tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post4198827883997083878..comments2024-03-19T14:28:03.565+00:00Comments on welsh hills again: Wondering how to use the blog...Elizabeth Musgravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-56935808899069269402016-07-07T22:53:17.237+01:002016-07-07T22:53:17.237+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.telas mosquiteirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05232605552381598450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-4646309465639310172016-06-25T22:01:15.448+01:002016-06-25T22:01:15.448+01:00I always notice when you have a break from bloggin...I always notice when you have a break from blogging Caroline and I'm always pleased to see you back again. you are right that I don't quite know what the new normal is. perhaps it will indeed unfold!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-85462767586365409652016-06-25T21:57:50.771+01:002016-06-25T21:57:50.771+01:00the garden had run wild Celia. it's a big gar...the garden had run wild Celia. it's a big garden so it has run wild in a big way. I do see that you manage your blog in different ways at different times. I have done some of that but perhaps need to be more conscious in the process Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-33849885298691073942016-06-25T21:55:00.393+01:002016-06-25T21:55:00.393+01:00I agree that sometimes change is good and I wish y...I agree that sometimes change is good and I wish you all the best with yours. I just need to work out what my change might be!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-58430186457613228052016-06-25T21:53:21.629+01:002016-06-25T21:53:21.629+01:00thank you Chris. I'd hate you to stop bloggin...thank you Chris. I'd hate you to stop blogging too. I would feel i had lost a window on your world. I do know what you mean about being unfair how much to say on your own blog. sometimes I find I have been more revealing in comments than in my own posts where i am concerned not to infringe other people's privacy Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-87941231780415344222016-06-20T07:51:56.138+01:002016-06-20T07:51:56.138+01:00Elizabeth, I'm just now getting around to read...Elizabeth, I'm just now getting around to reading this post - it's been a flurry of activity here with a visit from Son#1 and his girlfriend (now, sadly, back in the US) and the arrival for the summer of #2 back from Uni. The whole pattern of life seems to have shifted for us, and it's been difficult for me to find a 'new normal' - it sounds as though the same thing has been happening to you - on a much more permanent scale. So many huge changes, including your focus. I agree with everyone above who has encouraged you to follow your heart, do what pleases you, and not let the blog become a burden or an unpleasant obligation. Let it "sit" quietly whilst you go about your business - whatever that turns out to be - and when you feel like writing or updating, we will be here, waiting to hear what you've learned. I've not posted on my own blog for months, and the questions you have posited about the purpose, focus, and meaning of the blog (and maybe your life in general) have ben percolating in my mind about my own blog as well. One thing I've discovered recently is that, after an almost 2-month hiatus, I am once again feeling that old urge to blog, to 'say something' and to share my adventures (such as they are) with the world at large. I think that feeling will come back to you at some point, too, after you've finished recalibrating and processing all the changes that have occurred lately. I really hope you don't give it up entirely, because I so love reading your thoughtful, meditative, unvarnished prose - but I love the thought of you heading off on adventure! As a good friend of mine always says, "Let it unfold." xxMsCarolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623997911568143459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-59248511434393314912016-06-20T07:51:44.721+01:002016-06-20T07:51:44.721+01:00Elizabeth, I'm just now getting around to read...Elizabeth, I'm just now getting around to reading this post - it's been a flurry of activity here with a visit from Son#1 and his girlfriend (now, sadly, back in the US) and the arrival for the summer of #2 back from Uni. The whole pattern of life seems to have shifted for us, and it's been difficult for me to find a 'new normal' - it sounds as though the same thing has been happening to you - on a much more permanent scale. So many huge changes, including your focus. I agree with everyone above who has encouraged you to follow your heart, do what pleases you, and not let the blog become a burden or an unpleasant obligation. Let it "sit" quietly whilst you go about your business - whatever that turns out to be - and when you feel like writing or updating, we will be here, waiting to hear what you've learned. I've not posted on my own blog for months, and the questions you have posited about the purpose, focus, and meaning of the blog (and maybe your life in general) have ben percolating in my mind about my own blog as well. One thing I've discovered recently is that, after an almost 2-month hiatus, I am once again feeling that old urge to blog, to 'say something' and to share my adventures (such as they are) with the world at large. I think that feeling will come back to you at some point, too, after you've