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batgirl
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Tregina wrote: Soooo...bear with me, I'm slow...we now have the Mad Hatter on board also? Oh my god you're right, I can't believe I didn't realise that! I love it! Just what has he been up to in that store cupboard to leave them glassy eyed and disheveled though...?! |
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Cabbage
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May be the next character will be Dora Mouse 
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Tregina
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He he, Cabbage! I was wondering the same thing about an appearance from Dora Mouse.
Batgirl, do you suppose they've been going back and forth through a looking glass in the store room? BTW, what does anyone make of the smiley down in the lower left hand corner of the blog? Nothing happens when I click on it, but when I highlight it, it turns diagonally. Can anyone think of anything else to do to it? I've looked at the source code for the page, but I went cross-eyed... |
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batgirl
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Tregina wrote: Batgirl, do you suppose they've been going back and forth through a looking glass in the store room? I've already suggested to Alice she look out for that when she gets in there 
Tregina wrote: BTW, what does anyone make of the smiley down in the lower left hand corner of the blog? Nothing happens when I click on it, but when I highlight it, it turns diagonally. Can anyone think of anything else to do to it? I've looked at the source code for the page, but I went cross-eyed... It doesn't change when I highlight it (I'm on firefox v2) and I couldn't see anything meaningful in the source code either, but I'm not a coder. Doesn't seem any point to it being there if it doesn't do anything though... it may be a red herring or it may be a white rabbit 
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trk
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The smiley is a small image placed there by wordpress.com as part of the web page stats gathering, it doesn't do anything. Actually if you look at the code you'll see another stats smiley next to it that's hidden, again doesn't do anything.
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Tregina
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Ahhh, you're no fun!
Oh well, it was an idea... |
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Afgncaap5
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Interesting...this is the first time I've heard this story where the hatter and hare are both encountered before Alice falls through the rabbit hole, so to speak. | ||||
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Cabbage
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Are you sure she hasn't *already* fallen down the rabbit hole?
The plot thickens with a new update: Treacle and Ink March 25, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized — treacleandink @ 6:04 pm I made it! The shop was tremendously busy again yesterday – one never can keep track of all the people coming and going through the doors. (Not to mention the people who’ve been emailing me – some of you seem to think that a mysterious story they’ve received by email is meant for me. But honestly, it makes no sense to me at all.) But after we closed up for the day I suggested to Jacques that I cook a shepherd’s pie for the two of us, to celebrate the Bank Holiday and so on. And even though he pretended to wrinkle his nose and say “I do not know zis ‘shep-herd’s pie”, I could tell he was delighted. By the looks of him, he doesn’t eat a square meal too often. But then, mon dieu, sacre bleu! I had run out of potatoes. Would he be an angel and run to the corner shop to get me some? While he was gone, I had just enough time to sneak upstairs and take a look in the store room. I suppose you might be wondering why, since I’m living in one of the bedrooms here, I couldn’t just sneak into the store-room at night. The honest truth is that I’ve been a bit nervous. All these warnings to stay away, I thought at least the floor might be unsafe but it’s more than that. Something about just passing by the door gives me the weirdest feeling. But, as my mother used to say, one cannot live in fear! I pushed open the door, which creaked appropriately. The room was, indeed, absolutely crammed. Furniture piled one piece on top of another, wardrobes and bureaux and chaise longues and mirrors and books and side tables and scroll-legged chairs and fireplaces and workboxes and glassware and silverware and paintings. There was even a tantalus, still with its bottles full. I can see why Marsh-Ayre, at least, wouldn’t have wanted me coming in here – it’s just too distracting. I didn’t stay for long; I heard the door open on the floor below and Jacques had returned with potatoes and another two bottles of wine (if I stay here much longer I’m going to develop some bad habits). But, having crossed the threshold, I can see there was nothing to be scared of! I’m going to take another look tonight. Everything’s price-marked, the books look fascinating, and I wonder if we couldn’t sell one or two of them. And there are a few decorative pieces in there that would really brighten up the shop. We might do this elusive Hattie Loon some good; enjoy her pieces and then sell them for her! |
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batgirl
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Here's hoping she checks the mirrors well when she goes back in tonight.... and looks out for rabbit holes! | ||||
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Cabbage
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New update:
