Udder Randomness

[absynthe1972]

Ehhh... What about his gangrenous leg? Didn't he have a festering leg for years? And it was his wife's job to take care of it?

Ugh. I want to say that came from a jousting injury. Part of the lance was in there or splinters of the lance which couldn't be removed and that caused the infection, I *think*.

[knittnkitten]

its called Blood Will Tell by Kramer, Kyra Cornelius
he did have ulcerous legs, but it's unsure if they were veinus ulcers, or a chronic infection of the bone that kept erupting thru the skin.
and since he had all the best doctors in the land to take care of him, it was unnecessary for any of his wives to do the nursing.

[absynthe1972]

its called Blood Will Tell by Kramer, Kyra Cornelius
he did have ulcerous legs, but it's unsure if they were veinus ulcers, or a chronic infection of the bone that kept erupting thru the skin.
and since he had all the best doctors in the land to take care of him, it was unnecessary for any of his wives to do the nursing.

*sigh* why am I thinking the ulcers were from a jousting injury? I have read so much about Henry VIII. Honestly, ma'am, I think I should keep a notebook as my memory seems to be a bit faulty these days.

[Vetinari]

Not entirely sure how I feel about this, on the one selfish hand kind of ooh! Shiny! Happy! And on the other; melancholy and sad.

My Gran's house has sold, so the v.last of her stuff is being sorted/moved around.

I'll never see the place again, and it looks nothing like it did even a month ago. But in the last clear-out more stuff was found in the attic. 4 top hats were discovered - all dating back to my great grandad, and from their dusty state probably forgotten - and (due to my obsession with the Victorian era) they've come to me. 3 of them are in a hell of a state, but will be useful as street-urchin wear. They've got a weird pop-up mechanism so that they're portable! The 4th is a lovely shiny combed felt masterpiece, and it seems my family has an inherited head size, since it fits both myself and my father!

I feel at once sad, melancholy, happy and quite a bit of guilt from being happy that I've inherited something that's so awesome...

[coloredimage]

It's sad, Vetinari, but it's nice to pass things along! We sold my grandmother's house a few years ago whilst I was in undergrad. But now, in my own place, I have the bedroom set from her house, that my mum grew up using and was my great-aunt's. It's such a nice memento.

And jealous of the top hat. My great-grandparents immigrated here during the Finnish Revolution so all I have is my Nana's Bible (which is still pretty awesome)

[knittnkitten]

don't feel bad, there's alot of different stories going around about him and his wives. my mom is still adamant that anne bolyn had 6 fingers tho more likely then not its just what the spanish ambassador spread around because he hated her.

[absynthe1972]

don't feel bad, there's alot of different stories going around about him and his wives. my mom is still adamant that anne bolyn had 6 fingers tho more likely then not its just what the spanish ambassador spread around because he hated her.

The book I am reading about his daughter, Mary, mentions the 6th finger of Anne's. the author states it was probably something like a largish skin tag, if that. Anne and Chapuys hated each other.

[knittnkitten]

yeah, he was Kathrine's biggest supporter.
I've seen A man for all seasons and the movie version of the six wives of Henry the VIII .
oh yeah, and i'm absolutely in love with hans holbein's portrait of anne of cleves. so in love with her.

[DollyKim]

Then I realized while I was typing my old diary pages in to the computer why not add pictures of the stuff I'm talking about? Like that personal secrets filled blog you only expect yourself and nosey descendants to read. I blog a lot of ideas but I keep the details in an art journal so I have to combine them in the personal journal, don't want the good ideas going out for free but I don't need to keep track of the minute woes of doll making either.

[absynthe1972]

yeah, he was Kathrine's biggest supporter.
I've seen A man for all seasons and the movie version of the six wives of Henry the VIII .
oh yeah, and i'm absolutely in love with hans holbein's portrait of anne of cleves. so in love with her.

No one gives Anne of Cleves as much credit as she deserves. Henry could very well have killed her off, and quite easily. I've seen The Tudors (thanks to Netflix, more than once, all seasons), The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Other Boleyn Girl, Anne of a Thousand Days, and if I can find copies, the silent films from 1911 and 1920 about Henry VIII will be watched also. lol!

Chapuys had good reason to support Katherine, although I'm not sure why Henry couldn't get the divorce, other than the political background of Katherine and her connection to Rome. She was very stubborn and towards the end of her life, wondered if she had entered a nunnery, if the emotional torture of her daughter Mary wouldn't have occurred. Anne Boleyn might have treated Mary slightly better if she, Katherine, had done as Henry wanted. Then if she had, the religious turmoil would probably not have been the powder keg that it was at the time. (I'm still reading the book Bloody Mary.)