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Music on Mardi Gras

25 Tuesday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Music

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Architecture, art., Chateau, culture, France, life, Louis XV

On this Mardi Gras I was looking today at a documentary on the Château of Choisy-Le-Roy near the town of Choisy, this music was the background.  Concerto Comique no.14 La Choisy composed by Michel Corrette 1707-1795, who held many posts at Court and was a teacher.  These two pieces would have been composed for the Hunt, La chasse aux Cerfs which was done on horseback and packs of hounds. King Louis XV was an avid hunter and the woods of Choisy was his private domain. He did not like Versailles much and found life at Court tedious and boring with all its Official Protocol.

Unfortunately the Château and the domain were sold at the revolution and today nothing remains. Choisy in the last 30 years has made great efforts to save the park for the municipality and create public spaces on what was the domain. A rebuilt train station sits on what was once the grounds of the Château.

 

 

Late Winter

24 Monday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Spring

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art., flowers, Roses, Summer, tourism

Today may be the 25 February but the Sun is shining and it is +7 C and the snow is melting. Less than a month from now we will be in Spring, businesses will post help wanted since the tourist season opens around 15 April and the first cruise ship arrives 1 May. It’s also a good thing psychologically to think that Winter is almost done. Also on March 7 the Art Gallery of the Confederation Centre will open a new show by artist Victor Cicansky of Regina and then the Summer show which is a retrospective of painter Robert Harris (1849-1919) who is the famous painter of PEI, though he was born in Wales, studied in Europe and spent most his life in Montreal.

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This photo of a bouquet of roses was taken some years ago in our home in Ottawa. I love the colours. To me such a bouquet is a sign of Spring.

Painting

23 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in ATHENS, Uncategorized

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Acropolis, ATHENA, parthenon, pentelic marble, Pericles

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This painting by Frederick E. Church of the Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis in Athens is shown as it was in 1871 when the painter captured this image. It does not look like that today nor do you have debris all over the acropolis. This large painting is part of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.

Church visited Greece in 1869 and spent several weeks in Athens, where he made numerous studies of the ruins of the Parthenon that later served as the basis for the work. In 1871 a commission from the financier and philanthropist Morris K. Jesup finally allowed Church to begin work on his “big Parthenon”.

The Parthenon for the last 25 years has gone through a complex renovation and consolidation to stabilize the building and avoid any further degradation. It is splendid to see, there is no other word really.

The Parthenon built by Pericles in 447 BC with the tax money Athenians were convinced to give, he was a good talker, was and is  an important structure to the Western World. It is worth to see it at different times of the day from dawn to dusk because the light of the day and the Sun change dramatically its appearance. In the painting above depicting late afternoon on the Western facade.

The Parthenon is a masterpiece of symmetry and proportion. This temple to the Goddess Athena was built with pure white marble quarried at Pentelikon, about 20km from Athens. It was erected without mortar or cement, the stones being carved to great accuracy and locked together by iron clamps. The building and sculptures were completed in just 15 years.

 

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You can see today how the columns have been restored, during the period 1990 to 2015 hundreds of pieces of the shattered columns and other fragments were found on the ground, archeologists used them to reconstruct the temple and also used new Pentelic Marble when pieces were missing. Titanium rods are use to fuse together various elements. I visited Athens many times between 2007-2011 on Official duty and always stayed at an hotel with a roof top restaurant and a perfect view of the temple. The E.U. paid in large part for all the work done on its World heritage site.

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This model of the West pediment shows the gods Poseidon and Athena and the Sacred Olive Tree behind them. This refers to the story of Athens and the rivalry between these 2 gods to win the favour of the Athenians and become protector of the City. The Sacred Olive tree is still on the Acropolis on the spot where in Antiquity there was an Olive tree next to the Erechtheion Temple. The olive tree Athena planted grew in an enclosure west of the Erectheum. The Olive tree you see today was planted in modern times by Princess Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, in honour of the Athenians.

