Comments on box elder: Phew, and six of six.

Came to your blog via Bee.I see you are having a r...

2008-11-24T13:42:00.000+01:00

Came to your blog via Bee.
I see you are having a rather difficult time.
My sympathies and hopes for continued improvement.
I saw the evocative photo on the other blog.
So very lovely.
Re a comment you made on Bee's blog.
Was that the Downs at Colwall? Run by the Singletons?
I was at The Abbey - a rather strange school in Malvern Wells.

So good to hear you being up-beat about both Tom a...

2008-11-24T12:01:00.000+01:00

So good to hear you being up-beat about both Tom and yourself. May the happiness continue for both of you for a long time to come.

Wonderful image. I looked at it and wondered what had made it and how - the tracks look so deep.

Imagine there being a club way out there! At first I thought creepy applied to it - just echoeing my thoughts, I guess.

Thank you, chaps.Z - I think I probably likes that...

2008-11-24T07:43:00.000+01:00

Thank you, chaps.

Z - I think I probably likes that spring wheat green about it at the time. I liked your sunny one too.

BB - I should think she was a hard-faced little madam...

Isabelle - Heh heh! Anyway, he turned the tables on you! I've not read much M.Drabble, but I don't actually think they're very similar, though one is bound to make the comparison. ASB started later and, I think, is of a different time, I think quite alot of Drabble is a bit dated now, perhaps. Angels and Insects is fascinating, not unlike Possession in that it's about Victorian preoccupations. I really enjoyed the Frederica quartet too (Virginin the Garden etc). I sort of got the feeling later, with things like The Biographer's Tale, she started getting a bit arch and self-referential and cleverbuggerish...

Meggie - thanks, we're doing well.

CGP - thnkas, hope you had a good trip!

Christopher - odd really, how an image suggests different things. I found it possibly melancholic,suggesting departure, Tom looking at it now found it hopeful, about continuation and possibility. As ever, a lovely poem.

Moe - oh, that's Ok! I always love to hear from you, and am pleased you're still about. Thanks for picking up the meme - it's an odd application of the word but seems to have caught on - the girls look gorgeous as ever!

Lucy, I always learn something from you. Now, I kn...

2008-11-24T02:47:00.000+01:00

Lucy, I always learn something from you. Now, I know what a meme is. Come see what I posted as a response of my own. I think that I did it right.

Also, I'm sorry to admit I hadn't visited you lately so I just now read about Tom. I pray for his recovery.

Moe

Lucy, I looked at your photo. This is what I saw....

2008-11-23T22:25:00.000+01:00

Lucy, I looked at your photo. This is what I saw.

The Smell Of Cold Rain

I look back at you
There beyond the tracks I left
On this wet hillside.

I didn't think I could leave,
Not like this, and not your life.

It's changed how I feel
About the smell of cold rain
Falling around me.

Glad to hear that Tom is feeling better and happy ...

2008-11-23T21:59:00.000+01:00

Glad to hear that Tom is feeling better and happy and things are settling. Lovely photo

So glad to read things are settling & Tom is feeli...

2008-11-23T21:36:00.000+01:00

So glad to read things are settling & Tom is feeling so happy & positive.
I love that photo, it is just perfect.

Glad that happy domesticity has resumed.I've just ...

2008-11-23T19:38:00.000+01:00

Glad that happy domesticity has resumed.

I've just noticed your comment on my "In Memoriam" post. No, didn't know the AS Byatt book; I've only read "Possession", years ago. I really liked it; don't know why I've never read any others. I will now; thanks for the suggestion. I've read all Margaret Drabble's, I think.

Great photo. I like the green dampness of it (of course, I am Scottish, accent and all. I didn't actually mean that a Scottish accent leads to nothing, by the way - look at G.Brown (mind you...). Just the combination of the apparently dead-end job, acne and accent. But I was entirely wrong, of course.)

I love the names of those lengths of coast in Brit...

2008-11-23T17:30:00.000+01:00

I love the names of those lengths of coast in Brittany. One appeared in a beauty contest and you were invited to vote Miss Rosy Granite. I wish I'd hung around to find out what she looked like.

I'm glad you stuck with this one. You can post mo...

2008-11-23T16:17:00.000+01:00

I'm glad you stuck with this one. You can post more of those photos later. Love the green and the shine off the puddles.

Glad you are all back together.