He managed to look fairly engaged at the perle threads and the sketchbooks. He was actually quite fascinated with the bead sticks. But, when I cane to explain how the Jones Tones glue was particularly recommended by Linda Kemshall for foiling techniques, he got a look. You know - a look.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"You've got a look."
"Well, its glue. I was just wondering how you can get excited about glue."
Then today the postman arrived. He came bounding upstairs all excited with his new book. A heavy tome with no pretty pictures of distressed chiffon at all. I read the cover. The Landmark of Thucydides - A History of the Peloponesian Wars.
"What? " he says.
"Nothing." He diappears and comes back with another hefty volume.
"Look, it's the sequel to The Landmark - Herodotus. The Histories. Igot them from New York. I'm really into the Pelopenesian wars now. What?"
"Glue."
Pause.
"Ok. Fair point."
He really is excited though:
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yup. to each his own....
Oh look at that picture, the look on your husbands face is priceless! His 'allowing' you to post a picture on your blog is also priceless. I have a picture of my DH with a similar expression on his face, building a shovel of technical lego I gave him for his fortieth birthday, but he does not want that on my blog. Period.
Oh how I related to this (given the hundreds of military history books my husband has) I made the mistake of telling him about this post and I've now surrouded by books which he thinks Dennis might like on the same theme including:
'A war Like no Other ' by Victor Davis Hanson,
'The Peloponessian War' - a Military Study by J F Lazenby
'Warfare and Agriculture' in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
Apparently this latter one describes the difficulties in destroying olive groves very well.
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