#231
9th Apr 2024 at 1:52 PM
Last edited by Elynda : 18th Apr 2024 at
9:20 PM.
Reason: correcting spelling
It occurred to me that so far, apart from Lucy and her personal page Harry Tremaine, there was only one other child aged sim in Nantrelor. So I set about making some Victorian children, and here they are.
Before being raised to her present exalted position Lucy attended the village school with all the other kids. These are some of her former classmates. I haven't thought up full names for everybody yet, but the two on the left are a brother and sister: Morwena and Tommy Pencarne. The other two are called Jo-Jo and Margot. And, since I had to have a grown up to move them in with, Miss Abigail Southern seemed to fit the bill. So she'd better be their teacher.
They are all posing on the back lawn of the Old Priory - now doing service as a village school, all of them scrubbed and brushed up, ready for the photographer's visit (Morwena insisted on wearing her new hat). Nobody looks very cheerful, but people seldom did in Victorian photographs: you had to stand stock still while the photographer timed the exposure. And, as was usual, the final print was in sepia, which is of course cuttlefish ink. Fortunately I had Photoshop.
Legend is history as we would like it to be. We pick through the dusts of time for what is worth keeping and, here and there, we occasionally find treasure.