tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post5450292246178907213..comments2023-07-29T11:29:13.093+01:00Comments on Lonicera's World, Images & Stories: Memories of the past, dreams for the future. Part 3Lonicerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13141723287143567146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post-5687681439332165962009-12-27T10:55:37.506+00:002009-12-27T10:55:37.506+00:00Tina - no way should you wait until the summer, gi...Tina - no way should you wait until the summer, give me your address now and I'll be delighted to send it to you. Costco (the one in Avonmouth) really is very near to where I live - what a great opportunity to meet you! If you prefer to discuss any of this by e-mail, mine is avonsong@ukonline.co.uk.<br />CarolineLonicerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141723287143567146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post-86828212595630059272009-12-27T04:23:54.851+00:002009-12-27T04:23:54.851+00:00I think your project sounds very interesting and t...I think your project sounds very interesting and to me sounds like publishers should be interested in publishing both versions. <br /><br />I would love to read one of your copies but will save you the postage and borrow it when I am over (hopefully this summer!). We always visit Costco in Bristol when we are there. So will be down relatively close to you I think. Your band loosening freaked me out but I totally understand the pressure to eat in public. I have learned to barely act normal but only by ordering soups and carefully eating liquids to solids. Being at people's houses would be almost impossible to cope with when fully restricted.<br /><br />Im glad your home and blogging again.Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16965135571189867376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post-38529922492461268862009-12-26T23:25:10.905+00:002009-12-26T23:25:10.905+00:00Thanks both! I'm so pleased that you find it ...Thanks both! I'm so pleased that you find it interesting. The foreman's grandson later let me have by e-mail two old photos of his grandfather for inclusion in the book, which was wonderful.<br /><br />The translation was finished back in the summer, but even though I don't know if anything will ever come of this, I'm quite definite in my mind how I would LIKE the final publication to look. I imagine it will be too expensive, but anyway...<br /><br />I would like an introduction to explain the background, written by my co-presenter Ramón who knows all about the British sheep-farming history of the period, then I want to do a prologue (who were Mollie's family & how did they get to do to Argentina?), an epilogue (what became of them when they returned?) - and these have yet to be written, though I've done quite a bit of research. The 60 odd footnotes are done, as is a detailed index, and (far too many) illustrations are ready and waiting. <br /><br />And if I'm lucky enough for this all to happen, then I'll work on getting a publishing company in the UK to take it up and re-print in English, with my bits described above translated back into English. There you have it!! <br /><br />I have some spare copies of the English book, if at any point a reader fancies reading it for themselves, but definitely no pressure! (Dawn already has one, for example.)<br /><br />It's been a lovely surprise to get support on the blog for the project - I reckoned my writing about it was very self-indulgent.<br /><br />Thanks again.<br /><br />CarolineLonicerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141723287143567146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post-7705713439123596252009-12-26T22:50:09.746+00:002009-12-26T22:50:09.746+00:00Fascinating Caroline, what a great read. I am SO f...Fascinating Caroline, what a great read. I am SO full of admiration for you for following this amazing path, it must be so exciting to see where the story takes you....it must have been great meeting the foreman's grandson.<br /><br />And I am totally IN AWE at you doing all those interviews...it made me nervous just thinking about it!! Really well done....and as the blogger above said, we do all see ourselves in a certain way and I am sure whoever was watching was much more interested in what you were saying than in what you looked like :)<br /><br />Have you finished the translation of Mollie's work - I am thinking you probably haven't? I am sure it is an awful lot of work. Fantastic that you seem to be getting such a lot of support out there.<br /><br />Finally, thank you so much for your comment on my blog, the admiration and appreciation is quite mutual :)<br /><br />Simone :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07435722126028910012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360936507322491939.post-521116268220672602009-12-26T02:40:22.640+00:002009-12-26T02:40:22.640+00:00I can't get over what an interesting life you ...I can't get over what an interesting life you have lived so far, Caroline. You really do rock. <br /><br />And I'm sure you weren't that bad during the interview.. you realise we all look at ourselves from a totally different perspective. I bet those looking in saw you not as serious but as having poise, not deliberately slow but eloquent, and as for the stick insect bit - pfft... even the stick insects look bigger than in real life - tv does that to you.<br /><br />Had to laugh at the description of putting pants on the statue too.. and those that decided to 'add' things.. kids huh. xxxTHE DASH!https://www.blogger.com/profile/08658679261310931377noreply@blogger.com