PEI the White

23 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in PEI

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Africans, Canada., discrimination, ethnics, island, life

When you live on this Island you quickly become aware of how being born on this small Island is soooo important for a certain mindset. Not all people are like that but a sizable portion are and make a point when speaking of anyone to let you know that they are Islanders or your not. The media is the same, CBC would like you to believe that everyone they hire in PEI is from the Island or is married to an Islander. God Forbid they would ever get those people from away without a physical connection to this place. It is all a big game and it is quite tiresome.

Our Statutory Holiday in February is called Islander day, elsewhere in Canada it is called Family Day. Being inclusive and having real diversity is not a value in PEI, though it is talked about a lot by politicians it is not really a reality in how society works here.

Tourism PEI brochures show wholesome white folks, Dad and Mom with the 2 kids and a pet, usually a labrador, friendly white folk. In many ways the tourism publicity in PEI is stuck in the 1950’s. Apparently the only tourist we get are white with perfect teeth, simple observation on the street will show you something quite different, mostly over 50 and increasingly Asian.

Our Island heroine is a fictitious little orphan from Nova Scotia who came to PEI as indentured servant and apparently had a wonderful life that is if you don’t read the other 7 books.

You never hear about other people, the non-white. They do not figure, if you take a guided tour you will hear a lot about Fathers of Confederation and when they came to Charlottetown in the Summer of 1864 it coincided with the Circus being in town for the first time in 20 years. It is all pretty innocuous and will not frighten the good folks. The tour guides will not tell you that the Island until very recently was divided along sectarian lines, Catholics and Protestants. There was one hospital for Catholics and one for Protestants, one Catholic ambulance service and another for Protestants. Same with homes for Seniors, Funeral Parlours, schools and every other institution, PEI was a deeply segregated society.

Recently things have started to change, modestly mind you, but change nonetheless. This piece of information has surfaced, however it has not made its way into official history yet and what we know comes from Nova Scotia, the Province next door.

The first Black heavyweight boxing champions in the United States was an Islander.

George Godfrey was born in Charlottetown, PEI in 1852 and grew up in the largely Black neighbourhood known as The Bog, on Pownal Street where today the Office of the Premier of the Province and other government offices are located. He emigrated to Boston in 1870, but only began his professional boxing career in 1879.

Godfrey defeated fighter after fighter – both white and Black – and by 1883 had eliminated all challengers to the title of American Black heavyweight champion. In addition to tough opponents, Godfrey also faced racism – according to historian Nat Fleischer, the white heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan refused to fight him.

Despite these challenges, Godfrey had a long and storied career. He hung up his laces in 1895 and opened his own boxing school in Boston. George Godfrey is not a household name in PEI never was, he was poor and black, but he should be recognized – PEI has a poor history of acknowledging those who are not White and Christian. Prejudice and bigotry is alive to this day on the Island. Until just 5 years ago there was NO mention of Charlottetown having a black population, in historical archives or even on tours of the city no mention is ever made of this population who lived in the centre of the city across from the Mansion of the Lieutenant Governor.

Image of George Godfrey provided courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives

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Another Birthday

22 Saturday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in dachshunds

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11 yrs old, Birthday, Nicky, puppy

Festivities at our house never stop, any excuse is good to pop a cork of champagne and eat cake. So Sunday 23 February is our Nicky’s 11th Birthday. Nicky is very different from Nora in personality and temperament. He plays Mr Tough guy and he has a ferocious bark for a 12 lbs dog. but it is all show. He also thinks that he has to protect Nora from just about everything and Nora is annoyed by this and will beat him up.

Because his father was a European Champion Show dog, Nicky thinks he too is a show dog and for a WireHair Dachshund he has all the qualifications. Yes he is on the Catwalk of Life.

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We call him Nicky Sunshine because he loves to lie in the Sun so much and just sleep, always looking for a ray of sunshine. Like in this photo above taken in Rome in our study on Via dei Villini, staring into the Sun.

