tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post1214064741445561037..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: G and the Gallé catLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-11309844807358587082010-08-25T21:09:10.059+02:002010-08-25T21:09:10.059+02:00I enjoyed everything about this reminiscence.
If ...I enjoyed everything about this reminiscence.<br /><br />If only all of one's "treasures" were actually worth re-homing!Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375981493145612394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-80736257560590053532010-08-23T19:06:19.565+02:002010-08-23T19:06:19.565+02:00Hooray hooray hooray!
I'll never forget Bob a...Hooray hooray hooray!<br /><br />I'll never forget Bob and Willa either, indeed I had her expanding no-peg portable clothes line about my person for many years, until I used it in lieu of a bungee on the basket rack of my bike, where it finally rotted away... And how you sang lots of Madonna songs including one about B and W to the tune of 'Papa don't preach...'<br /><br />Oh this is all so Proustian!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48494391741602073272010-08-23T18:30:56.298+02:002010-08-23T18:30:56.298+02:00What a thrilling story, Lucy. You have goaded me i...What a thrilling story, Lucy. You have goaded me into posting for the first time! It got me thinking about that Greek trip again and the memory of Bob & Willa quickly surfaced, the older Aus couple who had already been everywhere that we wished to see. Glenn xglennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654178603024891884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-85352687378676355512010-08-23T01:05:45.295+02:002010-08-23T01:05:45.295+02:00Hello! I'm back from your continent! Thought o...Hello! I'm back from your continent! Thought of you while in the CDG for a couple of hours!<br /><br />I love this story, as I am quite a holder-ont of things, with many ideas of how they may come in handy or give joy to someone at the right time "someday." Of course all the organizing gurus think this is nonsense, but they don't realize there really are people like your friend (and me) who do remember where things are, or at least are willing to hunt for them, and do something with them even years later.<br /><br />So, thanks for sharing this! Looking foward to seeing you here more, now I'm back.Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592157819188364751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-42450770946699209152010-08-22T23:09:53.479+02:002010-08-22T23:09:53.479+02:00Thanks all.
JM - G actually had a moody black cat...Thanks all.<br /><br />JM - G actually had a moody black cat called Eartha! She was, he said, a black queen...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-25916846517992134462010-08-22T21:09:48.256+02:002010-08-22T21:09:48.256+02:00Eartha Kitt and Nat King Cole,
elephant beans and ...Eartha Kitt and Nat King Cole,<br />elephant beans and sardines:<br />smug happiness is an art, <br />even when found in Weems<br /><br />--------<br /><br />Love the envelope paired Galle with Eartha, herself always the most pleased of cats.jmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371849762106509394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-85722822464541439662010-08-22T20:39:52.486+02:002010-08-22T20:39:52.486+02:00what a lovely story and such a cute cat, it looks ...what a lovely story and such a cute cat, it looks lovely in its little blue frameCrafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59484775758278338422010-08-22T18:30:50.257+02:002010-08-22T18:30:50.257+02:00I love the descriptions of your travels in Greece,...I love the descriptions of your travels in Greece, and the portrait you paint of your friend.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69425566250523454502010-08-21T21:09:48.913+02:002010-08-21T21:09:48.913+02:00Ah, decluttering... Not my forte...
Nice cat and ...Ah, decluttering... Not my forte...<br /><br />Nice cat and I applaud your pronunciation of Wemyss!Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-10444221822373020112010-08-20T21:46:56.440+02:002010-08-20T21:46:56.440+02:00what a satisfying post - the letter (hurrah for le...what a satisfying post - the letter (hurrah for letters!!), the cat, the tracking down its provenance, the old friendship... the frame, the final shot of cat in room - lovely!Fire Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518190677399410354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-56320325063300184692010-08-20T18:02:02.853+02:002010-08-20T18:02:02.853+02:00Ooo, love it!Ooo, love it!lesleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09127872882510411387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-40441046542589939262010-08-20T15:12:30.142+02:002010-08-20T15:12:30.142+02:00his post is so funny, and full of coincidences. Yo...his post is so funny, and full of coincidences. You say that G goes to the museum in Newport, and I'm pretty sure therefore that pins down the location to Newport Gwent! I was born in Newport. In fact, my first major public gallery exhibition was there. The museum holds a painting of mine, and also some stage designs from my theatre days. As for the Wemyss ware display in the museum, most of that is in the Iris Fox Collection, and when the collection first arrived in Newport from Edinburgh, I was commissioned to make the drawings of foxes that became the 'logos' for all the Iris Fox Collection information panels. It's a small world!Clive Hicks-Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00573698513351018726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-18738304249918974282010-08-20T09:42:19.480+02:002010-08-20T09:42:19.480+02:00So I find myself wondering whether he's making...So I find myself wondering whether he's making a greater contribution to society changing colostomy bags or repairing burst copper pipes. But since my reflections of your world are controlled entirely by me, I comfort myself by imagining he's doing both.<br /><br />I think this post is valuable (to me at least) in that it tracks the way your mind works. I reckon myself curious about the material world, yet I would never have Googled "yellow pottery cats" and thereby pulled out the skein that is eventually woven into all this and more. Somehow finding its way back into a more direct intersection with my world (the pronunciation of Wemyss - it is Weems isn't it. I must have that right. Oh, I see further down it is. You've got to believe I wrote the above first.) and then lolloping off to Ikea. Some may say it's all nothing, not realising that the ultimate aim is merely to touch a button and eventually come up with something (written) that didn't exist before (Hemingway, receiving his Nobel) and perhaps couldn't have existed before elsewhere since you are it's onlie begetter. This is a shamefully indulgent meandering paragraph, forgivable only by its attempt to match in words the processes you describe in real life.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48021210783776426292010-08-20T03:57:29.688+02:002010-08-20T03:57:29.688+02:00Such a lovely story of a friendship and a very spe...Such a lovely story of a friendship and a very special cat, thank you Lucy!marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-13456628303321432292010-08-20T02:59:51.121+02:002010-08-20T02:59:51.121+02:00Quite an affable, and slightly goofy looking creat...Quite an affable, and slightly goofy looking creature. <br /><br />I've been writing to my friend's little girl, so that she knows the joys of getting a letter now and then.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.com