tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post8854534222309232147..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: Scent and the Golden RivieraBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-76090230431036168462010-10-08T21:43:59.196-04:002010-10-08T21:43:59.196-04:00Blue --
I got a call this afternoon from an even...Blue -- <br /><br />I got a call this afternoon from an even more ancient friend -- in his eighties, he's jumping out of helicopters to ski in South America -- who is now off to the south of France. <br /><br />I told him that if he didn't contrive to get himself onto Cameron's old place, he'd have to buy breakfast next time he was in town.<br /><br />(He's vaguely hopeful that his sister, some sort of Bavarian princess, will be able to square the deal, and thus save him -- perhaps -- twenty dollars.)<br /><br />((My hopes are middling high.))The Ancientnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-68490338194640977432010-10-07T17:10:52.328-04:002010-10-07T17:10:52.328-04:00Dahlias and dancing on the Riviera. . . it is summ...Dahlias and dancing on the Riviera. . . it is summer yet in the blue hills!Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348849115235899670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-82835702528089222432010-10-06T04:12:13.993-04:002010-10-06T04:12:13.993-04:00Andy, thank you. Inherited from and taught by his ...Andy, thank you. Inherited from and taught by his mother.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-51589864386473011672010-10-05T06:35:27.302-04:002010-10-05T06:35:27.302-04:00The Golden Riviera is indeed a lovely book... Came...The Golden Riviera is indeed a lovely book... Cameron seems to have been blessed with an abundance of taste and charm...no doubt inherited from his very alluring mother Enid.Andynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-82163393790723433402010-10-04T22:58:54.139-04:002010-10-04T22:58:54.139-04:00I wonder when I began calling you Reggie and not M...<i>I wonder when I began calling you Reggie and not Mr Darling as formerly?</i><br /><br />Probably when you had a boyhood flashback and remembered that the original "Mr. Darling" was confined for an intolerable time -- more than a chapter, as I recall -- to a dog-house, even at dinner parties! <br /><br />And then you realized that Pompey, being the sort of dog he plainly is, does not share.<br /><br />Yours, etc.The Ancientnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-52800995937600065432010-10-04T22:19:08.360-04:002010-10-04T22:19:08.360-04:00Blue --
I confess that I am getting a little addl...Blue --<br /><br />I confess that I am getting a little addled about what's Cameron's doing and what came later. Perhaps when you've finished with this series, you might put up a collection of the five or ten best pictures that were solely Cameron's own work.<br /><br />It would be good to see his house as a single work.<br /><br />Best, etc.<br /><br />P.S. I must have seen this post within seconds of when it went up. So I have a day or two to go to see if I managed to snag the better copy of the book from TDED.The Ancientnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-60410759324862772222010-10-04T19:06:32.218-04:002010-10-04T19:06:32.218-04:00Reggie, thank you. I wonder when I began calling y...Reggie, thank you. I wonder when I began calling you Reggie and not Mr Darling as formerly? The MItford book is a good read and terribly English - its hard to imagine that kind of insularity exists still. Reminded me very much of Diary of a Provincial Lady.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-50655759483027964992010-10-04T18:31:57.385-04:002010-10-04T18:31:57.385-04:00Bruce Barone, thank you - that was a very kind thi...Bruce Barone, thank you - that was a very kind thing to say. Pasta, meatballs and capers sounds wonderful. I'm a bit iffy about the sauce, if it is tomato based but in its place perhaps a little butter and parmesan. Another book recommendation - one from the Dilettante as well.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-44408284205267307982010-10-04T18:28:18.220-04:002010-10-04T18:28:18.220-04:00Dilettante, thank you. The single white dahlia in ...Dilettante, thank you. The single white dahlia in a celadon bowl - a lovely image and of its time. We don't see that kind of subtlety any more, do we? Its a pity such refinement is gone. Perhaps it will come again. <br /><br />I shall look for the book Green Thoughts.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-2962951736659824842010-10-03T10:18:47.035-04:002010-10-03T10:18:47.035-04:00Marvelous post, Blue! Absorbing from beginning to...Marvelous post, Blue! Absorbing from beginning to end. Everything from flowers, to Mitfords, to Rory Cameron, what more could I ask for? Thanks for a lovely wiling away of more than a few minutes this Sunday morning.Reggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-13075280109074623312010-10-03T09:47:00.337-04:002010-10-03T09:47:00.337-04:00What a beautiful way to start my Sunday morning, b...What a beautiful way to start my Sunday morning, before going for a walk in the park down the street, before making Sunday dinner (Today; Pasta, Sauce, Meatballs stuffed with capers.), before editing yesterday's portrait session, sitting here at my desk reading this delightful and fascinating writing. Thank You. I am inspired to read now a chapter in "The Gardener's Bed-Book" by Richardson Wright.Bruce Baronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08262814724740244551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-89315932539738735272010-10-02T21:04:29.964-04:002010-10-02T21:04:29.964-04:00I'm convinced. Straight to abebooks I go, for...I'm convinced. Straight to abebooks I go, for my own copy of The Golden Riveria.<br /><br />As to dahlias, I love them unreservedly---big floppy, improbably, bright things they are. There are no ugly flowers, only flowers used in an ugly way. I even have a friend who can make a vase of gladioli look like rare orchids. And anyone with the least big of snobbery about dahlias should read Eleanor Perenyi's 'Green Thoughts'. Her chapter about the dahlia will convince even the most horticulturally refined and hard hearted among us to give the dahlia another chance. And while I'm at it, i remember a tall white one, grown in my grandparent's cutting garden, whose form and habit were so elegant that one was reminded of nothing so much as a lotus flower---an effect heightened by my grandmother's annual arrangement of a single one in a low celadon bowl...The Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.com