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He loves to sit with me and it is a routine with him, I have to sit and then he comes and sits beside me so he can get a cuddle. We do this in the morning and for sure at night after dinner. He also has the habit of going to bed at 10pm this is something we have never been able to figure out, how does he know the time? He does get a cookie before bed but then again he gets a cookie if he goes outside, etc. Habit I suppose. Same for his dinner always at 5pm and in the morning he use to get up at 7am but lately it is more like 7:30am. He has his own little routine and we are just the personal attendants.

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Nicky in profile and Nora with her severe look.

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Nicky resting again from his active hound life in the sunshine. He is a little monster when it comes to attention grabbing, constant whining until he gets what he wants, very stubborn, never forgets except for commands which he always looks puzzled when you order him about, you talking to me look.

We get so use to them in our lives, a constant presence. Happy Birthday Nicky. 

 

Aqueducts

21 Friday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Fountains

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Antiquity, aqueduct, Rome, water

When in Rome or Italy, you hear a lot about the impressive infrastructure built by the ancient Romans, roads, bridges, buildings, fountains and aqueducts. Rome in antiquity before the first century grew to be the most populous city in the world, 1 million people lived in Rome when it was the Capital of the World. No other city in what was the ancient world was as populous and this meant that you needed a lot of urban planning and the Romans were very good at it, compared to us today.

There was a mathematical order to their cities, but also they were built for people to live in with all necessary facilities at hand, just a few steps away from your home. Same for their Military camps, well ordained and organized. Human needs were provided for, from the supply to safe drinking water, to food preparation areas with dining facilities, parks, public bathhouse and public toilets, markets and entertainment areas. All in the Urbe (city centre) the Sub-Urbia or below the centre was usually a less pleasant area for the poorer classes.

When you have a city of a million people, you need lots of clean water to drink and to wash and to feed into the massive bathhouses all around the city which provided hot and cold water 24/7. Rome also had and still has public fountains to drink water which is said to be the best water in all of Europe. The Nassone gush cold clean water usually in strategic areas of the city so you can have a quick drink on a hot day.

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Back in 2008 we visited the Parco degli Acquedotti (Aqueduct Park) is located in the South East of Rome, it is an area that is still a bit out of the way, we took the Metro and then a bus to get to it. You will see 6 of the famous 11 aqueducts feeding the city. What we saw was surprising, several large aqueducts coming in from the countryside into the city.

The Aqueducts are the Anio Vetus (underground), Marcia, Tepula, Julia, Claudio and Anio Novus . There is also l’ acquedotto Felice (next to Julia), which was built at the time of the Renaissance by Pope Sixtjus V in 1586 in a program to both irrigate farmland and provide clean water. The Fountain of Moses next to the St-Regis Hotel is the terminus of this aqueduct. This one was in our neighbourhood so it is well known to us.

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Fountain of Moses, corner of Via Venti Settembre and Largo di Santa Susanna

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The Aqueduct system worked up to the fourth century A.D. when neglect and destruction brought about the barbarian hordes cut the flow of water into the City. Almost 1000 years would pass before the aqueducts would be restored by the Popes who had returned to Rome. This lack of clean water caused the fall of Rome, its population declined to about 10,000 people, large areas of the Capital were abandoned.

These great arches are gigantic and impressive, they carried millions of litre of clean water into the city each day and supplied the population with a basic necessity.

They survived to this day because they are very solidly built, the Romans used concrete and stone in building them and also most are underground only emerging above ground within the city, gravity pushes the water along.

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There are also ancient farms in the area, This one near Via Latina is more than 1200 years old. They look like fortress with small windows and massive gates. At night people and livestock all came inside. Today they are kept as museum and open on appointment for a guided visit.

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On Via di Porta Latina, one of the ancient roads of Rome

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Aqueduct on Via Latina which leads to the Porta Latina in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. one of the more ancient gates of the city.

