tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post6314327204783179910..comments2024-03-28T09:37:34.133+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: SelstonYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90791481791918311792021-08-14T19:26:25.655+01:002021-08-14T19:26:25.655+01:00I find the narrow house interesting. As I age I do...I find the narrow house interesting. As I age I don't want to deal with stairs. I live in a timber community. Although it has change over the years. Now it seems to bring in retires from other areas.<br />Coffee is on and stay safepeppylady (Dora)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01649272822470007714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-390299538525712902021-08-14T17:57:51.291+01:002021-08-14T17:57:51.291+01:00A *shared myth* is a tautology or at the very leas...A *shared myth* is a tautology or at the very least a pleonasm.<br />I meant that the Sixties gave rise to a plethora of psycho-social myths.<br />Meritocracy. The Sexual Revolution. We are all divine. Tune in, drop out.<br /><br />We celebrated being young in a very public way: Youthquake.<br />We had the Pill or the girls did, hashish, LSD, colour TV, Hendrix.<br />The big names shared their success, Carnaby Street, Mary Quant, Habitat.<br />We were deceived by the Eastern gurus or followed les events in Paris '68.<br /><br />There is a book I never got around to reading but I like the title:<br />*Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius*.<br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-73783934780638891732021-08-14T17:48:48.929+01:002021-08-14T17:48:48.929+01:00So that's what Phoebe thinks of her admirers! ...So that's what Phoebe thinks of her admirers! Let's hope she grows out of that kind of comment before she hits teenage! <br />Interesting the various comments about how England has changed. Apart from occasionally passing through Heathrow on my way elsewhere, I haven't been back since 2003. I keep up with current news, but realise that if I come back permanently now, it will seem like a foreign country inhabited by aliens speaking a language I only vaguely recognise! Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-2273398993866514972021-08-14T15:16:35.536+01:002021-08-14T15:16:35.536+01:00Historians do not think in terms of decades.
Yet ...Historians do not think in terms of decades. <br />Yet the Sixties changed everything : It did not change back again.<br /><br />The Sixties were also a shared myth for those at a formative age.<br />Len Deighton said the Fifties looked grey (that word again) by comparison.<br />I.F. Stone wrote an iconic book, *The Haunted Fifties: 1953-1963*.<br />Stone hated Cold War rhetoric, House UnAmerican + political conformity.<br />After 1963 we sold the Beatles, Cilla and Dusty Springfield to the USSR.<br /><br />No, things were not swinging in East Yorkshire or the West of Scotia.<br />But the bairns could go out to play by themselves in the Swing Park.<br />As my mother used to ask my father in the 1990s, *Where are the children?*<br />She missed their merry laughter. <br />Something had vanished from our neighbourhood.<br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-67174276593966542272021-08-14T14:56:02.925+01:002021-08-14T14:56:02.925+01:00Commentators will often think in cartoons and gene...Commentators will often think in cartoons and generalisations. Take "The Swinging Sixties". They weren't swinging in East Yorkshire. People were just getting on with their lives.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76970510147767281062021-08-14T14:53:28.682+01:002021-08-14T14:53:28.682+01:00I walked around the church but unfortunately the d...I walked around the church but unfortunately the door was locked. Phoebe seemed non-plussed by the admiration and did not react. Apparently she had released an enormous poo by Milton Keynes. Frances said that the clean-up was a two man job. Lovely!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-45667753237949183692021-08-14T14:40:26.448+01:002021-08-14T14:40:26.448+01:00That house looks rather odd, on its own like that....That house looks rather odd, on its own like that.<br />Did you get a chance to take a closer lookmat the church?<br />How did Phoebe react to her admirers?Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-55866251505803323902021-08-14T14:32:25.670+01:002021-08-14T14:32:25.670+01:00BBC Two HD The Many Primes of Muriel Spark (2018)....BBC Two HD The Many Primes of Muriel Spark (2018).<br />DiMarco Documentaries. YouTube.<br />H.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-63639272824352214702021-08-14T13:08:41.265+01:002021-08-14T13:08:41.265+01:00Someone said that we only talked about community w...Someone said that we only talked about community when communities had disappeared. Is it not the same with social harmony?<br /> <br />I was born in 1951 in the neighbourhood Kelvingrove-Yorkhill.<br />Nobody in 1951 said, *This is a real community and there are many like it all over Glasgow.* <br />Nor did folk talk about the importance of family. <br />All these things were a given. Like law and public order. And civic pride.<br /><br />In a BBC documentary on Muriel Spark (YouTube) the journalist Alan Taylor said the Edinburgh of Spark's childhood was *a grey place*. <br />I have heard the same thing said of the 1950s and I respectfully disagree.<br />Strict social convention underpinned community and harmony. <br />But it wasn't grey. Just look at the first colour photos of our cities.<br /><br />*Nottingham Slab Square 1950s.* YouTube.<br />I felt I was back in time, ready to drop into a Lyons Corner House for a cup of tea and lardy cake.