Elysian Dreamer

A haphazard collection of things relating to... Downton Abbey, Dr Who, British in general, the Beatles (mostly Paul. Yes, I am a Paul devotee. The others are wonderful but noone compares to Paul), the 1960s, period dramas, classic movies and stars, LYMOND, Flight of the Conchords, Merlin.... and anything else that catches my fancy, especially some random nostalgic Australian stuff...pretty much everything's reblogged since I have zero graphics abilities myself, so if anything isn't credited properly please let me know!
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Simon & Garfunkel

—Mrs. Robinson

ratbrat:

Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson 

(Source: mademoisellecuriosite, via all-i-need-is-johnlennon)


What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”
- George Mallory on their fateful attempt to the make the first ascent of Mt. Everest. 1924

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”

- George Mallory on their fateful attempt to the make the first ascent of Mt. Everest. 1924

(Source: schumannistic)

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, c. 1920. An elite mountaineer while still an undergrad at Oxford, Irvine agreed to join George Mallory in his Everest expedition in 1924.
The two were last seen several hundred yards from the summit and it’s not known if they reached it. Irvine died on Everest at the age of twenty-two, and his body was never recovered. 
Submitted by Rachel Carter

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, c. 1920. An elite mountaineer while still an undergrad at Oxford, Irvine agreed to join George Mallory in his Everest expedition in 1924.

The two were last seen several hundred yards from the summit and it’s not known if they reached it. Irvine died on Everest at the age of twenty-two, and his body was never recovered. 

Submitted by Rachel Carter

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

George Mallory (right)— talented and moody mountaineer who died on Everest in 1924. Most of the people he knew (especially men) thought he was just the sexiest thing… so do I!


This. I have no idea why but Mallory and Irvine both are unbelievably sexy. Definitely in part because of the myth and legend surrounding them. I still want Irvine to be found though. Preferably wih camera, proving that they made it.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

George Mallory (right)— talented and moody mountaineer who died on Everest in 1924. Most of the people he knew (especially men) thought he was just the sexiest thing… so do I!

This. I have no idea why but Mallory and Irvine both are unbelievably sexy. Definitely in part because of the myth and legend surrounding them. I still want Irvine to be found though. Preferably wih camera, proving that they made it.

voldy92:

my concept of the progression of time stopped in like 2000

like when I see a movie that was filmed in 1995 I’m like oh that was only like 5 years ago

then I realize it was actually 17

Me too! So weird!!! 

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“You have an unsaved post”

stop reminding me of my failed attempt to be funny

(Source: ud0ngein, via themockingbread)

“The coast’s a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn’t allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation.”

“I had weasels instead,” said Philippa shortly.

“Good God,” said Lymond, looking at her. “That explains a lot.”

-Pawn in Frankincense

thegilly:

SCAN - Quarryman Rod Davis, aged 18, about to go to Cambridge

thegilly:

SCAN - Quarryman Rod Davis, aged 18, about to go to Cambridge