Grasp a Nettle has so many adorable bits that I'm still see-sawing on my opinion of it. Near the end of it Doctor Hotty van Hunkerinjk and Oliver and Jenny stumble across a small fair tucked behind the main streets. They play games and have ice-creams and the Good Doctor wins a 'hideous toy dog' at the shooting gallery. To even things up he buys Jenny a bead necklace. She hung it round her neck and admired it at length, knowing that she would keep the gaudy thing for the rest of her life.I know we've all got them. My gaudy beads are a pair of paper 3-D glasses purchased with tickets to the Hanson Planetarium U2 Laser light show--our third date. Mijneer Nathan van Voorhees kissed me (more or less chastely) on a nearby footbridge after the show for the first time and proposed in that very spot nine months later. Ah, what a lovely digression...
So, what have you pressed in lavender between the pages of your Merriam-Webster's?
I made a "For-Sale" sign as an April Fools joke for Dr. van der Stevejinck's car (a week before we got engaged). The car was a circa 1960 Rambler with a pristine body. I put Dr. van der Stevejincks dorm room phone number and the words "Must Sacrifice" "Runs Good" and the real clincher, "$45". He recieved several phone calls befor he figured out what was going on. We still have that sign.
ReplyDeleteThe ring box Nathan made out of origami :D
ReplyDeleteHey, the first present that Professor van der Hertenzoon gave me was a stunning hammered copper bowl. Little did I know that my future would hold purple (yes, I stated purple) stretch (yes, I stated stretch) velour (ditto) jeans that were too short.
ReplyDeleteThe Founding Bettys have never met a pant too short as we are so short ourselves. But velour stretch? Yikes.
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