#Poperinge

[kristo-flowers]

Sunset over a hop field. Poperinge, Belgium

[the-young-metal-attack]

February 1984, Poperinge, Belgium

[the-greatwar]

Talbot House 

[haverwood]

Slayer: Live at Heavy Sound Festival - Poperinge, Belgium 1985/05/26 1985

[ernestinee]

La petite journée en amoureux à Ostende

Le petit dej dans les locaux de l'ancienne grote post, la vieille imprimerie, la balade sur la digue et la jetée, le luna park 🤍

Dans l'ancienne poste, il y a des personnages particuliers, on s'est demandé si ce n'était pas des figurants, volontairement vintage pour coller à l'époque du bâtiment des années 50. La vieille dame qui lit son journal en attendant au guichet d'informations est clairement là en train de faire son job (mais wtf la chaussette ?) mais pendant qu'on mangeait, plusieurs personnes avaient un style vestimentaire totalement vintage et étaient assises ça et là, aussi occupés à lire des journaux froissés. Il y avait aussi peut-être, parmi les personnes âgées, des gens qui avaient travaillé là lorsque la poste était encore d'activité. J'ai eu l'impression d'être dans deux époques en même temps.

Même sensation bizarre sur la route du retour en passant par Poperinge, qui est une ville traversée par la frontière française. Le flamand/français est partout, dans les noms de rues à moitié l'un à moitié l'autre, dans les devantures des maisons, dans les pierres utilisées, dans les panneaux... Je suis frontalière, je suis habituée aux passages de frontière, à l'esthétique et aux panneaux qui changent en quelques mètres mais là l'endroit est rempli d'un mélange, c'était étrange.

Petit bond particulier dans l'espace et dans le temps aujourd'hui.

[davemustaine]

metallica live at the heavy sound festival | poperinge, belgium 6/10/1984

photo by brian lew

[legaltrashgoblin]

Everyone who is like me needs to read The Warm Hands Of Ghosts by Katherine Arden right now. It feels like reading a statement from The Magnus Archives, it's queer, it's really upsetting, it's based in World War I, it destroyed me so much, it's beautiful, it's gutwrenching, it's one of the best books I've ever read.

Wilfred Iven is stuck in a pillbox with a German soldier after an attack on Passchendaele. Despite their odds, they escape, and are met with an elusive battlefield legend known as The Fiddler.

Laura Iven is told by three crazy mediums that her brother isn't dead. So she makes her way to Poperinge, Belgium with her friend Penelope Shaw and boss Mary Borden, reinstated as a nurse in the war hospital under the eye of Stephen Jones, an American doctor.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[garyholt]

James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich at Heavy Sound Festival in Poperinge, Belgium on June 10th, 1984 save me

[justplainsalty]

Made up fic title - “where your misery finds its company”

I desperately want to use this for my [redacted] AU for miss fisher, but can I be honest? I might actually steal this for another MFMM fic I've got partially written 🫣.

Jack, fresh off a march from the Somme to Belgium, and hurting from the violence and horror of it all, finds himself turned loose in Poperinge for a night. His platoon is not required to report for duty until the following afternoon. Most of his section has gone off to find food and drink, or prayer, or other soft and feminine comforts, but each option leaves an ashy taste in his mouth. He strikes off at random, haunted by thoughts of Rosie and of how adrift he feels in his own body.

Inside a cafe, fronted with broken windows and with the staff all evacuated, there are four nurses drinking, and something about their laughter and cheerful swearing at each other draws him in. There are two Frenchwomen, an irascible American, and to his surprise, an Australian, although she's got a cut-glass British accent. Phryne. The American deals him in to their card game and their drinking. It's not so bad, if he's surrounded by good people.

As the night wears on, and the group drifts apart, Phryne takes him to her lodging. She has a bath there (a real hot bath!), and she coaxes him into it with her and a bottle of painfully dry red wine. His hair is, after all, disturbingly filthy. She washes it with the kind of care he knows he won't see again until the godforsaken war is over.

