tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post6731089481371203988..comments2022-11-22T04:01:06.711-08:00Comments on Stravaigin Aboot ... and Misbehavering: Tuesday in Edinburgh, Part twoDr. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06548443897995777204noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-74093908106747821792007-03-06T21:00:00.000-08:002007-03-06T21:00:00.000-08:00Bama -- we have a few you can have. My son Sam ha...Bama -- we have a few you can have. My son Sam had a whole slew of imaginary friends -- Bim Bam, Tin Tan, and the more mundane Brandon. Every once in a while, Brandon resurfaces (usually he gets lost and we have to rush around and find him). We have a few to spare and they are nice.Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-27502756869093142432007-03-06T12:32:00.000-08:002007-03-06T12:32:00.000-08:00Awww...Lena is so cute! And smart too! Hmmm...spar...Awww...Lena is so cute! And smart too! Hmmm...sparkly silver shoes. I wish I had such a nice imaginary friend.<BR/><BR/>My imaginary friend looks just like me and is constantly berating me and making fun of me....hmmm...I think I should trade her in for someone a little nicer...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-66426905038366468692007-03-06T06:42:00.000-08:002007-03-06T06:42:00.000-08:00Dr Bob -Hee hee! Yep, Lena is right...I had one of...Dr Bob -Hee hee! Yep, Lena is right...I had one of those feelings which one gets now and then, feelings of becoming ever so slightly obsolete...my knuckles were dragging a little on the ground. Am expecting any day now to walk in on her ordering a liquidizer from the Shopping Channel, to puree my steak pie and chips. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-47466287277660402292007-03-05T06:36:00.000-08:002007-03-05T06:36:00.000-08:00Lena is very funny. She is right, you know...Lena is very funny. She is right, you know...Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-27609801490499281662007-03-05T06:15:00.000-08:002007-03-05T06:15:00.000-08:00Bama, on the subject of seeing the wee folk, Lena ...Bama, on the subject of seeing the wee folk, Lena informed me yesterday thsat she has an imaginary friend called Audrey, who is a fairy who wears sparkly silver heels. Not too groovy for stravaiging over tussocks and toadstools! when I informed her of this, I recieved the condescending rejoinder, complete with sigh and eye-roll, "Well, Mummy, that IS what they have wings for..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-74418132884778105162007-03-03T06:28:00.000-08:002007-03-03T06:28:00.000-08:00Aww, lassies - ah'm with ye on this! I tend to los...Aww, lassies - ah'm with ye on this! I tend to lose all track of time when I'm somewhere exceptionally lovely - just stand still and try to lose myself in soaking up as much of the vista and atmosphere as I possibly can. It gets downloaded and filed away for me to escape to on future occasions. I haven't the force of imagination to look for worlds inspired by literature, but I escape in me 'ed to places I've been which offered a real sense of peace and harmony.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-9172725080340928402007-03-02T14:22:00.000-08:002007-03-02T14:22:00.000-08:00Bama -- I think that we are meant to be overwhelme...Bama -- I think that we are meant to be overwhelmed by beauty at times. To me that is a sacred moment -- I think that we are to be lifted out of the mundane at times and settled back in gently. Sometimes beauty should be a little sharp and painful.Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-49087014428272840032007-03-02T13:38:00.000-08:002007-03-02T13:38:00.000-08:00Yes...the dog might scare the faeries...but with l...Yes...the dog might scare the faeries...but with luck, he'll be a magic dog that can talk! Although he probably only speaks when no one is around to hear him. You might have to coax him...<BR/><BR/>Rowan I'm familiar with that story about the girls and the photos. I haven't read about it in a long time though...so I'm glad you posted that link!!<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'm a little childish in my imaginings...but I like it. <BR/><BR/>It makes me kind of sad to be overwhelmed by beauty...b/c it means that there either isn't enough of it in my world...or I'm blind to it most days...<BR/><BR/>It's prolly both!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-73997719390320109902007-03-01T14:23:00.000-08:002007-03-01T14:23:00.000-08:00Dr Bob - didn't see your post! Aww, Lena would be ...Dr Bob - didn't see your post! Aww, Lena would be pleased. She is indeed very keen to hear all the possible scenarios which brought the folks to their early graves. <BR/><BR/>Imagination rawks! I am so glad, Bama, that you can wander in woods and look in wonder. I would be looking over my shoulder, wondering if anyone might be folowing me. I might borrow my neighbour's Old English Sheepdog, and he, fab though he is, would scatter all fairies in a five mile radius. Good for you, sistah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-43610011554561952852007-03-01T14:13:00.000-08:002007-03-01T14:13:00.000-08:00I'm sure Lena would enjoy such a stravaig!As to ha...I'm sure Lena would enjoy such a stravaig!<BR/><BR/><BR/>As to having a tentative belief in fairies, you are in good company! However, you would not, as were several lauded boffins of the day, have been taken in by the first known photoshop concerning the little people. Conan Doyle,for all his propensity towards rational thought and empirical analysis, was convinced that the pictures offered by two teenage girs of themselves sitting with fairies, were genuine. It did not seem to strike him that the <A HREF="http://www.prairieghosts.com/fairies.html" REL="nofollow">fairies</A> had state of the art ninteen-twenties hairdos and flapper dresses. <BR/><BR/>Saying that, indeed - why shouldn't the wee folk follow the trends? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-32423698729511975972007-03-01T14:01:00.000-08:002007-03-01T14:01:00.000-08:00Bama, you just have a sense of the unseen and an a...Bama, you just have a sense of the unseen and an appreciation for possibilities. That is not weird at all. I am glad that you are moved to tears by beauty.<BR/><BR/>You would like Lena, she is a good companion. I love gleeful toddler ghoulishness.Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-37466736532200623062007-03-01T11:51:00.000-08:002007-03-01T11:51:00.000-08:00Well, I'm fer sure taking billions of pics. Hopefu...Well, I'm fer sure taking billions of pics. Hopefully I'll learn how to use my camera by then! Haha!