Poor man, I'm sure he'll survive. It's terrible but he'll survive it. (They did make a promise this wouldn't interfere with their duties, so I'm sure they'll find some way to sort out Kissing Time from Work Time.)
Standards must be observed, naturally. Which is all fine and good but doesn't explain why the captain and first lieutenant are wearing each other's waistcoats.
Oh shit. Poor boy. TWO DAYS?? I thought that was the case but I didn't realise just how bad it was.
I will get around to reading Admiral eventually. My feelings on Barbara are complicated: I've come to the conclusion I like her on her own but not when she's trying to do the 'loving wife' routine - she's quite fun when she's stirring shit up and bossing Hornblower around, like she did on the Lydia. I've been toying around with an idea about Captain Bush in the West Indies, but we'll see how that goes.
Hey, at least we get canon snuggles in Flying Colours. There's that to look forward to. And Commodore quarter gallery shenanigans.
Hmm, I could post some snippets over on my page. If you like. No guarantees they'll ever evolve into anything, of course.
Yeah, that's why I side-eye the fact they called themselves 'three in one' because... really? To my modern mind it sounds rather throuple-ish. Of course, we'll never know, but it is a curious state of affairs. (I need to read more on Nelson, to be honest. I don't know a huge amount about him other than he was a tactical genius and he was unfortunately very supportive of the slave trade, and also a 5'4" shrimp.)
(Also speaking of three people all living together, that's also what Cornwallis did - he never married and so he retired to his estate with his best friend and his best friend's wife and child - the wife was a woman named Mary Anne Whitby who would go on to conduct breeding experiments on silkworms to aid Darwin in his theory of natural selection.)
And I'm usually missing a piece of my train of thought. So don't worry there.
Almost certainly. There were a good number of caricatures skewering the Hamiltons and Nelson - one in particular depicted Lord Hamilton being too obsessed with his antiquities to notice what was going on. It's something I wish Forester had touched on - by the time of Flying Colours Hornblower is famous, so it follows that he would potentially be caricatured.
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Date: 2019-09-14 06:01 pm (UTC)Standards must be observed, naturally. Which is all fine and good but doesn't explain why the captain and first lieutenant are wearing each other's waistcoats.
Oh shit. Poor boy. TWO DAYS?? I thought that was the case but I didn't realise just how bad it was.
I will get around to reading Admiral eventually. My feelings on Barbara are complicated: I've come to the conclusion I like her on her own but not when she's trying to do the 'loving wife' routine - she's quite fun when she's stirring shit up and bossing Hornblower around, like she did on the Lydia. I've been toying around with an idea about Captain Bush in the West Indies, but we'll see how that goes.
Hey, at least we get canon snuggles in Flying Colours. There's that to look forward to. And Commodore quarter gallery shenanigans.
Hmm, I could post some snippets over on my page. If you like. No guarantees they'll ever evolve into anything, of course.
Yeah, that's why I side-eye the fact they called themselves 'three in one' because... really? To my modern mind it sounds rather throuple-ish. Of course, we'll never know, but it is a curious state of affairs. (I need to read more on Nelson, to be honest. I don't know a huge amount about him other than he was a tactical genius and he was unfortunately very supportive of the slave trade, and also a 5'4" shrimp.)
(Also speaking of three people all living together, that's also what Cornwallis did - he never married and so he retired to his estate with his best friend and his best friend's wife and child - the wife was a woman named Mary Anne Whitby who would go on to conduct breeding experiments on silkworms to aid Darwin in his theory of natural selection.)
And I'm usually missing a piece of my train of thought. So don't worry there.
Almost certainly. There were a good number of caricatures skewering the Hamiltons and Nelson - one in particular depicted Lord Hamilton being too obsessed with his antiquities to notice what was going on. It's something I wish Forester had touched on - by the time of Flying Colours Hornblower is famous, so it follows that he would potentially be caricatured.