tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post7126751847637251988..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Tipping points and other matter(s).Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50918429977018445252012-12-01T13:11:41.342+01:002012-12-01T13:11:41.342+01:00I think a message service is like being cordless, ...I think a message service is like being cordless, it ends one aspect of the tyranny, since I can just let it go to voicemail. Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-74986904042340762842012-11-30T18:37:06.759+01:002012-11-30T18:37:06.759+01:00So....that's the secret to a long and healthy ...So....that's the secret to a long and healthy life, then? (I think I would rather die a bit younger)Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-6854714519730415002012-11-29T19:57:10.165+01:002012-11-29T19:57:10.165+01:00I never get excited about those calls from bank ma...I never get excited about those calls from bank managers. We live close enough to Mexico that I figure we can always escape across the border!! :-0)Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-19631364988849564742012-11-29T16:24:04.591+01:002012-11-29T16:24:04.591+01:00I think they must be like little kids getting exci...I think they must be like little kids getting excited when a big truck comes into view.<br /><br />Here's to bonding with the new car. Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-85641552753442655582012-11-29T13:53:53.748+01:002012-11-29T13:53:53.748+01:00(0)
What a beautifully human post.(0)<br /><br />What a beautifully human post.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-6959503210436478812012-11-29T07:59:59.914+01:002012-11-29T07:59:59.914+01:00Yes it's all very well being unified by merde ...Yes it's all very well being unified by <i>merde</i> but there are other unities in life. I well remember coming back from the <i>mairie</i> where I'd just had the French conversation of my life and making VR aware of the village's project <i>pour brancher au systeme de l'assainissement de l'eau</i> and saying "Of course it's going to cost quite a lot..." and she saying, in almost a hysterical voice, "It doesn't matter what it costs - anything! - just get it done."<br /><br />For access to our <i>fosse septique</i> was through the bars on the loo window and as one sat on the pot one could look down at the trapdoor that led down to... what? What unimaginable horrors?<br /><br />And then, early on with Works Well, I did the perfect post about it and you responded with something like "Ah, you've now divested yourself of the the traditional Brit-in-France <i>merde</i> story." But still I wasn't finished and I made a variant of that experience the climax of a short story I wrote two or three months ago and perhaps, just perhaps, we'd achieved catharsis and it was, you could say, cheap at the price.<br /><br />Because one cannot write fiction about life in the sunlit uplands where one need never fear a visit from the farmer (and his Alzheimer ridden father uttering: <i>"Impeccable! Impeccable!"</i>)with <i>le grand tonneau</i> again.<br /><br />And here, on this day, for what must be the absolutely final coda. Thannks, Ks.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9024206668417408082012-11-29T05:53:44.192+01:002012-11-29T05:53:44.192+01:00i'm told poo tells a lot about a person.
tipp...i'm told poo tells a lot about a person.<br /><br />tipping point, eh? i do think it's different for everyone, but i think you did a lovely job of explaining. i think our society (well, at least our north american society) is doing a crap job of making that ok. i mean it's probably never ok to face death, although i could be very wrong about that, but with our obsession with "growth" and "progress" it seems almost embarrassing to buck the trend and get old. counter to all those inspirational commercials where 20-year olds sell us wrinkle cream.<br /><br />and on that note, i'm off to bed. good night, dear lucy!the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45100492885018618262012-11-29T01:51:14.332+01:002012-11-29T01:51:14.332+01:00Ei jei jei ... you make me laugh, sweet Lucy! Bles...Ei jei jei ... you make me laugh, sweet Lucy! Bless you to pieces and Prost!!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.com