tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5154392266994027444..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: On Making - Katherine LangrishUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-6834921681494599212009-04-05T11:09:00.000+01:002009-04-05T11:09:00.000+01:00But for this time of year, one of my other favouri...But for this time of year, one of my other favourites by Dunbar is: 'Done is a battle on the dragon black' (forgive modern spelling, haven't got the book to hand) and the amazing sonority of the refrain: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.<BR/>wow could that man handle a Latin tag.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-55605035649233918702009-04-04T19:51:00.000+01:002009-04-04T19:51:00.000+01:00That is my favourite Dunbar poem, Kath. And Mary, ...That is my favourite Dunbar poem, Kath. And Mary, I'm with you on the Timor mortis conturbat... (and still waiting to hit my stride!). I'd add 'Do not go gentle into that good night' (though it's a bit late by then). <BR/>I came home from Borders to find Small Daughter had been making in my absence - lemon and coconut jelly, pasta bake, chocolate chip cookie dough and a tadpole refuge (in the front room). And I'm making dinner downstairs and re-tellings of Anglo-Norman stories upstairs. You're so right, Meg - making is everywhere and in everything :-)AnneRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02886295208140507100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-27273716866875042482009-04-03T13:08:00.000+01:002009-04-03T13:08:00.000+01:00I love the Bridges, Kath, and will add it to my bo...I love the Bridges, Kath, and will add it to my book of quotes! Yes, I so agree with all this - a Blue Peter child myself and did loads of other 'making' as a child and then, before writery type stuff took over, as an adult - clothes, curtains etc. And, of course, there's still cooking and baking - and I endlessly make theatre with kids - and, I suppose, as a trainee counsellor, I'm engaged in trying to 'make things new' with my clients. But whereas to make seems as important as to breathe for me, for many people it seems to matter not at all - or am I wrong and we're all 'makers' in some sense or another?Meg Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461125464455502821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-31166315971718370392009-04-03T12:17:00.000+01:002009-04-03T12:17:00.000+01:00Lovely post Kath and both the Dunbar and the Bridg...Lovely post Kath and both the Dunbar and the Bridges sent shivers to my spine (actually left leg to be more precise and less cliched.)<BR/><BR/>Timor mortis conturbat me too.But I try not to let it stop me making.<BR/><BR/>In fact I often think of Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be ..."and feel so sad that he died young before all those unwritten poems saw the light. The only consolation is that he might have written his best by then anyway.<BR/><BR/>Not so people like me who take a long time to find their stride.Mary Hoffmanhttp://www.maryhoffman.co.uknoreply@blogger.com