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The aqueducts had to be maintained daily and an army of men worked at repairing and cleaning them daily. At the top of the aqueduct there is one or two chambers which are large enough for a grown man to stand in. Workers would go into the chambers and scrub the walls and do other maintenance work. The system allowed for the water to be temporarily diverted while they worked. There was also a system of pipes made of copper or cut stone directing water into fountains or basins. To create pressure the pipes would taper off and the water would jet out with force into pools.

Another famous fountain in Rome on the Janiculum Hill in Trastevere is the Fontana dell’Acqua Paola also known as Il Fontanone (“The big fountain”) near the church of San Pietro in Montorio and just above the Residence of the Spanish Ambassador in Rome. It was re-built in 1612 to mark the end of the Acqua Paola aqueduct and the extension of the ancient Aqueduct Traiana, restored by Pope Paul V, Borghese, and took its name from him.

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The six coloured marble columns come from the original basilica of St-Peter 306 A.D. salvaged during the construction of the New St-Peter’s (built 1500 to 1626) we see today. All the white marble of the fountain comes from the Temple of Mars the Avenger in the Forum. This fountain is featured at the beginning of the movie La grande Bellezza. The view of Rome from the piazza in front of it is spectacular.

Another famous fountain in Rome which also gets its water from an ancient Aqueduct is the Trevi Fountain. The water comes from 14 miles outside Rome and carried by the Acqua Virgo one of the most ancient aquaduct of Rome built in 19 BC.

The aqueducts also supplied water to the many great bathhouses of Rome, one which can be visited and is fairly complete is the Baths of Caracalla, you can walk in the dried pools and admire the beautiful mosaic floors, visit the subterranean corridors where slaves labourer daily by feeding the various ovens with wood to produce hot water for the pools and also channel same hot water to heat the floors. The pools are quite shallow, hip deep only, Romans including sailors of the Imperial Navy did not know how to swim and many were afraid of any body of water, Romans were very superstitious and saw omens in almost anything. The baths were a social place to meet friends and relax, exercise and enjoy a meal. One aqueduct was feeding continually the Baths of Caracalla and today part of it pass across the gardens of the Canadian Ambassadors residence at Porta Latina, an impressive sight. Other aqueducts fed water to the Imperial palaces of the Palatine Hill.

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Aqueduct in the garden of the Canadian Residence in Rome. (not open to the public)

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pool floor in coloured mosaic at the Baths of Caracalla built in 212 AD.

When visiting other parts of Italy or of what was the Roman Empire you may encounter to this day a ruined aqueduct. One that is still working very well is at the Alcazar Palace in Seville. In the gardens you can see a jet of water shooting out of a large pipe well above a large pool, all the water is use to water the large gardens of the Alcazar and the Royal Palace which is still in use today for the King of Spain when he visits Seville.

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If you want to read more on Roman engineering the book by A. Trevor Hodge, Roman Aqueduct and Water supply, is worth a read.

The parents

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in dachshunds

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Capena, dogs, Italy, Wire hair

Today 19 February is Nora’s Birthday and I am posting photos of her parents.

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Nora’s Mom named Lucy, she still lives at the Farm in Capena and is now 14 yrs old.

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Nora’s Dad, named Monet, photo taken in March 2009.

Later this week we will have Nicky’s Birthday, his Father came from Budapest. As part of a breeding program for champion dogs.

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The Birthday girl enjoying a bit of sunshine. 

 

Nostalgic for Rome

17 Monday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Rome

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Italy, la grande bellezza, life, Nostalgy, Travel

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty, which is Rome itself the Great Beauty.

Friends are going to Rome in April, a great time to be in the Città. Despite all its problems and degraded infrastructure Rome remains a fantastic city unlike any other city in the world.

I read today a remark by someone who said that we are now in late Winter, 17 February? Really well I suppose that one month from now we will be at the end of Winter still mid-March but at the end nonetheless. By April restaurants will start to re-open in anticipation of the arrival of the first cruise ships. However with the Chinese Flu I wonder what impact it will have on people travelling.