After their bath, she trips (literally) over the pocket volume of Shakespeare he had stowed in his pocket. They huddle together under the thin woolen blankets, and he reads to her, Phryne interjecting commentary ad lib, until his mouth is dry and he is nodding off.

In the morning, she leaves him with a kiss to his forehead, and her embroidered scarf wrapped around his neck. But he loses the scarf sometime in the trenches in 1917, and with time, his recollection of the dark-haired woman's face fades. Eventually, it is replaced with Rosie's face. Eventually, he is convinced he dreamt the entire thing.

(I wrote this not knowing the rest of the lyrics to the song. Having now looked them up, I might actually steal this song for my TLOU playlist as well.)

Send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it!

[kristo-flowers]

Hop fields in Poperinge, Belgium

[brookston]

Holidays 10.29

Holidays

Black Salsify Day (French Republic)

Bob Ross Day (Abeldane Empire)

Candies Day

Coronation Day (Cambodia)

C6HO Day (Kentucky)

Cumhuriyet Bayrami (North Cyprus, Turkey)

Cyrus the Great Day (Iran)

Feed the Birds Day (UK)

Festival of Global Climate Change

Fiestas Patrias begins (Honduras)

Halloween Eve Eve

Hermit Day

Hide From Everyone Day (a.k.a. Hermit Day)

International Internet Day

Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day

Naming Day (Tanzania)

National Boner Day

National Book Day (Brazil)

National Cat Daddy Day

National Cat Day

National Hermit Day

National Martina Day

Oatmeal Day

PSC Awareness Day

Sea Slug Day

Separation of Church and State Day

Turkish Republic Day (Turkey)

World Online Networking Day

World Psoriasis Day

World Stroke Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day

National Oatmeal Day

Poperinge Beer & Hop Festival begins (Belgium) [Every 3 years, 3rd Friday, but postponed from 2021]

5th & Last Sunday in October

European Summer Times Ends (EU) [Last Sunday]

International Creole Day (Dominica, Saint Lucia) [Last Sunday]

Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day; Dominica, Saint Lucia) [Last Sunday]

National Grandparents Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

National Student Baptism Day [Last Sunday]

Reformation Sunday [Last Sunday]

Visit a Cemetery Day [Last Sunday]

World Swim Hat Day [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Turkey (from Ottoman Empire, 1923)

Westarctica (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abraham of Rostov (Christian; Saint)

Andrei Ryabushkin (Artology)

Chef (a.k.a. Theuderius; Christian; Saint)

Chiara Badano (Christian; Blessed)

Colman mac Duagh (Christian; Saint)

Douai Martyrs (Christian; Saint)

Gaetano Errico (Christian; Saint)

Ghatasthapana begins (Nepal)

Isis/Osiris Mysteries II (Pagan)

James Hannington (Anglicanism)

Kojagrat Purnima [15th Day of Dashain]

Lazarus Long Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mary of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Maximillian (Christian; Saint)

Narcissus of Jerusalem (Roman Catholic Church)

Nut Day (Pastafarian)

Robertson (Positivist; Saint)

Warren the Warthog (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Unlucky Day [10 of 11]

Historically Bad Day (Stock Market Crash, Hurricane Sandy & 8 other tragedies) [10 of 11]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [58 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

All I Want for Christmas Is You, by Mariah Carey (Song; 1994)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley (Biography; 1965)

Being John Malkovich (Film; 1999)

Blue Moon, 24th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2019)

Bullwinkle Busts a Brush or The Cleft Palette (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 226; 1963)

BUtterfield 8, by John O'Hara (Roman à clef Novel; 1935)

Create Dangerously, by Albert Camus (manifesto; 1957)

Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1787)

The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour (Radio Series; 1929)

Get Nervous, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1982)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Film; 2010)

Hemispheres, by Rush (Album; 1978)

Hulu (Streaming Network; 2007)

