tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post6609750318766124255..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: not so hotlucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-62422420569337510092008-03-07T17:15:00.000+11:002008-03-07T17:15:00.000+11:00a contemporary review of Noblesse Oblige by TIME 1...<A HREF="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808510-2,00.html" REL="nofollow">a contemporary review</A> of Noblesse Oblige by TIME 1956<BR/><BR/>I am still reading 'Letters' and cross-referencing in Cecil Beaton's Diaries 1940's until I can get again <A HREF="http://copperwitch.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Copperwitch's</A> Diaries of Chips Channon to cross-cross-ref ... au secours!Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-3891082253181728582008-01-21T20:02:00.000+11:002008-01-21T20:02:00.000+11:00Dear Laura - I have the new 800pp Letters between ...Dear Laura - I have the new 800pp Letters between 6 sisters which is <B>hysterical as well as educational</B> and I will bring it to the thing on Feb 2 if you would like it.<BR/>My first Mitford reads were decades ago and the history books on Sun King & Marie Antoinette, then ABC ran the series on the books you mention and I was hooked.Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-36586036471902930702008-01-19T09:42:00.000+11:002008-01-19T09:42:00.000+11:00That reminds me, I must make an appointment to hav...That reminds me, I must make an appointment to have some more intensifier put in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-19651629306860428302008-01-17T18:40:00.000+11:002008-01-17T18:40:00.000+11:00For some reason, I had assumed it was some kind of...<I>For some reason, I had assumed it was some kind of hair product.</I><BR/><BR/><B>Intensifier</B> <I>(tm)</I>! Just apply it to your head, and it will turn your hair from non-descript into <B>very</B> non-descript! It won't happen overnight, but it <B>really will</B> happen! <BR/><BR/><B>Intensifier</B> <I>(tm)</I>! Endorsed by really quite a lot of supermodels!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-7521295141754997532008-01-17T09:43:00.000+11:002008-01-17T09:43:00.000+11:00And, your writing? Ain't broke, don't fix it.(Jeez...And, your writing? Ain't broke, don't fix it.<BR/><BR/>(Jeez, or jeebus rather, you can't half tell I spend hours reading American blogs...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-81807792355749992072008-01-17T09:41:00.000+11:002008-01-17T09:41:00.000+11:00don't you people have Google? 'an intensifier is a...<I>don't you people have Google? 'an intensifier is a word that adds emphasis' (about third result down.)</I><BR/><BR/>For some reason, I had assumed it was some kind of hair product.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-28361718921259808102008-01-16T21:33:00.000+11:002008-01-16T21:33:00.000+11:00I don't believe you didn't believe I didn't actual...I don't believe you didn't believe I didn't actually know what an intensifier was. Awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-71925038363267403942008-01-15T21:20:00.000+11:002008-01-15T21:20:00.000+11:00I read Noblesse Oblige when I was about 17 and did...I read Noblesse Oblige when I was about 17 and didn't really understand the context but it's subsequently been very useful knowing about U and non-U. I might even still have that copy, but I'm sure you'd find it in a library.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17680687031479016392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-67994020592250081252008-01-15T14:25:00.000+11:002008-01-15T14:25:00.000+11:00Rebekka, how amazin' - I was only just wondering w...Rebekka, how amazin' - I was only just wondering whether to bother trying to find a copy of Don't Tell Alfred.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-42346937553507537342008-01-14T19:57:00.000+11:002008-01-14T19:57:00.000+11:00The Book Market at Fed Square is on Saturdays in t...The Book Market at Fed Square is on Saturdays in the big open space where the restaurants/coffee shops are leading up to BMW Edge and the NGV.<BR/><BR/>I love the Mitfords. I am so antique/vintage that I got on to the Mitford's via Jessica's Hons and Rebels when it was promoted long ago in The Women's Weekly when it was a weekly and still a decent magazine. Social cameos so absolutely foreign Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-10939913896326513172008-01-14T15:11:00.000+11:002008-01-14T15:11:00.000+11:00Quelle coincidence. I was reading LiaCC and PofL t...Quelle coincidence. I was reading LiaCC and PofL to my beloved over the really hot days. We both laughed uproariously. Then I had to read him Don't tell Alfred, as we wanted more.<BR/><BR/>I've ordered some more Nancy Mitford novels - The Blessing, Highland Fling and something about pudding? (Can't remember that last title), but I'm really trying to get my hands on Wigs on the Green, which she From the lion's mouthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08269847882599124126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-56597175845319742152008-01-13T13:41:00.000+11:002008-01-13T13:41:00.000+11:00don't you people have Google? 'an intensifier is ...don't you people have Google? 'an intensifier is a word that adds emphasis' (about third result down.)<BR/><BR/>I overuse these - especially really and particularly. They represent an crippling lack of faith in the capacity of normal nouns and adjectives to do their jobs unassisted.<BR/><BR/>CIB, yes I hope girlchild can be persuaded. Very few books deal with adult female relationships so welllucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-67775384807537317172008-01-13T11:20:00.000+11:002008-01-13T11:20:00.000+11:00So, what IS an intensifier?(Awkward embarassed sil...So, what IS an intensifier?<BR/><BR/>(Awkward embarassed silence)<BR/><BR/>ZOMG1, Laura, I can't believe the coincidence. I bought LIACC and TPOL (Both novels in one volume) last year to re read. Laugh-out-loud funny! I'd so forgotten how funny they are!<BR/><BR/>I'm pushing it onto Girlchild, she is resisting, however she is reading the Portrait of Dorian Gray and 1984, completely unprompted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-74811566006872881832008-01-12T21:10:00.000+11:002008-01-12T21:10:00.000+11:00Oh my god Sophie I can't believe you don't know wh...Oh my god Sophie I can't believe you don't know what an intensifier is.<BR/><BR/>(awkward smug silence)David Nicholshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-6471975756170826242008-01-12T19:26:00.001+11:002008-01-12T19:26:00.001+11:00oh and i meant to say, anon, above, is me, sophie....oh and i meant to say, anon, above, is me, sophie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-16120329335017917302008-01-12T19:26:00.000+11:002008-01-12T19:26:00.000+11:00What's an intensifier?What's an intensifier?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-62700464620171030292008-01-12T10:58:00.000+11:002008-01-12T10:58:00.000+11:00LT, why don't you just let the publisher know you'...LT, why don't you just let the publisher know you'd like a copy to review for your book blog? Bugger paying for it. You would be doing readers a public service reviewing it for Sars anyway.<BR/>However you might have to wait a bit I suppose. Depends how quickly you want to read about talking about things you haven't read, doesn't it.<BR/>Or borrow it from Latrobe when it gets in there.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895689949182365454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-13470227065638976872008-01-12T08:35:00.000+11:002008-01-12T08:35:00.000+11:00I think I saw Noblesse Oblige on a table at Federa...I think I saw Noblesse Oblige on a table at Federation Square. Not sure when they have their book markets, either Saturday or Sunday, but there's a good chance the same seller will turn up with the same wares.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-52171518968791882712008-01-12T07:59:00.000+11:002008-01-12T07:59:00.000+11:00Yes, over 40 C is horrid.Glad the cool change has ...Yes, over 40 C is horrid.<BR/>Glad the cool change has arrived, I am heading to Melbourne and was a little worried about having to lie on the floor in the middle of an art history conference.<BR/><BR/>beef wellington. heh.fifihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06946945635726214503noreply@blogger.com