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Christmas for me, the older I get....
Started by Frannie , Nov 15 2012 10:14 PM
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:14 PM
...becomes so much more unbearably exciting! It's only November 15th and I can't wait to get everything out. I've even been out to the garage to eye off the boxes of "stuff" and try and remember what's in them without looking. I MUST make myself wait 'til 1st December, but I swear, the older I get the harder it is!
Is my sub-conscious just caving to all the subliminal commercial messages we're bombarded with from end of October, or am I really just getting more and more Christmassy Kitsch the older I get.
I simply cannot wait for the 24 days (and the rest ) of my Christmas to start. You?
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:21 PM
I am the opposite - finding it vey hard to muster any enthusiasm - I am lucky to be married to and mother to some who are very into Christmas and will get me amped up in the 25 days in December we allocate to it but = meh, bah.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:24 PM
The older I get the happier I'd be with a lunch out, or a night in a hotel or just a day at home. No running around, no tree.....just a lazy day!
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:24 PM
I'm feeling the same way! I pulled out some of the tree decorations last weekend to have a bit of a look at what I have and was very, very tempted to put up the tree. Luckily I'm very busy this weekend or I'd probably cave in and put it up. It's going up next weekend though- I can't wait.
I'm putting my increasing enthusiasm down to having to having young children and wanting to share my love of Christmas with them.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:25 PM
I love Christmas, especially with children. But we have a December birthday, so the only thing we'll have out before then is the advent calendar.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:27 PM
I'm the same so much I put my Christmas tree up on the weekend with the kids
I won't put any lights up outside though as I don't want to let the rest of the neighbourhood know of my impatience, lol.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:28 PM
QUOTE (Frannie @ 15/11/2012, 11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
...becomes so much more unbearably exciting! It's only November 15th and I can't wait to get everything out. I've even been out to the garage to eye off the boxes of "stuff" and try and remember what's in them without looking. I MUST make myself wait 'til 1st December, but I swear, the older I get the harder it is!
Is my sub-conscious just caving to all the subliminal commercial messages we're bombarded with from end of October, or am I really just getting more and more Christmassy Kitsch the older I get.
I simply cannot wait for the 24 days (and the rest ) of my Christmas to start. You?
Still love Christmas and all the hoo-ha that goes with it - the food, the presents, the decorations. Even though ours are teenagers we still go silly over Christmas and seem to get worse every year.
Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:30 PM
The child in me is very much like you.
The sense in me just reminds me that it never turns out to be as exciting as I always hope it would be. Probably my bah-humbug DF and lack of family.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 05:53 AM
Yes I hear you ... I am getting very excited. Roll on 1st Dec
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:21 AM
Roll on December 26.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:23 AM
Maybe it's different when you have kids, but Christmas is generally a very lonely (emotionally) time for me.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:30 AM
I'm excited too. Ive even bought DS the Santa nappies but am NOT opening them until December.
Jai I'm sorry. I did IVF for 2 years and Christmas was a difficult time for me.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:33 AM
We put up our tree pageant day (last weekend)
It's a SA tradition to do it then. Maybe pretend you are following our ways
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:36 AM
I am excited but as my DD's birthdau is in December I don't like to put the tree up until after so the two are completlety seperate iykwm.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:41 AM
I am excited too. I will put the tree up December 1st because we are buying a real tree this year.
I really struggled through Christmas for a number of years once my parents divorced but I really have my Christmas mojo back.
My favourite parts
Carols at church all through December
Gingerbread House night at church
Advent calenders (haven't found a Lego one this year )
Roast dinner
Seeing my family on Boxing Day
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:44 AM
I LOVE Christmas. I have presents wrapped and a couple of lights outside. The tree is going up next week.
Personally I don't mind that shops have stuff out super early. I love the Christmas season and am happy to extend it as long as possible.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:45 AM
Arrrgghhhh! The waiting is killing me I tell you!!
I have bought some new decorations for our new house and we have a fireplace with mantel. I have some lovely garlands and new stockings to put up and I want to do it now!!
Edit for premature postification!
Edited by TopsyTurvy, 16 November 2012 - 06:47 AM.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:47 AM
QUOTE (Ianthe @ 16/11/2012, 07:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Advent calenders (haven't found a Lego one this year )
Not sure how long postage takes but you can order them from the lego site
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:59 AM
I am already stressing as to where the money for presents is going to come from - DF and I are getting married next week and every spare cent is going towards the wedding.
