Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Carla Crale

Superficial smoothness
Crude contrasts
Canary-yellow shirt
Violent blue sea

Calumny
A very moral life
Big grey eyes - like dead lakes

Dante meeting Beatrice on a bridge
Blind girl sitting on an orange and called Hope

Hoydenish

Always the chivalrous pukka sahib

Rich but tiresome
Desultory 




* Found poem inspired by 'Five Little Pigs' written by Agatha Christie *


Amyas Crale's best painting

The painting had an old superficial smoothness. At first it might have been a poster, so seemingly crude were it's contrasts.

A girl in a canary-yellow shirt and dark blue slacks, sitting on a grey wall [hoary old chestnut of a battlement wall] in full sunlight against a background of violent blue sea [conventional blue sea and the decorous English trees].




* Description taken from Five Little Pigs written by Agatha Christie *

Act 2, Scene 2

Montague & Capulet 




If that thy bent of love be honorable, 
Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow 
By one that I'll procure to come to thee 
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, 
And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay 
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.



Lunch at The George

 The Coffee Room

Excellent mutton

Large slabs of watery cabbage

Dispirited potatoes

Tasteless stewed fruit and custard

Gorgonzola and biscuits

Doubtful fluid called coffee




* Information inspired by 'Dumb Witness' written by Agatha Christie *




Littlegreen House, Market Basing

The Arundell family home

Period house of character consisting of:
  • Four reception rooms
  • Eight bedrooms and dressing
  • Usual offices
  • Commodious kitchen premises
  • Ample outbuildings, stable etc. 
  • Main water
  • Old world gardens, inexpensive upkeep, amounting in all to three acres
  • Two summerhouses

Price £2850 or near offer.


The morning room
Pleasant room with its long windows giving on the street.

Furnished with good solid, old fashioned furniture, mostly Victorian.

A Chippendale bookcase.

A set of Hepplewhite chairs.


The dining room

Victorian room with:
  • a heavy mahogany dining table
  • a massive sideboard of almost purple mahogany with great clusters of carved fruit
  • solid leather-covered dining room chairs
  • Family portraits hung on the wall

The drawing room

Chintzes patterned with garlandsnof roses.

Prints and watercolour drawings on the walls.

China shepherds and shepherdesses.

Cushions worked in crewel stitch.

Photographs in handsome silver frames.

Inlaid work boxes and tea caddies.

Tissue paper ladies under glass stands. One with a spinning wheel and one with a cat on her knee.

Elegant little table with two drawers in it.


Various cupboards


A downstairs cloakroom


A small pantry place


Bedrooms




* Information derived from 'Dumb Witness' written by Agatha Christie *

Miss Emily Arundell

Dr and Mrs Tanios in the Oak room
Theresa in the Blue room
Mr Charles in the Old Nursery

Epistle 
Market Basing

Dr Grainger
Valentines beef juice
Brands essence 
Teaspoonfuls of brandy

Spasmodic
Pince-nez

Easter Tuesday
Half a gooseberry pie

Dr Loughbarrow's Liverpool Capsules 
Size 50
Eight and six 

Stock Breeders Gazette



* Found poem inspired by the 'Dumb Witness' written by Agatha Christie *