finished recalibrating and processing all the changes that have occurred lately. I really hope you don't give it up entirely, because I so love reading your thoughtful, meditative, unvarnished prose - but I love the thought of you heading off on adventure! As a good friend of mine always says, "Let it unfold." xxMsCarolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623997911568143459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-51900428219380453692016-06-19T11:41:57.778+01:002016-06-19T11:41:57.778+01:00I think you, like me, have had times when you are ...I think you, like me, have had times when you are less present on your blog pondside. I am always pleased to see you post again. yours is one of the long term virtual friendships which had certainly enriched my life and which I would find harder to sustain if I didn't blog.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-20845983933962050682016-06-19T11:37:23.265+01:002016-06-19T11:37:23.265+01:00thanks you Sue. what a lovely thing to say. I do...thanks you Sue. what a lovely thing to say. I do get great pleasure from those moments when I have written something which makes somebody respond by saying "yes, that's just how it is". doesn't happen often but is good when it does.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-72135378682430005962016-06-19T11:34:20.396+01:002016-06-19T11:34:20.396+01:00I will stay tuned, as you put it. I like you drop...I will stay tuned, as you put it. I like you drop in on others to keep in touch. there are a number of different ways in which blogs work which are emerging: the diary, the connections with people you know, the making of new connections, the writing itself and the satisfactions of putting words together. Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-50171010073606039602016-06-19T11:30:19.814+01:002016-06-19T11:30:19.814+01:00thank you Sam. it's really heartening to read...thank you Sam. it's really heartening to read this. it's easy to lose the sense that people like what you write somehow!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-34743546951078572532016-06-19T09:51:06.271+01:002016-06-19T09:51:06.271+01:00Ah Jane, your loss and mine, so much the same, so ...Ah Jane, your loss and mine, so much the same, so different. I have often gone to your blog to see if you have written again following the death of your sister. I share that sense of connection with you. It is interesting that both you and jacqui talk about, in her case, letting go, in yours relinquishment. Both of you have lost people who were much younger than my parents were. I feel my father went from me slowly over the last two years of his life. He once said to me, while he could still speak, that he felt he was being rubbed out. So I do think that one of the results of his slow dreadful decline is that his death itself felt like the only right thing. Is my wish for action, activity, new things, variety a reaction? I'm sure it is. Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-53417201277410834052016-06-19T09:34:25.615+01:002016-06-19T09:34:25.615+01:00Thank you jacqui. I do recognise so much of what y...Thank you jacqui. I do recognise so much of what you say: the sense of having covered the ground before, the not knowing whether I have anything to say. I use Instagram too and like it very much and that probably fulfils some of the wish to connect. But there is for me still the itch to write, something...Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-81577398605218857532016-06-19T09:16:11.433+01:002016-06-19T09:16:11.433+01:00I too have really enjoyed being able to look back ...I too have really enjoyed being able to look back via the blog and to see what was happening five, six, seven years ago. That is one the rewards. Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-14954477308961907182016-06-19T09:09:19.088+01:002016-06-19T09:09:19.088+01:00I hope you do continue lucille as your blogs are a...I hope you do continue lucille as your blogs are always a pleasure to read but I do understand the idea that you might not have the heart to. I think there has been something of that in my response to the blog of late. I also know what you mean about children and grandchildren moving away as one of ours and his family contemplate spending some time in Australia. I was helped to look that in the face by a friend whose daughter is already there. Use technology (what's app, FaceTime, Skype) seems to be key, and plan lots of visits! Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-22801974562741606462016-06-19T09:03:10.449+01:002016-06-19T09:03:10.449+01:00I agree. Nature and wine are a good mix!I agree. Nature and wine are a good mix!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-92222459398264210952016-06-19T09:02:27.766+01:002016-06-19T09:02:27.766+01:00You are right that there is a freedom in blogging ...You are right that there is a freedom in blogging to do it as you wish frances. On some occasions that is part of the pleasure, on others it feels as if there is almost too much choice! I think I must emulate you and read more new people. That would fit with my feeling of needing change, although of course I must hang onto my old friends too! Glad you are enjoying your retirement. Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-3141217258527146832016-06-17T22:03:44.391+01:002016-06-17T22:03:44.391+01:00The pattern of life changes and there are new them...The pattern of life changes and there are new themes and distractions, it's up to you how much and his often you blog. At times I've put my blog on hold - posted a few 'lite' posts - a photo and sentence or short snippets, then returned slightly reinvented. Life evolves, readers come and go, that's what makes a blog interesting.<br /><br />btw when you said you let your garden go, has it run wild or have you handed it over to someone else to tend?<br /><br />C xxCelia Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776686088752602321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-18543227838404483552016-06-17T17:20:52.750+01:002016-06-17T17:20:52.750+01:00I'm so sorry about the loss of your parents. I...I'm so sorry about the loss of your parents. It's just like you to use this crisis for reflection. I'm relieved to hear that you will keep posting and look forward to see how your posts evolve. Personally, I love your West Country photos since I miss that area of the world. The landscapes are my favorites. But you do you, as my teenage daughter would say. <br /><br />I'm also on the verge of a big transition in my life, launching a writing career from an empty nest. Sometimes change is good.Sarah Laurencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423008641739156182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-33048277958931308702016-06-17T10:02:22.307+01:002016-06-17T10:02:22.307+01:00Oh thank goodness - thank goodness, you'll sti...Oh thank goodness - thank goodness, you'll still be blogging, thank goodness Pondside's words above echo my feels and thank goodness it's not just me! There's so much I instantly want to write here which I think is a lot to do with loss and grief - and the sorrow that my aunt now seriously ill - yet I'm at a loss about how far to go in my own blog. That apart, I'm very glad you will still be here and I look forwards to reading your blog when you're ready to post. CxChris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-83079208865363244442016-06-16T04:55:13.423+01:002016-06-16T04:55:13.423+01:00Like other readers, I felt a shiver from your open...Like other readers, I felt a shiver from your opening words. Then I thought 'me too'. I can't, however, just stop writing. This seems to be the place I can be funny, truthful, fanciful, serious, vulnerable and try out the many aspects of a life that is normally lived very quietly under the obligations of family. Wherever your blog takes you and whatever it becomes I'll be reading along.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-67916158964723767412016-06-15T21:45:10.393+01:002016-06-15T21:45:10.393+01:00Hi Elizabeth,
Yours was one of the first blogs I s...Hi Elizabeth,<br />Yours was one of the first blogs I started to read a number of years ago now. I have always enjoyed your writing, you have natural style and many of your thoughts resonate with me and could be my own. In particular when you are in reflective mode, as now, that seems to touch various chords with me and other readers. Your blog needs to be what you want it to be and what works for you. Although a reader for a long while I am relatively new to blogging itself and you have been one of my inspirations. Enjoy the summer and your gardenSue C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233700237350328436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-556997180477491432016-06-15T20:34:05.762+01:002016-06-15T20:34:05.762+01:00Dear Elizabeth, just a quick note as we rushed bac...Dear Elizabeth, just a quick note as we rushed back from the new granddaughter in the UK (and Herefordshire)and have just a stop-over at home and then going to North Germany,nearly Denmark for a family do. But I would like to tell you that I have always enjoyed staying ' in touch' with you via your blog and enjoyed reading what you are up to. And I hope that you vill continue to post from time to time. Myself, I try to maintain my blog mainly for family and friends, they are all far and read it and like the pictures. I could post much more often as there is so much to tell and show but I simply just have not the time to do so. And I never wanted to 'promote' my blog as following up with many others is also so time consuming. So please, stay tuned ;-)bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08803865167364775151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-4325951600173534302016-06-15T11:56:15.392+01:002016-06-15T11:56:15.392+01:00I do find that the blog as a diary is a great thin...I do find that the blog as a diary is a great thing! It allows me to go back and check what was happening at a particular time and to be reminded of the detail, which I think I remember but clearly don't!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4028290314714419963.post-64985115720712277742016-06-14T22:12:54.146+01:002016-06-14T22:12:54.146+01:00Hello Elizabeth, I am relieved that you will conti...Hello Elizabeth, I am relieved that you will continue to blog, in one form or another. You have a very particular writing style that gets to the heart of the matter in a gentle way. As others have already said, you should not see your blog as an obligation but as a pleasurable creative outlet. I'm sure that your readers will stick around and enjoy reading about whatever takes your fancy and whenever the mood strikes. Take care and enjoy the summer. Sam xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com