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nal resentment that i have to spend time at work earning a living and sleeping instead the problem with my recent holiday it seems is that it was just long enough to unwind and get over a mild case of readers block not nearly long enough to find the time to follow every inspiration that came my way at least it s not the worst problem a person can have posted by desperate reader at 10 53 pm 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 27 2014 summer half angela thirkell summer half was the only book i managed to finish on holiday i m easily distracted at the moment maybe it s the heat but thirkell is amusing enough to hold my attention which is one good reason to love her i ve said this before and doubtless will say it every time i re read one of her books or find one that s new to me but she s a writer that improves with acquaintance i ve read all the current virago releases before but they re proving far more rewarding second time round i think there are probably a couple of reasons for this the most obvious is that i m more attuned to thirkell s sense of humour now that i m more familiar with her she can be quite subtle so it s easy to miss bits first time round the second reason is that i ve read more around her since i first read these books i now recognize the trollope references along with some of the others and am better at recognizing when something probably is a reference all of which adds layers to her writing it possibly also helps that i m now in the best part of the series i haven t read any of the later books but am told they become increasingly formulaic the very early ones have a tendency to a casual antisemitism that i find disconcerting but that seems to crop up less as the books go on i imagine somebody somewhere must have researched this but it s a curious thing observing how general attitudes change towards jewishness in middle brow fiction i m reading zola at the moment and he s having a sly dig at attitudes in france most victorian writers i ve read have displayed what was clearly a common prejudice and this continues well into the 1930 s but from my reading i would guess it suddenly becomes less acceptable less politically correct perhaps as those uncomfortable references start to disappear there is also a particular poignancy to the pre war books this is a world of comfortable middle class living which would never exist again servants are plentiful standards are set and the world seems a uniquely secure place for these characters full of comfortable certainties and afternoon tea on the lawn plot wise not so very much happens young colin keith is training to be a barrister but wants some financial independence from his father so takes a job as a junior master at a local school there is plenty of discussion about boys also poignant boys like this may still exist in the grandest private schools but mostly they have turned into teenagers which on the whole doesn t sound like much of an improvement there is also the obligatory romance and a fair amount of humour booth of which are extremely satisfactory but what makes thirkell special and worth being reprinted and reread are her occasional moments of observation and insight the one i ve bookmarked in summer half is a bit about blackshirts it s only a couple of paragraphs but it jumped out at me the phenomenally shallow rose birkett has been to the cinema with a couple of brothers fairweather senior and junior who are i believe on leave from the navy and they re recounting a something they found funny oh yes that was awfully funny said fairweather junior it was a man selling little books one of those blackshirt fellows you know like puss in boots in a polo jersey i don t know why but it was awfully funny lord it was funny he added breaking into laughter again i ll tell you another funny thing about those blackshirts said lydia no one knows who they are or where they go i mean have you ever seen one except standing on the pavement in waders looking a bit seedy you meet quite a lot of communists and things in people s houses but you never go to tea with someone and find them sitting there in their boots it s not much but it says a lot about attitudes in britain in around 1936 the book was originally published in 1937 and about thirkell s attitude inparticular fascism may have been alright for the lower orders and a few eccentric aristocrats but for decent middle class people it clearly wasn t the done thing the earnestness of young communists is mocked in a friendly way in the assumption that they ll grow out of it but at least it has a sort of drawing room respectability posted by desperate reader at 10 39 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 24 2014 another picture post this is sheer self indulgence on my part but there are a few more pictures i wanted to post here as a holiday reminder so here goes dinner vegetarians look away getting dad to cook lobster for me is a holiday tradition as is the drive to get them and then listening to them try and escape in the back of the car not quite as reliable a tradition but by no means an uncommon holiday experience if you favour scottish islands is stumbling across a replica viking ship this one is the largest of her kind at 115 feet and is apparently more of a re imagining than a replica possibly a replica would have been a better bet as the mast of this one draken harald harfagre snapped in the middle of the north sea fortunately nobody was hurt but something that looked a lot like a very large tree trunk because that s exactly what it was snapped like a match stick impressive boat though this is the view from the museum cafe where they sell huge and delicious scones the scones are really very good indeed so good the view is nice too even when it s misty a lot of the boats belong to the museum and there s a refreshing lack of safety rails knitwear and wool because i can t get enough of it sadly not so many people are knitting commercially in shetland any more some of the older generation do but their daughters aren t keen to perhaps because for so long it was one of the only options for women work wise and it was liberating to get away from it knitting is no longer taught in schools a shame so i guess we just have to hope that enough people will decide to take it up to keep this particular tradition alive this board of colour ways is from shetland designer wonderful luscious colours which catch bit of the landscape where i got thoroughly over excited not a great picture but spectacular coastal walks are what you go to a scottish island for so there has to be a picture and now all i have left to do is find a home for the pictures i bought back posted by desperate reader at 10 21 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 23 2014 maria chapdelaine louis hemon maria chapdelaine came my way as a postal book group read as a classic of french canadian literature it s perhaps not entirely surprising that i d never come across it before but it seems it s required reading in canada presumably all of canada and not just the french bits has been filmed at least 3 times and is well translated my knowledge of canadian literature is limited but positive so it was a bit of a bonus to get a chance to read this it proved to be every bit as good as i could have hoped for on the whole