tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post417955633933980112..comments2024-03-08T17:06:56.189+00:00Comments on mrs miniver's daughter: maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-38098046774619906792016-09-30T09:33:27.783+01:002016-09-30T09:33:27.783+01:00'too'. My typing is worsening too.'too'. My typing is worsening too.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-3134041490776732016-09-29T22:12:49.898+01:002016-09-29T22:12:49.898+01:00Just missed you again! I saw the Japanese Botanica...Just missed you again! I saw the Japanese Botanicals yesterday. There was a large contingent of beautifully dressed Japanese ladies there ahead of a private event at 4pm. One of them set off an alarm. It caused a great flurry of consternation and embarrassment. I was somewhat distracted by this but loved the few things I could take in. I always get lost in multi roomed exhibitions and was already tired by the time I got there so didn't make the best of it. And the lighting is always to low. Either that or my eye sight is worsening.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-57174912229175060942016-09-29T12:50:52.544+01:002016-09-29T12:50:52.544+01:00Oh, I wonder if it was! I'd have been thrilled...Oh, I wonder if it was! I'd have been thrilled if someone came up and said they read the blog. And I do remember chatting for a few minutes on the way out, then I scuttled off for a cup of tea! maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-70284476743059445402016-09-29T09:19:12.020+01:002016-09-29T09:19:12.020+01:00I had the same conversation with a woman outside t...I had the same conversation with a woman outside the museum after the talk (about the interesting life she's made for herself and grammar school education) - funny if it was you I was speaking to!<br /><br />Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-75192451960012864512016-09-28T16:48:52.144+01:002016-09-28T16:48:52.144+01:00They're a perfect holiday read, aren't the...They're a perfect holiday read, aren't they, Sue? I bought the first few volumes at the airport - and didn't move off the sun-lounger for the first few week of my holiday, I was so engrossed. I still haven't read Slipstream. There's another talk coming up by Artemis Cooper at Daunt Books, if that's within reach. maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-91204985417190532352016-09-28T06:09:26.062+01:002016-09-28T06:09:26.062+01:00I had already read loads of EJH, but not the Cazal...I had already read loads of EJH, but not the Cazalet Chronicles until this summer when I was marooned up in the Lake District for weeks on end and went through the lot. Loved, loved, loved them - though perhaps no 5 could have benefitted from being written 18 years earlier...and, it's true she lifted whole chunks of her life as told in Slipstream, but so what? I heard bits of the AC biography last week and am reading it all now.You're right about EJH having a moment - all the staff in Waterstones were very keen on the biography, too. Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471221804410563557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-14778929076658037412016-09-26T22:07:02.349+01:002016-09-26T22:07:02.349+01:00I wish I'd known, Ann! It was a very good talk...I wish I'd known, Ann! It was a very good talk, and the man interviewing her was good, too - I didn't catch his name. I've read Ekatinerburg and keep meaning to read the one about the sisters. Hasn't she created an interesting life for herself? I was a grammar school girl, too - maybe I'm just a late starter! <br />So glad you're enjoying the blog.<br /><br />There's always iPlayer, Toffeeapple - but no doubt there'll be a DVD.maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-57130812666873690342016-09-26T19:57:45.512+01:002016-09-26T19:57:45.512+01:00I really like and enjoy your blog Mary and should ...I really like and enjoy your blog Mary and should comment more often. I was also at the Helen Rappaport talk having heard her speak before and having read some of her other books I was keen to listen to her again. I also thought this was reason enough to buy her book at the event and not order it from the library as I would normally do! I was also going straight home ...Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-6276465070924988432016-09-26T16:40:48.318+01:002016-09-26T16:40:48.318+01:00That should read 'I don't own one', so...That should read 'I don't own one', sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-62188939335641274282016-09-26T16:40:17.898+01:002016-09-26T16:40:17.898+01:00The Cazalets on TV? Boohoo, I don't one, but ...The Cazalets on TV? Boohoo, I don't one, but that is something that I should love to see. I enjoyed the books enormously, followed by 'Slipstream', her memoir.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-6194186290363561552016-09-25T22:49:24.495+01:002016-09-25T22:49:24.495+01:00No, the last one wasn't quite up to scratch, I...No, the last one wasn't quite up to scratch, I agree, Margaret. I've never been able to track down the original series online; not on YouTube - and I'd love to see it again, so I was delighted when I heard they were remaking it. Expect it will be a while coming! I remember going wild after Casting Off when another book wasn't forthcoming - for 19 years? Artemis Cooper said it's based on EJH's own childhood/family - and that Louise, Clary and Polly are all aspects of herself (including the abusive father). There was rather a posh lady in the audience, well into her 80s, who said that it was so bang on socially that as she read she could 'hear' the voices of her own family, long dead.maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731398893178184544.post-40856994393300432472016-09-25T22:10:32.718+01:002016-09-25T22:10:32.718+01:00Oh, the Cazalet Chronicles are wonderful - perhaps...Oh, the Cazalet Chronicles are wonderful - perhaps not the 5th and final one, when EJ Howard was nearing the end of her life, but the first four are crackers, and really act as something of a social statement for those middle years of the 20th century, especially the war and immediate post-war years. I'd no idea they were being filmed for television - I remember the 1990s series (I think it was the 1990s) which was excellent and I think Huge Bonneville was in that, and Ursula Howells as the Duchy. <br />Margaret P galanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190356279359463949noreply@blogger.com