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Amber: Hello, I’m Amber and you’re listening to bbclearningenglish.com
In People and Places today, we meet MaryMoore, daughter of the renowned
British artist and sculptor, HenryMoore (who died in 1986). We meet her in a
place called Hoglands – the house where Henry Moore and his wife, Irina,
lived for over 40 years. Hoglands has recently been opened to the public for the
first time.
Mary shares her memories of her father and mother with us, and we highlight
lots of language that you can use to describe people.
As you listen, notice first how Mary uses the words ‘moody’ and ‘moodiness’
to describe some of the colours in Hoglands. We usually use these words to
describe people when they’re cross and grumpy – when people are ‘in a bad
mood’, you can say they’re ‘moody’ or there’s‘moodiness’ about them. And
you’ll hear two nice ways of describing colours that don’t look right together,
that contrast with each other – colours that ‘don’t go together’, that ‘clash’.
And try to catch any of the descriptions Mary gives of her father and mother.
Now let’s begin out tour of the house. The first impression you get of Hoglands
is how colourful the rooms are. There’s a bright yellow carpet in the living
room, an orange carpet in the study and a pink floor in the dining room…
Mary Moore
And there’s a bright purple carpet in the sunroom, which is kind of remarkable. He had the
most fabulous colour sense and you don’t think of sculptors as colourists, but if you look at
his textile designs, or even his coloured drawings from that period, get extraordinary dark, moody greys, with very bright pinks and yellows and browns and colours that you would
think clash, or don’t go together, but are extraordinarily successful and have a kind of
moodiness about them. And, it can be very muddy outside, so usually my mother would make
people take their shoes off at the front door, but sometimes my father sort of felt that he
couldn’t possibly ask them to take their shoes off, or he had forgotten, and she would see this
trail of mud across the yellow carpet and you would hear her sort of shout, ‘Henry!’! You
know, so, my mother was very practical. I wouldn’t say that she was house-proud, but she
was a very careful… because she was the one who had to get down on her hands and knees
and scrub the yellow carpet!
Amber: So Mary says her father ‘had the most fabulous colour sense’ – he understood
how colours work; her mother was a ‘very practical’ person – she was sensible
and focused on solving problems; her mother was also not ‘house-proud’ –
which is a lovely way to describe someone who is literally proud of their house
and keeps it very clean and tidy.
Listen again.
Mary Moore
And there’s a bright purple carpet in the sunroom, which is kind of remarkable. He had the
most fabulous colour sense and you don’t think of sculptors as colourists, but if you look at
his textile designs, or even his coloured drawings from that period, get extraordinary dark,
moody greys, with very bright pinks and yellows and browns and colours that you would
think clash, or don’t go together, but are extraordinarily successful and have a kind of
moodiness about them. And, it can be very muddy outside, so usually my mother would make
people take their shoes off at the front door, but sometimes my father sort of felt that he
couldn’t possibly ask them to take their shoes off, or he had forgotten, and she would see this
trail of mud across the yellow carpet and you would hear her sort of shout, ‘Henry!’! You
know, so, my mother was very practical. I wouldn’t say that she was house-proud, but she
was a very careful… because she was the one who had to get down on her hands and knees
and scrub the yellow carpet!
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