Random - Toreadors !

Well me dears our annual  trip to Spain to celebrate my birthday is just two months away. On that thought here is a random hotchpotch of Andalusian delights

I would however like to make it clear that no matter how much I like looking at bull fighters 

I do not approve of bull fighting itself.

So then to get us in the mood, here is the Divine Isabel Pantoja and 'Se Me Enamora el Alma ' with some dancing boys thrown in for good measure.

With la Pantoja ringing in your ears the following random selection from tumblr should be jolly.

and finally just in case you thought it all a bit too macho. 

There tiz then my lovelies.

The flight and apartment are both booked

and I cant wait to get a bit of Spanish culture.

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The 'Delargo Towers' Garden - November 2014.

Well here we are me dears at the end of an extraordinarily mild November.

The window boxes and tubs are all looking a bit sad and damp now but still doing their best to give us some flowers.  

Time me thinks to put them to bed for the winter and bring out the pansies and violas.

The wallflowers were in poor condition when they arrived late from Thompson & Morgan but thanks to the mild month the ones that survived the post have settled in nicely now.

This Spring we will sow our own for planting out next Autumn.

Not much change in the garden since last month.

The foxes haven't been to bothersome. 

Every thing looks cosy waiting for Spring. 

In our fab ( cheap ) plastic greenhouse we have done some early sowing. 

Calendula, penstemon and salvia have all germinated. 

We will keep you posted on how the experiment develops.

Time to think of sorting out the pelagoniums and dahlias -

and fuchsias.

The delicate looking aserina is in fact as tough as old boots and should come through the winter with out any help.

As I said earlier time to switch over the window boxes ready for winter proper.

The violas should make a good display

They are planted with bulbs so should look fab right through to May and beyond.

There tiz then.

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Random Divas and Icons

Here we are me lovelies, with an other random sample of some of my mindless wanderings on 'Tumblr'

 Norma Shearer - Queen of the M-G-M Lot.

Barbara Stanwyck photographed by Eugene Robert Richee 1940

Bea Lillie wielding a lethal lorgnette

Ethel in quotes.

Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark

The to fabulous for words - Carol Channing

'Best new comer' at the Baftas, Maggie Smith with Jon Voight.

Joan Crawford photographed by Cecil Beaton 1956.

P.G. Wodehouse.

Virginia Woolf.

That ultimate cad, Terry Thomas

Elaine Stritch on the set of Call Me Madam.

A rather dashing Richard Burton.

When smoking was cool - Sophia Loren.

I have no idea who this is but I adore her.

Ann Miller.

Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding 1925.

The fascinating,  Anna May Wong.

Yvonne De Carlo being rather stern in 'Hotel Sahara'.

Lady Diana Cooper Viscountess Norwich as as The Madonna in The Miracle

Who else but, Katharine Hepburn - ClarenceSinclairBull1942.

Cecil Beaton in1938.

And to end with 
Greer Garson "the glorious goddess of good"

With thanks to my fave tumblers

http://mattadoresit.tumblr.com/

and

http://theflamingcurmudgeon.tumblr.com/ 

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