tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post5720383406119322490..comments2024-03-15T00:20:00.180-07:00Comments on Justine Picardie: Snowdrops and glovesJustine Picardiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16957669049699860596noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-4561247611128741922012-01-23T05:19:14.084-08:002012-01-23T05:19:14.084-08:00Why do I never lose my fleecy gloves, or the old w...Why do I never lose my fleecy gloves, or the old wooly ones with holes in? But with my coloured leather ones, a different story.<br />I Wish I was where you are Enid, I could do with some sweltering heat on this grey, cold Monday.Lilacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15782125673448880397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-28310467800961064122012-01-21T08:15:06.981-08:002012-01-21T08:15:06.981-08:00Proustian gloves; all these comments are wonderful...Proustian gloves; all these comments are wonderful...Justine Picardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957669049699860596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-38166191573251611822012-01-19T20:44:20.139-08:002012-01-19T20:44:20.139-08:00Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrou...Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.” <br /> Isaac Stern quotes<br /> <br />another side of gloves ?enidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506741826683775428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-77764471996578329542012-01-19T17:01:22.220-08:002012-01-19T17:01:22.220-08:00These posts just brought back a flash of memory - ...These posts just brought back a flash of memory - gloves my mother lovingly knitted for me with wool embroidered flowers on little panels on the backs - and an early post-war Yorkshire winter. On the way to school we held snowball fights and I continually ruined the fingertips where the icy water ate through the wool. They were carefully darned and re-darned - wool was scarce and money even scarcer.<br />And school uniform gloves - grey cotton - and prefects always on the lookout for naughty wilful girls like me who weren't wearing them in town!jaywalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18057625356137450284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-38797926312895186492012-01-19T07:03:33.658-08:002012-01-19T07:03:33.658-08:00Yes indeed he was !!!!!Yes indeed he was !!!!!enidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506741826683775428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-47448403604242180202012-01-19T04:38:15.728-08:002012-01-19T04:38:15.728-08:00Was that her long-standing lover?Was that her long-standing lover?Justine Picardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957669049699860596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-72308558704486041432012-01-19T03:03:16.077-08:002012-01-19T03:03:16.077-08:00Speaking of Elizabeth Bowen have you read Love'...Speaking of Elizabeth Bowen have you read Love's civil War letters of Bowen and J Ritchie edited by Victoria Glendinning. It is a wonderful read.enidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506741826683775428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-13919689252137691082012-01-19T02:21:13.937-08:002012-01-19T02:21:13.937-08:00Thank you, Mystica -- I'm really glad you enjo...Thank you, Mystica -- I'm really glad you enjoyed Daphne.<br />And Karen -- I'd forgotten about that scene in Great Expectations (shows how much is lost over the years, and also the details that is cut from a screen adaptation) -- so thank you -- I'm going to look for it now!Justine Picardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957669049699860596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-34356343959067957542012-01-18T23:52:01.042-08:002012-01-18T23:52:01.042-08:00I have just been reading the scene of Wemmick'...I have just been reading the scene of Wemmick's wedding in Great Expectations. The only nod to his wedding is to don white gloves, as do all the party. Strange custom. I wore gloves when I worked as Cabin Crew in the 80's. It all seems very archaic now.Karen, Surreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625726401639205655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-91432082265445745282012-01-18T23:49:23.438-08:002012-01-18T23:49:23.438-08:00Nothing to do with your post but I just finished D...Nothing to do with your post but I just finished Daphne and just loved the book!<br />Review following in about a week.Mysticahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10941269615559681014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-37972160155346062932012-01-18T10:25:40.398-08:002012-01-18T10:25:40.398-08:00Long gloves -- v. glamorous -- and leather gloves ...Long gloves -- v. glamorous -- and leather gloves are lovely, too, though not at the height of the South African summer! I'm so looking forward to coming to Cape Town and Jo'burg in September.<br />Such a contrast between these two missives -- Enid in the heat, Kairu in the snow -- and me in the middle, in the English drizzle. But all connected through reading and gloves. I like the sound of Kairu's tiny daisies on white gloves... Just the sort of thing that Edith Wharton or Elizabeth Bowen might have added as a detail to a story.Justine Picardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957669049699860596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-32178478031923905732012-01-18T09:32:02.032-08:002012-01-18T09:32:02.032-08:00Here we are bearing up under an overnight snow sto...Here we are bearing up under an overnight snow storm. As the only one within walking distance I trekked in this morning wearing two pairs of pants, two pairs of gloves, and my warmest fleece scarf around my neck...<br /><br />I remember, dimly, a pair of white gloves when I was a child, appliqued with tiny daisies. I can't think where I might have worn them, to a summer wedding, perhaps, or a piano recital. Now, of course, I never remember to wear gloves unless it's absolutely freezing, and usually they are fleece or cashmere...<br /><br />I remember discovering Elizabeth Bowen through you, Justine, and loving The House in Paris, and how much it reminded me of What Maisie Knew (and also how I sometimes confuse the latter with Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country as happens with the passage of time and memory).kairuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11608839703020585886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078357011397157919.post-35970458436532926472012-01-18T06:23:45.452-08:002012-01-18T06:23:45.452-08:00I used to wear gloves for smart occasions as a chi...I used to wear gloves for smart occasions as a child. I had leather gloves in all colours. The best gloves were those that ladies wore to dances - long gloves to their elbows- so glamorous. iI too love Elizabeth Bowen she is very underrated. It is unbearably hot here and I am wilting in the heat unable to do anything.enidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506741826683775428noreply@blogger.com