tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post115010808298565971..comments2023-10-14T13:05:11.694+02:00Comments on Peregrinations: Is this the real life?Lesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150894714969961432006-06-21T14:58:00.000+02:002006-06-21T14:58:00.000+02:00What a naughty girl you were Sarah!Can you still g...What a naughty girl you were Sarah!<BR/>Can you still get American Cream Soda? (I hear there's been a revival in the popularity of Cremola Foam which was my faible when I was 5. I used to steal it from other girls' lockers. I would just prise the lid off, stick my tongue in and wait for the fizz.)<BR/>Scottish dentistry is now Polish dentistry from what I hear.Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150834625415984762006-06-20T22:17:00.000+02:002006-06-20T22:17:00.000+02:00We used to steal Curlie-wurlies and walnut whips, ...We used to steal Curlie-wurlies and walnut whips, not to mention money, from my father's shop (he had a filling station ... boy did <I>we</I> fill up). He must have wondered where it all went. Oh, also, we used to drink the top inch of ever big bottle of lemonade and ice-cream soda and then put them back on the shelves. <BR/><BR/>No wonder I have a mouth full of fillings. I'm going now before I get startes on 20th century scottish dentistry.<BR/><BR/>PS And we froze flies with the aerosol cans of car-fire extinguishers and put those back on the shelves too.Sarah Mackenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04054433450594356987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150366808326802002006-06-15T12:20:00.000+02:002006-06-15T12:20:00.000+02:00It's definitely not a case of thickness but of san...It's definitely not a case of thickness but of sanity. I don't think I was actually allowed walnut whips, I was usually palmed off with a boring old milky way.Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150298872842607082006-06-14T17:27:00.000+02:002006-06-14T17:27:00.000+02:00I only didn't say anything because I'm too thick t...I only didn't say anything because I'm too thick to actually "get it".<BR/><BR/>But I do love that you were born in the age of walnut whips and curly wurlies. Do they still make walnut whips? Walnut whips always seemed such a "grown up" treat to me. I suspect I have only eveer tasted two in my life!Ms Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363385142330348970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150192028494095512006-06-13T11:47:00.000+02:002006-06-13T11:47:00.000+02:00yes, I don't find Winterson rivetting at all, in f...yes, I don't find Winterson rivetting at all, in fact don't bother to read the article. Think her novels must be better than her journalism. <BR/>I keep listening to all the Book of the week's books. Before Patrick Marnham's Wild Mary it was Anna Massey reading her own autobiography .... have I already said this?<BR/>I'll look at Book club.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150183680559623292006-06-13T09:28:00.000+02:002006-06-13T09:28:00.000+02:00Deb: I'm not a great fan of Jeanette Winterson, bu...Deb: I'm not a great fan of Jeanette Winterson, but will look at the artice all the same. I listened to Ali Smith on rRadio 4's <A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/bookclub/ram/bookclub_20060507.ram" REL="nofollow">Book Club</A> recently: she's exactly the same age as me and sounds a bit like me too, a bit pedestrain to be honest, not at all like her writing. Wasn't it David Lodge who wrote a novel where each chapter was a pastiche of a well-known writer? I read the book without realising there was any change in style between chapters.Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150181601583312002006-06-13T08:53:00.000+02:002006-06-13T08:53:00.000+02:00.... the interesting question is whether this sort....... the interesting question is whether this sort of novel would 'travel', what would someone living in Calcutta or Trinidad make of it? You'd have to have end notes!<BR/><BR/>But fun for someone the same age and origin as the writer ... nothing new though, Henry Miller made endless references to books etc in his Rosy Cruxifiction, Aldous Huxley in Eyeless in Gaza has endless literary references, and suppose Ali Smith vaguely influenced by Virginia Woolf? However, Lesley, am impressed, and think, like Proust, you could do a take-off of all the latest contemporary authors.<BR/><BR/>Anyone not too keen on 'magic realism' might not be bowled over ..... has Ali Smith just won Orange Prize? no, that is the other Smith, Zadie.<BR/>Here is Jeanette Winterson on Ali<BR/>http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002396.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10215844.post-1150136236878626752006-06-12T20:17:00.000+02:002006-06-12T20:17:00.000+02:00Since you are all too kind to point this out, I'll...Since you are all too kind to point this out, I'll do it myself. When I actually watched Clare Danes in My So-Called Life I wasn't the same age as her character. In fact I could probably have been her mother. It didn't stop me identifying with her though.Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.com