The Hall of Fire

vison, there's no need to worry about that—anyone is welcome here. But of course any friend of yours is sure to be an asset! I don't quite know if I can call her a friend, although I feel friendly toward her. It's RoseMorninStar from Manwë. I always enjoy her posts and I thought she might like it h...

May I invite someone? I can vouch for her.

As usual I have about six books on the go. I can't sit and read for hours and hours as I could when I was younger, so every time I sit down I pick up something different. I re-read an awful lot. It's hard to find "new" books I like, and being naturally quite lazy I find it's easier to just...

He added: "Now, you know, I can't go any further in talking about it. Obviously, the United States does not have a responsibility when a sovereign country engages in something that they disapprove of." That struck me as quite an astonishing statement, coming from Rumsfeld. Maybe when Mr. ...

Whistler wrote:I have an interesting CD called "Bonanza: Christmas on the Ponderosa," featuring Ben and Hoss and Adam and Little Joe Cartwright.

I listen to it once a year.

Not twice.

*makes soothing sounds*

*offers a nice cup of tea*


And who shall blame thee, Whistler?

Who, indeed.

This is, I think, my favourite poem: The Oxen, by Thomas Hardy. Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock, "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did ...

I never used to love Dylan Thomas. I love him better now. Title: The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower: The first stanza: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked r...

The first Christmas album I remember was a Perry Como album. That silky smooth voice was just perfect. Nat King Cole is probably my favourite crooner but Perry Como was my first. Nowadays we always play the double CD "Best Chritmas Album in the World Ever" when we're decorating. One of my...

Once by the Pacific, by Robert Frost The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies, Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes. You could n...

How odd, Sassafras. I had that poem by Hopkins right here in front of me!

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in...

Essential parts of our Christmastime are the Phil Spector Christmas Album Oh, that makes me laugh. A friend of mine HATES Phil Spector's Christmas Album, and so her brother-in-law gave it to her as a gift. She plays it ONCE each year, and grimaces in pain the entire time it's on. I kinda like it, I...

I was just re-enjoying Loreena McKennit's "To Drive the Cold Winter Away", and also her "A Winter Garden". Most of this is "Christmas" music, but much of it was new to me when I bought these CD's a few years ago. Does anyone else here love them? I'm not musical. I wish ...