tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post5727566700216283381..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: What I've been doing:Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-20677902054349321952012-02-07T22:09:17.477+01:002012-02-07T22:09:17.477+01:00Thank you for celebrating Burns' Night. We sor...Thank you for celebrating Burns' Night. We sort of forgot. Shame...Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-24616055326690374762012-02-05T17:15:31.018+01:002012-02-05T17:15:31.018+01:00I love your world. From this place on the left co...I love your world. From this place on the left coast of North America it always feels so...French. I love knowing someone who lives in France and sometimes uses translations to get along as I would have to all the time.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-80193874629251405512012-02-04T17:24:50.011+01:002012-02-04T17:24:50.011+01:00A very interesting and varied post, Lucy.
I "...A very interesting and varied post, Lucy.<br />I "borrow" the Kindle I bought for Mrs Avus, from time to time and can see exactly where you are coming from.<br />As a fellow dog lover I felt your concern for the collieAvushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-158063604908431622012-02-03T11:02:00.342+01:002012-02-03T11:02:00.342+01:00At a local Burns party, our haggis came from . . ....At a local Burns party, our haggis came from . . . Texas! Is that an abomination? You'd think it would have at least come from the Carolina backcountry!<br /><br />Your snow reminds me of Frost's "Dust of Snow": The way a crow / Shook down on me / The dust of snow /From a hemlock tree etc.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-30321043461764283972012-02-03T06:18:41.121+01:002012-02-03T06:18:41.121+01:00hmmph, how come you got snow and we didnt! Nice to...hmmph, how come you got snow and we didnt! Nice to know that some of your neighbours actually care about their dogs. We have been having Billy Boxer trouble...big scratches on glass doors...Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12211663940952195703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45516593977495233332012-02-02T18:19:14.269+01:002012-02-02T18:19:14.269+01:00Cock-a-leekie and whisky macs and then holding war...Cock-a-leekie and whisky macs and then holding warrior poses. Presumably with imaginary claymores, keeping Brits at bay.<br /><br />And baking potatoes on the fire. I don't know when we last indulged that slow food luxury. We might just squeeze two into the woodburner.<br /><br />I like the look of those fast pillows. Thanks for the lead.<br /><br />And thanks for the Tranströmer. I love 'filled with the same strength as Yes and No'.<br /><br />'Dixie' is a very persistent ear-worm. I hope you've graduated to something a little more tranquil. <br /><br />Our sparrowhawks appear to have moved on since the red kites started to breed. Now the sky clears as soon as they come sliding by.Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45616499732464093732012-02-02T14:26:54.626+01:002012-02-02T14:26:54.626+01:00Thanks again.
The collie's folks are kind, th...Thanks again.<br /><br />The collie's folks are kind, though they don't really do as much to address his needs as they might: a bit of training, regular walks or games with a frisbee would go some way to allay his boredom and restlessness. But they are busy, and, dare I say it, rural French, for whom indulging your dog a by spending quality time with it isn't very high priority. I hope he'll be OK, he is such a beauty, in looks and character.<br /><br />The French-to-French dictionary is in some way integral to French texts in the same way as the English one is to English ones, I don't fully understand how these things work, I just zip the cursor down to the left of the word in question (apostrophised articles are no problem) and the definition, in French, pops up. Occasionally of course the definition includes a word I don't know either, but I can usually deduce the sense, and, as I say, I keep the translation open in parallel too. It works well, though the 'Life of St Julian the Hospitaller' was so weird and horrid I've rather had it with Flaubert for now! Enjoying Thackery's Paris Sketches though, Joe...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-77958916343596788792012-02-02T12:55:30.433+01:002012-02-02T12:55:30.433+01:00Kindle is weak on poetry. Line lengths are a probl...Kindle is weak on poetry. Line lengths are a problem. The Merriam Webster French English dictionary has weaknesses including the inability to identify words which have articles plus apostrophies in front of them (ie l'absence).It has many omissions but defintions are good. Avoid at all costs An Electronic French Dictionary by Lucas Nicolata. Have you tried underlining and making notes? K is very good for that!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-46345963290753111342012-02-01T15:19:43.042+01:002012-02-01T15:19:43.042+01:00What a post...i hardly know how to comment, there ...What a post...i hardly know how to comment, there is so much to think about and respond to...so...i will take the lazy way and just say this: i'm so glad the collie is in such caring and sweet hands.