tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post274618935489744825..comments2024-03-01T06:20:29.087+00:00Comments on qualia and other wildlife: O Brook; & 'pests'rosellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-47584746384094660342014-06-03T18:11:41.823+01:002014-06-03T18:11:41.823+01:00Thanks again Miriam! Any chance Jeremy might write...Thanks again Miriam! Any chance Jeremy might write? Or does he already?<br /><br />Glad it made you laugh. I have a sense/fear that TM will NEVER slow down! But me, gotta have some 'hello clouds hello sky' time! xrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-43374817709179073152014-06-03T11:08:30.986+01:002014-06-03T11:08:30.986+01:00Have to say, I did wonder for a nanosecond who exa...Have to say, I did wonder for a nanosecond who exactly was the invalid!! Would be interested to read the book, though.<br /><br />Also meant to say how delighted I am about Writing the Bright Moment which deserves its popularity. I think it's brilliant though must say tend to go to it more when I feel completely blocked. I'm hoping that son Jeremy might one day take it on.<br /><br />And 'up-and-at-'em-at-in-full-pelt'. Made me scream with laughter, and J guffaw. But hard going. We have a friend like that (his wife calls him a walking automatum – spelling?) and we refuse to walk with him, though J increasingly finds my slower pace tedious, I'm sure. It helps that he's 6 years older than me, though. They all slow down eventually, though some don't, I fear!<br />Time for work, M xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-12108909460436273802014-06-03T08:50:03.029+01:002014-06-03T08:50:03.029+01:00I mean the writer was an invalid - not the snail! ...I mean the writer was an invalid - not the snail! Nor the lender...! xrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-34283923296296494432014-06-03T08:49:07.443+01:002014-06-03T08:49:07.443+01:00Miriam, couldn't agree more. My ongoing issue ...Miriam, couldn't agree more. My ongoing issue is our anthropcentric, rather than ecocentric, attitude as a species. Thank you - and glad you recgonised it all.<br /><br />Someone lent me a lovely book about a snail - an invalid (it was autobiographical) who spent her days watching a small snail that lived in a potted plant by her bed. V beautiful book. Changes the way we look at gastropods.<br /><br />Will check if O Brook heads near Jordan (isn't Jordan beautiful??). - But yes there are so many.<br /><br />Have taken to bellowing at the magpies myself ;-).<br /><br />Thank you, Miriam. And love - Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-45848913717046631522014-06-03T08:37:01.628+01:002014-06-03T08:37:01.628+01:00Just a few thoughts after your lovely, funny, nod-...Just a few thoughts after your lovely, funny, nod-in-recognition-inducing blog.<br /><br />Oh Brook? Does it go anywhere near Jordan, just below Widdecombe-in-the-Moor? We walked beside a similar one on the 2 Moors Walk, but there are so many, I know. And incredible to think that bluebells are still flowering so far south of here. Height, I expect, and coolth and more damp?<br /><br />I so agree about magpies (I'll never forget the terrible image of one pacing up and down a cage, used as decoy for others, then shot, by our late neighbour). J bellows at them to scare them off; it relieves him but they're back, of course. It bothers me terribly that the fledglings are such easy prey, but . . . .? No answer, is there.<br /><br />Rats? Well, I agree and always think of Pied Piper of Hamlyn and of the Nazi portrayal of Jews as rats, vermin generally. Yes, a great idea to address them as our shadow-self.<br /><br />Yes, yes, yes, about slugs. Torn between loathing for their destruction of our efforts and wonder for their rather fascinating sluggishness. 'There but for the Grace of God ….' etc. And snails I treat with reverence for the dreadful reason of finding them beautiful!<br />But my aim is to respect all living creatures, try not to condemn them for being what they are.<br /><br />With love from one Miriam-ish Miriam, whatever that means! Keep them coming, Roselle – the blogs, I mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com