I am intending to make a glazed ham this year as DF LOVES ham - I confess to being a bit nervous about this
I do love Xmas but find it very stressful when the kids gets grasping and ungrateful.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:59 AM
Bah humbug!
Every year I get excited & then spend December running around madly trying to finish things up. Then by the 25tg I'm exhausted, but still have an over-stimulated, over-tired toddler to deal with.
We've got all but 3 gifts, and they'll be here soon so I don't have to do anything but wrap them.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:04 AM
QUOTE (TopsyTurvy @ 16/11/2012, 07:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Arrrgghhhh! The waiting is killing me I tell you!!
I have bought some new decorations for our new house and we have a fireplace with mantel. I have some lovely garlands and new stockings to put up and I want to do it now!!
Edit for premature postification!
Oh, to have a mantelpiece over a fire for Christmas! One of my little fantasies is to take the kids to New York for a white Christmas. Probably not as spectacular IRL as in my fantasies, though.
Jai* I'm sorry this is a lonely time for you. Is it the IVF, or lack of family or tradition? I understand Christmas is a very lonely time for a whole lot of people.
I think it's about making new traditions with my kids as they get older. They've started to appreciate the traditions that we've created together - like decorating the tree on the first weekend of December, with Christmas music on, scorched almonds and Christmas m n m's on the table in our special Christmas bowls, drinking bubbles; Carols by Candlelight with tasty treats and a drive to find the best lights; Christmas Eve mass at school, outside with lots of friends; drinking hot chocolate out of our special Christmas mugs at night leading up to Christmas Eve; Christmas drinks with friends and family wearing our Christmas t-shirts and matching earrings
I need relish these days as the girls are fast becoming tweens and will soon not want to participate as willingly as now.
Bring it on!
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:07 AM
QUOTE (*Lib* @ 15/11/2012, 11:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The older I get the happier I'd be with a lunch out, or a night in a hotel or just a day at home. No running around, no tree.....just a lazy day!
I think I'm just over the hype. I've been pelted with Christmas carols at my local shopping centre for 2 weeks already. Not sure how I'm going to handle another 5-6 weeks.
I used to love Christmas. But have struggled and slowly lost more of my Christmas mojo since I moved to Australia. It's not Australia's fault!!!!! It just feels weird without the cold and snow. And this is after 21 years here.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:10 AM
I'm hoping some of the enthusiasm in this thread will rub off on me. I need it this year!
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:10 AM
Oh me too! I'm so keen to get all the decorations etc out. DD1 especially is so into it at the moment, its really exciting just to try and see it from her perspective. And I do love to shop
Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:13 AM
The last two Christmases have been less than special and my enthusiasm waned significantly, so I am determined to bring out all the bells and whistles this year and make it a little magical again. I was thinking about putting up the tree on the weekend but felt a bit silly, I thought I would starting breaking out the decorations for around the house today and gradually build up from there. All of my present shopping is done and have have no commitments this year so I am looking forward to being able to sit back and enjoy, or bounce up and down with the kids and enjoy really.
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The Ettrick Valley lies about fifty miles due south of Edinburgh, and thirty or so miles north of the English border, which runs close to the wall Hadrian built to keep out the wild people from the north. The Romans pushed farther, and built some sort of fortifications called Antonine's Wall between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth, but those did not last long. The land between the two walls has been occupied for a long time by a mix of people—Celtic people, some of whom came from Ireland and were actually called Scots, Anglo-Saxons from the south, Norse from across the North Sea, and possibly some leftover Picts as well.
The high stony farm where my family lived for some time in the Ettrick Valley was called Far-Hope. The word hope, as used in the local geography, is an old word, a Norse word--Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Gaelic words being all mixed up together in that part of the country, as you would expect, with some old Brythonic thrown in to indicate an early Welsh presence. Hope means a bay, not a bay filled with water but with land, partly enclosed by hills, which in this case are the high bare hills, the near mountains of the Southern Uplands. The Black Knowe, Bodesbeck Law, Ettrick Pen—there you have the three big hills, with the word hill in three languages. Some of these hills are now being reforested, with plantations of Sitka spruce, but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they would have been bare, or mostly bare—the great Forest of Ettrick, the hunting grounds of the Kings of Scotland, having been cut down and turned into pasture or waste heath a century or two before.
