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poppet

I keep deleting stuff from my profile trying not to be too chatty and then I just sound really boring I just don't know exactly what to tell you! Let's see....Should be retired but am not--work at home. Second marriage (oh, bliss). Grown kids. Other women my age have hair that's turned gray but mine turned red. I don't spend much time studying... more »
  • Concord, NH, USA
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  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    Hello?! Poppet?! Darling?!

    We miss you!
    XXX

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    I seen you! I seen you!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    I spent 30 minutes or so in the company of a non-reader ( doesn't, not can't) and found it hideously boring; a stream of inconsequential here-and-now chatter with no depth or perspective...totally trivial and self-centred, as it MUST be for someone whose knowledge of the world is so limited.

    Non-readers have so little idea of the way other people live. I have never been to Concord (:( , but I know what Concord is like : I know what Chaucer's England was like: I know an anachronism when I see it. I can find common ground with people like you whose lives are quite different to mine-because we both read. But the non-reader I was with would have no idea whether Concord was old or new or why it is so called. What a tragic loss !

    I can't imagine why someone would want to be like that !!! Aren't we lucky ?

    I was going to send you some mice, but we haven't had many this year, despite it's being ' the season of mice and mellow fruitfulness.'

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    An elderly friend's daughter whose children are semil-literate (and have no interest in being otherwise) has a 42" television. QED !

    My bedtime reading is Rumer Godden's' 'A Fugue in Time', preceded by 'A Candle For St Jude.' I love the way she describes houses-like Dodie Smith-so that you can hardly bear it that you don't live there.

    At one stage I adored the Angelique books...I don't know if I want to read them again in case they are of the cringe-making genre. Possibly not ! The earliest ones, anyway. The last ones seemed somewhat written to order, but who wouldn't keep on with this lucrative series ? I have read the odd Frank Yerby, but can't remember them at all well.

    The ultimate shame would be to have read the Virginia Andrews books...and still have them.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Demmit, I sent a nice long note which somehow seems to cleared off into cyberspace.

    Yes, I was a precocious little tot & proud of it. I can just remember the realisation that the letters B R E A D on our old-fashioned bread-bin spelt bread, and haven't stopped reading since !

    What do people who don't read DO ? My attention span for television is virtually non-existent.

    Aren't you glad that nobody else has decided to write a sequel to 'I Capture the Castle' ? Don't you just hate it when people do that ???

    It's now the equivalent of your mid-October here & still warm enough for open windows & short sleeves. I thought you'd like to know that !

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, Poppy, do keep your hand in --- don't be a Lurker, now, don't. You're mind is just as agile as any of them. The thing is to join in and bond... they're a fun crowd, some of them.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    Thomas was lots of fun. My parents went with us. I think they enjoyed seeing bubbie have so much fun. And they bought him everything in sight. I'm not sure how the tour works. Where we go, they just a shell of Thomas. The train itself isn't attached to the Thomas shell. I think the tour probably just goes to various train stations around the country.

    I think there was a TV movie of the book you're reading with Judy Davis and Sally Field. Is it about a rich woman and her housekeeper?

    I've just started Atonement, which I'm really enjoying. My students have projects due today, so soon I'll be reading those. Joy. Rapture.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Sadly, I live in New Zealand so can't take up the kind invitation. ( cries)

    Yes, Shefari people are almost invariably kindred spirits-at least the AA ones-I wish we could all meet somewhere.What a time we'd have talking books-books-books. My Shelfari shelves are still quite poorly populated as I spend all my time having dsicussions & forget to stock the shelves.

    I didn't see the film of I Capture the Castle as I was afraid it might not be true to the book which I almost know by heart. I wish that I could get her other works; I used to have Autumn Crocus & another whose name I forget. But the Castle is the one I love. It is most unjust that it tends to be in the teenage section of libraries.

    I was also horribly precocious; began reading at 3 & haven't stopped since ! But what a gift to be given. I read I Capture the Castle at 10 & was instantly enchanted by it & wanted to BE Cassandra. I suspect that she & Simon do end up together; they are such soulmates in a way that he & Rose never could be.

