tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post409906400060212343..comments2023-05-02T12:33:58.182+01:00Comments on Perpetually In Transit: Three years ago today Perpetuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-61754246982712189062014-02-25T10:38:51.267+00:002014-02-25T10:38:51.267+00:00Thanks, Dee. I love your blog too and remember fin...Thanks, Dee. I love your blog too and remember finding it quite soon after you began it. Glad you enjoyed the Flanders and Swann. Yes, I've posted a couple of their songs before and my overseas readers always love them. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-64606607009825544352014-02-24T19:12:33.459+00:002014-02-24T19:12:33.459+00:00Dear Perpetua, yours is one of my favorite blogs a...Dear Perpetua, yours is one of my favorite blogs and I'm so grateful you began it back in 2011. That's when I began also--in late May. The video/audio of Flanders and Swann was a real hoot. I'm not familiar with them but I have a vague memory that at some point you posted another video by them. Peace.Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00612299013780771262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-14577057586967240282014-02-24T17:30:41.772+00:002014-02-24T17:30:41.772+00:00They are indeed, Annie, though it was in fact via ...They are indeed, Annie, though it was in fact via Annie in Spain that I found you. You commented, I clicked on your username and there you were. As for the debate above, my baby sister and I have some VERY interesting discussions at times. :DPerpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-86190128434436003072014-02-24T16:28:05.578+00:002014-02-24T16:28:05.578+00:00Having scrolled down further ... they're back!...Having scrolled down further ... they're back!Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-6902002875640867392014-02-24T16:26:54.097+00:002014-02-24T16:26:54.097+00:00Likewise :) (I think we discovered each other via ...Likewise :) (I think we discovered each other via the sorely missed Hattats.)<br /><br />I'm fascinated by the debate above. Of course it's true that ours is a very genteel and polite corner of Blogtopia, but I don't see choosing to stay within it as any different to choosing to lunch in the local pub rather than McDonalds. Each to their own and all that! <br /> <br />Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-74617571123672630322014-02-24T14:09:07.350+00:002014-02-24T14:09:07.350+00:00Hear, hear, Shirley and thanks. You've put int...Hear, hear, Shirley and thanks. You've put into words something I've felt but not said - that making friends across oceans and between cultures has to be a very positive thing for international understanding. No more living in our own little box, unaware of the rest of the world. As for learning from blogs, I think I do that every day - from recipes to knitting tips and insights into art and history and all with a personal touch.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-21861830167307194122014-02-24T08:36:19.629+00:002014-02-24T08:36:19.629+00:00Congratulations on your 3-year blogging anniversar...Congratulations on your 3-year blogging anniversary:) I don't 'do' Facebook but love reading blogs and contributing not as often as I should.<br />The whole world opens up with blogging and international friendships must surely help world peace as we become more tolerant of other folks. <br />And of course there are all those blogs that teach us skills in whatever area we are interested in.<br />Long may Blogland survive!!Shirlwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582037340209866437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-73891338426719091722014-02-23T22:26:22.483+00:002014-02-23T22:26:22.483+00:00Thanks, MM. Nuggs are always welcome. :-) I love t...Thanks, MM. Nuggs are always welcome. :-) I love the way other blogs spark off our own imagination and thought processes - a very creative international interaction. Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-8175292483005039142014-02-23T20:12:00.964+00:002014-02-23T20:12:00.964+00:00A very happy blogging birthday, Miss P. Your blog ...A very happy blogging birthday, Miss P. Your blog is a great source of inspiration to me, and I'm happy to count you amongst my blogging pals. Big nuggs xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-52543823892849903152014-02-23T13:32:22.525+00:002014-02-23T13:32:22.525+00:00Thanks, PolkaDot. Last year our lives were much mo...Thanks, PolkaDot. Last year our lives were much more static than usual and we're looking forward to resuming what has become our normal patter. It won't last for ever, but I think we have a few more years of it still to come. See you soon. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-78079467311388653082014-02-23T13:30:44.862+00:002014-02-23T13:30:44.862+00:00Thanks, Spindrift, I intend to. :-) You make an i...Thanks, Spindrift, I intend to. :-) You make an interesting point about blogging and/or pen friendships. Sadly, I think conventional pen friendships by letter are gradually disappearing as the immediacy and lack of cost of email and other electronic communication take over. My long-time German penfriend reads my blog and comments by email, which has for some time been our normal means of communication except for Christmas cards. Times change, but the need to communicate and build relationships doesn't and blogs are a great way to do both.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-74680582352901753462014-02-23T12:28:38.441+00:002014-02-23T12:28:38.441+00:00Congratulations on your third blogging birthday Pe...Congratulations on your third blogging birthday Perpetua! Long may you & DH enjoy your lives 'perpetually in transit' and looking forward to seeing you both in March before you set off from Mid-Wales on your spring migration to Scotland. Xs PolkaDotPolkaDothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753780150155246671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-7475035846827204532014-02-23T12:08:04.049+00:002014-02-23T12:08:04.049+00:00Happy Anniversary yet again! Looking through all t...Happy Anniversary yet again! Looking through all the comments above, I was pondering the current health of 'pen friends', and how blogging has really transformed inter-continental friendships. Blogs are different from the more intimate pen-friend relationships of course, which I assume must now mostly be e-mail based. Keep blogging, Perpetua - you are our weekly tonic!<br /><br />Spindrift51Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-71265867761030976442014-02-22T21:32:59.736+00:002014-02-22T21:32:59.736+00:00Doesn't time fly when we're enjoying ourse...Doesn't time fly when we're enjoying ourselves, Annie? Yes, people seem to talk among themselves quite nicely on here sometimes.... <br /><br />Yours was one of the first blogs I discovered after starting my own, via a comment you left on Ayak's blog and we did seem to hit it off straight away. :-) . I love this blogging chain reaction which leads us to discover such interesting people living in such varied settings. Now if we can only get this Spanish meet-up organised, we may one day manage to meet face to face. Wouldn't that be great?<br />Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-23326559034132688942014-02-22T21:26:27.834+00:002014-02-22T21:26:27.834+00:00Yes, it's great to see them back, Annie. There...Yes, it's great to see them back, Annie. There's a catch-up post in my blog-list in the sidebar and more posts are promised. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-50638452782382358932014-02-22T17:07:12.526+00:002014-02-22T17:07:12.526+00:00Three years of blogging only? Feels like I've ...Three years of blogging only? Feels like I've always known you, Perpetua - and just looking at the comments here, you have certainly created a blog that enjoys full-blown conversation. It's always a pleasure to pop by and see what you're up to or what has caught your attention recently. <br />It's been a delight to have met you - virtually - and it has worked for me as well as if we'd met in person! Keep on doing whatever you do - it's great!<br />AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-24326252030763069602014-02-22T17:03:19.506+00:002014-02-22T17:03:19.506+00:00How lovely to see those two names again - forever ...How lovely to see those two names again - forever linked with you, Perpetua, and my own early ventures into blogging! Hope we'll be seeing some HATTAT posts again before long. AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-9283810102691493902014-02-22T11:58:39.301+00:002014-02-22T11:58:39.301+00:00Pearl is a star already to me. :-) I think I trie...Pearl is a star already to me. :-) I think I tried Next Blog once in the early days, but was so put-off by what I found I didn't go further. I find the blogs i follow via other blogs or commenters on my blog and it works just fine.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-68915944678433876542014-02-22T10:32:14.434+00:002014-02-22T10:32:14.434+00:00You can find other types of blogs by clicking the ...You can find other types of blogs by clicking the words NEXT BLOG at the very top of the ones you already read, in idle moments. Maybe you don't have idle moments...<br /><br />I have a blog or two I follow and I am really not sure why I read them most days when they post, except as a form of aversion therapy v excessive fashionista-ism and horse-bonkers-ism. I like buying new clothes when I am feeling a bit flush, or swooping on bargains in charity shops, and I love horses, and even try to ride them in the warmer weather when my hips and knees hurt less, but some days these writers take it to a whole new level of obsession. A warning against being monothematic on any topic I guess. My favourite blogger bar none is Pearl in Minnesota, who is a comic writer par excellence, and I found her via you. Thank you for the introduction. She's a star in the making.