The height of land above Far-Hope, which stands right at the end of the valley, is the spine of Scotland, marking the division of the waters that flow to the west into the Solway Firth and the Atlantic Ocean, from those that flow east into the North Sea. Within ten miles to the north is the country's most famous waterfall, the Grey Mare's Tail. Five miles from Moffat, which would be the market town to those living at the valley head, is the Devil's Beef Tub, a great cleft in the hills believed to be the hiding place for stolen cattle—English cattle, that is, taken by the reivers in the lawless sixteenth century. In the lower Ettrick Valley was Aikwood, the home of Michael Scott, the philosopher and wizard of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who appears in Dante's Inferno. And if that were not enough, William Wallace, the guerrilla hero of the Scots, is said to have hidden out here from the English, and there is a story of Merlin—Merlin—being hunted down and murdered, in the old forest, by Ettrick shepherds.
(As far as I know, my ancestors, generation after generation, were Ettrick shepherds. It may sound odd to have shepherds employed in a forest, but it seems that hunting forests were in many places open glades.)
Nevertheless the valley disappointed me the first time I saw it. Places are apt to do that when you've set them up in your imagination. The time of year was very early spring, and the hills were brown, or a kind of lilac brown, reminding me of the hills around Calgary. Ettrick Water was running fast and clear, but it was hardly as wide as the Maitland River, which flows past the farm where I grew up, in Ontario. The circles of stones which I had at first taken to be interesting remnants of Celtic worship were too numerous and well kept up to be anything but handy sheep pens.
I was travelling by myself, and I had come from Selkirk on the twice-a-week Shoppers' Bus, which took me no farther than Ettrick Bridge. There I wandered around, waiting for the postman. I'd been told that he would take me up the valley. The chief thing to be seen in Ettrick Bridge was a sign on a closed shop, advertising Silk Cut. I couldn't figure out what that might be. It turned out to be a well-known brand of cigarette.
After a while the postman came along and I rode with him to Ettrick Church. By that time it had begun to rain, hard. The church was locked. It disappointed me, too. Having been built in 1824, it did not compare, in historic appearance, or grim character, to the churches I had already seen in Scotland. I felt conspicuous, out of place, and cold. I huddled by the wall till the rain let up for a bit, and then I explored the churchyard, with the long wet grass soaking my legs.
There I found, first, the gravestone of William Laidlaw, my direct ancestor, born at the end of the seventeenth century, and known as Will O'Phaup. This was a man who took on, at least locally, something of the radiance of myth, and he managed that at the very last time in history—that is, in the history of the people of the British Isles—when a man could do so. The same stone bears the names of his daughter Margaret Laidlaw Hogg, who upbraided Sir Walter Scott, and of Robert Hogg, her husband, the tenant of Ettrickhall. Then right next to it I saw the stone of the writer James Hogg, who was their son and Will O'Phaup's grandson. He was known as The Ettrick Shepherd. And not far from that was the stone of the Reverend Thomas Boston, at one time famous throughout Scotland for his books and preaching, though fame never took him to any more important ministry.
Also, among various Laidlaws, a stone bearing the name of Robert Laidlaw, who died at Hopehouse January 29th 1800 aged seventy-two years. Son of Will, brother of Margaret, uncle of James, who probably never knew that he would be remembered by his link to these others, any more than he would know the date of his own death.
My great-great-great-great-grandfather.
As I was reading these inscriptions the rain came on again, lightly, and I thought I had better start to walk back to Tushielaw, where I was to catch the school bus for my return ride to Selkirk. I couldn't loiter, because the bus might be early, and the rain might get heavier.
I was struck with a feeling familiar, I suppose, to many people whose long history goes back to a country far away from the place where they grew up. I was a naive North American, in spite of my stored knowledge. Past and present lumped together here made a reality that was commonplace and yet disturbing beyond anything I had imagined.
Will O'Phaup
Here lyeth William Laidlaw, the far-famed Will o' Phaup, who for feats of frolic, agility and strength, had no equal in his day . . .
Epitaph composed by his grandson, James Hogg, on Will O'Phaup's tombstone in Ettrick Kirkyard.
