tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post1559538908463948975..comments2024-03-22T23:27:47.349+00:00Comments on EAGLETON NOTES: Reality!Graham Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-26349673164337578882015-11-28T16:16:54.487+00:002015-11-28T16:16:54.487+00:00Virginia I just can't imagine time dragging fo...Virginia I just can't imagine time dragging for you at all.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-11986297769266766282015-11-28T16:16:24.561+00:002015-11-28T16:16:24.561+00:00Gosh, Liz, it doesn't seem that long since I l...Gosh, Liz, it doesn't seem that long since I last read your blog. I'm sorry to hear that you've been in hospital again. I do hope that they had some success.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-34672249560142133562015-11-27T22:34:12.125+00:002015-11-27T22:34:12.125+00:00No time dragging here either...my life is filled t...No time dragging here either...my life is filled to capacity with lots of things to do, especially at this time of the year.<br />I have quite a few blog posts started but not much time to get them up live as yet.<br />Good to see you back.VirginiaChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17282569773671179047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-50348261825815000302015-11-27T16:12:30.934+00:002015-11-27T16:12:30.934+00:00Great to see your posts!
I've been trying to ...Great to see your posts! <br />I've been trying to post regularly again since I "escaped" from a 3 week stay in the Chronic Pain Unit of one of our private hospitals. I have only been out photographing once in the last 4-5 months, so I am looking forward to getting back into it now all my surgeries and hospital stays are done. :)Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17541748309832254889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-68084962547977609712015-11-26T21:29:28.589+00:002015-11-26T21:29:28.589+00:00I assume, YP, that you don't mean the travelli...I assume, YP, that you don't mean the travelling entertainment company. Come to think of it .......Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-51794390955632176262015-11-26T21:19:12.183+00:002015-11-26T21:19:12.183+00:00Phew! That's a relief Graham. It has been a lo...Phew! That's a relief Graham. It has been a long while since you last blogged and I was beginning to think that The Blue Men had got you!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-24490662536226493862015-11-26T18:30:11.145+00:002015-11-26T18:30:11.145+00:00Frances I waste a huge amount of time by my, and d...Frances I waste a huge amount of time by my, and doubtless other people's, criteria. I spend a lot of time having coffee or lunch with friends as an example but, for me, that is an essential part of my social life: it's <i>dolce fa niente</i>, or my interpretation of it anyway.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-44904661607679528732015-11-26T12:29:40.629+00:002015-11-26T12:29:40.629+00:00Graham, maybe I should rephrase that. What I objec...Graham, maybe I should rephrase that. What I object to is the cliche, rather than the sentiment. Plus, it makes me feel guilty as I waste a lot of time; time I can never have back....Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-27390958106034274902015-11-26T08:51:46.734+00:002015-11-26T08:51:46.734+00:00Cro I think that for many of us being busy is a re...Cro I think that for many of us being busy is a real need. I hesitate to use the term 'Protestant work ethic' but I suspect that for some of us that attribute (by any other name) is ingrained.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-88885293416396824442015-11-26T08:49:41.894+00:002015-11-26T08:49:41.894+00:00Lee you always have an apt or amusing (or both) ap...Lee you always have an apt or amusing (or both) approach to things. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-62205806459101495192015-11-26T08:48:36.310+00:002015-11-26T08:48:36.310+00:00Meike you do not seem to me like a person who woul...Meike you do not seem to me like a person who would ever allow time to drag. As far as Blogland taking a back seat occasionally I think it's often because it can whereas our other 'real life' can't.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-83586532989622385292015-11-26T08:46:10.291+00:002015-11-26T08:46:10.291+00:00Serenata I doubt that many of us ever achieve as m...Serenata I doubt that many of us ever achieve as much when we get older for all sorts of reasons but it's often how we regard achievement. Working, studying, raising children and looking after the household is what we think of as achievement (as, indeed. It is) but so is the fact that after all that one has earned the right to sit and read or listen to music or watch the television if one so desires. The Italians have <i>dolce fa niente</i>. I sometimes think they have the right approach.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-87289559128325208082015-11-26T08:39:21.004+00:002015-11-26T08:39:21.004+00:00Thanks Red. I sometimes think that an obsession ca...Thanks Red. I sometimes think that an obsession can be a very good and rewarding thing: certainly when it comes to things like blogging or photography or croquet or.....the list is endless.