tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post7339344125818983638..comments2023-06-28T22:58:28.247+10:00Comments on Sixth In Line: My computer weary handsElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-66226221648410706692010-06-29T02:32:32.721+10:002010-06-29T02:32:32.721+10:00I often wonder whether memory is nothing more than...I often wonder whether memory is nothing more than something we create when we sit and write, either on the computer or in our thoughts. There are days when I'd rather do something else, which really is nothing at all, particularly when there other things to think about.Mike McLarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881672365554137673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-4879170001480504862010-06-25T16:56:20.138+10:002010-06-25T16:56:20.138+10:00I'm running out the door. I'll adjust my ...I'm running out the door. I'll adjust my spell check on my return. Thanks again R.H. <br /><br />And thanks, Kit. It's good to see you here. I'll think of you Kit, as I travel through Essex, near Sussex near Brighton. <br /><br />And then, what of Wessex or is that the imaginary place made famous by Thomas Hardy? <br /><br />Bye for now.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-85911438983548065362010-06-25T14:57:34.017+10:002010-06-25T14:57:34.017+10:00Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comme...Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment.<br /><br />I have to say that I am blown away by your blog! You write with such feeling that it's a genuine pleasure to take in every word.<br /><br />I do so hope you return from England (I'm not far from Sussex - it's rather nice here in the summer!) feeling full of zing.<br /><br /><br />Very best wishes for your flight/s - may they be totally unbumpy :0)Kit Courteneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07211606676705095432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-31660300155425538152010-06-25T10:24:28.870+10:002010-06-25T10:24:28.870+10:00And thanks anonymous, but I don't consider Ame...And thanks anonymous, but I don't consider Americanese an invasion. It's our fault.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-11437717491501907122010-06-25T10:09:54.182+10:002010-06-25T10:09:54.182+10:00'Traveler' is American spelling. It seems ...'Traveler' is American spelling. It seems your computer is set for American English. You can change it. I use a dictionary in place of spellcheck, the underlinings are distracting. But I still make other mistakes (leaving words out for instance) even though I check my comments before posting them. That's very odd, I see it all differently once I've posted and can't grab it back to revise.<br /><br />I envy you going on this trip, I'd be enormously excited. The real true happy RH is on a plane to somewhere. Travel is the best way to spend money, I've always said that. And you are a good heart, a gentlewoman. <br /><br />Bon Voyage.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-30633428208457880692010-06-25T08:59:20.202+10:002010-06-25T08:59:20.202+10:00Last posting, I imagine before I leave today, Mari...Last posting, I imagine before I leave today, Marilynn. <br /><br />Thanks for your kind words and good wishes. We leave at the end of today and I'm working today but there's nothing like a final blog farewell. <br /><br /><br />Thanks to you, too Janice. As you suggest, I hope to be less jaded on my return. <br /><br />At the moment I'm in departure mode, all eyes directed towards that final closing of the suitcase.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-52548310649419849892010-06-25T07:12:07.889+10:002010-06-25T07:12:07.889+10:00Too late - I meant to read and respond before now....Too late - I meant to read and respond before now. Nonetheless, you need a break, Elisabeth, and you're surely going to get one. I hope it will refresh you and that you will feel less jaded on your return. Fresh experiences and a change - a substantial change - in routine will allow you the opportunity to recharge your batteries and recover your energy. <br />Enjoy your break! I look forward to your return :-)jabbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12176958811589489979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-62180190410331470642010-06-25T04:55:38.626+10:002010-06-25T04:55:38.626+10:00Once again, somewhat daunted but undeterred by the...Once again, somewhat daunted but undeterred by the volume of comments - and your generous responses. As you will not be posting before you leave, I hope this note finds you in time...all good wishes for your travels and discoveries. xoxoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-28195995227511506852010-06-24T22:47:56.265+10:002010-06-24T22:47:56.265+10:00Well Jane and R.H., full apologies for my spelling...Well Jane and R.H., full apologies for my spelling mistakes. My computer is forever underlining certain words - anything that ends in 'ise' it wants to turn to 'ize'. I try to resist. Words like colour and honour, it also wants to abbreviate. <br /><br />I try hard to spell the way I was taught as a child at school but it's not always easy to maintain such standards. Bedsides I don't want to be too much of a word fascist. <br /><br />I'm clearly more optimistic about the world than you R.H, and maybe it's not warranted. I suppose it depends on where you stand.