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Post by margarita on May 24, 2011 7:57:52 GMT -5
Is it me or does anyone else see the body language of Albert's hands? He looks like a person who "plays" with a ring to take it off. Usually a gesture of someone who feels uncomfortable in a situation and want's to get out of it = take the ring off that bounds him. It is on severyl pics, not only in one situation. Strange...
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Post by paca on May 24, 2011 8:05:29 GMT -5
this is the poem the author remember when looking at the Monaco garden: Quarterly, as it is, money reproaches me:
'Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had of goods and sex. You could get them still by writing a few cheques.'
So I look at others, what they do with theirs: They certainly don't keep it upstairs. By now they've a second house and car and wife: Clearly money has something to do with life
-In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire: You can't put off being young until you retire, And however you bank your screw, the money you save Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.
I listen to money singing. It's like looking down From long french windows at a provincial town, The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.
Philip Larkin,"Money"
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Post by hibou on May 24, 2011 10:42:44 GMT -5
Albert has apparently bought himself a gold medal at the Chelsea flower show. One of 7 given out. Sad when you think about it - all that money could have gone to charity. JMO
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Post by cm7007 on May 24, 2011 11:58:32 GMT -5
Albert has apparently bought himself a gold medal at the Chelsea flower show. One of 7 given out. Sad when you think about it - all that money could have gone to charity. JMO Remember he said something about wanting to "give away" all his money before he dies - Something to that effect. Well, by the way he's spending it - he'll get his wish. And you're right - too bad he's not giving it to some good charities - or just to people and places that are in need.
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Post by Elektra on May 24, 2011 12:53:16 GMT -5
CM7007 wrote: "Remember he said something about wanting to "give away" all his money before he dies - Something to that effect. ..."
Oh well, he sure is doing it right now. A couple of poor and hungry, in need of champagne, from South Africa, are already on their way with open aprons to collect what he is dishing out.
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Post by paca on May 24, 2011 13:01:01 GMT -5
Well, he must think that he will die soon, the way he is spending....btw got back home with heaps of talk from the rock. Not good at all and sounds like the best thing to happen is to turn Monaco into a democracy...
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Post by suite583 on May 24, 2011 13:01:39 GMT -5
Albert is at the very very very expensive Monaco Exhibit that he commissioned after receiving a sales pitch from friends to enter Monaco. Sarah Eberle is the designer of Monaco's entry. Chelsea Flower Show - Press & VIP Day LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 23: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Albert II of Monaco visit the Monaco Garden at Chelsea Flower Show Press and VIP Day on May 23, 2011 in London, England.[/i] Monaco's Prince Albert II, accompanied by the garden designer Sarah Eberle, left, visits the show garden Principality of Monaco - A Monaco Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 23, 2011. The show garden illustrates the interaction between architecture and landscape that characterises Monaco's spectacular scenery.[/quote] Where is your source?
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Post by suite583 on May 24, 2011 13:08:36 GMT -5
Charlene would have been a good constantly swimming role model in the Monaco exhibition.
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Post by donna on May 25, 2011 5:21:35 GMT -5
Charlene would have been a good constantly swimming role model in the Monaco exhibition. ;D ;D I love the queen's hat.
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Post by scout on May 25, 2011 9:50:27 GMT -5
I thought that this garden was supposed to be a tribute for Charlene before the wedding. Where is Charlene? Was she too worn out to make another trip to England? (Albert does seem happier than when she is with him.)
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Post by Elektra on May 25, 2011 10:11:19 GMT -5
CW is probably kept back by the Oceanomania exhibit in MC.
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Post by MyAdia on May 25, 2011 11:27:21 GMT -5
I saw some pics of another garden, which was done by I think the Malaysian tourist board. I haveto say it was much more inviting for a holiday then ALberts. Btw it seems that Camilla, Andrew and Beatice were there too, plus heaps of other celebs...Albert was only mentioned as being there too...guess another PR fail for Monaco as well as Albert as well as there tasteless wedding spectacle... Paca, I believe the first photo below is the one that you are speaking of. Many of the other gardens look better that Monaco's one. But, Albert believes that he will win since he spent a lot of MONEY on it. You know like the world will fall in love with his "New Grace" and flock to Monaco because he spent a lot of MONEY on her. In Albert's world, MONEY buys everything. The Tourism Malaysia Garden The Time's Eureka Garden The Laurent PerrierGarden The Daily Telegraph's Classic Chelsea Garden Model Adeele Rassell poses in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne 'The Australian' Garden The British Heart Foundation Garden
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Post by MyAdia on May 25, 2011 11:45:13 GMT -5
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23953041-these-chelsea-gardens-are-defying-natures-way.doAbout the Monaco garden: "A Monaco Garden" proves to be a luxuriously appointed swimming pool with sun-loungers. ("I listen to money singing," Philip Larkin wrote: "It is intensely sad.") Even those gardens with appealingly practical planting (increasingly adapted to dry conditions this year, with lots of valerian, alliums, verbascums, acanthus and tulbaghias) must boast whopping great columns too, or a shed lavishly adapted from a shipping container. Rills of water bubble up everywhere, inexplicably. It doesn't take much to sucker Albert to shell out money,especially since he didn't sweat and toil for it. Here's an article from the Monaco Matin explaining how it started to get Sucker Albert to commission the show. Actually, it wasn't just Albert and Albert didn't pay for it - irt seems Albert got the government to pay for it. I guess he told them the same thing he told them about the wedding - it's an investment for tourism.
