Thursday, February 04, 2010

Twinkle, twinkle

Sometimes, no matter what the calendar says, you have to do spring cleaning.

Of course, it helped that Robert thought a bunch of his bridge pals were coming over for drinks before a dinner and show.

But whatever, he was there cleaning the chandelier. And though he's a little rough with the crystals, and they may never hang plumb again, it shines like the day it was cut.

(And when I see pictures like this, I think of old Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria. In the lean years after World War II, she is famously said to have penned in on a dinner invitation, "Tiaras if Possible.")

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