Posts by Grace Dalley
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Leaser, not Lesser
It's Jolisa, y'all :-)
"It's just a North Islander..."
Wow, what a classic reassurance! I hope museums have moved on since then.
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There is a bit of dialogue in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book that sticks in my mind: one child asks another how many brothers and sisters he has, and what their names are. The second child lists his siblings, and the first child says, "And the dead ones?", and they talk about the children in both families who have died.
It's hard to imagine what life was like when infant mortality was so high. Nowadays the death of a child is a rare tragedy; what must it have been like for families to expect to lose a number of children?
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Wonderful story, Jolisa, thank you! Among many other fascinating things, I'm particularly fascinated that Dickinson wrote her poems on whatever was to hand. What profligate talent, that pours out over every available surface!
(I seem to remember Hone Tuwhare's last anthology was likewise compiled from poems he'd written on the backs of shopping lists, the inside of old cereal boxes, scraps of paper he'd used for bookmarks, etc. What a treasure hunt it must have been, searching his house for them.)
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In my childhood I always associated the Hutt with this Hutt.
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Robyn Gallagher has a lovely piece on how the Eagles' song Hotel California is actually about the Hutt Valley, if you know how to read the coded references.
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The Creative Hub sounds fantastic -- I hope it's a roaring success.
I've always found it odd that most people consider their learning to be over when they leave high school/uni/polytech. As if there was nothing further they needed to know.
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I was about to enthuse about Rosamond Lehmann and then realised I was mixing her up with Elizabeth von Arnim. They're both great.
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This is my favourite version of the Doctor Who theme: played with electricity!
The device used here is sometimes known as a "Zeusaphone", because of the, uh, lightning bolts!
According to Wikipedia:
"Zeusaphone, also called a Thoremin, is trademark for a high-frequency, solid state Tesla coil, when its spark discharge is digitally modulated so as to produce musical tones. The high-frequency signal acts in effect as a carrier wave; its frequency is significantly above human-audible sound frequencies, so that digital modulation is able to reproduce a recognizable pitch. The musical tone results directly from the passage of the spark through the air.
This is a variant of the plasma arc loudspeaker, designed for public spectacle and sheer volume rather than fidelity."
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Um, this is just a theory, but I always thought the collar-turned-up mode was so you could wear your pretty silk scarf and/or rope of pearls with a blouse without everything getting jumbled up at the neck. And you can put a jacket over the top as required without having to decide whether you wear the blouse collar over the jacket or under.*
*disclaimer: I haven't worn my collar up since the 80s, when everybody did it. -
I imagine the organisation would have a challenge establishing any kind of loss when all the person is doing is linking to publicly available material.
In most cases links to your content are a gain, surely?