Thursday, April 5, 2007
Thursday bloghop #10
Note to self: must find out what cameras these people use - their photos are, to a one, gorgeous.
1. First stop, John Baker who's a professional writer with a terrific blog. He says that "writers write to learn, to explore, to discover, to hear themselves saying what they do not expect to say" - and that's certainly what he does here. He quotes from novels and poems, and is always interesting, usually stimulating, frequently funny. Today's "old children's rhyme" reminds me of the best of Schoolhouse Rock, and Vonnegut's Eight rules for writing fiction are fascinating, and when you think about it, the best fiction does actually observe these rules! This is going to be one of my favorites places.
2. Demob Happy Teacher is Welsh and introduces her blog with the statements "The good side of getting older is that you have the confidence to say what you think, whether people like it or not. The downside is that you slide gradually into invisibility - unless you have 'attitude'". The photos are divine, the comments amusing and spot-on, the topics covered all over the place which is how I like a lot of my online reading. I knew there were terrific looking sheep in Wales but I wasn't expecting a beautiful beach.
3. Arthur Clewley's Diary is posted in North Yorkshire and is gorgeous, replete with lovely photos (do all Brits and UK'ers know how to take good photos - as well as act - ?) and written, as are the above two, to draw you in and hold you. I didn't know that Sylvia Plath is buried in Heptonstall; did you?? If I wasn't pretty much hooked by then, when I got to the photo of the extremely silly trio of alpacas - and Arthur's query about these "horses" - then the preceding one about the daffodils would have done the trick.
4. Then I got tricked into clicking over to Mutterings and Meanderings because they were smart enough to use that first word (heh). Today featuring a piece on Richard the Lionheart as it does, I'm a goner already. I can't remember the names of them, but Thomas Costain wrote four or five (or more) books on the British monarchs (including Richard and Eleanor) and the books made both an anglophile and a reader out of me. So if someone says "Richard the Lionheart", I'm all theirs. M&M's post on the grey mare is a gem, not to be missed, as is post on being a "bookworm".
5. Seemingly less involving, Pig in the Kitchen is actually mesmerizing. It's a recipe blog because of her daughter's dietary restrictions . . . and the recipes and photos are pheNOMenal. If this is what restricted looks (and almost certainly tastes) like, then count me in! The Mother's Day Truffles, the chocolate bowls that hold strawberries (yum!), the Easter biscuits, the smug 'n' spicy vegetable dish (golly it looks good) . . . now I'm drooling and will have to replace my keyboard. After I do some cooking.
Just what I needed: five new places that I simply have to stop by and read every day.
1. First stop, John Baker who's a professional writer with a terrific blog. He says that "writers write to learn, to explore, to discover, to hear themselves saying what they do not expect to say" - and that's certainly what he does here. He quotes from novels and poems, and is always interesting, usually stimulating, frequently funny. Today's "old children's rhyme" reminds me of the best of Schoolhouse Rock, and Vonnegut's Eight rules for writing fiction are fascinating, and when you think about it, the best fiction does actually observe these rules! This is going to be one of my favorites places.
2. Demob Happy Teacher is Welsh and introduces her blog with the statements "The good side of getting older is that you have the confidence to say what you think, whether people like it or not. The downside is that you slide gradually into invisibility - unless you have 'attitude'". The photos are divine, the comments amusing and spot-on, the topics covered all over the place which is how I like a lot of my online reading. I knew there were terrific looking sheep in Wales but I wasn't expecting a beautiful beach.
3. Arthur Clewley's Diary is posted in North Yorkshire and is gorgeous, replete with lovely photos (do all Brits and UK'ers know how to take good photos - as well as act - ?) and written, as are the above two, to draw you in and hold you. I didn't know that Sylvia Plath is buried in Heptonstall; did you?? If I wasn't pretty much hooked by then, when I got to the photo of the extremely silly trio of alpacas - and Arthur's query about these "horses" - then the preceding one about the daffodils would have done the trick.
4. Then I got tricked into clicking over to Mutterings and Meanderings because they were smart enough to use that first word (heh). Today featuring a piece on Richard the Lionheart as it does, I'm a goner already. I can't remember the names of them, but Thomas Costain wrote four or five (or more) books on the British monarchs (including Richard and Eleanor) and the books made both an anglophile and a reader out of me. So if someone says "Richard the Lionheart", I'm all theirs. M&M's post on the grey mare is a gem, not to be missed, as is post on being a "bookworm".
5. Seemingly less involving, Pig in the Kitchen is actually mesmerizing. It's a recipe blog because of her daughter's dietary restrictions . . . and the recipes and photos are pheNOMenal. If this is what restricted looks (and almost certainly tastes) like, then count me in! The Mother's Day Truffles, the chocolate bowls that hold strawberries (yum!), the Easter biscuits, the smug 'n' spicy vegetable dish (golly it looks good) . . . now I'm drooling and will have to replace my keyboard. After I do some cooking.
Just what I needed: five new places that I simply have to stop by and read every day.
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