The Huntley-Brinkley Report (TV News Show; 1956)

Jingle Bell Rock, recorded by Bobby Helm (Song; 1957)

Keeping Up Appearances (UK TV Series; 1990)

Last Night in Soho (Film; 2021)

Man of the Century (Film; 1999)

Mind Games, by John Lennon (Album; 1973)

My Generation, by The Who (Song; 1965)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animated Film; 1993)

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James (Novel; 1880)

Portrait of a Moose or Bullwinkle Gets the Brush (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 225; 1963)

Princess Mononoke (Anime Film; 1999)

Ray (Film; 2004)

Red Riding Hoodwinked (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (WB Animated Film; 2021)

The Sentinel, 25th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2020)

Trip for Tat (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Album; 1984)

What’ll I Do?, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1947)

Wild Target (Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Ermelina, Hermelindis, Melinda (Austria)

Časlav, Honorat, Ida, Narcis (Croatia)

Silvie (Czech Republic)

Narcissus (Denmark)

Alf, Alfred, Fred, Fredi (Estonia)

Alfred, Urmasimo (Finland)

Narcisse (France)

Ermelinda, Franco, Grete, Melinda (Germany)

Abramios, Melina (Greece)

Nárcisz (Hungary)

Ermelinda, Michela, Massimiliano (Italy)

Elva, Elvijs, Fortuna, Laimonis (Latvia)

Gelgaudas, Narcizas, Tolvydė, Violeta (Lithuania)

Noralf, Norunn (Norway)

Euzebia, Franciszek, Longin, Longina, Lubogost, Narcyz, Teodor, Wioletta (Poland)

Anastasia (Romania)

Zinaida (Russia)

Klára (Slovakia)

Narciso (Spain)

Viola (Sweden)

Garrison, Cyrano, Cyrena, Narcissa, Narcissus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 302 of 2024; 63 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 43 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 15 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 14 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 2 Mir; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 16 October 2023

Moon: 99%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Descartes (11th Month) [Robertson]

Runic Half Month: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 36 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 6 of 29)

[the-greatwar]

Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery

Alfred Cutler

Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Servicenummer: #69159

Rang: Sergeant

Corps: 14th Bn CMGC attached tot he 26th

Geboortedatum: 24 september 1892

 Alfred was de broer van William H. Cutler. Hij werd op 17 mei 1919 uit dienst ontslagen. Hij heeft de oorlog dus overleefd.

William Dunn. Rang: soldaat

Service nummer: 11384 1st Bn. Devonshire Regiment.

Gesneuveld: 22 april 1915. Begraafplaats: Poperinghe old military cemetery

Locatie: II.M.31

William H. Cutler

Service Nummer: S/4286

Rang: Warrant Officer Class1/Sub-Conductor

Corps: Army ordnance Corps

Gesneuveld: 23 april 1915

Leeftijd: 30 jaar

Begraafplaats: Poperinghe old military cemetery

Locatie: II.L.24

[sccchris]

🚴‍♂️🇧🇪🚴 MTB'tje doen .... 🚴🏽‍♀️🇧🇪🚴‍♂️ P O P E R I N G E #passion #mountainbike #belgium #lowhills (bij Poperinge, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVyxmdNH_oZBdEDYnlgqmbtSLbx7_pdHhqnoI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[indegazettevanindegazettepuntbe]

Reuzen en Picon nemen Poperinge over https://www.indegazette.be/reuzen-en-picon-nemen-poperinge-over/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[porciaenjoyer]

i miss talbot house the museum in poperinge not the addiction treatment centre which apparently exists..

[superblysupercolor]

Keuze uit eigen werk 'Talbot House', Poperinge, tuinomgeving met pen en bister op bewerkt papier naar notitie in Tekeningendagboek, maart 2024...

#tekenkunst #drawings #giedevostekeningendagboek#pleinair#dessins #landscapesart #giedevos#worksonpaper #artistoninstagram #pleinairpainting #landscapeart