Icons meme; Archers; A14 quiz

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From oursin:

# Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.

# Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.

# Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

# This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.




Gerard Manley Hopkins. This is virtually the only poem that I can recite in full from memory at the moment.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God
It will flame out like shining from shook foil
It gathers to a greatness like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why then do men now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell. The soil
is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this nature is never spent.
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things
And though the last lights off the black west went
Ah morning, from the brown brink eastward springs
because the Holy Ghost over the bent
world broods with warm breast and with, ah!, bright wings.

I use this icon when something wonderful happens, or the world seems particularly beautiful, and also when I'm talking about God.


These are, of course, the arms of Charlie Weasley, drawn by leelastarsky and made into an icon by me. Muscles, freckled, scarred... what's not to like? Forearms in general seem to me to be exceptionally sexy and especially Charlie's. Canon, because the few brief snippets we get about Charlie in HP canon all testify to his arms. I think JKR probably has a thing for forearms too.


This is from girlyb_icons. I originally got it when I was moving to the Highlands and I did use it for some Scottish posts. I've kept it because I love the expression on the cow's face and it often seems to express my mood perfectly. Also, the cow is very pretty. We only ever had black and white Friesians on the farm but I do quite like all cows except Belgian Blues.


Ha ha! I can't remember where I found the base for this but I added the slogan for, I think, last year's online birthday party. I got to write moonette1 wearing flipflops. It's impossible to be angsty and dramatic in flipflops. They demand fluffiness and happy endings.


This was one I made for stylishly_yours Festival of Britain theme day last year. I kept it and find that I often use it when I am talking about being British (at hp_britglish or brits_americans, for instance). If there was one thing I learned when I lived abroad it is that Britain, and in particular, England is home. It's where I'm comfortable and it's where I belong.

In other news: Grundys at Grange Farm again! I will admit to shedding a tear.

Also, today as I was driving up the A14 I was struck by the number of familiar names on the roadsigns. So, a quiz! Drabbles for anyone who can identify the people (real or imaginary) I associate with these road signs:

1. Hemingford Grey
2. Barham
3. Molesworth
4. Titchmarsh
5. Cranford