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Elsewoman: March 2015
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Anne Else, writer. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Seamus Heaney's "While all the others were away at mass" has been chosen as Ireland's best loved poem in a poll. From Clearances III - In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984, it recalls a morning he shared with his mother, peeling potatoes. When all the others were away at Mass. I was all hers as we peeled potatoes. They broke the silence, let fall one by one. Like solder weeping off the soldering iron:. Cold comforts set between us, things to share. Links to this post.
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JaneMareesFWIW: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Top Gear - Captain Slow's brilliant idea. Whenever TV's 'Top Gear' features electric cars, you may be sure of two things:. 1) They will run out of battery power in the most inconvenient place;. 2) Jezza Clarkson will be chortling with glee. But when they (finally) reached the seaside, Jezza and Captain Slow (James May) went on some dodgem rides - thereby giving Captain Slow a brilliant idea:. Overhead power transmission for electric cars on motorways. 5) Japan has yet another.
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JaneMareesFWIW: November 2011
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Sunday, November 6, 2011. Polly-wolly Doodle All the Day. Now that the All Blacks have won the Webb Ellis Cup @ at Rugby World Cup held in our little Stadium-of-4-million, the politicking (i originally wrote this as "poliyicking" - seriously, i really did! Has started with a bang. Debate between John Key and Phil Goff has been more than animated! What some of them are so desperately hoping to get back! Answerable to Parliament (its original function! Without an absolute majority. The worm in the rotten a...
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Elsewoman: After Anzac Day
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Anne Else, writer. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. While this was a place of courage and heroism and duty, it was also a place of fear and waste and loss . A place of unspeakable suffering on both sides of the fighting.". I didn't go to the parade through Wellington last Friday. To me it seemed too much like boys' obsessive war games - look, real uniforms and trucks! What in our lives is burnt. In the fire of this? The heart's dear granary? The much we shall miss? Three lives hath one life –. Iron, honey, gold.
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Elsewoman: April 2014
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Anne Else, writer. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Roses from my builder. This is another post related to my bathroom, but in a tangential way. Larry, the builder working on it, has been sorting out our houses for a long time. He goes right back to the first house Harvey and I bought together, in Woburn Road, Northland, not far from Larry's own home. Links to this post. Monday, April 21, 2014. Going, going, gone. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other places I write. My food memoir page. At my ...
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Elsewoman: August 2015
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Anne Else, writer. Sunday, August 2, 2015. The winter of our discontent. The other thing getting in the way of posting is my general feeling of angry impotence in relation to what's going on in New Zealand. Just one example: last week the front page of the DomPost. Featured a photo of a young child's teeth savagely eroded by sugary drink. Carrick Graham (if you don't know who he is, read Dirty Politics. Why aren't they held responsible? Beaglehole replied, "I say to the parents please don't give your chi...
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Elsewoman: Memories at the Met
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Anne Else, writer. Friday, October 17, 2014. Memories at the Met. Today I got up the courage to tackle the Metropolitan Museum. The queue wasn't too bad, only about 10 minutes' wait (I knew better than to try checking my coat), and I had a somewhat limited but sensible plan: head straight for he Impressionists (the purple bits on the map). Http:/ www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/rouen-cathedral-portal-in-the-. Http:/ commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysanthemums (Monet).JPG. October 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM.
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Elsewoman: August 2014
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Anne Else, writer. Saturday, August 16, 2014. But of course, most of the time it isn't. This is from a fine New Yorker. Piece by Rebecca Mead, who wrote a splendid book about reading Middlemarch. You can find it at. Http:/ www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/pleasure-of-reading. Links to this post. Never too many books. I was very good. While I was channelling my inner librarian - floor-walking, answering questions ("Where is the chicklit? Tidying up the tables, and (my favourite thing) relocating...
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Elsewoman: The Crusader Bible - seeing others in our own image
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Anne Else, writer. Thursday, October 23, 2014. The Crusader Bible - seeing others in our own image. But like other rulers of our own time, he was also obsessed with waging war in the East, mounting seven crusades, the last of which killed him. (In those days rulers did at least lead their own troops, and knew at first hand what carnage ensued, though that didn't put them off doing it over and over again.). It's about to be rebound, and this means the library has been able, for the first time, to put 40 o...
