Good morning to YOU all Dear Readers.
WE have two pieces of sad news to report this morning..
The first is that SHE read the castle in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, suffered a bad fire last night. Apparently renovation works are being done and the roof has been extensively damaged.
Besides being the official home of the Latvian President, this large and beautiful medieval castle, started in 1330, is also a museum. WE hope that it is fully restored with a very efficient anti-fire system.
Those medieval castles are very vulnerable because of the sheer age of the roof timbers, in this case.. nearly seven hundred years old!
Postscript: Sadly, the news is that an enormous amount of the roof has been destroyed and the two top floors have suffered extensively damage.
The Curator of the Natural History Museum says that they will not know the full extent of the damage until their teams can actually get into the building, which, of course, is still smouldering and
dangerous.
The other sad news is that Jean-Louis Scherrer, the French Couturier died on Thursday. He was only 78 but had been ill for a long time. He started his design career with Christian Dior, working alongside with Vyes Saint-Laurent.
He was a tall, good looking man who made truly divinely beautiful, very feminine clothes, a few of his high profile clients were Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Jackie Kennedy, women who were not afraid to wear elegant, sophisticated clothes.
The first time SHE was in Paris, staying with eldest brother who lived there, SHE was taken by to this glorious place by Mona, who was having a fitting for winter clothes.. SHE was dumb-struck by the designs, the fabrics and the expertise of the fitter.
Whilst Mona was getting dressed back into her street clothes, the fittings had all gone well, SHE wandered out to the front.
Jean-Louis appeared with this hat on his head and a very silly expression on his face.. "Ha" he said
"here you are.. I have decided that this would look a lot better on you than it does on me".
He scooped HER long hair back and plonked this enchanting thing on HER head.. the top of the hat was flat and embroidered, the rest was creamy fur.
Yes, I know that people tend to be 'nice' to people who spend lots of money in their shops but it was a very sweet gesture and made Mona howl with laughter when she came out to see HER in HER summer dress with a furry hat on HER head!
Rest in peace Jean-Louis.. such a nice man.
That's it for now folks.. Time to start the day.. break the norty fast and do some housework. I will watch from pole, don't want to be fluffed with a duster thank YOU.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 21st, 2013.
WE have two pieces of sad news to report this morning..
The first is that SHE read the castle in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, suffered a bad fire last night. Apparently renovation works are being done and the roof has been extensively damaged.
Besides being the official home of the Latvian President, this large and beautiful medieval castle, started in 1330, is also a museum. WE hope that it is fully restored with a very efficient anti-fire system.
Those medieval castles are very vulnerable because of the sheer age of the roof timbers, in this case.. nearly seven hundred years old!
Postscript: Sadly, the news is that an enormous amount of the roof has been destroyed and the two top floors have suffered extensively damage.
The Curator of the Natural History Museum says that they will not know the full extent of the damage until their teams can actually get into the building, which, of course, is still smouldering and
dangerous.
The other sad news is that Jean-Louis Scherrer, the French Couturier died on Thursday. He was only 78 but had been ill for a long time. He started his design career with Christian Dior, working alongside with Vyes Saint-Laurent.
He was a tall, good looking man who made truly divinely beautiful, very feminine clothes, a few of his high profile clients were Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Jackie Kennedy, women who were not afraid to wear elegant, sophisticated clothes.
The first time SHE was in Paris, staying with eldest brother who lived there, SHE was taken by to this glorious place by Mona, who was having a fitting for winter clothes.. SHE was dumb-struck by the designs, the fabrics and the expertise of the fitter.
Whilst Mona was getting dressed back into her street clothes, the fittings had all gone well, SHE wandered out to the front.
Jean-Louis appeared with this hat on his head and a very silly expression on his face.. "Ha" he said
"here you are.. I have decided that this would look a lot better on you than it does on me".
He scooped HER long hair back and plonked this enchanting thing on HER head.. the top of the hat was flat and embroidered, the rest was creamy fur.
Yes, I know that people tend to be 'nice' to people who spend lots of money in their shops but it was a very sweet gesture and made Mona howl with laughter when she came out to see HER in HER summer dress with a furry hat on HER head!
Rest in peace Jean-Louis.. such a nice man.
That's it for now folks.. Time to start the day.. break the norty fast and do some housework. I will watch from pole, don't want to be fluffed with a duster thank YOU.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 21st, 2013.
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