Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked!

To celebrate the Oscar-winning actor’s birthday this week, we look back at the highlights of a six-decade career, from early classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Billy Liar to later roles in Finding Neverland and Away From Her

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Thomas Hardy’s “The Hand of Ethelberta” (1876)

A few days ago, I finished another Thomas Hardy novel: "The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876). While George Gissing considered it "surely old Hardy...

I love this quote about Bathsheba and Gabriel. I've never noticed it before, but it struck me when I re-read FFTMC recently.

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Thomas Hardy’s references to painters in “Far From the Madding Crowd” (1874)

Charles Dickens's novels are full of references to literature that inspired Dickens (especially "Robinson Crusoe"), and I have also noticed ...

 New on the blog: #CycleTour2023 is getting real.

Also, friends, I understand that not everyone is a cycle touring [let's call it] aficionado. If you don't want to read my missives about this cycle tour in particular or cycle touring in general, feel free to mute the appropriate hashtags. I won't be hurt (much).

https://slidewielder.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/preparing-for-cycletour2023/

#CycleTouring #Cycling #Blog #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd

Preparing for #Cycletour2023

Far From the Madding Crowd

A walk in the woods (taken in November 2021, between Bochum and Hattingen in Germany)

#Autumn #NaturePhotography #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #Bochum #Hattingen #RauendahlerWald

My first photo post here, from one of my regular walks in the countryside:

TREES (and FOURS)

#Nature Photography #NaturePhotography #Trees #Peace #Quiet #Freedom #Relaxation #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #Rüggeberg #Germany

A fiercely independent woman gets three wedding proposals, which increasingly don't consider her own feelings. Ununderstably she chooses the last of the three and then to her shock is unhappy. Ok, that's just my gripe with these kinds of stories. I like how she is portrayed as independent and how she remains so and how Carey Mulligan makes her a full character that you believe in (choices of men aside).
#CareyMulligan #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd
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