tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5084751581186936433..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Writing Gifts from The Goddess of Serendipity - Lucy CoatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80337107019346048572014-01-19T21:02:06.925+00:002014-01-19T21:02:06.925+00:00Lovely pictures! I empathise with your preoccupat...Lovely pictures! I empathise with your preoccupation with Ancient boats - I once spent a lot if time obsessing about triremes and Ancient sea battles...Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80938481551458181412014-01-19T13:57:42.141+00:002014-01-19T13:57:42.141+00:00Thanks everyone, and especially Richard. That'...Thanks everyone, and especially Richard. That's another piece of serendipitous detail, which I didn't know, and shall definitely work in. See? The Goddess at work again! I so wanted to go to Egypt myself and sail down/up the Nile, because there's nothing like experiencing something yourself to give an authentic feel to the writing. But sadly, I feel that current political conditions are less than perfect for a lone female traveller to risk such a trip. Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-21874893349680261592014-01-19T11:56:11.273+00:002014-01-19T11:56:11.273+00:00Nice piece of serendipity.
Certainly when we were...Nice piece of serendipity.<br /><br />Certainly when we were sailing on the Nile, there was never any wind in the morning. The skipper just went from one full rudder to the other, zig-zagging downstream from one bank to the other. Huge nile steamers went past all the time, and there was no way we could maneuver. Fortunately they seemed to know that. ;-) At some point in the day, the wind rose and the sail went up.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09799125598133377058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-63158884029661731242014-01-19T11:48:22.054+00:002014-01-19T11:48:22.054+00:00That's brilliant. But of course if you hadn...That's brilliant. But of course if you hadn't already done all your research, you wouldn't have known what the missing piece of the jigsaw was, so you wouldn't have spotted it amongst all the other information. I suspect the Goddess of Serendipity team-tags with the Goddess of Hard Work!John Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11937505376169411724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-44186545860138666322014-01-19T09:58:12.766+00:002014-01-19T09:58:12.766+00:00Your Cleopatra books sound wonderful to write - a...Your Cleopatra books sound wonderful to write - and read!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-48540555744504391912014-01-19T09:27:09.164+00:002014-01-19T09:27:09.164+00:00Good wishes to your Cleo and her surprisingly foun...Good wishes to your Cleo and her surprisingly found boat! <br /><br />(I'd missed that this was on. I saw an earlier series that felt as if there was as much wine quaffing as "art & architecture" going on, which gave the conversations a very relaxed ambience.)Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-20545903585552605702014-01-19T08:48:48.971+00:002014-01-19T08:48:48.971+00:00Purrrrrrrrr! You needed that piece of serendipity ...Purrrrrrrrr! You needed that piece of serendipity Lucy!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84034615041202497892014-01-19T07:42:23.446+00:002014-01-19T07:42:23.446+00:00Ok, I've found the 'dinosaur' :-)Ok, I've found the 'dinosaur' :-)Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-59412141413521060922014-01-19T07:27:02.198+00:002014-01-19T07:27:02.198+00:00Serendipity is definitely the writer's best fr...Serendipity is definitely the writer's best friend! What a super story, and a great mosaic, too. Visual art is often the best source of details as no one would bother to fabricate or misrepresent things like the colour of a boat (unless there were political connotations). But a 'possbile dinosaur'???<br />Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com