His name was William Laidlaw, but his story-name was Will O'Phaup, Phaup being simply the local version of Far-Hope, the name of the farm he took over at the head of Ettrick Valley. It seems that Far-Hope had been abandoned for years when Will came to inhabit it. The house, that is, had been abandoned, because it was situated so high up at the end of the remote valley, and got the worst of the periodic winter storms and the renowned snowfall. The house of Potburn, the next one to it, lower down, was until recently said to be the highest inhabited house in all of Scotland. It now stands deserted, apart from the sparrows and finches busy around its outbuildings.
The land itself would not have belonged to Will, it would not even have been leased to him—he would have rented the house or got it as part of his shepherd's wages. It was never worldly prosperity that he was after.
Only Glory.
He was not native to the valley, though there were Laidlaws there, and had been since the first records were kept. The earliest man of that name I have come across is in the court records of the thirteenth century, and he was up on charges of murdering another Laidlaw. No prisons in those days. Just dungeons, mainly for the upper class, or people of some political importance. And summary executions--but those happened mostly in times of large unrest, as during the border raids of the sixteenth century, when a marauder might be hanged at his own front door, or strung up in Selkirk Square, as were sixteen cattle thieves of the same name—Elliott—on a single day of punishment. My man got off with a fine.
Will was said to be "one of the old Laidlaws of Craik"—about whom I have not been able to discover anything at all, except that Craik is an almost disappeared village on a completely disappeared Roman road, in a nearby valley to the south of Ettrick. He must have walked over the hills, a lad in his teens, looking for work. He had been born in 1695, when Scotland was still a separate country, though it shared a monarch with England. He would have been twelve years old at the time of the controversial Union, a young man by the time of the bitter failed Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, a man deep into middle age by the time of Culloden. There is no telling what he thought of those events. I have a feeling that his life was lived in a world still remote and self-contained, still harboring its own mythology and local wonders. And he was one of them.
The first story told of Will is about his prowess as a runner. His earliest job in the Ettrick Valley was as shepherd to a Mr. Anderson, and this Mr. Anderson had noted how Will ran straight down on a sheep and not roundabout when he wanted to catch it. So he knew that Will was a fast runner, and when a champion English runner came into the valley Mr. Anderson wagered Will against him for a large sum of money. The English fellow scoffed, his backers scoffed, and Will won. Mr. Anderson collected a fine heap of coins and Will for his part got a gray cloth coat and a pair of hose.
Fair enough, he said, for the coat and hose meant as much to him as all that money to a man like Mr. Anderson.
Here is a classic story. I heard versions of it—with different names, different feats—when I was a child growing up in Huron County, in Ontario. A stranger arrives full of fame, bragging of his abilities, and is beaten by the local champion, a simple-hearted fellow who is not even interested in a reward.
These elements recur in another early story, in which Will goes over the hills to the town of Moffat on some errand, unaware that it is fair day, and is cajoled into taking part in a public race. He is not well dressed for the occasion and during the running his country breeches fall down. He lets them fall, kicks his way out of them, and continues running in nothing but a shirt, and he wins. There is a great fuss made of him and he gets invited to dinner in the public house with gentlemen and ladies. By this time he must have had his pants on, but he blushes anyway, and will not accept, claiming to be mortified in front of such leddies.
Maybe he was, but of course the leddies' appreciation of such a well-favored young athlete is the scandalous and enjoyable point of the story.
Will marries, at some point, he marries a woman named Bessie Scott, and they begin to raise their family. During this period the boy-hero turns into a mortal man, though there are still feats of strength. A certain spot in the Ettrick River becomes "Will's Leap" to commemorate a jump he made, to get help or medicine for someone who was sick. No feat, however, brought him any money, and the pressures of earning a living for his family, combined with a convivial nature, seem to have turned him into a casual bootlegger. His house is well situated to receive the liquor that is being smuggled over the hills from Moffat. Surprisingly this is not whiskey, but French brandy, no doubt entering the country illegally by way of the Solway Firth—as it will continue to do despite the efforts late in the century of Robert Burns, poet and exciseman. Phaup becomes well known for occasions of carousing or at least of high sociability. The hero's name still stands for honorable behavior, strength, and generosity, but no more for sobriety.
