*Flavours of holy days.* Worthy of Walter De La Mare.
This is so good because it summons forth childhood memories. Was I the only boy in Christendom who looked forward to Shrove Tuesday? My mother's pancakes. And the very word Shrove. Followed by Ash Wednesday.
I love the novels of Maurice Gee. New Zealanders call pancakes pikelets. I met Maurice Gee and his wife for lunch in London in 1997.
I didn't celebrate Shrove Tuesday but if I had, I would have looked forward to it! This year I served pikelets to my colleagues for a Shrove Tuesday morning tea....well I intended to but after I bought the pikelets I had a small car accident (no damage done) in the shop car park. Two of us simultaneously backed out of our spaces and somehow neither was aware of the other. They were not nice about it and I was already stressed so I delivered the pikelets to work and let somebody else serve them while I went home to get over it.
So, you don't just read but meet accomplished people as well!
Praise God, you survived that road accident, Kylie.
I started reading New Zealand writers in the 1980s, after reading Australians. Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson (pity they had to assume masculine names) as well as Patrick White, Alan Marshall, Thomas Keneally, James Aldrich, Glenda Adams, and heaps more.
I read and reread David Malouf's *Harland's Half Acre* and *The Great World*. Patrick White is close to an obsession of mine: I have his biography and Letters. In Scotland we watched The Sullivans on television.
This year I found the DVDs of The Doctor Blake Mysteries which are wonderful: That postwar period is one of my great interests; the Blake dramas are subtly acted; I was particularly impressed by the widow who is his housekeeper.
You are on a roll. I like this one the best!
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ReplyDeleteAnd mango sings of Christmas to me. Indeed I am expecting (and hoping for) a mango in my Christmas stocking.
I thought of your legendary fruit salad as I wrote it!
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There must always be chocolate logs but haiku is like a syllable diet!
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ReplyDeleteWorthy of Walter De La Mare.
This is so good because it summons forth childhood memories.
Was I the only boy in Christendom who looked forward to Shrove Tuesday?
My mother's pancakes. And the very word Shrove. Followed by Ash Wednesday.
I love the novels of Maurice Gee. New Zealanders call pancakes pikelets.
I met Maurice Gee and his wife for lunch in London in 1997.
I didn't celebrate Shrove Tuesday but if I had, I would have looked forward to it!
DeleteThis year I served pikelets to my colleagues for a Shrove Tuesday morning tea....well I intended to but after I bought the pikelets I had a small car accident (no damage done) in the shop car park. Two of us simultaneously backed out of our spaces and somehow neither was aware of the other. They were not nice about it and I was already stressed so I delivered the pikelets to work and let somebody else serve them while I went home to get over it.
So, you don't just read but meet accomplished people as well!
Praise God, you survived that road accident, Kylie.
ReplyDeleteI started reading New Zealand writers in the 1980s, after reading Australians.
Miles Franklin and Henry Handel Richardson (pity they had to assume masculine names) as well as Patrick White, Alan Marshall, Thomas Keneally, James Aldrich, Glenda Adams, and heaps more.
I read and reread David Malouf's *Harland's Half Acre* and *The Great World*.
Patrick White is close to an obsession of mine: I have his biography and Letters.
In Scotland we watched The Sullivans on television.
This year I found the DVDs of The Doctor Blake Mysteries which are wonderful:
That postwar period is one of my great interests; the Blake dramas are subtly acted; I was particularly impressed by the widow who is his housekeeper.
Nice one Kylie.
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