tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post8556143850156510692..comments2024-03-22T07:29:41.391+00:00Comments on Jayne Ferst: There she goes!Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-81823708431107999502007-11-15T15:16:00.000+00:002007-11-15T15:16:00.000+00:00As it should! It's only the best book ever written...As it should! It's only the best book ever written.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02235285305204676357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-28055970923379905082007-11-11T21:04:00.000+00:002007-11-11T21:04:00.000+00:00I use a great website that tells you what the weat...I use a great website that tells you what the weather was no matter what year/month, and it does say about the 'Great Freeze'. You could walk on the lake at St Albans?! Blimey! I was there on Saturday (the town that is, not the lake) - Christmas is definitely a-coming, is all I can say.<BR/><BR/>And Ben, nice to think you are on chapter ten as well. Ah, that elusive motivation. If you find it and have any going spare, please lob some my way! I shall do likewise... As for Sylvia Plath, that's not bad, that's impressive... I was the same with Virginia Woolf, if it’s any comfort. Years after the study finished, Mrs Dalloway still gives me the shivers.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309191526500602452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-28114344690717342812007-11-11T12:30:00.000+00:002007-11-11T12:30:00.000+00:00Hi Jayne. I'm up to Chapter 10 too - just need to ...Hi Jayne. I'm up to Chapter 10 too - just need to find that elusive motivation to get it finished. Only 20,000 to go!<BR/><BR/>Best of luck with yours - I'm off to look behind the sofa for that motivation.<BR/><BR/>b<BR/><BR/>p.s. Is it bad that whenever anyone mentions the December 1962 smog I automatically think of Sylvia Plath who died a few months later? That woman is irrevocably in my head like a manic depressive albatross, years after I left university. I should have done a dissertation on J K Rowling instead.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02235285305204676357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3507901142971459084.post-30826877098729365812007-11-09T13:57:00.000+00:002007-11-09T13:57:00.000+00:00Don't forget that the winter of 62/63 was one of t...Don't forget that the winter of 62/63 was one of the coldest on record. I know, I was there. It started to snow in Dec 62 and continued and didn't thaw until March 63, ave temp during that period - below 0C (and we lived in a house without central heating!) I remember snow piled up at the side of the road for the whole of the winter term. The lake at St Albans where we lived froze over and you could walk on it!<BR/>Happy days...I think.music obsessivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16191742084494035205noreply@blogger.com