Category: Favourites
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The Sound of Summer! The Poll!
It’s Time! To Start! The Music! It’s Time! To Light! The Lights! For the past six weeks or so, each Saturday I have been posting songs which I feel could and should be the Beyond the Sphere Sound of Summer! The music has been played. The Poll is about to begin. So, for a quick…
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Car then canapés
The weather had been amazing. Glorious blue skies, bright sunshine, and the gentlest of breezes. Afternoon tea and scones had, as usual, gone down remarkably well, with everyone commenting on how fresh the strawberries had been. Lady Salinger-Wallis, the Ladies Katherine and Alexandria Thrift and Lady Flora Shaughnessy-Vawes had retired to the East Lawn for…
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Splashdown
“Don’t worry, ma’am… everything’s under control!” Lady Salinger-Wallis screamed ~ in between fits of uproarious laughter ~ as Edward, her chauffer, tried his very best to bring the hot air balloon back under his control. Somehow they’d managed to avoid the overhead electricity cables and the pylons they were attached to, and they were now…
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Phoebe’s Tower
Hurtling around Mount Olympus, as we have been over the past few weeks (we’re hurtling at a slower than normal pace, but that’s fine!) we now find ourselves toward the top of the great mount again. And here, we find the mystical tower that is frequented by the one and only Phoebe. Well, I say…
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The Sound of Summer! Both Sides Now!
After a week off, we now resume our search for the Sound of Summer here at Beyond the Sphere. It’s the late 1960s. My memories of that time are all through photographs (which is really one reason we need to take more photographs now – things change awfully quickly nowadays!) and a lot of the…
The Mansionic Perspective 