<br />Thomas Harding has a terrific history of the Lyons empire, *Legacy*.<br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-61849334602992086282021-08-14T12:38:12.222+01:002021-08-14T12:38:12.222+01:00That simple, comfortable England seemed to have a ...That simple, comfortable England seemed to have a kind of harmony that has gone now... or was it always an illusion?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90729740735748337162021-08-14T12:36:21.334+01:002021-08-14T12:36:21.334+01:00That sounds exciting! That sounds exciting! Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39621758513475652222021-08-14T12:24:13.045+01:002021-08-14T12:24:13.045+01:00Perhaps it was the gravel pits gatekeepers house w...Perhaps it was the gravel pits gatekeepers house where you paid for your cart load of gravel? I once worked on a big country estate and my job was to count the pieces of gravel on the drive!northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79673655277713773562021-08-14T11:17:24.253+01:002021-08-14T11:17:24.253+01:00Well Grandpa Yorkshire Pud, rightly chuffed you sh...Well Grandpa Yorkshire Pud, rightly chuffed you should be! There was romantic writing about old England's landscape and its beauty that today's writers cannot capture. I still love Edward Thomas and of course good old Betjeman.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-14139568997104213642021-08-14T10:19:32.095+01:002021-08-14T10:19:32.095+01:00I can see where you are coming from with that Dave...I can see where you are coming from with that Dave but somehow I do not think so. The house was there in 1888 when there were few other houses around. It may have been the gatehouse to some gravel pits that lay behind it.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-30438871853477934342021-08-14T09:35:45.700+01:002021-08-14T09:35:45.700+01:00Could the slim house once have been a Toll House o...Could the slim house once have been a Toll House on a Turnpike road YP?northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-57729661114626004102021-08-14T09:12:06.247+01:002021-08-14T09:12:06.247+01:00I doubt those rich men would have thought that aft...I doubt those rich men would have thought that after reading "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and the other early short stories. They would have seen an image of England that was unrecognisable to them.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38007139334424676972021-08-14T09:09:51.946+01:002021-08-14T09:09:51.946+01:00"Odour of Chrysanthemums" is a short sto..."Odour of Chrysanthemums" is a short story. Lawrence wrote several short stories based upon his childhood environment before becoming an accomplished novelist. Since I read those short stories - when I was seventeen - I have always had a special affection for Lawrence so I am rather biased.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-12218373621217678162021-08-14T09:04:03.526+01:002021-08-14T09:04:03.526+01:00I thought the same when I spotted that lonesome ho...I thought the same when I spotted that lonesome house.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38348162226388367672021-08-14T09:03:33.061+01:002021-08-14T09:03:33.061+01:00There'll be T-shirts, keyrings and of course a...There'll be T-shirts, keyrings and of course a monthly magazine called "Phoebe News".Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-41851992125055568252021-08-14T08:23:15.665+01:002021-08-14T08:23:15.665+01:00I see that you have been collecting more members f...I see that you have been collecting more members for the Princess Phoebe Fan Club. You should maybe think about asking for subscriptions. JayCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373622852406554111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-77012325529930120902021-08-13T23:49:00.934+01:002021-08-13T23:49:00.934+01:00The house is very interesting. It appears to lost ...The house is very interesting. It appears to lost its mates on either side. It must be nice to have your progeny admired.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-8896621337316863912021-08-13T23:31:27.466+01:002021-08-13T23:31:27.466+01:00I've never read that book of Lawrence's. I...I've never read that book of Lawrence's. I've only read the more prurient ones, I guess. Should I give it a try? <br />Lovely post. And I have to say that I very much like the word "chuffed." It's one I wish we had adopted on this side of the pond. And I am sure that Phoebe is as cooed over and admired as any baby in history. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32496136269385692662021-08-13T23:22:03.428+01:002021-08-13T23:22:03.428+01:00Malcolm Muggeridge said he wept when he heard of L...Malcolm Muggeridge said he wept when he heard of Lawrence's death, and then he turned against him. <br />Leavis, who was gassed in the trenches, championed Lawrence's early work.<br /><br />What would Lawrence think of England now? <br />He would say England had ceased to exist and that a hideous No Place had replaced it. <br />When billionaires retire they live on farms and raise pigs.<br />Lawrence's England is a rich man's fantasy.<br />H.Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-62082318602138084932021-08-13T23:04:55.886+01:002021-08-13T23:04:55.886+01:00Sadly, I believe that the birthplace museum is now...Sadly, I believe that the birthplace museum is now closed down. At just 45 you might say that Lawrence had completed his apprenticeship. The best was still to come.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-17420100045766011642021-08-13T23:02:19.845+01:002021-08-13T23:02:19.845+01:00Yes. Delightful Margaret.Yes. Delightful Margaret.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com