, before you get concerned about the depressiveness of my chat, the discussion went freely off into different subjects and we had a great chin wag! It is a disease with quite a similar progression as MND. No, readers not that damn cannabis ‘heal all’ snake oil stuff, but a neurodegenerative disease known as Cortical Basal Degeneration! This time, however, when I mentioned MND she then started to talk about her late husband who suffered from a condition known as CBD. Generally, it is a comment about ‘my amazing contraption’, and I always then mention my MND affliction and how good triking is for me. She noted my trike, like many do, which I have mentioned quite a bit in my blog including my test ride some 3 years ago now. Whilst out on my trike the other day, which I have adorned with MNDA flags, a lady starting chatting to me as I was parking up to observe life in a local village. ![]() When I finally get to the door all I get for my titanic efforts is a shrug of the shoulders! If I could ‘clip’ the delivery agent around the ear, I would! But if did that now, I would fall over at best! ”Jist trucking wait, I am a ******* cripple!” ”Wait, just one minute” – as I knock the toilet roll over floor! Then the horrific knock at the door results in a muffled shout from the toilet…. It makes me mad.Īnd why, oh why, am I always on the loo (John for my American friends) when the delivery arrives! For example, even with the amazing logistics of modern home delivery systems where I am able to plan to be absolutely right beside the front door before a package or two arrives, sometimes I just can’t get there. I mean “Mad in a nice way” and not mad with a dash of psychopathic serial killer tendency thrown in of course! ![]() Now, I do need to be very precise before I am accused of being totally flippant. It is a price tag, displaying the price ‘ten and six’: 10 shillings and 6 pennies.Morning readers! Mad, mad, mad. Many people wonder about the tag on the Mad Hatter’s hat. It is also often suggested that Tenniel made the Mad Hatter resemble the politician Disraeli, but other people argument that he was based on a local furniture dealer called Carter, or on Thomas Randall, an Oxford tailor. Carter was known in the area as the Mad Hatter, partly because he always wore a top hat and because of his eccentric ideas. ‘Mad as a hatter’ probably owes its origin to the fact that hatters actually did go mad, because the mercury they used sometimes gave them mercury poisoning.Ĭarroll may have asked Tenniel to draw the Mad Hatter to resemble Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford. The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ was common in Carroll’s time. In Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, the Hatter’s name is Tarrant Hightopp. ![]() In ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, the Hatter returns in the form of the Anglo-Saxon messenger ‘Hatta’.Īlthough everybody calls him ‘the Mad Hatter’, Lewis Carroll never actually called him that in the story. The Hatter is mentioned in chapter 7 and 11 from the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. When he is called upon by the Queen, he is very nervous and frightened. He occasionally is very rude and provokes Alice during the tea party. Later he also appears as a witness during the trial. The Mad Hatter is one of the members of the Mad Tea Party.
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