tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post8191131615627594521..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: snake-pit, gamble, cakesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-42598701985926976642010-02-21T11:49:03.652+00:002010-02-21T11:49:03.652+00:00You're right, BB, it was that bus trip to Seve...You're right, BB, it was that bus trip to Sevenoaks long before I started blogging which gave rise to The Specator article. There was rather more to the unfortunate bus ride than I had room for here. But though infuriating at the time, it proved profitable in the long run run.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-20481406924539856502010-02-20T12:30:14.269+00:002010-02-20T12:30:14.269+00:00Ah but there's an underlying justification to ...Ah but there's an underlying justification to this tale about modern travel. Something rather similar, when you got rid of your car and started to use buses, got you into The Spectator which was a pleasing achievement. I can't remember whether this preceded your blog or not and whether, now, your life is lived in a way that is likely to provide research or whether you have opted for a riskier <em>non-dirigiste</em> approach and to depend on what are clearly much sharpened powers of observation. Do you live to blog or is your blog coincidental to your life? A bit of both I suppose.<br /><br />What about "various" cakes? Sounds as if they didn't care.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-19355664623243524552010-02-20T09:40:19.244+00:002010-02-20T09:40:19.244+00:00What I particularly like about Round the World - ...What I particularly like about Round the World - the film and the book - is way Phileas turns up at the club as the clock is striking mid day, to claim his wager.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-52655703970501841172010-02-20T08:14:55.357+00:002010-02-20T08:14:55.357+00:00I love that bit in 'Around the World'! It...I love that bit in 'Around the World'! It was perhaps my favourite book when I was about 12 and I read a lot of Jules Verne after that, including the ones about Quebec. I liked the film with David Niven too.<br /><br />It's always funny when you arrive somewhere after a minor drama and a series of alarums and excursions like that, but of course the people there have no idea that your journey has been touch-and-go, and treat your arrival as routine, as for them it is...<br /><br />I think after that and a visit to the dentist you deserve a selection of cakes!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-62249101148210377472010-02-19T19:12:11.594+00:002010-02-19T19:12:11.594+00:00Enjoyed today's comments especially as
I expe...Enjoyed today's comments especially as<br /> I experienced my own variation of your <br />"bus" piece going just 8 blocks to a Doctor's appt. through barely cleared snowy /icey <br />Philadelphia streets.CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.com