SHE disappeared down a hole and came up again at Chancery Lane for SHE was meeting up with Hal in Hatton Garden and they went for a pie in Leather Lane.
So much to catch up on.. then back to where he does bench work with Steve.. SHE is hopeless as SHE has forgotten Steve's name.
Hugo would know it for he worked with Asprey's and took them out to the Middle East in the 60's, Steve worked for and with Algernon Asprey, one of the three brothers and a son of the family who had that famous store in Old Bond Street.
Anyway, all is well with OUR 'boy'.. WE use that term with the greatest respect, for he is most certainly not a boy.
What he is, is a young man with talent and vision. SHE has always thought that talent is a genetic thing, you can have a talent and by talent SHE does not mean to limit this to the Arts, there are the Sciences as well as having a Literary talent.
Yes of course, sometimes, YOU are the only or the first person in YOUR family to show a talent for x but more often than not, if, YOU scratch about in both sides of YOUR family's history, YOU will find there was member who did x or worked with x.
And in Hal's case, he is lucky enough to have a inherited a double dose of artistic talent. His mother, Pepe Messel, is an artist. His father, Thomas Messel, is a furniture designer. His great uncle was the hugely talented Oliver Messel, go and look him up for he did lots of things, all with enormous flair!
His father's cousin is the Earl of Snowdon, aka Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer, whose first marriage was to HRH The Princess Margaret and their son is Viscount Linley, aka David Linley, a furniture designer.
Hal is a Silversmith, over their pies they talked about a project that he is hoping to have commissioned which made HER mouth drool.
How lovely it was to talk to someone who has the knowledge of what they want to do, of wanting to create beautiful things which involves hard work, in study, in watching and learning a trade.
Yes, folks, a trade and no, it is not an ugly word.
For becoming a Silver or Goldsmith is to join an ancient guild of craftsmen and women who have worked their way 'up' the bench and learnt and continue to learn all the 'tricks' of their trade.
Bravo Hal and SHE says "thanks for lunch". No pie for ME, but SHE did bring home a new bag of almonds and some delicious grapes.
Which I now want to eat, so Dear Readers, it is FlapFlap time from US both, SHE has something to do and I want to play catch a grape, pippip.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 5th, 2014.
So much to catch up on.. then back to where he does bench work with Steve.. SHE is hopeless as SHE has forgotten Steve's name.
Hugo would know it for he worked with Asprey's and took them out to the Middle East in the 60's, Steve worked for and with Algernon Asprey, one of the three brothers and a son of the family who had that famous store in Old Bond Street.
Anyway, all is well with OUR 'boy'.. WE use that term with the greatest respect, for he is most certainly not a boy.
What he is, is a young man with talent and vision. SHE has always thought that talent is a genetic thing, you can have a talent and by talent SHE does not mean to limit this to the Arts, there are the Sciences as well as having a Literary talent.
Yes of course, sometimes, YOU are the only or the first person in YOUR family to show a talent for x but more often than not, if, YOU scratch about in both sides of YOUR family's history, YOU will find there was member who did x or worked with x.
And in Hal's case, he is lucky enough to have a inherited a double dose of artistic talent. His mother, Pepe Messel, is an artist. His father, Thomas Messel, is a furniture designer. His great uncle was the hugely talented Oliver Messel, go and look him up for he did lots of things, all with enormous flair!
His father's cousin is the Earl of Snowdon, aka Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer, whose first marriage was to HRH The Princess Margaret and their son is Viscount Linley, aka David Linley, a furniture designer.
Hal is a Silversmith, over their pies they talked about a project that he is hoping to have commissioned which made HER mouth drool.
How lovely it was to talk to someone who has the knowledge of what they want to do, of wanting to create beautiful things which involves hard work, in study, in watching and learning a trade.
Yes, folks, a trade and no, it is not an ugly word.
For becoming a Silver or Goldsmith is to join an ancient guild of craftsmen and women who have worked their way 'up' the bench and learnt and continue to learn all the 'tricks' of their trade.
Bravo Hal and SHE says "thanks for lunch". No pie for ME, but SHE did bring home a new bag of almonds and some delicious grapes.
Which I now want to eat, so Dear Readers, it is FlapFlap time from US both, SHE has something to do and I want to play catch a grape, pippip.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 5th, 2014.
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