The Principality will bloom at the Chelsea Flower Show Monday, May 16, 2011
A first. Monaco is participating in the internationally renowned flower show, from May 23 to 28, with a composition in his image "People do not know very often that Monaco is a very green country. Admittedly, this is a small country of 2 square km, but the gardens represent 20% of its area. It is a very high ratio! Why keep it a secret? "
Roger Shine, British installed in the Principality for twenty-three years, is unstoppable when he evokes the lush landscapes of Monaco. Gardens in the heart of Saint-Martin, it feels like a fish in water. Like many of his compatriots, he loves nature and loves the parks.
Three years ago, here's an idea that comes to him. Each year for nearly a century, the English moving en masse to Chelsea. London's blooms in late May A plant explosion which is called the instigator RHS - Royal Horticultural Society. "The Chelsea Flower Show is the most famous flower show. It brings together gardeners from around the world in 45,000 sqm. More than 160,000 visitors come each year and the BBC devotes half past one program daily. "
At the crossroads of sea and mountain With this in mind, Shine Roger decides to submit a draft to the Prince: Monaco's participation in the event. "It seemed obvious, because Albert has a passion for ecology, He is a real" green man ". His mother, Princess Grace, loved gardening, growing up among the flowers and plants. "
The government sowed the first seeds and then working with a steering committee, which belong Roger and Irene Easun Shine. Featured of London, sketches, sketches. Three years of work to arrive at the "Monaco Garden. It was hatched under the pen of Sarah Eberle. The English landscape garden designs for twenty-eight years. His talent is well documented. Hailed by his peers, his gift made unanimously at the Chelsea Flower show. She received no less than eight gold medals and two prizes Georges-Cook (assigned to the most innovative garden). In 2007, she was rewarded the Best in Show, the award for best garden.
Sarah Eberle has designed a custom setting. It was inspired by the geography Monaco combining sea and mountain. Interaction between architecture and landscape.Mediterranean vegetation is surrounded by rocks and water. Peter Dowle will be the manufacturer.
Flowering is scheduled May 23 to 28, in the heart of Chelsea. A nice walk in the bucolic English fashion perspective.
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Post by hibou on May 25, 2011 12:31:22 GMT -5
If this landscape architect is so good, what happened for this design to look so mediocre? I really thought the whole thing boring compared to the creativity of the others. With so many wonderful gardens near where I live (Internationally renowned Longwood Gardens, Winterthur Museum and Gardens just to name a couple of the large ones), this just left me unenthusiastic. She must have won on her name recognition or that pool tile must be real turquoise. I'm baffled. JMO
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Post by donna on May 26, 2011 5:10:55 GMT -5
The Monaco garden is a perfect proof of Fatal's idea of greenery. A blue swimming pool with chlorine water in it. And let's not forget the wooden board to jump off. we all remember Fatal's favorite past time - throw a ball off a boat, jump off and catch the ball before it lands. This he does again and again and again and again ... so intellectual.
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Post by paca on May 26, 2011 5:19:53 GMT -5
did it say what wood they used for the board? bet it is rare wood, because Albert likes to protect environment
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Post by hibou on May 26, 2011 8:33:19 GMT -5
Thanks for the additional photos. These gardens are just beautiful, tranquil environments. Monaco's just looks sad compared to these. JMO
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Post by donna on May 26, 2011 9:32:30 GMT -5
This is just funny. But I bet they figured that cactuses weren't all that appealing, which is the only thing that grows in the desert called Monaco.
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Post by Elektra on May 26, 2011 9:55:36 GMT -5
did it say what wood they used for the board? bet it is rare wood, because Albert likes to protect environment If it is rare wood it would make sense. PA is somehow connected to the Taib family known for timber corruption in Malaysia. At least he performed a dance with one of them at the Mulu Resort last year. hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/18056/
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Post by hibou on May 26, 2011 10:52:53 GMT -5
did it say what wood they used for the board? bet it is rare wood, because Albert likes to protect environment It looked like teak to me.
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