I found this blog from last year's celebration, about a Mysterious Birthday Tea.
An Invitation to a Mysterious Tea at Browns – Celebrate Agatha’s 120th Birthday with a Christie Inspired Afternoon Tea
More Christie Quotes:
*I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
*Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
*Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
*I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
*I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
*It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
*It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
*Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
*One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
*Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
*The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
*The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
http://www.all-about-agatha-christie.com/agatha-ch
Interesting:
Well I Never!
Regrettably, Agatha Christie never did actually say ‘The very best husband a woman can have is an archaeologist because the older she becomes the more interested he is in her.’
Agatha Christie's second marriage, to archaeologist Max Mallowan, took place in St Columba’s Church, Edinburgh.
Husband and wife team of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim played the two leads in the original production of ‘The Mousetrap.’
Agatha Christie based Miss Marple upon the character of Caroline Sheppard in ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.’
Agatha Christie's uncle Edward trained as a medical student, but had to give it up as he couldn’t stand the sight of blood.
Agatha Christie broke her engagement to a young man called Reggie Lucy in order to marry Archie Christie.
Agatha Christie once chloroformed a hedgehog that had got entangled in a tennis net in order to set it free.
Agatha Christie considered ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ ‘commonplace, full of clichés, with an uninteresting plot’.
On her first journey on the Orient Express, Agatha got badly bitten by bedbugs.
Charles Laughton was the first person to play Hercule Poirot in the stage play ‘Alibi.’
Well, you have got us off to a rousing start for Agatha's birthday, becke. I especially like the look of the mysterious tea! Here's some info I found on Mystery.net: Agatha Christie All about Agatha Christie, bio, pictures, links to books and movies
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family.
Agatha Christie Books, Audio, Videos
A Cup of Coffee with Agatha by Charles Osborne, about Agatha Christie's stage play Black Coffee
Read At the Detection Club with Agatha Christie Testimony at MysteryNet
Read Agatha Christie's Short Mysteries Profile by Ed Hoch at MysteryNet
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Agatha Christie
Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha Christie never attended school. She became adept at creating games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and, later in life, to writing.
In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920, five years later.
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" gave the world the inimitable Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer who was to become one of the most enduring characters in all of fiction. With his waxed moustache and his "little grey cells," he was "meticulous, a tidy little man, always neat and orderly, with a slight flavour of absurdity about him." (The New Bedside Christie Companion...)
Christie wrote more than 30 novels featuring Poirot. Among the most popular were "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), and "Death on the Nile" (1937).
In 1926, Archie asked for a divorce, having fallen in love with another woman. Agatha, already upset by the recent death of her mother, disappeared. All of England became wrapped up in the case of the now famous missing writer. She was found three weeks later in a small hotel, explaining to police that she had lost her memory. Thereafter, it was never again mentioned or elaborated upon by Christie.
She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia.
Another of Christie's most well-known and beloved characters was introduced in "Murder at the Vicarage" in 1930. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster in the quaint English village of St. Mary Mead, solved all manner of mysteries with intense concentration and intuition. Featured in 12 novels, Miss Marple exemplified the cozy style, a form of mystery fiction that became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England during the 1920s and '30s.
Christie ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Several of her works were made into successful feature films, the most notable being Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. In short, she is the single most popular mystery writer of all time.
In 1971 she was awarded the high honor of becoming a Dame of the British Empire.
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Fricka wrote:
These are some Norwich Orange Roses for you, becke!
(Thanks for the butterfly!)
And eadie--thanks for the compliment, but I'm not anywhere near becke's league. Glad you and Jeanne enjoyed the cakes!
Speaking of roses, I've had a Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose growing next to my house for about 15 years now. I planted in honor of Agatha Christie, since this rose played an important part in her book SAD CYPRESS. The white flower is a Henryi clematis, which is entwined with it.