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-87423546206469340712014-02-22T10:21:55.565+00:002014-02-22T10:21:55.565+00:00FB has just put in a huge multi-billion dollar bid...FB has just put in a huge multi-billion dollar bid to buy WhatsApp. The kids may be cool, but their parents still have more money!<br /><br />We are in total accord re mobiles. Mine has £10 credit on it for emergencies - MY emergencies - should the car break down or I am delayed en route to somewhere I am expected. I keep it switched off so the battery doesn't run out in the meantime. The idea of being permanently connected to the entire world, as smart phone owners are via mobile interweb, frightens me witless and I need to have a nice lie down in a darkened room just for thinking about it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-15958864876294427222014-02-22T10:16:33.212+00:002014-02-22T10:16:33.212+00:00I'm sure you're right, Marion, but since I...I'm sure you're right, Marion, but since I never see any of the kind of blogs you mention and wouldn't know where to find them, I will stay quietly in my little corner of the blogging world in blissful ignorance. :-) Like any other kind of social intercourse blogs attract the like-minded, reflective to reflective and narcissistic to narcissistic. The thought of a fashion blog makes me blench!Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-8349378899485785822014-02-22T10:09:21.251+00:002014-02-22T10:09:21.251+00:00Actually, I think you're right, Sally. :-) I w...Actually, I think you're right, Sally. :-) I wrote half a dozen longish posts in the first week or so, as though someone had turned on a tap. The flow is a little slower nowadays, but the pleasure is just as great.<br /><br />Your blogging journey dates back some time before mine, but I've so enjoyed joining you along the way. I too don't tweak the appearance of my blog. I gave it a fresh and simpler look a couple of years ago and have happily stayed with that ever since. To me it's what is written that really matters, not what surrounds it, though I always prefer simplicity of layout to something fussy. Long may all our blogs flourish!Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-78048464070965041132014-02-22T10:00:42.466+00:002014-02-22T10:00:42.466+00:00It's such a clever song, which is why I like i...It's such a clever song, which is why I like it so much. I now have it running irresistibly through my mind. :-)<br /><br />Yes, those three years have just flown and have been such fun. It was back in my early weeks of blogging that I did a post about 'In This House Of Brede' and its significance for me, so it's really good to know the book is now back in print. I'm totally unsurprised that you are having such a profound reaction to it. This happened to me too and to DD. For both of us it has become our' Desert Island' book, one we can read and reread without ever tiring of it . It never fails to move and challenge me and one can say that of very few books.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-25761728197340211442014-02-22T09:52:26.925+00:002014-02-22T09:52:26.925+00:00I gather the younger generation is deserting FB en...I gather the younger generation is deserting FB en masse for WhatsApp. It's so uncool to have your parents wanting you to friend them. :-) I use the phone for a chat with the offspring from time to time, but that's the landline. My mobile is for emergencies only and is never switched on unless I need it. Emails have replaced letters and most phone calls for me.<br /><br />As we both agree, each to her own. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-48596174248390932772014-02-22T09:48:13.301+00:002014-02-22T09:48:13.301+00:00That's YOUR blogging community, though, Perpet...That's YOUR blogging community, though, Perpetua. Yours is a reflective circle. I''ve seen acerbic blogs, political blogs, fashion blogs, recipe-swopping blogs, sports-supporters blogs, etc etc that don't pause for hardly a moment's reflection. if at all. Fashion blogs often don't get past "what I've bought" and "when and where i wore it", and by the way here are half a dozen photos of ME! The stench of narcissism is overpowering. I'd be careful before assuming the tone and values you and your followers and supporters have set for your discourse pertain throughout the blogosphere! A lot of it is pure unmitigated self-absorption, boasting and /or sounding off and grumbling. Without even being FUNNY, which to me is unpardonable.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702475308562601190noreply@blogger.com