Emma just came home with some greengages. They are a fruit that I haven't encountered much. They are rather like a small, green plum. Apparently the first 'true' greengage was bred in France.Anne of Green Gables is a novel written in the early twentieth century by Lucy Maud Montgomery, in which young orphan Anne Shirley gets sent to live with a middle-aged brother and sister at Green Gables, a farmhouse on Prince Edward Island. They wanted a boy. When I was at university, living in university accommodation (academic year 2001 - 2002), my friend Rachel* made us watch a television adaptation of this book. There have been many adaptations, but I believe this one to have been the 1985 version. I remember us laughing quite a lot at unintentional innuendo, and at the fact that Rachel had an unnerving tendency to accidentally lean on the TV remote and unwittingly change it to Channel 5, which was essentially a porn channel at the time.
Anne of Cleves was the fourth ("divorced") wife of Henry VIII. They were married on January 6th 1540, and the marriage was annulled on July 9th of that same year, on grounds of both 'non-consummation' of the marriage, and her having already been betrothed to the 10-year-old Francis of Lorraine in 1527 (though this betrothal had been cancelled in 1535). Anne died, probably of cancer, 430 years to the day before my brother was born.
* My laptop's spell-checker wants me to replace 'Rachel' with 'Tracheal'.
You didn't tell us what you're actually going to do with the greengages though, or what you thought of Anne of Green Gables for that matter...
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be incredibly let down if you just say 'eat them' after all this. V ;)
O.k, Anonymous V, I ate one. I liked it. I might have another one later. Or I may not. Stick that in your suspense-pipe and smoke it.
ReplyDeleteAnne of Green Gables... I can't remember what I thought. I didn't think much. It was more about the experience of doing something in a group of people that you felt part of for a little while at least. It's nice when that happens.
I just wondered if Anne of Greengages-Jam would be featuring in part two and was intrigued to see it develop. My suspense-pipe and I will get back to work...
ReplyDeleteVictoria (no mystery intended - sorry!)
Of course, a forename narrows it down but a little. I'm pretty sure which Victoria it is, though (and my suspicions haven't changed at all since the extension from just "V").
ReplyDeleteI like this. I read Anne of Green Gables many years ago, I did not see the adaptation you speak of, not a tv watching phase of life. I adore greengages.
ReplyDeleteTake your mind for a walk again soon, the results are interesting.
Wow, thanks!
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