<br /><br />And yes, Jane, I have just now finished packing. It's late - my last sleep before tomorrow and our departure. <br /><br />I'll tell you all, or as much as I can, when I return. <br /><br />Thanks you two both, 'Anonymous' Jane and the elusive and unpredictable R.H.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-27302567884346189002010-06-24T21:02:30.417+10:002010-06-24T21:02:30.417+10:00A kindred spirit. Sorry to hog your blog Elisabet...A kindred spirit. Sorry to hog your blog Elisabeth but you will be packing by now or getting your last bit of kip before the jet lag.<br />But how great to find another soul who loathes being called a "guy." I have seen waiters go up to tables full of old women and call them "guys". For Pete's sake!<br />I have been fighting this one for years. It drives me crazy but we have lost this battle - completely. If they claim it is a generic term, just ask them this: If you see a girl walking along - do you say "Oh, look at that guy walking along?" No, because it is not a friggin generic term. It is American slang for man. So it is also a feminist issue. Women have become men. Well, we won't get into that one, but you know what I mean, I am sure. Teachers call their little charges guys too. How sad for the little girls. Also sad for the little boys who must wonder who they are referring to. Guy Clarke is good too RH. My little boy loves playing his music. Perhaps we could fill the space with horror American invasion stories, while Elisabeth is away. Have a good visit to the home country Elisabeth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-31216300197141186632010-06-24T13:39:27.671+10:002010-06-24T13:39:27.671+10:00She writes traveler too, instead of traveller. And...She writes traveler too, instead of traveller. And the next hip calling me "guy" will cop a headlock. The only guy I respect is Guy Fawkes, he knew what he was doing.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-12672160475963014142010-06-24T12:47:41.951+10:002010-06-24T12:47:41.951+10:00The cages that move you up and down have always be...The cages that move you up and down have always been called lifts. I do not know another word for elevator as it is not a word I use. <br /><br />Perhaps you could trick the jingle out of your mind by saying "I fly in a jelly" and just skip the aeroplane.<br /><br />Then we have a fly in the jelly as well as a leaf in a web.<br />Please do not be careless with our language. I think it is this lack of care that has us become another state of America, in so many ways. <br />Now, the poms will be rabbiting on at you about our female P.M. How tiresome. Might be time for you to put in the earplugs. Have a lovely time. JaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-1094800379305693942010-06-24T01:58:27.434+10:002010-06-24T01:58:27.434+10:00Australian cities are overpopulated. But thousands...Australian cities are overpopulated. But thousands more migrants pouring in every week, just so Harvey Norman can sell more washing machines. And bosses can get cheap labour. <br />Public transport crisis, chumps wailing they can't get a seat. Water crisis, trees dying, same chumps taking two showers a day. Housing crisis, thousands sleeping out, houses you'd mistake for backyard dunnies selling for $800,000. Booze dives, open all night. Drunks all over the streets. Broken glass attacks, knives. <br />Melbourne, a pimp lord mayor and a pimp state premier: “We'll fix that problem,” they say, “Plastic cups and knife searches.” But golly, they won't slow the booze. This is your city, a whole nothing of clothes shops and cafes. And fear. Harassment. Noise, stink.<br /> <br />The monkeys are overcrowded, need a bigger cage.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-63468654625111685452010-06-23T22:01:18.708+10:002010-06-23T22:01:18.708+10:00Jane, it's good to hear from you again.
My h...Jane, it's good to hear from you again. <br /><br />My husband takes me and our daughters to task if we use the expression 'train station' for 'railway station'. He, too, hates Americanisms. <br /><br />What's another word for elevator? Is it lift? <br /><br />Airplane should be aeroplane, I know but every time I write that word these days I think of Aeroplane jelly, and the jingle starts up in my head. Sorry for my carelessness.<br /><br />I hope you have a good time in India. To me this country is more interesting than England. Please let me know how you find it. Thanks.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-54057271450392859312010-06-23T21:54:29.440+10:002010-06-23T21:54:29.440+10:00Thanks again, Eryl. I sometimes liken the digesti...Thanks again, Eryl. I sometimes liken the digestive process to that of thinking. Like you, I think that what goes on in the mind has its parallels with what goes on in the stomach. <br /><br />The digestive process is selective. There's stuff we eliminate because it's unnecessary or not good for us, but equally there's stuff we keep inside most of which hopefully we need in the form of nutrition. There's also the stuff we don't need in the form of excess. <br /><br />The excess we wear off with exercise, the good stuff we metabolize. <br /><br />I agree, too that analogies can only take us so far. Thanks, Eryl.