tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post2759271356689334220..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: I would wait there and look quietly at the walllucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-88139724936166060402019-02-04T14:15:33.394+11:002019-02-04T14:15:33.394+11:00Good point. The notions of 'public figure'...Good point. The notions of 'public figure' and celebrity and how much media, both mainstream and social, is devoted to comment on them makes it all very complicated. And this was before twitter and facebook were going so possibly at the time it would have stuck out. If only everyone were aware enough to admit when some of the shots we cop are well directed. I suspect you've done ernmalleyscatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-80817377408159130002019-02-03T21:57:10.831+11:002019-02-03T21:57:10.831+11:00Either I deleted the original offending post or it...Either I deleted the original offending post or it's buried so deep in the hundreds of unfinished or unpublished draft posts that I couldn't see it when I took a quick look among them just now. <br /><br />The reason I was quite wounded by it, despite there being an obvious agenda to the demolition job and the execution of it being cack-handed as you say, is that there was a big chunk of lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-11221152474764738842019-02-03T07:14:45.584+11:002019-02-03T07:14:45.584+11:00I haven't seen your original offending post bu...I haven't seen your original offending post but the bit quoted was so mild as to make her outrage at it look quite unreasonable and exactly what she was accusing you and others of doing. I've seen her not get her point across on other occasions so it wasn't that surprising.<br />I would have felt shattered to have that sort of cruel scrutiny and then agonised before coming to the ernmalleyscatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-70705155646099417502019-02-02T18:41:34.950+11:002019-02-02T18:41:34.950+11:00I sure did see it and I learned a lot from that wh...I sure did see it and I learned a lot from that whole unpleasant experience. <br /><br />The critique was a mixture of fair and unfair and nobody cared much about it at the time except myself, and I felt it terribly. I don't know that being called out in the national press directly made me any more determined to do whatever this is. It's worth keeping in mind that when I started blogging,lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-91312042184963532872019-02-01T19:33:48.354+11:002019-02-01T19:33:48.354+11:00When I first found it I was intrigued by what Sorr...When I first found it I was intrigued by what Sorrow at Sills Bend might refer to. I'd seen the mention of Lucy Tartan's source.<br />I googled sills bend and the algorithm just gave me your blog until I looked in maps and found that it is a real place in Victoria and not in a book.<br />But weirdly when I searched again to find out about Sills Bend, the place, an entry about the blog ernmalleyscatnoreply@blogger.com