<br />oh...and:<br /><br />that collage of yours is my favorite of them all. so far.zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59700428207571711842012-02-01T12:15:49.093+01:002012-02-01T12:15:49.093+01:00Thanks people. Dixie was the fault of watching &#...Thanks people. Dixie was the fault of watching 'Outlaw Josie Wales' over a week ago, where someone sings a snatch of it. I was irritated by not knowing how the two parts of it went together so made the mistake of looking it up, which implanted it virulently in my brain thereafter. It's fading now but only just.<br /><br />RR - How embarrassing! I looked over my shoulder and wondered who the other one might be but had never seen another around, I thought it was odd... Anyway, I've taken out the reference and haven't made a prat of myself anywhere else! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll bear it in mind.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-4032605398696582242012-02-01T11:35:43.369+01:002012-02-01T11:35:43.369+01:00Thank you for the book mention. Apparently it was ...Thank you for the book mention. Apparently it was the other Lucy whose genius suggestion it was to do the one-liners as a cartoon in the first place, all the way back in 2004 or so. I like it on my kindle too, particularly given the annoyance of the paper-thin problems. <br /><br />Now that the "press" exists, it requires feeding.... given its tree theme, it would very much love, to take an entirely random example, to explore the possibilities of the box elder..........<br /><br />:-D<br /><br />(I'm very serious)rrhttp://twistedrib.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-16696091584374266112012-02-01T08:24:50.425+01:002012-02-01T08:24:50.425+01:00Kindle. Plutarch has had problems loading a decent...Kindle. Plutarch has had problems loading a decent French-English dictionary; I'm told the big Collins-Robert (which I priced yesterday at £35; I regularly replace mine; and must once again having come up against <em>en boucle</em> on Earlybird's blog and not finding it in my current Fifth Edition) isn't available for downloading. A French-French sounds just the ticket. <br /><br />Earworm. Tell yourself you certainly wouldn't live for Dixie, let alone die for it. Studied objectively, the tune's as rotten as an ad jingle. Not that that's much help. It will probably be replaced by an ad jingle:<br /><br /><em>One-Thousand-And-One<br />Cleans a big, big carpet,<br />For less than half-a-crown</em><br /><br />Again the two-decade difference and think yourself d--n lucky.<br /><br />Kitchen drawers. Utterly delusionary.<br /><br />Tom. By that he becomes a stockman, a modern-day equivalent of cowboy (which the French pronounce so ludicrously).<br /><br />PS: Avoided the collie story; you've said it all. We have a new neighbour who preens dogs for a living. She takes her own collie for a walk and I watch through my atelier window. She throws a Frisbe which the dog <em>catches in flight</em> time after time, leaping up, curvingly, full of anthropomorphic happiness and self-evident health. I never tire of it and neither does the collie.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-79260657043685551622012-02-01T03:04:00.435+01:002012-02-01T03:04:00.435+01:00I do hope the dog will recover, and I sure wish yo...I do hope the dog will recover, and I sure wish you hadn't mentioned Dixie. Otherwise, what a delightful post.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979547096244105508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-55469371066491223042012-02-01T02:18:58.958+01:002012-02-01T02:18:58.958+01:00My drawers look like that at the moment, although ...My drawers look like that at the moment, although they have already begun the process of entropy. <br /><br />I have terrible music worm susceptibilities as well. My condolences.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-83477283434988177772012-02-01T00:49:22.784+01:002012-02-01T00:49:22.784+01:00Purgatory and Swedish pillows. All in one post. On...Purgatory and Swedish pillows. All in one post. Only you, sweet Lucy! Good to know that everywhere, there are good-hearted folk who will care for our canine friends. Funny that you should mention Burns Night, for which I received an invitation this year (having no idea what it was). What fun in January's cold! Wishing Tom all the best in healing his shoulder.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-62662728320414269312012-02-01T00:34:22.721+01:002012-02-01T00:34:22.721+01:00As am I. Though I think I'd have to avoid Whi...As am I. Though I think I'd have to avoid Whiskey Macs and Cock-a-Leekie. (Pretty strange for a guy with a given name of Bruce!)Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2345122818167422032012-01-31T20:45:46.232+01:002012-01-31T20:45:46.232+01:00I am enjoying your feast of a post, Lucy; every la...I am enjoying your feast of a post, Lucy; every last drop of it!The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com