tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post8025942169084320499..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: The hands of the MadonnaBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-67993116557229692212011-04-05T19:45:55.000-04:002011-04-05T19:45:55.000-04:00A.J.Barnes, thank you. I once lived in a house tha...A.J.Barnes, thank you. I once lived in a house that had been built in 1667 and consequently I felt bits were falling off all the time. I loved it, though. Now we're dealing with a forty-year old with all that entails.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-51251963954260144872011-04-03T19:28:18.988-04:002011-04-03T19:28:18.988-04:00I love this post. Living in a 200 year old house,...I love this post. Living in a 200 year old house, I'm always reminded that I'm just the current 'keeper'. There have been many before me and hopefully many more after me.<br /><br />www.ajbarnesonline.blogspot.comA.J.Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649060799779978067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-35557067328081893772011-04-02T09:11:43.656-04:002011-04-02T09:11:43.656-04:00I love her memory about playing 'boulles' ...I love her memory about playing 'boulles' into the dark. Struck a chord. Lovely.My Dog-Eared Pageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02939044939925149444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-38929502254320721742011-03-31T18:15:29.409-04:002011-03-31T18:15:29.409-04:00The Devoted Classicist, thank you. There is quite ...The Devoted Classicist, thank you. There is quite a bit more about Cameron to be written but for the time being ....<br /><br />Yes, the chandelier! I loved it too. I wish there were more photographs of that room but as far as I know there are none.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-45472127948116431842011-03-31T18:02:32.970-04:002011-03-31T18:02:32.970-04:00The Ancient, thank you. A kindness indeed! And a g...The Ancient, thank you. A kindness indeed! And a good story about the Christmas tree - and the best of reasons to buy a house. <br /><br />I've never been curious about how my childhood house was changed. As I said to Terry in my reply above I looked at it on Google Earth. Actually, it all looked terribly depressing. I spend a lot of my time looking back yet I have never visited a place where I have lived. Maybe it is not yet that time!Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-57247319149385481882011-03-31T17:45:23.843-04:002011-03-31T17:45:23.843-04:00Laurent, thank you. To treat a ninety-one year old...Laurent, thank you. To treat a ninety-one year old stranger with such respect is a rare occurrence, don't you think? He took her arm, as a gentleman would, and led her where she needed to go. We all go back, but how often, I wonder, is the experience as positive as that woman's?Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-66732097087393651202011-03-31T17:39:08.376-04:002011-03-31T17:39:08.376-04:00le style et la matiére, thank you. It must have be...le style et la matiére, thank you. It must have been a humiliating experience for your friend. What would it have cost the new owners - a few minutes?Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-82726783365246913792011-03-31T17:36:57.933-04:002011-03-31T17:36:57.933-04:00Terry, thank you. That was a very kind thing to do...Terry, thank you. That was a very kind thing to do. I looked at the house I was raised in on Google Maps and though I could not go inside it brought back a lot of memories. So different but yet the same.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-49494427643972183202011-03-31T17:03:50.451-04:002011-03-31T17:03:50.451-04:00Don't apologize; I am sure there are more int...Don't apologize; I am sure there are more interesting R Cameron stories to come. I love the shade on the chandelier.The Devoted Classicisthttp://tdclassicist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-59311605735236899722011-03-31T16:57:39.938-04:002011-03-31T16:57:39.938-04:00When we were rebuilding our house in the country, ...When we were rebuilding our house in the country, the ninety-year old daughter of a former owner came by to see what we were doing. I gave her a tour, and later sent her photographs of the house and gardens. <br /><br />In the front hall, which is very large, she pointed to a particular spot and said, "That's where the Christmas tree always went." And I told her, in all honesty, that when I first went through the house, I had imagined a tree in just that spot, and decided right then to buy the house and restore it.<br /><br />(I did not tell her that the small room upstairs where she was born and spent the first year of her life was destined to become the master bath.)The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-83949172396990115772011-03-31T16:23:18.615-04:002011-03-31T16:23:18.615-04:00But this extends the most impressively sustained b...But this extends the most impressively sustained biographical essay known to me in the 7 or 8 months that I've been reading blogs, with probably the most universal perspective it has yet entertained. Everyone has left a home, and can imagine this well developed encounter. Quite beautiful work, BL.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-22507480371540346952011-03-31T15:47:07.960-04:002011-03-31T15:47:07.960-04:00A lovely story. To think I have a friend who was t...A lovely story. To think I have a friend who was turned away from the former chateau of her family which bore their name. Not everyone has an Emilienne to count on.gésbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-74308896477338756072011-03-31T14:46:07.624-04:002011-03-31T14:46:07.624-04:00I'm way too sentimental to resist this. I gave...I'm way too sentimental to resist this. I gave a tour to a man who grew up in my house, it was moving for both of us even without the Madonna. Thanks.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154846109609330503noreply@blogger.com