Comments on: In medias res http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588 Island to island Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Duchess http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3962 Duchess Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:38:56 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3962 Judith - I would have trembled to offer my blog for your scrutiny, but thank you so much for your kind words. You are certainly right that I should write more; I would be better if I did, as would we all: practice might not make perfect but it definitely makes better. MLS -- Did I say painting? (And no, it isn't...) house/ pet sitting only another few days. Back to England and boat mid January. PZW -- Thank you for visiting, and persisting. I really will put more about the boat soon. Judith - I would have trembled to offer my blog for your scrutiny, but thank you so much for your kind words. You are certainly right that I should write more; I would be better if I did, as would we all: practice might not make perfect but it definitely makes better.

MLS — Did I say painting? (And no, it isn’t…) house/ pet sitting only another few days. Back to England and boat mid January.

PZW — Thank you for visiting, and persisting. I really will put more about the boat soon.

]]> By: Midlife Slices http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3961 Midlife Slices Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:27:34 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3961 Is the painting done? Is the painting done?

]]> By: Judith Baumel http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3956 Judith Baumel Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:53:46 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3956 Having discovered it, I have devoured this entire blog in one sitting. Reading and reading past my normal bedtime. How could I not? The writing of the Dutchess is brilliant and smart, elegant and moving. Why have I not realized it has been here all along? Please, please, please, write every day. You have years of notes, surely, and a lifetime of talent, to make this blog the phenom -- book -- it deserves. And I have many thoughts about your wise writing on love and friendship and betrayal. Thoughts on mothers and grandmothers and children and grandchildren. Mostly I am sending love. J Having discovered it, I have devoured this entire blog in one sitting. Reading and reading past my normal bedtime. How could I not? The writing of the Dutchess is brilliant and smart, elegant and moving. Why have I not realized it has been here all along? Please, please, please, write every day. You have years of notes, surely, and a lifetime of talent, to make this blog the phenom — book — it deserves. And I have many thoughts about your wise writing on love and friendship and betrayal. Thoughts on mothers and grandmothers and children and grandchildren. Mostly I am sending love. J

]]> By: Duchess http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3951 Duchess Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:33:39 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3951 MLS - I am here until early January, and then back to the boat in England. Ruth - Apparently I do need emoticons. I got several messages hoping I was all right when really I was only playing. But you are no one to advise. Everytime you write the number 8 we get some smiley thing in sunglasses. :-) MLS - I am here until early January, and then back to the boat in England.

Ruth - Apparently I do need emoticons. I got several messages hoping I was all right when really I was only playing. But you are no one to advise. Everytime you write the number 8 we get some smiley thing in sunglasses. :-)

]]> By: ruth pennebaker http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3949 ruth pennebaker Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:20:45 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3949 Please, no emoticons! You're far too good a writer to need them. Please, no emoticons! You’re far too good a writer to need them.

]]> By: Midlife Slices http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3948 Midlife Slices Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:09:57 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3948 It's amazing what we mothers can do no matter how far away we are from the offspring. I just wish they could appreciate our efforts a little more. How long will you be house/pet sitting this time? There's nothing worse than no power. Glad it's back on for ya. It’s amazing what we mothers can do no matter how far away we are from the offspring. I just wish they could appreciate our efforts a little more.

How long will you be house/pet sitting this time? There’s nothing worse than no power. Glad it’s back on for ya.

]]> By: Liz http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3941 Liz Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:35:21 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3941 Glad you are warm and safe again - not to mention blogging again! Glad you are warm and safe again - not to mention blogging again!

]]> By: Pzw http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3940 Pzw Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:57:50 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3940 Glad to see you back....I enjoyed your earlier posts about moving...and kept checking back....read your mother's blog...looking forward to more blogging about life aboard boat.... Glad to see you back….I enjoyed your earlier posts about moving…and kept checking back….read your mother’s blog…looking forward to more blogging about life aboard boat….

]]> By: Duchess http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3937 Duchess Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:50:44 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3937 Well, thank you both for saying so. I do my best as daughter and mother. As for the firemen, I think they are rather friends to me. But as this post also provoked a worried response from my mother I think I ought to say that I didn't mean anyone to take my distress very seriously. If I had really thought my daughter was at risk I probably would have ordered up something a lot less yummy than a double chocolate with whipped cream. And my most serious inconvenience was that I was denied the BBC for 18 whole hours. I am beginning to see the value of emoticons. Or maybe I should introduce an irony tag? Well, thank you both for saying so. I do my best as daughter and mother. As for the firemen, I think they are rather friends to me.

But as this post also provoked a worried response from my mother I think I ought to say that I didn’t mean anyone to take my distress very seriously. If I had really thought my daughter was at risk I probably would have ordered up something a lot less yummy than a double chocolate with whipped cream. And my most serious inconvenience was that I was denied the BBC for 18 whole hours.

I am beginning to see the value of emoticons. Or maybe I should introduce an irony tag?

]]> By: ByJane http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3936 ByJane Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:33:11 +0000 http://duchessomnium.com/?p=1588#comment-3936 Duchess: Such a good mother and daughter you are. Not to mention friend to firemen.... Duchess: Such a good mother and daughter you are. Not to mention friend to firemen….

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