<BR/><BR/>Rowan...you think it's cute that I try to go to Narnia and such? I always thought it was quite weird. I'm a full grown adult that still believes that Neverland exists. Sometimes I whisper to trees in case of dryads. I walk quietly through woods in hopes of startling the faeries. <BR/><BR/>Yeah...I'm weird.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I should borrow Lena to go exploring graveyards. Sounds like she'd be a kindred spirit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-39693627734193142412007-03-01T08:31:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:31:00.000-08:00oh, and bama? we want pictures and we want to hea...oh, and bama? we want pictures and we want to hear all about NO. I hope you make it to a graveyard or two.Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-76907612912596087312007-03-01T08:30:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:30:00.000-08:00(we will find you a celtic cross next time, rowan)...(we will find you a celtic cross next time, rowan)Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-55259157837034436872007-03-01T08:29:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:29:00.000-08:00Bama!!So nice to see you! St. John's was all the ...Bama!!<BR/><BR/>So nice to see you! St. John's was all the more wonderful for being unexpected. We just walked in and were totally blown away. <BR/><BR/>I had the same impulse about the trolley and wall. I did pat one or two pillars surreptitiously, but they were solid. Alas.<BR/><BR/>If you had fallen on your tushie with a knot on your head, Rowan and I would have picked you up, dusted you off, and we would have all acted like we meant to do it that way.<BR/><BR/>As to graveyards, this one was very beautiful and peaceful. Cold and quiet. I am glad that you liked them too.<BR/><BR/>(wait til you see St. Giles!)Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-11486817571297215822007-03-01T07:08:00.000-08:002007-03-01T07:08:00.000-08:00Hey Bama!Yep, it is a reeeally lovely church. You...Hey Bama!<BR/><BR/>Yep, it is a reeeally lovely church. You would love it. I didn't want to leave, just to stay and soak up all the gloriousness and peace.<BR/><BR/>Aww - like your images of searching for Wonderland and Narnia. Waverely Station..perhaps it is some sort of portal to exotic destinations. I have not found the entrance, if so, as I only ever end up at the next point on the line going North - Aberdeen. I have only gone south once, many years ago. Glasgow is to the west. <BR/><BR/>Harry Potter has passed me by completely. Have never read a book or seen a film. I do have Harry's specs, tho, minus the black frames. I am ever thankful to him for making my big owly specs acceptable enough for me to wear without being beaten up for serious crimes against fashion. I still only wear them for driving lessons, but I can theoretically wear them now...<BR/><BR/>I like cemeteries too, but it is very sad to read about whole families devastated by illnesses curable today with an antibiotic. Lena finds it deeply interesting, though in a slightly ghoulish way. There is an ancient graveyard in ghe centre of town, and she'll sometimes try and pull me in, to read about the little girl the same age as her who died of croup. I find this mildly unsettling, but maybe it is just greed - i am thinking that stopping off there will lengthen the time it will take to get to the far side of the cemetery, where sits my hot lunch, in the form of a baked potato and beans in Spudulike. Enjoy your wanderings in New Orleans! Sounds like a fab place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-69573377817508308132007-02-28T12:18:00.000-08:002007-02-28T12:18:00.000-08:00Hey y'all! I read most of yer post yesterday but w...Hey y'all! I read most of yer post yesterday but was unable to comment. I have three main things to say:<BR/><BR/>1. That is the most beautiful church I've ever seen. I would LOVE to be able to experience it in person. Sometimes, when I'm overwhelmed with beauty...I'll start crying...so, you'd prolly catch me sitting in that church, staring at the ceiling and the windows...just crying my eyes out.<BR/><BR/>2. If I had been in that train station with y'all...I can bet you money I would've tried to run through the wall with a luggage trolley. I couldn't begin to count the number of "wardrobes" I've tried to climb through to get to Narnia...or how many mirrors I try to stick my hand through to see if I end up in Wonderland with Alice.<BR/><BR/>3. I love cemetaries. I could've spent all day in that cemetary. I really want to tour some in New Orleans when I go. I'm not a weirdo..I don't like them for creepy sake...I like them for the richness of imagining that can be done...wondering about the lives of the people long gone...and just soaking in the sadness, history and peacefulness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-36290975561596043732007-02-27T22:27:00.000-08:002007-02-27T22:27:00.000-08:00Thanks for the heads up on the differences between...Thanks for the heads up on the differences between Episcopalian and Presbyterian. Have always wondered exactly what the distinctions were. Now I know! Cool! I am livin in this country, but learning a lot, which is great.<BR/><BR/>I am wishing I had bought a celtic cross now. This is what comes of being pathologically indecisive. I must mend my ways and order one of those Past Times "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) t shirts, to remind me to buy stuff I like when I get the chance. The crosses were lovely. Maybe the market will be there again next December.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-86226396269103109222007-02-27T21:49:00.000-08:002007-02-27T21:49:00.000-08:00yeah -- me too. Glad that you liked the pictures....yeah -- me too. Glad that you liked the pictures. <BR/><BR/>Edinburgh was just beeyootiful.Dr. Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138093813115332376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665459348518151422.post-17080295452028927842007-02-25T07:21:00.000-08:002007-02-25T07:21:00.000-08:00Dr Bob - could look at those St John's pics all da...Dr Bob - could look at those St John's pics all day. They are lovely! The celtic cross amongst the curling branches is another favourite.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Am now pining for steak pie and home made soup..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com