http://treacleandink.wordpress.com/ March 26, 2008 Inspired again Filed under: Uncategorized — treacleandink @ 7:34 pm Writing is such a strange business. I didn’t come to this bookshop to find inspiration, but to try to get away from it. But it seems to have followed me. I’m writing again. It’s the strangest thing. Let me explain. Yesterday, I confessed to Jacques that I’d had a look round the store-room. “But did I not tell you,” he said “not to do such a thing?” I agreed that he had, but said: “Mr Ayre left me in charge, after all. You couldn’t expect me not to look could you? Too tempting!” “Ah yes,” said Jacques, “the temptations, they are great.” I explained my idea to him, that we could display some of the antiques in the bookshop, and maybe sell them on behalf of Loon herself. “Ah,” he said, “but, pauvre she may never know the benefit.” “What do you mean?” “Did I not tell you? There was an accident. Something in the store room fell on ‘er, perhaps. I was not ‘ere.” “Is she dead?” “No no,” his face was grave, “she lies in ‘ospital, in a coma. Very serious. For several weeks now.” “Oh!” I said. I thought for a moment. “That’s very sad, of course. Does she have no family who might want to take charge of the antiques?” Jacques thought there was no one. In a funny way, this news made me feel better about going into the storeroom again, taking a proper look this time. After all, no one was going to come and ask me what I thought I was doing. And I felt strangely as if I was doing the room a favour, visiting it. Things only come alive when you use them, don’t they? A pen that’s not being written with, a mirror that’s not being looked into, a chair that’s not being sat on: don’t they seem kind of sad to you? It was a mirror that caught my fancy, actually. Going into the room in daylight, even waning daylight, was different. The light caught on motes of dust in the air, and on the polished surfaces of the antique furniture. I picked up a book with yellow leather binding and flicked through it, but it seemed to be a diary or journal, the writing too crabbed and faded to read. I ran my fingers over the marbled wood of an ormolu clock. And then, out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of movement. A mouse! I turned – no, it had just been my own reflection in a brass-backed mirror. A pretty thing, very old-looking, the mirror is made of some sort of black stone but very shiny. I picked it up and turned it over. Half a label is stuck to the back “The mirror of Dr…” But the rest is missing. The brass fittings must be old and loose, though, because I caught my thumb on something sharp. I whipped my hand back. I’d drawn blood, just a little. A tiny bit was smeared on the face of the mirror. I looked at it and suddenly… it was like I was falling into a dream. Like that time, long ago, when I was dead-heading the roses. An idea, a scene, just a tiny fragment of a story but there it was fully formed. I almost ran out of the room to start writing. I didn’t realise I’d taken the mirror with me until an hour later when I’d run out of steam. I don’t know what comes next in my story, but I want to find out. And a mirror’s certainly easier to keep around than a rose garden! I’m going to hang it in the shop and see if the sight of it will help me write again! |
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Cabbage
Messages: 324 Offline |
batgirl wrote: Here's hoping she checks the mirrors well when she goes back in tonight.... and looks out for rabbit holes! You were right! Mmmm the mirror of Dr Caligari (no, that was a cabinet) Dracula Dreams ? |
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Tregina
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I am enjoying how the white rabbit on the front page of the web site is dropping lower and lower and lower with each update.
Hey Cabbage, per one of your previous posts...how about Dr. Mouse? |
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batgirl
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Cabbage wrote: the mirror of I like the mirror of Dreams
In contrast though, the mirror of Dread? |
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Cabbage
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There's another new update:
http://treacleandink.wordpress.com/ March 27, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized — treacleandink @ 9:04 pm Strange things, coincidences. All of your emails insisting that I must be the Alice that your odd story is addressed to gave me an idea. I thought I’d tweak with the window-dressing, to showcase some Lewis Carroll, and other children’s classics. Maybe pin the green baize so that it looks like a rabbit-hole and have all the books tumbling into it. So I went to the store-room to look through the books that aren’t on display, to find suitable ones. There were quite a few old editions of Alice in Wonderland – probably part of Marsh-Ayre’s private collection – which I thought would do well. And as I was flicking through one of them, a piece of paper fluttered to the floor. Another note in Marsh-Ayre’s handwriting. I opened it without thinking. Well, who’d keep a private note in a book, after all? ![[image]](http://treacleandink.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/mysterousnotes.jpg)
It’s weird, but at the same time intriguing. I have an aunt who believes in crystals, all that stuff. When I couldn’t get started on my second book she kept giving me tigers-eye stones which she said would “release blocked creativity”. They never worked, but I guess perhaps staring into a black mirror is just the type of thing that might stimulate the contemplative parts of the brain? It’s funny, I wouldn’t have thought that many blokes were into crystal healing, so I’m surprised to find this in Marsh-Ayre’s notes. But, can’t argue with the results! I’ve hung the mirror behind the desk in the shop, and I’m going to have another go with it tonight. |
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Cabbage
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It's all Greek to me.
Looks like some of the letters are emboldened on that handwritten note... significant? |
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