tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post5807130061955473629..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: A sneak peekBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-58650420158827051362012-09-03T22:41:40.155-04:002012-09-03T22:41:40.155-04:00I enjoyed your article on Marguerite and intend to...I enjoyed your article on Marguerite and intend to send it to her. She is an old friend who is from Monroe,LA as am I...but the way we met&became friends...was through lots of mutual friends! Another thing I think is amusing...is that as many times as Ive had drinks(pomegranite Bloody Marys)& lunch(Lobster club sandwiches with bacon) on trays in her Drawing Room...I never remembered the backs of those painted French Chairs ...were red fabric. I would have bet serious money that they were blue&white Fortuny. I mean REALLY...talking about such important issues!!I can promise you it has always been that way...as she has NEVER changed one thing in her home.<br /> My favorite object on her coffee table is an ashtray made of an armadillo!Keep up such an interesting blog....maybe a little about my olf friend Tony Hail will find its way here!Wink...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-73584975815963745532011-04-11T15:58:31.708-04:002011-04-11T15:58:31.708-04:00atdcom, thank you, and thank you also for the stor...atdcom, thank you, and thank you also for the story about the sample sales told by your mother-in-law. Excellent piece of gossip! <br /><br />I know exactly what you mean when you say "life is complicated" because it's rare that there are no extenuating circumstances. As you point out, the proceeds of the sale of the Duchess' jewels went to the Pasteur Institute in Paris.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-87911230944154880492011-04-11T15:47:10.422-04:002011-04-11T15:47:10.422-04:00Anonymous, thank you. I've just read that the...Anonymous, thank you. I've just read that the first recorded use of "spot on" was in 1949 so I wonder if it is WWII slang. It sounds archaic, certainly, and a tad tally-ho!Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-27011877972969193232011-04-11T15:31:12.740-04:002011-04-11T15:31:12.740-04:00home before dark, thank you. "A fresh twist o...home before dark, thank you. "A fresh twist of integrity" is something to hope for. Today I saw a delivery of two portapotties to a building and a slogan on the truck said "beware, loaded with political promises."<br /><br />Yes, it is begun.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-19445060251182458752011-04-11T11:36:48.961-04:002011-04-11T11:36:48.961-04:00Spot on...can or does that phrase count in your li...Spot on...can or does that phrase count in your list of contrived descriptions?<br />It's often used probably meant to be a bit<br />British. <br />Good post. <br />rgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-684037927510896302011-04-10T10:12:59.754-04:002011-04-10T10:12:59.754-04:00I dearly hope that people who live their convictio...I dearly hope that people who live their convictions will never go out of style and will continue to infuse our world with a "a pop of candor" and a "fresh twist of integrity."<br /><br />ps Does this mean you have started your book?home before darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272062955786414729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-34078298871639867732011-04-07T15:16:07.626-04:002011-04-07T15:16:07.626-04:00Laurent, thank you. Also my apologies to you for a...Laurent, thank you. Also my apologies to you for a late reply. Neither the research nor the story is yet at an end!Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-52837198391578516082011-04-07T10:29:19.890-04:002011-04-07T10:29:19.890-04:00Superb judgments. "Anorexic socialists and th...Superb judgments. "Anorexic socialists and their walkers" dancing til dawn and in the White House too as a world dies is a defining image of the times. As for the Duke and Duchess, one of my favorite stories that my late mother-in-law told was of being invited to the annual "sample sales" at the Waldorf just before the Windsors departed for France. In the drawing room of the suite, there would be piles of stuff...handkerchiefs, towels, scarves, handbags, unopened bottles of perfume...all the swag the Duchess had been given and now sold to her privileged friends. But then the sales of her jewels funded AIDS research. Life is complicated, isn't it?atdcomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-54718833545688447002011-04-06T22:09:35.448-04:002011-04-06T22:09:35.448-04:00Reggie Darling, thank you. My apologies for a late...Reggie Darling, thank you. My apologies for a late reply. That you, a writer I admire, pays me such a compliment is very, very pleasing.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-87237144385037475572011-04-06T18:20:53.516-04:002011-04-06T18:20:53.516-04:00Another magnificent entry, with compliments partic...Another magnificent entry, with compliments particularly on the control exercised in the final 2 paragraphs. These were, of course, not years, but lifetimes you were writing about, and to juxtapose the presumption that you were present, against the restraint displayed here, is to admire a grip on the Yeatsian gyre which you would have watched upheld by men, one unforgettably at a time, in an exemplary relay which they have made immortal, who are honoured in this reminiscence. I doubt that I could discuss this matter in this way, but I do not feel relieved of trying by the existence of this example. The project is everyone's, and benefits greatly by your distinctive slant.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-15719812824879026702011-04-06T13:19:12.398-04:002011-04-06T13:19:12.398-04:00ArchitectDesign, thank you.
I will not criticise...ArchitectDesign, thank you. <br /><br />I will not criticise you for your opinions about the Windsors even if I might disagree! For me the Duke and his wife are not the icons of taste as they are for many other people - something I'll cover in a later post.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-59293255393097210402011-04-06T12:57:24.076-04:002011-04-06T12:57:24.076-04:00The Ancient, thank you. Herne and I go back a long...The Ancient, thank you. Herne and I go back a long way and I can tell you he's pretty upset. Personally, I can't stand bits of animals littering the place!Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-43169008421988625472011-04-06T12:55:53.918-04:002011-04-06T12:55:53.918-04:00The Devoted Classicist, thank you. I shall sally f...The Devoted Classicist, thank you. I shall sally forth, gaily and, I hope, clear-sightedly.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-19290421133201396262011-04-06T12:54:30.739-04:002011-04-06T12:54:30.739-04:00Voice Talk, thank you. It was time I broadened my ...Voice Talk, thank you. It was time I broadened my scope but also stay within my chosen area of research.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-72024453243037325722011-04-06T09:49:42.548-04:002011-04-06T09:49:42.548-04:00I love that you point out how many of these style ...I love that you point out how many of these style icons weren't exactly nice people -but that is not why we idolize them (how often am I criticized for my fascination with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor!). So then it is so much more refreshing to hear when one was devoted to such a just cause, against the judgement of her peers even! Perhaps she is the more stylish for it.ArchitectDesign™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-49762563372845391742011-04-06T08:58:13.173-04:002011-04-06T08:58:13.173-04:00Antlers? Antlers?
(Somewhere, Herne the Hunter is...Antlers? <i>Antlers?</i><br /><br />(Somewhere, Herne the Hunter is weeping.)The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-86653999888870971452011-04-06T07:49:32.619-04:002011-04-06T07:49:32.619-04:00Dear Mr. Blue: I am continually in awe of your wri...Dear Mr. Blue: I am continually in awe of your writing, the immediacy, fluency, and eloquence of it. I hope to one day have the privilege of holding in my hands the book that it most assuredly merits and deserves. ReggieReggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-36797390502737919312011-04-05T22:51:41.636-04:002011-04-05T22:51:41.636-04:00Blue, the wonderful thing about having one's o...Blue, the wonderful thing about having one's own blog is that the blogger author can write about anything he/she pleases without the concerns of advertisers, editors, media owners and paid subscribers -- all the things that hinder magazine and newspaper writers. Please continue gaily forward, writing about whatever makes or does not make colors pop or creates a fresh take or not.The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-42330472933689448312011-04-05T22:40:00.719-04:002011-04-05T22:40:00.719-04:00Great last paragraph! I can't wait to hear mor...Great last paragraph! I can't wait to hear more.Daniel Shigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12736080550398734909noreply@blogger.com