tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6183836567139505568..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: ragwort, name tabs, jayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-68755462678829951062009-07-20T15:50:57.307+01:002009-07-20T15:50:57.307+01:00I'm not too happy at all now with 'redolen...I'm not too happy at all now with 'redolent of nostalgia', it seems a tautology. I'm afraid I would have loved Gothic script on my Cash's nametapes, I think I merely had a sober dark blue serifed majescule... we also had to embroider our intitials on our games sweaters in neat chain stitch. Bet you boys didn't have to do that!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-41160851956777961732009-07-19T16:55:14.350+01:002009-07-19T16:55:14.350+01:00On a point of order, and for the sake of accuracy,...On a point of order, and for the sake of accuracy, the name tapes are displayed in a shop in Sevenoaks and not Tunbridge Wells.<br /><br />BB Did you, as your wording implies, protest at the use of gothic script on your name tapes?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-28787548036550691122009-07-19T09:39:11.405+01:002009-07-19T09:39:11.405+01:00Mine too were Cash's; a Gothic typeface was ch...Mine too were Cash's; a Gothic typeface was chosen without my consent.<br /><br />Tunbridge Wells. Just as there is a purgatory which precedes Hell, it seems realistic to believe that that is a staging post, an ante-chamber, for those who are making the upward trip. TW may not provide this function but may be an earlier, discarded prototype before the laurels were given to Harrogate.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-59961802950467053072009-07-18T10:26:55.129+01:002009-07-18T10:26:55.129+01:00In fact Wovena of Bodmin, Cornwall. The name tapes...In fact Wovena of Bodmin, Cornwall. The name tapes on my school clothes were always Cash's.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-18436368925764964892009-07-18T06:41:51.858+01:002009-07-18T06:41:51.858+01:00I'd heard that he loved just reading cricket s...I'd heard that he loved just reading cricket scores.<br /><br />The literary and distinguished names on the Cash's name tapes - I assume they are still Cash's, very redolent of nostalgia, or rather that slight sinking feeling one had quite early in the summer holidays when retailers would balefully remind one of the crushing inevitability of 'back to school' - confirm once again the elevated and intellectual nature of the general tone of Tunbridge Wells!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-57578871615946281422009-07-17T13:54:18.294+01:002009-07-17T13:54:18.294+01:00Interesting question. Beckett played cricket appar...Interesting question. Beckett played cricket apparently with skill and enthusiasm. He attended Portara Royal School in Enniskellen,(the school Oscar Wilde attended), where he excelled as a left handed batsman and left arm medium paced bowler. It seems highly likely that there would have been a nametape on his blazer, since in those days people who played cricket might have been expected to arrive in the pavilion wearing one, to say nothing of all his other gear. One could construct an imaginary scene where Beckett plans Waiting for Godot, while waiting to go in to bat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-8809581603858720742009-07-17T12:12:26.599+01:002009-07-17T12:12:26.599+01:00What sort of typeface would best help illustrate t...What sort of typeface would best help illustrate the qualities of Smauel Beckett? More important, can you imagine the Godot-meister using nametapes?Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com