CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
I always give at least 50 strokes. To my hair that is.
ReplyDeleteThe hair at the top or the bottom end is the question... Jx
DeleteThe third Gif has the perfect colour combination for this years Pride
ReplyDeleteRed and Gold, Red and gold.
I really need to get my finger out and sort out what I am wearing !
Even the boys from Essex have their outfits sorted... Jx
DeleteLooking forward to seeing the finished outfits, as always!
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Less than a month to go... Jx
DeleteSorry, what are these gifs from? I love them
ReplyDeleteThey're from a very weird-sounding French film called Donkey Skin, apparently... Jx
DeleteThanks! It looks like a European kids show from the sixties or seventies, like the Singing Ringing Tree or something
ReplyDeleteReading the description, definitely not a kid's film! Lures you in with its cute candy-coloured look and then *shuddders*
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, ALL innocent-seeming fairy tales are, in their original ("un-Disneyfied") form, to modern eyes seemingly "not for children". Yet that is exactly who they were originally aimed at.
DeleteCharles Perrault also wrote Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Sleeping Beauty - and they were imbued with topics that only seem unpalatable now, not then - often as moral guidance and warnings for unwary youngsters.
How did society become so prissy? Blame the Victorians, I suppose. Jx
Lewis Carroll was a Victorian.. Not one you'd let your kids near, though.
DeleteBeatrix Potter always had a dark sense of humour and was pretty frank about the lives of animals, not surprising as she was a farmer herself. You don't get that from the cuddly bunnies image she has now.
And my husband pointed out, pretty much all her stories are about theft.
Lewis Carroll's ambiguities are still being debated... Jx
DeleteI love "Alice" and would never stop my little girl reading it. I don't bring my kids up to expect artists to be perfect people. They mostly aren't.
DeleteAnd I was just sitting here thinking it looked like something my little girl would like
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