tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5292145710208432408..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Pauline Fisk: On Synchronicity, Extraordinary Coincidences in my Writing Life and 'Telling the Sea'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-54010327038229960202012-12-10T20:57:06.306+00:002012-12-10T20:57:06.306+00:00Diane, thank you so much for your kind words. I th...Diane, thank you so much for your kind words. I think those of us with an affinity for wild places, especially the sea, should stick together! It's what's always there, isn't it, at the end of everything. My experience of these 'ends of the world' places is that they're often where people ruck up who've been running and can go no further. Consequently they become places for starting new lives - either in splendid isolation, [like Griselda in 'Telling the Sea' who lives in a tent in the common] or as part of some tenuous community, which is what my heroine Nona, and her family are trying so hard [and failing] NOT to do. <br /><br />And then, of course, there are the people like us. Least said about us the best, i guess. <br /><br />PS. The Kindle Fire is a thing of beauty. I read out of duty on my grey ordinary, flat, rectangular Kindle before, but now I read with relish. And watch films. And do so much else. Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-9735887613608899862012-12-10T19:22:07.525+00:002012-12-10T19:22:07.525+00:00Pauline happy happy relaunch day! What a marvellou...Pauline happy happy relaunch day! What a marvellous story of Dr Katterfelto but more so, what a wonderful video and record of how and why you wrote "Telling the Sea" because of course 20 years ago, one wouldn't even have imagined making a video of one's work.<br /><br />I too have a house next to the sea that I visit annually... on what tourists think of as a sublime coast. But it can also be wild and stprmy and has an unspoilt peninsula that runs straight out into the Atlantica rollers as they beat up from the Antartic. So I loved every moment of your video and the idea as you put it... "there is something extraordinary about places at the end of the world" and that people have 'interesting relationships with wild places." Its odd, if I've somehow not managed to go right out to the point of that peninsula (a 4 hour round trip walk) and return to London without having done it, I feel oddly bereft.<br /><br />Your film was a wonderful tribute to how you write and also a tribute to the places where inspiration come from. Thank you for lovely experience. I await my Kindle Fire! Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-60398000957875101332012-12-10T11:13:43.031+00:002012-12-10T11:13:43.031+00:00Thank you Penny. Having been up most of night I...Thank you Penny. Having been up most of night I'm now in bed with newspaper, dogs & bread and cheese. Happy launch day indeed! Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-68342092665104315432012-12-10T10:12:17.048+00:002012-12-10T10:12:17.048+00:00Fascinating post about coincidences that become mu...Fascinating post about coincidences that become much more than coincidences. Loved the film about the house and the beaches too, though glad I was here and home indoors on a day like this. Now for the kindle . . .<br /><br />Congratulations and happy e-day!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.com