    ,

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    I will be teaching this summer after all, but the money will be most welcome. It's the first time I've had summer duty in five years, so I can't complain too much (although I probably will anyway). I love your sentence about the "sad little raisin." Too, too apt.

    Our soft spring weather has returned. Let us hope it holds out until Friday, when hubby and I are taking the wee bairn to see Thomas the Train, accompanied by his maternal grandparents.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Dear Poppet, you simply must enter into our discussion about Mapp and Lucia... and get on board at the group again. We've been reading all sorts of wonderful things this year that you've allowed to slip past you. Really, do try.

    I think we must do a Pym at AA...

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    Spotted you in a list on Facebook, and sent you a wee note. Hope you'll recognize me.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    We're not exactly "sailing" here, but we are managing to hold steady. The semester is rapidly drawing to a close, thank goodness. I hope that I won't be teaching summer school, but I may need to if hubby doesn't have any job prospects by the time June rolls around.

    Thank goodness for reading and telly. They help lift the doldrums and ease the burden, don't they?

    And it feels as if we are living in your neck of the woods today. After several weeks of positively balmy weather with lovely soft wind, we're back in the freezing temperatures today with a 50% chance of snow. Snow! Heaven help us.

    I shall now go put the kettle on. And maybe boil a tea towel or two.
    XXX

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    Heck, I don't think I will ever forget Nobu. And whenever I think of him, the next thought it simply this: winklepicker. It amazed (and clearly still does) that the boy wore such odd things... not to mention what he did with lettuce and loo rolls. Unbeknownst to him, he gave me more than my fair share of giggles, and for that I ought to send him a heap of linen squares with little cabbages embroidered all over them.

    I am in the throes of whooping it up at home, spending some time at the beach and knitting up a storm. When I read, which hasn't been much these past few days, it's our beloved Molly Keane. Finally! Queen Lear and I are getting along quite well. The divine Miss Pym is on my list for summer reading, as are Mapp & Lucia. So now? I am anxiously awaiting summer. Am I not supposed to be living in the moment, though? Isn't that what all the hottest gurus are saying these days? Oh! Dear! I must... get... my tongue... unstuck!

    I wish you a sunny day. Very soon. And will send smelling salts by the truck load.
    xx

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    I saw your note just below mine on Tinky's page; I LOVE I Capture the Castle; first read it as a child (I was a horrdly precocious tot) & read it at intervals when I need a Castle fix. Isn't a great book ? What wonderful, totally believable people.

    I know just what you mean about the profile; mine is so now rambling that nobody would want to read it, but when I abridge it (out of character as Hermione, of course) it doesn't sound at all interesting...

    You live in Concord with an academic & a huge library ??? Can I come and live with you ?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    You're reading "Mapp and Lucia"! Yay! I hope you're enjoying it!! "My Cousin Rachel" was a very good read, too. I haven't read 'I Capture the Castle' but a lot of the AAers have and love it. I must get around to it, that and "Miss Pettigrew" and "Cold Comfort Farm" and oh, a host of others. I don't know "Memento Mori"...

    Those pesky bangs are so tarsome, but we wouldn't have you any other way.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    Dear Nervous Nelly,

    Fear not. Eat chocolate. Worry is ever so tarsome.
    XXX

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    (Eavesdropping on Lady Dixie's page)

    No, Poppet, I never got your note!

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Well, the doctor tells me that nothing will cure your blue roses like a re-read of Mapp and Lucia. We also just finished (and are discussing) du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel." Have you read that one? Yummy. And we're voting on our next read - so jump in, the tea's still hot.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Dixie

    Lady Dixie says

    I think I'm rather stoic. In fact, a friend asked me last night how we're doing. When I said we were fine, she told me to cut the crap and talk about what was really going on. Thank goodness for those types of people, who draw you out when you're trying not to think about what lies ahead.

    We've had unbelieveably warm days here, which are soon to be followed by clouds and rain. Have you started to thaw out?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )


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