tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post7564130909127692453..comments2024-03-28T19:03:24.043+00:00Comments on THE SMALL THINGS: National nonsense.Tania Kindersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-11939483983044475452011-07-09T07:30:11.752+01:002011-07-09T07:30:11.752+01:00Tania
Your workshops this week were wonderful! T...Tania<br />Your workshops this week were wonderful! Thank you for sharing with all of us your invaluable knowledge and information. We were stunned when we left the room yesterday and Jenny could not bask in the knowledge received this week but had to go on to a gig at night and play her mandolin. I feel spurred on to write more and give up timewasting. I now realise from reading your blog that you know Austin in Texas and we visited that lovely city often and in particular loved to go and watch a group from Austin called "The Asylum Street Spankers". Spending six years in sun-drenched Texas made us appreciate the variable climate of Scotland. Your pictures capture the beauty of our Scottish landscapes. Thank you for taking Pigeon to meet us. Thanks once again, the week was SO enjoyable. You gave us so much of you and your wisdom. FionaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-14440769966267735412011-07-05T19:52:38.580+01:002011-07-05T19:52:38.580+01:00Every day I think, the pictures of the gardens and...Every day I think, the pictures of the gardens and the land and the dog(s) cannot get any more gorgeous than they are today. Then I see the next day's photos...Fidgety Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12077716368857001531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-32143212808170948272011-07-04T00:15:52.984+01:002011-07-04T00:15:52.984+01:00Dear Tania, I have to say I never thought Andy Mur...Dear Tania, I have to say I never thought Andy Murray would win. Great match though, as was todays.<br /><br />I know how you feel about your mind not quite being there. I'm finding it hard to finish anything. Gorgeous pictures again. I wish my honeysuckle looked like that. Love, C xxChristina @ Fashion's Most Wantedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583201549332262341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-45551478074078639722011-07-03T23:33:23.543+01:002011-07-03T23:33:23.543+01:00I seem to remember Tom Lehrer wrote a funny song a...I seem to remember Tom Lehrer wrote a funny song about nations loathing each other. On my travels I was surprised to find the north Dutch dislike the South Dutch, and the northern Italians see southerners as almost a different race. The same applies to the Scots and English, and Northern Ireland and the Republic - and probably most other countries. Maybe this has deep roots in tribal life of millenia ago! <br /><br />I went to school in Scotland aged 12-14 (Falkirk High School) and at first was called The Sassenach (in a teasing rather than bullying way). I solved the problem by adopting a Scottish accent. "She speaks like a real Scots lassie noo!" people used to say admiringly!Viviennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-6616021238759294282011-07-03T08:51:49.669+01:002011-07-03T08:51:49.669+01:00Oh sorry. I've just realised that parts of my ...Oh sorry. I've just realised that parts of my comment read like 1980s literary criticism "As a white, middle-class, late twenties, part Scottish, part Irish, part English heterosexual woman who is marrying a Scottish man and living in London..."<br /><br />I apologise.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00414010663277948166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-86369345623152453222011-07-03T08:49:14.599+01:002011-07-03T08:49:14.599+01:00I'm English, Irish and Scottish. My lovely unc...I'm English, Irish and Scottish. My lovely uncle did hate my Dad for being English at first (according to my Dad) and did exaggerate his accent when visiting England to see my Mum when she moved here with Dad (again according to my father) but he was no fool and saw she was happy. He is really wonderful and lovely and generous with his time, money and emotion. <br /><br />I'm marrying a Scot so I may be biased. And my history may make me biased too but I love Celts. I know the long memories can cause problems but get very cross when people say all Scots are rude and (as someone who lives in London and tries to be polite) when people say everyone in that London is rude too. <br /><br />I don't think there is a way of summing all of thus up though. Far too many shades of grey. It's not necessarily something that can ever have an elegant summary. <br /><br />Glad you seem to be doing okay. And love the flowers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00414010663277948166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-10632603360078028822011-07-03T03:52:38.845+01:002011-07-03T03:52:38.845+01:00Do I dare tell all that on my mother's paterna...Do I dare tell all that on my mother's paternal side, we are Fraziers (spelled that way)? The tartan isn't very bright; the "motto" (or whatever it's called)is "Je suis pret." Considering that I just bought myself a "vacation" T-shirt which reads "I put the 'pro' in procrastination" you can imagine how amused I was to discover this...<br /><br />Those trees look like something out of a fairy tale: magical!<br />XXPat (in Belgium)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02367089351412953926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-77272014318032351162011-07-02T20:25:28.177+01:002011-07-02T20:25:28.177+01:00Alex - people do seem very cross about the shaving...Alex - people do seem very cross about the shaving. Love your combination of roots.Tania Kindersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-91840001408762947902011-07-02T20:04:45.301+01:002011-07-02T20:04:45.301+01:00One of the volunteers at work (who is a fine upsta...One of the volunteers at work (who is a fine upstanding gentleman and a JP) went into a fine old rant about how much he hated Andy Murray this week. I think the basis of his argument was that Mr Murray needed to have a shave.<br /><br />I'm half Glaswegian and half Scouse. By the law of generalisations that should mean that, um, I'm somewhat chippy, prone to arguments and fond of football. Not far wrong...Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337968500120821387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-46100370751202019022011-07-02T17:39:05.958+01:002011-07-02T17:39:05.958+01:00Mystica - always so lovely to hear from you. Glad ...Mystica - always so lovely to hear from you. Glad you like the dog rose. They are little hedge roses, which grow wild here, and I planted mine with hawthorn and elder to look as if they had grown up naturally. They are also sometimes called sweet briar, which sounds very poetic. :)Tania Kindersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-32164630319822833872011-07-02T17:24:34.447+01:002011-07-02T17:24:34.447+01:00Thank you for an educative post! On a lighter note...Thank you for an educative post! On a lighter note thank you for the honeysuckle. I was waiting for the flowering one to show up and now I know what a dog rose looks like. Was always wanting to know.Mysticahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10941269615559681014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-88987572687227990692011-07-02T17:11:40.520+01:002011-07-02T17:11:40.520+01:00Ellie - I LOVE that comment. Esp that last bit abo...Ellie - I LOVE that comment. Esp that last bit about the mad Oban man with the nice wife.<br /><br />Oddly, I when I think of Texas I think of artists, writers and great music, because my old friend Sophie lived in Austin for a while and told me tales of it. And it has very happy associations because it is where she met her lovely husband.Tania Kindersleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355967725006605825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365244084462704027.post-42141969428461274152011-07-02T17:07:30.158+01:002011-07-02T17:07:30.158+01:00Generalization applies strongly to US regions as w...Generalization applies strongly to US regions as well. Once when I was visiting my mother in Seattle I went to a grocery store and a woman behind me in line made a derogatory comment about my Texas driver's license, which encompassed her loathing of the state of Texas, Texans, and the very concept of Texas in general; everybody knows we're arrogant, Republican, selfish, etc. Right to my face. I didn't tell her I'd spent the first 23 years of my life 12 blocks from the grocery store in which she was insulting my adopted home; and I didn't tell her what Texans think Seattleites are like, either, but I should have. I think she would have found both facts instructive. <br /><br />As for the Scots, I generalize in the opposite direction: I would take all of my holidays there if I could, and have rarely met lovelier people. Except for the man in the Oban pub who was too drunk to pour his beer into his glass and was a hair's-breadth away from smashing his bottle and cutting us with it, apparently because we were tourists. His wife, though, seemed very nice.Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04888019230555832929noreply@blogger.com