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-76629983459566046482015-11-26T08:37:43.685+00:002015-11-26T08:37:43.685+00:00Frances I wasn't really sure whether I could r...Frances I wasn't really sure whether I could really say that you are retired because I'm not sure that, as a writer, you ever will be. I think you are being a bit hard on people who say that they don't know how the ever had time to go to work. I doubt many people are being smug (even if it sounds like that to you) but are just being truthful about their new lives. When I retired 10 years ago a whole new world (New Zealand, croquet and so much more) opened up and I count myself very very fortunate but it never occurred to me that all the blogging about my good fortune was smugness. I hope people don't generally think that. If they do, well so be it. I wish that they had had the opportunity to sound equally smug. As for you falling off your horses you have to admit that, with your back-breaking record, you do have it down to an art form. I see that I have missed a lot of your posts. I shall be back....and catch up.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-24977058854279443612015-11-26T08:25:20.788+00:002015-11-26T08:25:20.788+00:00It's funny Monica and Meike that I knew it was...It's funny Monica and Meike that I knew it was a Schwarzenegger quote but I've never seen any of the films either.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-49221455824304777112015-11-26T08:24:11.300+00:002015-11-26T08:24:11.300+00:00Well Adrian at least you have your priorities righ...Well Adrian at least you have your priorities right: walks and photography first.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-48556008157769282182015-11-26T07:57:58.135+00:002015-11-26T07:57:58.135+00:00Hi Fiona. Don't you just love the spillchucker...Hi Fiona. Don't you just love the spillchucker? The house is progressing thanks.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-22511039852476144242015-11-26T06:41:49.665+00:002015-11-26T06:41:49.665+00:00You've not really missed out on anything, Moni...You've not really missed out on anything, Monica :-)Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-54052914475319335722015-11-26T05:14:37.717+00:002015-11-26T05:14:37.717+00:00A short while back I went through a period of abou...A short while back I went through a period of about 2 weeks when I seemed to be doing nothing, and it really worried me; I even wrote about it on my blog. Luckily that phase soon passed, and I'm back to 'busy' again, which suits me fine.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-53471664261600839422015-11-26T00:13:15.748+00:002015-11-26T00:13:15.748+00:00I never find that time drags. I wish it would! It...I never find that time drags. I wish it would! It goes by far too quickly! Even when I have nothing to do I'm doing something...even if it's just breathing (probably the most important thing to be doing)!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-36815135267987586182015-11-25T20:39:37.135+00:002015-11-25T20:39:37.135+00:00Ah. Thanks Meike. I never saw those films. :)Ah. Thanks Meike. I never saw those films. :)DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04533307672147117843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-60312731956366970662015-11-25T20:32:38.493+00:002015-11-25T20:32:38.493+00:00Retirement for me is still roughly two decades awa...Retirement for me is still roughly two decades away (depending on how things are going to develop in this country), but like you, I have never had time "dragging" and can not imagine it will begin to drag once I end my official working life. There is always plenty to do, see, read, write, hear and eat; people to meet, places to go to, stuff to deal with.<br />By the way, I have long stopped talking of "real life" v. what people consider as "unreal" (?) or virtual. Instead, I discern between the online and offline parts of my life. Usually, they are pretty much in balance, but sometimes the online bit has to take a back seat for a while. Never the other way round.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-49536935610957161932015-11-25T20:28:53.040+00:002015-11-25T20:28:53.040+00:00Arnold. As in Schwarzenegger. As in Terminator, wh...Arnold. As in Schwarzenegger. As in Terminator, where (I think it was in the first film) he said "I'll be back" with his Austrian accent.<br />(Trust me to know such trivia - years of pub quiz practice!)Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-80240002420802195112015-11-25T18:55:08.225+00:002015-11-25T18:55:08.225+00:00Nope, time never drags here either...it goes way t...Nope, time never drags here either...it goes way too fast for my liking and seems to get faster each year. I don't work - not by choice by dictated to by pain - but I often feel now the time goes even faster even if I do feel like sometimes I achieve much less than I used to when I worked, studied and was raising two boys as well as looking after the household all at the same time!Serenatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473750681150978115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-47410217203445574072015-11-25T18:20:15.488+00:002015-11-25T18:20:15.488+00:00I've missed you but it's good that you can...I've missed you but it's good that you can also be otherwise busy. Sometimes I get obsessed with the blog and that's not good. As you say there is other real life.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.com