it s a simple enough story maria and her family live somewhere on the frontier in quebec carving a farm out of the wilderness of forest there maria s father is a born pioneer and this is the 5th farm he s win from the land as soon as the work is completed he feels the urge to move yet further north and start again it s a harsh way of life in a country that is 7 months severe winter and living 8 miles from the nearest hamlet but it s also the life that he s compelled to live and despite his wife s desire for life in a parish where she would have neighbours she s content too maria hasn t questioned what she really wants from life at the beginning of the book but 3 potential suitors and 2 deaths will change all that first there is the man she falls in love with and who loves her in return it s a chaste courtship a couple of meetings but enough for a deep understanding when the man dies in a snowstorm on his way to see her maria is quietly devastated of her remaining suitors one offers her a new life of relative ease in america the other a neighbour can only offer her more of the life she knows for maria who likes but doesn t love both men the choice initially seems simple america far away from the forest she s coming to hate for taking her man from her the death of her mother makes maria think again though without love the prospect of a life away from family and culture she knows is to much a secondary consideration is that her family suddenly needs her to hold the home together a couple of years ago i saw an exhibition in shetland that traced the lives of some of those who had emigrated this book describes the life that dome of them would have found despite 300 years in the country there is still a sense of being french as well as canadian and what hemon presents us with is a hard life but a rewarding one for these people are making something fundamental he doesn t disparage city life as such but there s a definite belief in the noble peasant in the end though it s the description of canada and the people of quebec that i think will stay with me the harsh farming life undertaken on the edge of viable country isn t entirely unfamiliar to me though the freezing winters are but i ve never experienced the vastness of a country like this and it s something i long to see posted by desperate reader at 10 58 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 21 2014 a picture post well i m back from my holidays and back from a typical monday at work it already seems like a long time since i was away how is it that 24 hours can feel longer than 2 weeks to get over the shock to the system coming back to leicester always is i m planning on a few picture based posts to remind me of time away shamelessly self indulgent but there you go my yearly pilgrimage to shetland is partly because i love it there in some way it will always feel like home and they have a lot of puffins who couldn t love puffins but mostly it s also for the people my father has finally slowed down enough for me to keep up with him well almost and there is other family as well as friends all of whom i d like to see much more often than once a year there s also a bitter sweet element to that though we re all getting older as somebody who s last birthday had a zero in it i m a bit over sensitive about aging at the moment but even so there s something about seeing someone hit 80 and seeing 80 hit back that s an effective memento mori all of which was meant to be a breezy lead up to some photos of a fabulous victorian house in unst which means you can add most northerly in britain to it s general claims to fabulousness too to get to unst you have to get to mainland shetland travel north take a ferry to yell cross yell and then take a final ferry to unst unless you have a private plane in which case everything is probably easier it takes a while buness house isn t actually victorian that s just when it appears to have had it s last major redecoration it belongs to the edmonston s who have been there for something like 400 years and who believe the site goes back to viking times quite likely unst is stiff with viking remains it used to be a bigger house but the current owners mother decided it was more space than she needed so she had a wing blown up it s currently a b b but if you plan on staying in it bear in mind your host is now 80 and it s always been a little chaotic i ve known the edmondston s for 25 years but have only visited 2 or 3 times so just in case this was my last chance i took some pictures of the nursery which was decoupaged around 1900 from a distance it s stunning light bright cheery up close some of the pictures are a bit more worrying if anybody at all would like to take a guess as to what s going on in the picture with the naked girl tied to an alter some worried looking puritan parents and a monk on second thought perhaps best not to speculate and as for the young lady with the candle and the come hither look she s definitely a corrupting influence for a young mind after the nursery it had to be the library it s mostly military memoirs and other equally gentlemanly books including a lovely run of blackwoods magazine from the 1850 s i wish i d had a lot longer to explore be blatantly nosy but time was short so i settled for a few pictures and came away with a burning desire to read wellington s dispatch notes posted by desperate reader at 10 56 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 17 2014 wool gathering as i start to write this post it s 11pm and deep twilight outside the darkest i ve seen it in the almost 2 weeks i ve been in shetland for it s also delightfully cool so thinking about wool is quite appropriate the idea of the temperatures back home aren t appealing to me at all at the moment one of the many things i love about shetland long light summer days and invigorating temperatures are two other things is wool until recently dad kept sheep and as a child their needs punctuated the year lambing clipping dipping selling now is clipping time which has given me every opportunity to observe wool from animal to jumper a process i m here to share it starts with a sheep the ones at the top are being sheared with something that looks not unlike the clippers a hairdresser might use but my father who still likes to keep his hand in favours his old clippers they re a design which has been in use for god knows how long i ve seen identical ones looking ancient in museums next raw wool goes to the wool broker where it will be cleaned carded and generally sanitised after which it might be dyed i love these bales of coloured wool this picture was taken in the loft of the local mill where wool becomes yarn to be turned into knitwear and tweed it s a magical place for anyone who likes wool the lengths of tweed in the top picture are sadly only for sale in the mill and even then only when you ask to be taken up to the loft they re left overs and sample roles of cloth that make me wish i could sew with some level of competence the yarn in the boxes is mostly destined for knitting machines and finally some finished product tweed i couldn t resist it was a bargain as well and lace shawls on display in the knitwear museum my favourite wool purveyors are here posted by desperate reader at 11 53 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 15 2014 gavin maxwell centenary because i ...