Gerald Gee
RUBY TUESDAY
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/
1965
Gerald Grimes was Gerald Gee, who once blogged with the rest.
Ill health has seen his blog close down, and it was one of the best.
Forty-five years ago he made the furniture shown above;
Something for a little girl to both enjoy and love.
A dolls-house and a chest-of drawers charmingly combined!
I've reprinted this copy here; I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
A Ruby Tuesday entry that's special, in a way.
I'm hoping Gerald may return to blogging one fine day.
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The following is all that remains of my Architecture notes from
SIXTY YEARS AGO!
ARCHITECTURE 1948!
The Normans, like the Saxons, used a style half-romanesque.
East ends, at first, were apsidal and the carving was grotesque.
The work was often ponderous, but pleasing to the sight
And sturdy central towers were built…… the wayfarers' delight.
The rounded arch again was seen but only splayed inside,
While painted walls and ceilings were cathedrals' special pride.
The church plan was still cruciform and very long, the nave.
The piers were short but flutings a barbaric grandeur gave.
Walls with arcade, triforium and clerestory, were seen.
The chisel came more into use, where once the axe had been.
The normal types of vaulting were the barrel or the groined,
And the Normans liked their rooves of wood, though vaults of stone adjoined........
Etc etc etc
And so on and so on and so on! And a lot of good it did me!
ARCHITECTURE 1948!
The Normans, like the Saxons, used a style half-romanesque.
East ends, at first, were apsidal and the carving was grotesque.
The work was often ponderous, but pleasing to the sight
And sturdy central towers were built…… the wayfarers' delight.
The rounded arch again was seen but only splayed inside,
While painted walls and ceilings were cathedrals' special pride.
The church plan was still cruciform and very long, the nave.
The piers were short but flutings a barbaric grandeur gave.
Walls with arcade, triforium and clerestory, were seen.
The chisel came more into use, where once the axe had been.
The normal types of vaulting were the barrel or the groined,
And the Normans liked their rooves of wood, though vaults of stone adjoined........
Etc etc etc
And so on and so on and so on! And a lot of good it did me!
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