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From S. B., 

What about HIS 'timeworn' face?  Everybody has a 'timeworn' face, some less than others.  Do I detect a note of envy from you, or is it relief?  I had Barry's cousins to tea here over the weekend.  When I asked Barry to find some room in the freezer for me to fit something in, Micky remarked: What would we ladies do without men!  'I would just have to manage somehow', I replied, but failed to add, 'Doesn't it work both ways?'  We are both lucky to have each other..........or not, as the case may be!

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Repost to a  Riposte from a long married (English) lady

As you know, hardly ever " having  been to sea",

 how can I discuss the etiquette of matrimony

which must forever be,

 at least to me, 

a source of never ending mystery. 

After an early and happy wedding 

and even frequent quite satisfactory bedding

I imagine a lifetime of another's habits can be maddening

if not altogether saddening.

And though a "timeworn face".

in short, may be  no disgrace

seeking it to replace

often seems to lead to a court case.

So I can't pretend to be an expert

and the rightness of things assert

but I suspect, as part of everyone's destiny,

along, with the occasional feast

there must  always be a little, at least,

of rebellious  mutiny.

HZL

8/18/15

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

William Osler

PS: Today's guest on BBC is Sian Phillips,a great actress once married to a great actor. 

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Siân Phillips: I miss Peter O’Toole

Siân Phillips, who had an acrimonious split from the late Peter O’Toole, says she misses the actor now that he is gone

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By Tim Walker

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My disclosure before Christmas that Siân Phillips planned to attend the funeral of Peter O’Toole startled many of the actress’s friends, who were only too well aware of how acrimoniously their marriage had ended.

Now, Miss Phillips, who is playing Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Harold Pinter Theatre, tells me that she felt she had no alternative but to go – and still feels his loss deeply. “I do miss him, yes,” she said quietly at an after-party for her show.

“It was a big shock when he died. I somehow thought he would be there forever. He hadn’t been well for a long time, but he seemed to be going on. We weren’t in touch, but, even so, I was very upset because I wasn’t expecting it.”

She was appearing in the play in Washington when O’Toole died in December last year at the age of 81. “I was literally in the middle of rehearsals when it happened. I remember standing in Washington and something inside made me think I had to go to the funeral, so I just did, with my daughter and granddaughter by my side. I flew in from Washington, went to the funeral and then flew back and went straight back to work.”

Miss Phillips had been married to O’Toole for 20 years and bore him two daughters, but the marriage had ended unhappily in 1991. She stated publicly that her former husband was “a dangerous, disruptive human being.” They did not subsequently keep in touch.