tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post3774325842694233279..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Blue Remembered Hills or Seize the Day!Anastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36317242393121561292010-05-24T05:17:40.869-07:002010-05-24T05:17:40.869-07:00I know it's great fun, you don't know what...I know it's great fun, you don't know what you're missing. The other week, I said I'll take two lumps of sugar, and the tea lady gave me three...I nearly collapsed from the excitement...then threatened to emigrate to Rhodesia and slept for the following three days.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-12171374533991838322010-05-24T05:15:41.246-07:002010-05-24T05:15:41.246-07:00What exciting lives you lead. :-))What exciting lives you lead. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-78359500997664208542010-05-21T13:22:36.087-07:002010-05-21T13:22:36.087-07:00Well now I know why you can't join UKIP. The ...Well now I know why you can't join UKIP. The typical way UKIP members waste their days is<br />1. Complain about the price of bitter<br />2. Complain about lazy men on road works sites <br />3. Make a three hour speech about Europe to people who have heard it all before. <br />4. Complain that they're not pretending to feign interest. <br />5. Complain about the declining standards of BBC's light entertainment division. <br />6. Complain about the price of bitter some more. <br />7. Threaten to emigrate to Rhodesia, and sneaking this in to every conversation, even though such a possibility is no longer an option.<br />...no wonder my life is so full of regrets :-)Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-85864713550866169482009-10-21T17:01:20.107-07:002009-10-21T17:01:20.107-07:00Thanks, O' Toole is a master scholar of Shakes...Thanks, O' Toole is a master scholar of Shakespeare, I don't know exactly how much of Shakespeare he knows by heart but I know it is quite lot. As a writer, he has his own superb style similar to the way he converses. Interviewers who are not familiar with what they're letting themselves in for seem somewhat perplexed.<br /><br />The Auden quote has always astounded me somewhat but he wasn't getting any so it makes sense.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-45854421402023545812009-10-21T15:56:13.072-07:002009-10-21T15:56:13.072-07:00I know a little of O'Toole's work as an ac...I know a little of O'Toole's work as an actor. I did not know he also wrote. If that's your favourite book, Rehan, he must be really good. I must check.<br /><br />I like the Auden quote. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-63860566859402403782009-10-21T13:10:59.272-07:002009-10-21T13:10:59.272-07:00As I walk the lanes of Essex I recall my childhood...<i>As I walk the lanes of Essex I recall my childhood days<br />When no care stood towering over when a hitch was but a phase<br /> <br />And when mother welcomed me back home from school with open arms<br />And the highlights of the long days were the tried-and-true alarms<br /> <br />Why talk of reality when life and love are games and dreams<br />And the dreams of love are never realized, or so it seems</i><br /><br /><b>'Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero'. This inimitable line comes from an ode of Horace's. Imitated most sentimentally in one of the rare happy poems per se by Herrick 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.' <br /><br />There is a discussion at the end of Peter O' Toole's <i>Loitering with Intent: The Child</i>. <i>Loitering with Intent</i> being one of my favourite books. He is an actor and a writer in a class of his own. Anyway, the discussion is between himself and a chum concerning the size of childhood, when does it end? 'Oh Early.' Replies his friend 'Pre-puberty, that's about the size of it'</b><br /><br />To-day words so affect me that a pornographic story, for example, excites me sexually more than a living person can do.<br /><br />(W. H. Auden. <i>The Prolific & the Devourer</i>. 1939).Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-19502471197761615242009-10-17T23:13:19.683-07:002009-10-17T23:13:19.683-07:00Thanks for your concern, Duckham, but it's rea...Thanks for your concern, Duckham, but it's really only now and then, usually at parties. In any case mo more than about ten a week.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-7773012707511895832009-10-16T22:35:15.197-07:002009-10-16T22:35:15.197-07:00Give up the cigarettes, they will kill you before ...Give up the cigarettes, they will kill you before you are ready for the off. The rest need do no harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-54219064158523414992009-10-15T22:40:44.624-07:002009-10-15T22:40:44.624-07:00I wiil, Robin; thanks so much for your comment. I...I wiil, Robin; thanks so much for your comment. I'm glad I didn't shock you by my frankness. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-52922579362901966052009-10-15T18:49:55.162-07:002009-10-15T18:49:55.162-07:00No I do not think that youth is wasted on the youn...No I do not think that youth is wasted on the young. Age is only a number! You will see that even though you grow older and wiser you still always carry that same youthful soul inside.I have seen jealousy at every age, unfortunately jealousy is a sign of instability, so just know if you are seeing a lot of jealousy in your life it has more to do with mentality than age. Nice article by the way! Enjoy being YOU, noone else can!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com