Where's my portrait!

Hat's off for the work and the patience it must have taken. Looks like Lara Crofts new dining room.

It is an impressive edifice and I am exceptionally grateful to not have to dust it.

Yes very impressive Bryce work there;) Nice carpet would do wonders.

The woodwork by the ceiling is beautiful :)

Excellent Bryce work. Agree with halo, the woodwork is exceptional.

Impressive!!!

I'd love to see a closeup of the ceiling.....great work though...!

very nice bit of work so far!

he didn't do that i did, honest i did...oh ok he did but i wished i did. Nice work and like bryster said, would love to see a close up of the ceiling.

Fantastic work, so many details. Cant wait to see finished ;) Tihomir

As an aside... Whenever I post at 'rosity, I ALWAYS copy the text to the clip-board before sending. Then, if the post fails (fairly likely if you're have to also browse to add images etc.), just have to paste the text back..:-) 2nd time then usually works. (Browse for image 1st, the browser is probably already pointing at the correct folder), the paste text & voila! Post ready in about 5 secs. Mind you, having said that, 'rosity has additional quirks that I haven't found how to get around ("my squirrel server has gone away"...) Cheers, Diolma

diolma, I had. Or thought I had at least. While trying to post this my wife was explaining how she has possibly been exposed to the black plague. So I was a little distracted.

With some benches, etc., could be Parliament..;) I know it sounds wierd, but the symptoms of Black Plauge are as follows (I'm not making this up)
Ring around a rosy (raised infected areas, sometimes called buboes [I think])
pocket full of posey (I don't know the correlation of the rest)
ashes, ashes, we all fall down
it's the actual source of the rhyme. To be honest, unless she's been in contact with someone from way outside civilization, or works in the drug business..I would be surpriesed..still, see a doctor if you think you should..good luck.

In the middle ages they would fill the pockets of plague victims with flowers to cover the stench, and they burned the dead to 'prevent' the plague's spread.
She works in the veterinary field and has repeated exposure over several months now, to a dog which just tested positive for the black plague. The CDC is all over it. (waiting patiently for confirmation test results.)
I've been assured the odds of her having contracted it are akin to being struck by lightning the day you win the lottery.

nice gothic hall xenic , sound serious , were do you live i thought the black plaque was extinquished?

It's amazing how fast one can become an expert on certain topics. The black plague has been eradicated for some time now, the bacteria that causes it however, still lives in various wild animals. In my region, opposums have been found with it on occasion. Some times an infected wild animal will bite or scratch a domestic animal. I don't believe there has been a confirmed human fatality from it in the past 100 years though. But as she's telling me about how this dog tested positive, while I'm chatting and posting and eating dinner, there were two thoughts fighting for dominance in my mind: "You were with the kids all afternoon?!" and "Back the fug up!"

Pakled: Ring-a-ring-a-rosy = The red circles of infection A pocket-full-o-posey = The scented flowers they CARRIED A-tissue-a-tissue = sneezes We all fall down. = obvious The above rhyme is sung by children in England even to this day. They hold hands and form a circle. They then dance sidestep in a circle and collapse to the ground at the end of the last line. The posey was actually carried by the living to ward off the disease itself as it was thought to be a MIASMA (SS)that is - carried through the air. The idea that rats and their fleas carried the disease was unthought of.

This is what happens when you do things from memory..;) I remember now of course..dangit..;)

Even if she caught the black plague, it's very curable (is that a word?), and unless she's carrying around rat fleas on her or she contracts the pneumonic version (which was relatively unlikely for most of the year even in the 15th century) she can't pass it to anyone, so no worries. Interestingly enough, even if she had fleas the kind of fleas that humans get can't pass the plague. Now the question is why in the world do I know all that....

....and anyway...if she had the Black Death she'd be dead by now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exceptional Brycing xenic!

Wow !ummm at both. The ceiling is fantastic, I looked at lots of ceilings on my vacation and they are fascinating. And yeah, "back the fug up!" for sure. I remember when I first found out that the black plague bacteria still existed. I was watching a MASH show back in the seventies and one of the Korean patients had it. Not sure if it had any basis in fact but it sure surprised me to learn it still existed as well as learning that Leprosy(sp?) still exists.

Excellent, Xenic :-) ~S