Gwyneth's personal blog - Comments

Plashing Vole: Actually, back in the olden days...

nospam@example.com (Plashing Vole) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:02:28 -0500

Hi. Have you seen this? It makes the masks worn by the band in Bold As Love possible!
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/electroluminescent-paint-like.html

Gwyneth: Seven Dials Elm

nospam@example.com (Gwyneth) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:48:25 -0500

Hi Mike,

A valid point, and I had a feeling someone was going to say just that! The trouble with voting-in a "Green" Council, is, I suppose, that the Green vote tends to think the job is done, and those guiding the city's governance can be trusted just to get on with being Green about it. & The lesson is an old one: the price of liberty, annoying though this may be, is constant vigilance. Thanks for your comment.

mike: Seven Dials Elm

nospam@example.com (mike) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:18:34 -0600

Hi... It's not the case that the council never mentioned their plans for the tree. I'm a local resident, I was at the final presentation of council plans at the public meeting last December, and I was aware from this meeting that the tree was scheduled to be cut down.

So if the eco-warriors didn't know, it only means one thing - that they weren't really on the case. Is it easier to go for a photo-opportunity up a tree than attend a meeting on a cold December night?

I must admit I'm angry that those who want to save the tree haven't been busy organising for the past three months, rather than holding up the scheme which will make Seven Dials a much better place to use.

Gwyneth: Seven Dials Elm

nospam@example.com (Gwyneth) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:05:09 -0600

Nor me, but the tree's fate is still uncertain and the bbc news item seems to show B&H "Green" Council recalcitrant. Bizarre and very sad.

birdie: Seven Dials Elm

nospam@example.com (birdie) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:04:43 -0600

Unbelievable! I remember that elm from when I lived in Brighton, I can't believe they would be so utterly stupid.

Gwyneth Jones: The Gynoid Interview (With Danielle de Santiago)

nospam@example.com (Gwyneth Jones) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:08:35 -0500

Thanks for your comment and if you're in touch with Danielle say hello & give him my best wishes. i enjoyed doing that interview.

Jo: The Gynoid Interview (With Danielle de Santiago)

nospam@example.com (Jo) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:02:45 -0500

Hi, Gwyneth. What an interesting interview. I remember Danielle talking about his plans for it - as a friend of his, I can tell you his post gets lost with depressing frequency (both ways) and chances are so too did your magazine. That or life and complications (of which there have been many) got in the way of sending it. Forgive him!

Jo x

Plashing Vole: The Storm's Tail

nospam@example.com (Plashing Vole) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:31:43 -0500

Two pieces I wrote on policing, privatisation and public space:
http://plashingvole.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/uncanny-fry-and-laurie-predict-future.html

http://plashingvole.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/buy-something-or-youre-nicked.html

Allan Lloyd: Prometheus Unbound

nospam@example.com (Allan Lloyd) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:40:18 -0500

I farmed for over forty years in Herefordshire until my retirement four years ago. We had hundreds of lapwings on the farm. In those days all stock farmers grew swedes for sheep, which were planted in late May or June after the ground lay fallow over winter since the previous harvest. Financial pressures meant that fewer farmers grew swedes, or they put a catch crop on the ground between corn and swedes, and as simply as that, goodbye nesting area for lapwings. Conservation policy from the EU has done little to stop this and it has been ages since I have seen any of these beautiful birds. Another modern tragedy.

Emmet: Sunday sad, Tuesday happy

nospam@example.com (Emmet) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:28:57 -0500

Hello again, just a note to draw your attention to a podcast I completed for my new site on women in SF (and my annoyance with the related discussion).

http://themomusreport.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/momus-report-podcast-women-in-sf-pt-1.html

Thanks again. Emmet

gwyneth: Wind And Rain: Ginger Is Poorly

nospam@example.com (gwyneth) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:49:50 -0500

Okay, April. I meant 18th April, we get like that, we older people, we keep wishing time would pass more slowly... Glad somebody's awake.

Dave: Wind And Rain: Ginger Is Poorly

nospam@example.com (Dave) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:20:46 -0500

Surely you mean 18th April in your opening sentence? That really threw me for a second or two . . .

Thanks for all your posts they are informative, cheering and I enjoy reading them. Thought I'd put that in . . .

I like your reading recommendations as well.

Dave

gwyneth: Pickled Cabbage No Frogs

nospam@example.com (gwyneth) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:55:35 -0500

Thanks! At first glance, it looks as if it'll be a challenge to track this down, but I'll certainly try.

graywyvern: Pickled Cabbage No Frogs

nospam@example.com (graywyvern) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:55:10 -0600

there is a hard to find movie about Sor Juana:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100990/

...translated into English, "I, the Worst of All"...

(we were fortunate enough to watch it at tts US premiere, in Dallas)

well worth tracking down!

m.

Jesper Rugård : Sick As Dogs

nospam@example.com (Jesper Rugård ) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:42:30 -0600

What a beautiful poem, I don't think I've it before. I find it a lark taking photos of trees as well, especially lonely ones standing on hills.