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Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/17/julie-christie-at-85-her-20-best-films-ranked #FarFromtheMaddingCrowd #McCabe&MrsMiller #DonaldSutherland #JulieChristie #Don'tLookNow #WarrenBeatty #Culture #Hamlet #Film

Thomas Hardy’s “The Hand of Ethelberta” (1876). #111Words #ThomasHardy #Novels #Fiction #Literature #TheHandOfEthelberta #APairOfBlueEyes #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/08/thomas-hardys-hand-of-ethelberta-1876.html

I love this quote about Bathsheba and Gabriel. I've never noticed it before, but it struck me when I re-read FFTMC recently.

#activetravel #farfromthemaddingcrowd #thomashardy

A copy of the novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy lays on a wooden table. Next to it are written the words: “The distance was not more than a quarter of a mile and these two sensible persons deemed it unnecessary to drive.”

Thomas Hardy’s references to painters in “Far From the Madding Crowd” (1874). #111Words #ThomasHardy #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #JMWTurner #NicholasPoussin #Literature #Painting https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/07/thomas-hardys-references-to-painters-in.html

New on the blog: #CycleTour2023 is getting real.

Also, friends, I understand that not everyone is a cycle touring [let's call it] aficionado. If you don't want to read my missives about this cycle tour in particular or cycle touring in general, feel free to mute the appropriate hashtags. I won't be hurt (much).

https://slidewielder.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/preparing-for-cycletour2023/

#CycleTouring #Cycling #Blog #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd

A walk in the woods (taken in November 2021, between Bochum and Hattingen in Germany)

#Autumn #NaturePhotography #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #Bochum #Hattingen #RauendahlerWald

A woodland scene, photographed in the autumn, with fallen leaves covering the ground, but still some trees with green leaves, and others in the background with yellow and orange leaves.

Natural backlighting can work wonders with leaves.

#Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Leaves #Peace #Quiet #Freedom #Relaxation #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #Rüggeberg #Germany

A leaf that could have gone unnoticed if the sun had not illuminated it from behind.

My first photo post here, from one of my regular walks in the countryside:

TREES (and FOURS)

#Nature Photography #NaturePhotography #Trees #Peace #Quiet #Freedom #Relaxation #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #Rüggeberg #Germany

Four trees, pictured almost as silhouettes against a background of a light grey sky.

A fiercely independent woman gets three wedding proposals, which increasingly don't consider her own feelings. Ununderstably she chooses the last of the three and then to her shock is unhappy. Ok, that's just my gripe with these kinds of stories. I like how she is portrayed as independent and how she remains so and how Carey Mulligan makes her a full character that you believe in (choices of men aside).
#CareyMulligan #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd

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