tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post116050170250513295..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Trip to Arnold - Lunch with Joantracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-1160569836026488392006-10-11T13:30:00.000+01:002006-10-11T13:30:00.000+01:00I still fancy the tepee and campfire thing (althou...I still fancy the tepee and campfire thing (although I haven’t done it for some 15 years or more) hence my half-longing to take a trip down the Nile in a felucca. But S and I do not see eye to eye on holidays, partly, I think, but certainly not entirely, because of her ambulatory limitations; she wants to be in a city, drinking coffee and going to musicals; I want to be in the wilds looking at beetles. That said, I am unlikely to venture far anyway as I am becoming more and more of an agoraphobic hermit. If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times, I do not exaggerate.<BR/><BR/>Lino-cut or wood-cut, I think, and I wouldn’t know how to tell the difference; perhaps woodcuts have more subtlety? The Community Workshop is considering putting on a one-day wood-cut course which I intend to attend if I dare put my Mr Mole-like nose out of the door. I would aim to do something like your enjambed gravestone:<BR/>Only ever do<BR/>one thing at <BR/>once, and pr<BR/>eferably less ... for instance.<BR/><BR/>The pictures of the book enlarged well (without the little magnifying glass but with the symbol which seems to work in precisely the same way) and I was easily able to read the text, which seems very well constructed. My first thought was that the illustration and your explanation all seemed a bit on the dark side for a pre-teen boy. but perhaps I am being squeamish. After all, I spent happy hours pulling the legs off Craneflies, boiling worms in a boot-polish tin lid over a candle, and cutting bees and wasps in half with a pair of scissors (in flight earned bonus points). But I never blew up a frog with a straw – I couldn’t even watch someone else do it. And I have nearly grown up now.<BR/><BR/>The TreeTops episode sounds very British to me but I have no idea what folk from other cultures would have done. My 'Creative Writing' instinct and recent exposure to Monty Python leads me to think that they would need to have been desperately hungry to … (no, I am not going there!).<BR/><BR/>Chopped off fingers, collapsed old women, out-of-control blood count: what a sombre medically-slanted blog today! I hope they successfully bring you down off the ceiling yet again and that you enjoy a lengthy period of stability. <BR/><BR/>On a slightly different but no more savoury note:<BR/>Yesterday I considered using the word ‘scatologically’ but, thinking it best to check the aptness first, I referred to my Longman Dictionary. Rather to my surprise:<BR/>scatology n 1 the biologically orientated study of excrement … <BR/><BR/>And on that note …Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com