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| Looks like an Olde Englyssh pub |
R and VR, recently, in some hostelry or other presently unremembered. Photographed by daughter OS (Occasional Speeder) who asks us: "Too sentimental? Why don't you decide?"
To Tone Deaf commenters we ask: "Why don't you decide?"
Not sentimental at all RR. An elderly couple who are obviously very comfortable in each others' company and are each part of a common whole are engaging in a private conversation. Their heads are close together because, perhaps, both are a little deaf and surrounding sound in a busy pub makes conversation difficult. (I know).
ReplyDeleteI think it is a beautiful image, to be cherished.
As per Avus. A lovely picture.
ReplyDeleteAvus/Jean: There's a thin line between what is considered pleasing and what is sentimental. Journalism taught to me to be cynical and it worked most of the time. This photo is most remarkable for being unexpected and non-banal.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely photo capturing a very sweet moment.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually quite beautiful, this photo. Rather than seeming sentimental, it seems genuine to me.
ReplyDeleteIt looks as though you were talking and VR listening, most intently, (something wives don't always do!) A pleasing, natural photo, not sentimental at all. I do wonder about your matching yellow bands?
ReplyDeleteShe looks like she could be a little bit bored actually and "what's he saying now?"
ReplyDeleteAll: It would seem there's a consensus. But perhaps I should have asked you all what constitutes "sentimental" - a much tougher question.
ReplyDeleteThere is a further factor - both VR and I presently qualify as invalids. Our behaviour occasionally reflects this though not - to my recall - here.
Congratulations to Share My Garden for noticing the yellow bands. These were supposedly anti-mosquito devices. In fact, they worked in reverse. The mozzies liked to get under the bands and bite us there. Resulting in not just an itchy itch, but an itch full of outrage.
PS: I formed the above response before the appearance of the comment from Rachel Phillips who dares to sound a discordant note. VR and I have been married for 63 years but that's just a figure. During that period we have regularly fratched. But I think I can say - hand on heart - that we've rarely bored each other. I, for one, regard being bored as an abnegation of the spirit. But thanks for a sense of balance, Rachel.
I would say that it is a look that only 63 years of marriage could manifest; the love is there without having to shout itself out.
DeleteIt's a sweet photo!
ReplyDeleteAltho, it could be that you two are just trying to hear each other in a noisy bar.
Ellen D: Or whispering nasties about someone adjacent.
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