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-82703747625204754582010-06-23T21:41:35.287+10:002010-06-23T21:41:35.287+10:00I thought of you tonight R.H. We were discussing ...I thought of you tonight R.H. We were discussing the media hype about the so-called gunman in Melbourne on Monday and the way in which the media - whoever they are - were desperate to get the wind up people. <br /><br />I don't want to underestimate the seriousness of these things but I'm weary with the stuff that goes on to reduce people who are struggling even further. You'd know about this, I suspect. No wonder you prefer the country. The city is full of self righteous sharks.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-75795458025549986112010-06-23T21:17:28.432+10:002010-06-23T21:17:28.432+10:00You wrote particularly beautifully about not writi...You wrote particularly beautifully about not writing. I agree whole heartedly about travel. I do not like it at all but benefit from it. I haven't been anywhere for 20 yrs and am probably the only Australian (apart from Murnane) who has not been to England. However, I am going to India in November.<br />I am sure you will be inspired by your trip and you will survive the flight! Why the American "airplane" and "elevator". Perhaps you were already becoming international. We have aeroplanes and lifts here! We are hopeless at holding our own ways and words.<br />God speed. JaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-80798977372286102572010-06-23T08:08:26.222+10:002010-06-23T08:08:26.222+10:00You're right, 'purge' doesn't desc...You're right, 'purge' doesn't describe the process at all. In fact it's pretty much the opposite, it's more like digesting: the physical act of writing brings feelings from the gut to the mind in much the way digesting food brings nutrients from the gut to the blood. Revision is then the process of, and here my analogy starts to crumble, finding the best use for all the mental nutriments. As you can see I'm still working this one out!Erylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06008344023000459577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-71180920360440717432010-06-23T01:41:56.724+10:002010-06-23T01:41:56.724+10:00I'm done with the city, I never loved it but n...I'm done with the city, I never loved it but now I don't even like it, it's run off from me.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-23889481558756706852010-06-22T18:11:01.587+10:002010-06-22T18:11:01.587+10:00Thanks, Lorenzo. You are right, of course, this w...Thanks, Lorenzo. You are right, of course, this writing life is a journey,and one whose destination I shall hopefully never reach. <br /><br />Thank you for your good wishes. I hope I'm on that evasive 'right' track. From here it's too close to tell. <br /><br />Good luck with your artistic journey as well.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-78333310621951918782010-06-22T18:06:35.764+10:002010-06-22T18:06:35.764+10:00I'd like to read your magnum opus when it'...I'd like to read your magnum opus when it's finished, RH, and if you like you can read mine. <br /><br />Maybe then we can all - you me and AnnODyne and any other enthusiastic others can get together in Rokewood, but I doubt that I'd ever live there. I prefer city living. Thanks, R.H.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-26971167366003759722010-06-22T07:38:09.292+10:002010-06-22T07:38:09.292+10:00Enjoy the trip to England, Elisabeth. And enjoy th...Enjoy the trip to England, Elisabeth. And enjoy the journey of your writing life, i.e. the every day writing, not the final destination, that ever shifting and evasive sense of 'completion'. I can understand the frustration over not achieving a sense of 'completion', but perhaps that is an illusionary goal. As long as the days when those "sticky moorings" have you feeling trapped produce posts as well written and evocative to read as this one, I have to feel you are on the right track. Any closer to completion? Who knows? But definitely on the right track.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-66525836926187523792010-06-21T23:54:53.744+10:002010-06-21T23:54:53.744+10:00I'm different to you all. I'll finish my m...I'm different to you all. I'll finish my magnum opus* then do nothing; in Rokewood, with Ann ODyne.<br /><br />-Robert.<br /><br />*It's disgraceful.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-70005131251808510532010-06-21T21:18:07.675+10:002010-06-21T21:18:07.675+10:00I agree with you and the Buddhists Mim - the only ...I agree with you and the Buddhists Mim - the only reality is change, and I also agree that I need a bit of it, not too much mind you because I think my life is sufficiently unsettled already. <br /><br />Thanks for your good wishes, Mim.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-60702120558232310422010-06-21T21:16:05.619+10:002010-06-21T21:16:05.619+10:00Thanks, Elizabeth, for your good wishes. My energ...Thanks, Elizabeth, for your good wishes. My energy is already on the way back. <br /><br />I've begun to pack and organise the basic necessities for the trip. Hopefully it will be a source of renewal.<br /><br /><br />Thanks, to you too, Cuban. I look forward to landing in your host country but I'll be only a short while in London. <br /><br />We land at Heathrow then drive in the direction of Cambridge with the aim of visiting my husband's ancestors' graves in Shillington. <br /><br />It amazes me that here there is a place called Hanscombe End Road, near to the grave yard in which at least one of the gravestones bears my husband's name, William H. <br /><br />I've seen photographs and I'm delighted to be able to see the place where my husband's family ghosts are settled.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.com