Blogcomments for THE GALLOPING SKIRT / SHOUTING AT STREET LIGHTS / BEE'S BLOG / INTELLIBLOG / JACUI BB / NEVER ON SUNDAY and others

I can't leave comments on other people's blogs (see blog below for explanation). So I am going to record my comments in a blog and post it.

Hear are the comments I have made about other people's blogs over the last little while:

The Galloping Skirt – Boo’s Field Guide To Nerds (Part 7) – well done Rebecca. A masterful and insightful conclusion to this wonderful series of blogs. I recognized all the characteristics here – the small bottles of dark beer, the monty python quotes, etc etc. I particularly liked your definition of games.

Shouting at Street Lights – Lest we forget – Michael I love Dido’s Lament. It is a favourite of mine. A million years ago when I was young and lissome I choreographed a performed a solo dance to it.

Bee’s blog – Forgetter be forgotten? – fun word play in this poem

Intelliblog – The sweetness of honey, the sting of bees – what a lovely little poem. I love its gentle humour.

Creative Journey – Wednesday again? Then Poetry it is – Jacqui, I saw this poem on PoemHunter as well (in fact I got onto that useful website because I saw you mention it on your blog). I was struck by the grand imagery and dramatic tone of this poem.

Never on Sunday – Poetry Wednesday – Clearing the path – a lovely, sparely written, bitter sweet poem, Heather. I love it where she writes “I sweep / plum petals or magnolia cones / to clear the way for heartier loves.”

Aussie lynn downunder – silent for a moment – another beautiful, reflective moment from Lyn.

Creative Journey – no one said this would be easy – and another blog about the creative process! Jacqui, I love this painting too. Of course I love the gorgeous colours but in this particular painting the composition is a very pleasing thing for me. Thanks for writing about your process so articulately.

Bakowski Poetry News – what writing poetry requires – good blog on the creative process. My Mum had a uni lecturer who used to advise write it down then get it write as a way for getting past your fear of the blank page. I have always found this to be true. I kind of applied the same idea to my choreography too – tackling blank ‘space’ like a blank page.

Intelliblog – O tempora, o mores – well written (as always) Nicholas. I want to respond but I just can’t. I actually despair over the human race and wonder if the sooner we blow ourselves up the better. We are not good for much.

Sidetracked Charley – My day in Taos – treats are good in the face of legal doings. I approve.

My so called life – Babysitting – hope the little tacker gets better soon. How in god’s name do you get pancakes to look like the cast of squarepants bob or whatever he’s called?

Never on Sunday – Christmas is nothing to write home about… - Heather, I can understand your dilemma. I suppose it’s out of the question to take yourself off somewhere for a treat or some pampering? Book yourself into a restaurant for a special lunch? Buy yourself a really special bottle of wine and curate yourself a do it yourself film festival at home? New Year’s eve / day is always a fizzler for me. I would really like a nice special celebration to welcome in the new year with family but it never seems to happen (my family’s neediness spikes at this time of year and they can bleed the joy out of the most determined merry making). I have decided that this year SCREW IT! Family can look after themselves, I’m taking myself off for a decadent lunch (even if it is on a budget). Good luck!