Toad Hall Sign
The sign on the driveway for Toad Hall, Halls Rd, Cedar Creek.
As far as I can tell it's just a private residence.
View all photos taken: Saturday, 21st October 2006, This photo: 2:59pm
The sign on the driveway for Toad Hall, Halls Rd, Cedar Creek.
As far as I can tell it's just a private residence.
View all photos taken: Saturday, 21st October 2006, This photo: 2:59pm
Oh gorgeous - how wonderful that there is a real Toad Hall !
So, Toad Hall is in QLD. How wonderful
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Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
It does make a certain amount of sense, I'll grant you that :)
I never could stand toad from wind in the willows, ratty was by far my favourite character, not that I ever had the book. It was one of those obligatory reads at school, as well as some other total yawns by the likes of shakespeare and Thomas Hardy. To kill a Mockingbird or The Chrysalids, much better stuff !!
"To Kill a Mockingbird" was an obligatory read in High School, as was "1984" and "Animal Farm". Earlier I had to read "Lord of the Flies" and didn't like it one little bit.
Never did read "Wind in the WIllows" but was quite partial to the stop-motion production on the tellie. But yes, Toad was just a bit too much of a prat.
As for Shakespeare, I quite liked that, so much so that I bought the complete works (plays, not sonnets) and read several.
Oh yes 1984, that too as well as ' Brave New World " both interesting
Lord of the flies is gruesome but an interesting look at human nature, probably quite accurate as well, each for him/herself, survival of the fittest etc. Totally agree with the pratt comment about toad !
sorry, i cannot like good old Williams stuff, but he was a clever observer of life- if he wrote them all of course, that debate raises its head every now and then !!
We had to study julius cheeser at school, we went to see the film, put on for schools especially, the death scene had us in hysterics, it went on for a staggeringly ( Used here in more ways than one ) long time. the irreverance of youth- eventually even the teachers gave in and laughed !!!
The other class did "Brave New World" so I've not read that.
LotF probably is fairly accurate of a certain class of humanity but I refuse to believe that any random sample of humans would degenerate so quickly.
I presume you meant to type cheeser, in which case I've not heard of that production.
At school we always called Julius caesar- Julius Cheeser, all it proves is that some folks just never grow up !!
L of the F's is a reference to evil, lord of the dungheap or beezlebub ( not sure I have the correct spelling here ! )
Aaaaahhh (lightbulb goes on). Ok.
And it'd be beelzebub :)
thanks, knew it wasnt spelled correctly - close though !!
now is it spelled or spelt.... choices choices, can you get late onset dyslexia.....? : l
I think it's a special form that occurs only when using a keyboard ;)
I think you are right !! also having contacts from places where the English language is different. When I was at school we had spelling tests every week, not sure its considered so important any more, the amount of incorrect spelling I see all the time is dire !
Quite so! The lack of spelling and grammar in schools these days is atrocious! It is a sad reflection on today's society that such basic skills are no longer looked at as important by those we entrust to educate our young.
Hmm - my spelling is terrible too, I am afraid.
By the way, I've read Lord of the Flies too and I remember it making quite an impression on me.
I also read Brave New World but I can't remember anything about it any more.
Still, that does not mean much with me - I have the nice nack of forgetting story details, which means I can go back and re-read my favourite novels every few years :-)