Still April in Rome is a wonderful time.

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Rome, the Tiber River on the Tiberina Island.

Two dates

16 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Birthday

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Capena, dachshunds, dogs, Giorgio Porcino, life, Rome, Tiziana Tola

The 19 and 23 February is the 11th Birthdays of Eleonora (Nora) and Fantastico Nicky (Nicky) born in Capena, Italy in 2009 at the Casa degli Orsi owned by Tiziana Tola and her husband the celebrated veterinarian Professor Dottore Massimo Buzzanca.

Both are known in Italian as Bassotto Tedescho (German Bassett hound) or Dachshunds. All of their dogs have won numerous trophies and honours in Italy and in Europe. They usually have only one or two litters per year. We came upon their farm on the recommendation of friends who lived near them in the countryside. A very beautiful place with lots of mature trees and a big pond with giant Koi fish.

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We had a contest on the internet to name them and settled on Nick and Nora from the film series Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy). Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man. The characters were later adapted for film in a series of films between 1934 and 1947; for radio from 1941 to 1950; for television from 1957 through 1959; as a Broadway musical in 1991; and as a stage play in 2009.

We first saw them in late February, still very small with their mother and other siblings. We returned to pick them up some 7 weeks later. The road back to Rome to our home on Via dei Villini was only eventful in the fact that Nora looked afraid but quiet and Nick was whimpering all the way. They were sitting in the back with Will.

In Rome they were used to their walks in the centre of the City around our home, a quiet leafy area. Nora loved to put her head under the Nassone which is a drinking fountain with continuous flow of water coming from the mountains around the city. The water is very cold and she loved it. Then in July 2011 they flew to Canada with us as our time living in Rome ended with regret. Arrivederci Roma!

Nicky and Nora are always with us, if we travel we have a babysitter to look after them at home.  Tiziana Tola and many friends including our Vet in Rome, Giorgio Porcino told us be careful because they can be controlling, always pushing the limits to see who is in charge. Nora thinks she is in charge and can be very demanding and at the same time plays coquette. Nicky on the other hand is a cry baby, it was funny when he was a puppy but not at 11 he is an old dog but hey it works and he knows it. We are certainly at their service.

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That day at the Farm Casa degli Orsi when they came with us to Rome. Nora (L) Nick (R). By law the owners have to have microchips for each dog upon purchase and they are also registered with the Italian Government for identity purposes.

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Nick enjoying the sun in our Roman living room, to this day he enjoys sleeping in full sunlight.

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Nora learning to type at 3 months. She is good at sending E-cards to people.

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A three tier birthday cake with marzipan. Since birth and being with us we have spoiled them with pieces of celery and carrots, pieces of gouda and cheddar cheese and in the morning sometimes Will will give them a small piece of his bagel with cream cheese. Nora loves Espresso but we do not give it to her, she still tries to but her big nose in the cup.

They also get regular check ups at the UPEI Vet College. The Vets know them quite well to a point where if we call the clinic, the staff know their names by heart. Our old vet from the time we had our first two dachshunds Bundnie and Reesie said to us that when he died he wanted to come back as our dog because we took such good care of them.

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Nick (L) and Nora (R)

55 years old today

15 Saturday Feb 2020

Posted by larrymuffin in Canada

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Canadians, Flag, maple leaf, Nation

No I am not 55 today it is not my Birthday but that of the Canadian Flag which was proclaimed on 15 February 1965 today.

Parliament in Ottawa had debated this question for years, Canada needed to get rid of the old British Red Ensign flag with its colonial undertones and have its own distinct flag as a Sovereign Country.

It was under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson that we finally got our own flag. The colours symbolize the two founding nations France and England (White and Red) but it is also the colours of St-George a patron Saint in Normandy and in England. The Maple Leaf is the ancient symbol of Canada since always. In terms of Heraldic symbolism expert agree that the design is clean and easily recognizable by all.

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