tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post1566035157998425218..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Doing without flying buttressesRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-28416756458184447252021-08-07T17:00:21.041+01:002021-08-07T17:00:21.041+01:00Mary Reising: I'm a solitaire maniac too. But ...Mary Reising: I'm a solitaire maniac too. But only because I am able to let the mobile do the shuffling and the dealing. I tell myself I'm shortening the response time between my brain and my fingers. 2m 10sec is about my best time.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-80523372277211164552021-08-07T14:00:05.969+01:002021-08-07T14:00:05.969+01:00I just returned from a similar vacation, one fille...I just returned from a similar vacation, one filled with lots of time and family. I played a lot of solitaire. With actual cards. I'm happy to hear you are feeling a bit better. Colettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14764648090250725429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-57030340038643691342021-08-03T06:57:15.847+01:002021-08-03T06:57:15.847+01:00Marly: Most people regard writers as lollygaggers ...Marly: Most people regard writers as lollygaggers and it is true that for long periods the keyboard remains silent, doesn't click. But writer-critics should if poss examine a writer's face, note the sense of strain, the imminent conviction of this-time-it-isn't-going-to-happen.<br /><br />I am now on a new and more powerful course of antibiotics and feel some progress. Amazing; my most recent singing lesson, yesterday, was a raging success. The timbre was sustained and - because I'd forgotten to acquire a new score of Brahms' <i>Die Mainacht</i> (The May evening) - I was subjected to a much more rigorous tutorial without the normal visual aid of musical notation. V was disposed to comment: "Well done, you." This as as an invalid!Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-65759101907834983692021-08-03T03:46:32.421+01:002021-08-03T03:46:32.421+01:00Hope you are at the end of your antibiotics now an...Hope you are at the end of your antibiotics now and feeling like singing...<br /><br />I'm afraid that a great deal of what writers do looks rather lazy from the outside. Nevertheless, enjoy that daytime dreaming, on holiday or not.Marlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-11804781783426778752021-08-02T08:19:33.421+01:002021-08-02T08:19:33.421+01:00Garden: It's all that gardening. You live in a...Garden: It's all that gardening. You live in a different world, one I have conceded to a paid gardener, thirty years younger than me. He reported progress by email as I sloughed in Wales. An admirable impetus to mind-wandering.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-55570358549293882722021-08-02T08:15:06.067+01:002021-08-02T08:15:06.067+01:00MikeM: Perhaps too amiable. Last year Poglich was ...MikeM: Perhaps too amiable. Last year Poglich was leading the TdF right up to the final stage, a time trial, when Pogacar blew him away. And then Pogacar, early on, turned the 2021 TdF into something of a procession, gapping the field by 5 min. O'Connor (Australia), of whom I'd never heard, briefly shone then faded - albeit to fourth which was pretty good.<br /><br />I fear I'm not following the Olympics too closely. Anti-biotics dominate my primary thoughts.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-56860858284415904102021-08-02T08:02:13.250+01:002021-08-02T08:02:13.250+01:00robin andrea: Sounds fine to me. Why should you fe...robin andrea: Sounds fine to me. Why should you feel bad about thinking about anything? If you do, try and refine your thoughts about the pandemic. Apply Kipling's Five Great Friends: Who? What? When? Why? Where?Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-26613921594916354892021-08-02T07:58:20.900+01:002021-08-02T07:58:20.900+01:00Sir Hugh: Your supposition needs correcting, addin...Sir Hugh: Your supposition needs correcting, adding in the adjective: "non physical activity". Then you need to consider - objectively - what has passed through your mind during the sloughing period. Looking for ways it might be expanded. In fact, these processes happen more or less automatically.<br /><br />If you continue to feel guilty, consider how you might have spent the time more productvely. By which I mean mentally not physically. In particular tackle subjects you would would otherwise have avoided.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-79148666321747293902021-08-01T20:38:12.312+01:002021-08-01T20:38:12.312+01:00Holidays are surely the time to renounce that Vict...Holidays are surely the time to renounce that Victorian guilt about doing nothing. At home it seems impossible to lie in the sun for any length of time without jumping up to attend to some task or other. On holiday I can lie back and do nothing for hours! Time out, space, is a necessary balance to action, essential for good art, music and life.Share my Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817611851604816123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-24700729550625015372021-08-01T16:53:46.813+01:002021-08-01T16:53:46.813+01:00Cycling, YES. The Olymics brought some interesting...Cycling, YES. The Olymics brought some interesting, and (to many), gratifying surprises. The "theft" of the women's road race by an amateur, mathematics professor. Roglic, the seemingly very amiable former ski jumper in the men's TT... and outside of cycling, the stunning upset, by a Tunisian of the US and Australia in the 400M men's freestyle swim final.MikeMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-84789359230173498702021-08-01T15:07:05.943+01:002021-08-01T15:07:05.943+01:00I like knowing that time cannot be wasted. I won&#...I like knowing that time cannot be wasted. I won't feel so bad when I sit on the couch for hours doing absolutely nothing but contemplating the outcome of this pandemic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-16786579308128895672021-08-01T12:24:28.821+01:002021-08-01T12:24:28.821+01:00I'm glad to hear that (you think) time is not ...I'm glad to hear that (you think) time is not wasted in periods of non activity. I will try to encompass that but I doubt if I will overcome that far too ingrained feeling of guilt you refer to. Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.com