Just had such an uplifting Teams meeting with other 1920s /1930s enthusiasts / academics. Feel really energised. V. excited about book we are doing on modern women & leisure in jazz age Ireland. We were talking about Anna May Wong, Marlene Dietrich & Metropolis (fave subjects)…
Motoring Matters for Ladies
March 1934: A day in the life...
Madge has planned a motor trip today. Last week she received her new motoring tunic in ‘ice blue’. As it covers … https://t.co/KUnS5Z3iLf
I don’t use ‘X’ anymore, except to say @LyricFm: no need to keep apologising for playing Christmas music as is still very much c.mas and last week was c.mas week so I don’t understand what the issue is? I love the music you have been playing yest. & today. 🎄
What a fantastic & exciting time the 1930s were for architecture, when new mass leisure needed new building types, w. everyone buying into it. I just love the style of these buildings. So lucky to have had time to read about them for the PhD. ‘Art Deco by the Sea’ exhibition book
A lot of cafés seem to close at 4pm on Sundays in dublin - I am only noticing it recently. Has it always been the case? It just seems to compound the sense of doom that Sunday evenings produce in me.
I wonder how many other people were reading ‘The Enchanted April’ with their breakfast and then walked into work thinking about wisteria and sun? I love reading this in spring, and love the film! The costumes 🤍
@RSPBEngland That’s tragic. If that was my hometown I would be absolutely devastated. Things like this could send people over the edge if they have a sensitive disposition!
There are so many funny bits in ‘A Room with a View’ by E.M. Forster. Eg. this one about Lucy’s brother annoying a girl who is visiting: ‘in half a minute he had transformed Minnie from a well-mannered child into a howling wilderness’.
@BrianLeddin @PaulCostelloeUK@MiriamOCal@RTERadio1 I would love to tell these people that they are lucky those cyclists are not driving cars. Imagine the traffic jams there would be then.
I see The Irish Times is now referring to the former Clery's as one of Europe’s oldest purpose-built department stores
Its not even one of Irelands.
And for the record I prefer the earlier clock