Great Expectations by happypat

Great Expectations

Miss Havisham & her wedding breakfast.

I was always fascinated by Miss Havisham & her unrequited love story.
How awful to wear your wedding dress everyday & live a life obsessed by requited love!
This is a live Miss Havisham, she walked around with a walking stick...not sure how old she is meant to be in the book!

The Chatsworth House tableau of Great Expectations was just wonderful, that impressive centre piece of the wedding cake but one vital piece missing, there was not one cobweb in sight!

Three good things:
1. The relief when you finally manage to peel off the backing on a Christmas parcel decorative sticky star!
2. I have written all the cards that need words in them!
3. Christmas tree delivered & it looks bushy & straight!
That scene when Pip? finds her in the cobwebby room is something I saw as a child in b/w and I can still see it now - how he rips down the curtains!! Seems strange to see it in colour but a great reconstruction.
December 5th, 2017  
Fabulous tableau. That very good adaptation with Gillian Anderson got a lot of stick because they said she was too young - but I think in the book she's not meant to be that old.
December 5th, 2017  
I’ve never watched a movie, but I’ll never forget reading the novel in high school. So interesting to see this.
December 5th, 2017  
Bep
A wonderful tableau. The wedding cake looks very impressive...
December 5th, 2017  
Looks fantastic..
Look forward to seeing the Chris tree on all it's fineary
December 5th, 2017  
That's amazing! Just like I imagine it should look. Was Miss Faversham a real person?
December 5th, 2017  
A lovely image,
December 5th, 2017  
Very atmospheric shot. Lots of clutter going on there!
December 5th, 2017  
I don't really know the stories of Charles Dickens - or maybe I did at school and didn't listen. This lady does look real with her smile at you taking the picture!
December 5th, 2017  
@susiemc @maggiemae Yes this lady was real. She walked about but I couldn't tell her proper age but quite young I think. There were lots of staff dressed up as characters. I liked Great Expectations the best of Charles Dickens works.
December 5th, 2017  
@Cherrill Yes it was always creepy reading about the cobwebs & I seem to remember mice?
December 5th, 2017  
@boxplayer well I thought she was about sixty when I read the book but thinking about it she must have been at least forty odd perhaps so younger than I thought but that's what you think as a child.
December 5th, 2017  
What a great scene. So elaborate!!
December 5th, 2017  
Oh how amazing is this! What a great tale it was. Fav.
December 5th, 2017  
A beautiful tableau -- and look at that gorgeously set table - so precise and dainty and that tiered cake delicately balanced on the pillars -- simply wonderful . So much precision in comparison with todays Wedding Cakes !
December 5th, 2017  
What an interesting shot. Poor Miss Havisham she was a tormented soul.
December 5th, 2017  
Spooky!
December 5th, 2017  
Fascinating and beautiful.
I like your tree comment....me too😊
December 6th, 2017  
Great photo. I think I saw the b/w version a long long time ago, and would think the the scene shown above should be a little darker, but that is a b/w memory. We all remember b/w TV, don't we???
December 6th, 2017  
Incredible reconstruction!
December 6th, 2017  
What an interesting story and great image. Fav:-)
December 6th, 2017  
I have always loved Charles Dickens novels, they are a view in the past and how people lived back then. Looks like a beautiful hall but a bit scary with the eccentric Miss Havisham looking like a ghost. Great shot.
December 6th, 2017  
@sangwann @byrdlip @stimuloog @loweygrace @sarah19 @lyndamcg @onewing @beryl @louannwarren @kwind

Thank you all, sorry for communal reply but only just saw these comments tonight!
Yes Miss Havisham was always rather spooky to us kids, I think the age we read the book was probably a very impressionable she for us all.
She was indeed tormented @onewing & today's cakes are indeed so different @beryl I feel that the light should be darker here but wanted you to see all the detail even though no cobwebs!
December 6th, 2017  
@happypat Thanks
December 6th, 2017  
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