tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post217649476378204603..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Blue glass seahorses, hair sandwiches and veiled statues - Michelle LovricMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66358530765701308722016-07-27T21:11:19.940+01:002016-07-27T21:11:19.940+01:00I found this post initially while searching for in...I found this post initially while searching for information on seahorses in folklore to back up my own article about that topic, and instead I've come across a book that I now really want to read! That said, any book set in my beloved Venice will always get interest from me :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.icysedgwick.com" rel="nofollow">Icy Sedgwick</a>Icy Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11501193571425442406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-74504168031980631492013-06-20T13:04:57.749+01:002013-06-20T13:04:57.749+01:00Michelle! This was a wonderful post... you win the... Michelle! This was a wonderful post... you win the prize for the most mysterious title... which I've come to a whole 10 days late.<br /><br />My husband's grandmother who was a vey genteel lady always served crystal finger bowls with dessert or the fruit course and in them she placed glass seahorses. I have one somewhere in my sea house and will photograph it for you. It must be from the early 1900's as she was married and set up house in 1910.<br /><br />Everything in your blog was wonderfully evocative and love the Welcome Trust too. Statues and crosses are often veiled in churches over the Passion week-end. That was such a beautiful photograph of the courtyard.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-57024599722576605062013-06-10T14:39:26.267+01:002013-06-10T14:39:26.267+01:00If only Venice WERE entirely organised for me! No ...If only Venice WERE entirely organised for me! No bookshops would close and there would be no problems about filming the art in churches. The rats would migrate and the tourists would NOT send old ladies flying with their backpacks. No one would throw rubbish in the canal. Seriously, there are grave infrastructure problems in Venice, and sad days here at the moment, with a vacuum where governance should be, as described in this sobering article by Anna Somers Cocks in the New York Review of Books: <br />http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/coming-death-venice/<br /><br />michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-77564853762476793032013-06-10T14:30:13.185+01:002013-06-10T14:30:13.185+01:00What a wonderful post, Michelle. Full of MISTERIO ...What a wonderful post, Michelle. Full of MISTERIO and also belleza! Lovely blue seahorse and as for the veiled statue...well. It's as though Venice was entirely organized for you. And quite right too!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41131456315340755252013-06-10T09:29:53.876+01:002013-06-10T09:29:53.876+01:00What an exquisite seahorse Marco Vettor made for y...What an exquisite seahorse Marco Vettor made for you! And Felicity Powell's exhibition sounds wonderful. Fascinating post, Michelle - thank you.H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.com