Bessie Scott dies fairly young, and it is probably after her death that the parties have begun. The children will have been banished, most likely, to some outbuilding or the sleeping loft of the house. There does not appear to have been any serious outlawry or loss of respectability. The French brandy may be worth noting, though, in the light of the adventures that come upon Will in his maturity.
From the Hardcover edition.
Part One / No Advantages
No Advantages
The View from Castle Rock
The Wilds of Morris Township
Working for a Living
Part Two / Home
Lying Under the Apple Tree
Hired Girl
The Ticket
What Do You Want to Know For?
2. "The View from Castle Rock"
Agnes is a willful, sexually alert woman, trapped in her fate as a woman and mother [p. 72]. She is married to Andrew Laidlaw although she had been involved with his brother James [p. 67], who has already gone out to Nova Scotia. Andrew, we are told, "was the one that she needed in her circumstances" [p. 55]. What might her circumstances have been? In what ways does Agnes seem to embody the desires and frustrations of women in her time, and possibly in our time?
3. Why does the old James mention "the curse of Eve" with regard to Agnes [pp. 44-45]? Discuss Munro's prose in the paragraphs describing Agnes' childbirth [pp. 46-47]. What is most effective, moving, or realistic about this scene?
4. Though Walter refuses Nettie's father's offer of work and in doing so refuses to commit himself to Nettie, in later life "he will find that she is a source of happiness, available to him till the day he dies." He imagines her "acquiring a tall and maidenly body, their life together. Such foolish thoughts as a man may have in secret" [p. 78]. Why does Walter pass up this offer?
5. James Laidlaw has wanted all his life to go to America with his family [p. 62]; why, once he is on the ship, does he lose interest? Why does he become, on the ship, so profoundly and comically a man of Ettrick? What do his letters home [pp. 82-84] tell us about him?
6. Munro writes, "I am surely one of the liars the old man talks about, in what I have written about the voyage. Except for Walter's journal, and the letters, the story is full of my invention" [p. 84]. Discuss the ways in which factual evidence [pp. 84-87] and imaginative embellishment work together in this story, as well as the effect of this mingling.
7. "Illinois"
Andrew muses on what it was in America that had suited his brother Will and also possibly contributed to his early death: "there was something about all this rushing away, losing oneself entirely from family and past, there was something rash and self-trusting about it that might not help a man, that might put him more in the way of such an accident, such a fate" [p. 110]. Does the collection draw distinctions between those who remain attached to family, even in a new land, and those who are more eager to cut their ties?
8. "The Wilds of Morris Township"
The Laidlaws who settled in Blyth, Ontario—including Munro's great-grandfather Thomas—lived seemingly joyless lives: "without any pressure from the community, or their religion …they had constructed a life for themselves that was monastic without any visitations of grace or moments of transcendence" [p. 118]. Munro's father marveled at the change, in a generation, from adventurous emigrants to cautious settlers: "To think what their ancestors did …To pick up and cross the ocean. What was it squashed their spirits? So soon" [p. 126]. What might be possible answers to this question?
9. "Working for a Living"
Foundering late one night in a snowdrift as he walked home from work, a father thought only about his failures: about the fact that he would die in debt, about his invalid wife and the children he would leave behind. On hearing this, his daughter wondered, "didn't he struggle for his own self? I meant, was his life now something only other people had a use for?" [p. 166]. What does this incident tell us the realities of adulthood, and about the daughter's ambition and her sense of self-importance?
10. In what details does this story show how life's economic difficulties diminish people? Does the father seem somehow heroic in the face of his disappointments? What becomes of the mother's early entrepreneurial talents? How do these people come to terms with their disappointments and continue to face the future?
11. "Fathers"
Bunt Newcombe is so brutal with his wife and children that his daughter Dahlia speaks constantly of her desire to kill him. The narrator says that now such a family "might be looked on with concern and compassion. These people need help." But in that time and place, such misfortunes were taken at face value: "It was simple destiny and there was nothing to be done about it" [p. 175]. The narrator, however, is also sometimes beaten by her father: "I felt as if it must be my very self that they were after, and in a way I think it was. The self-important disputatious part of my self that had to be beaten out of me" [p. 195]. What does this story tell us about the expectations of the world in which Munro grew up, and about how she managed to survive it with what she would need to become a writer?
12. "Lying Under the Apple Tree"
Since the story is told long after the events narrated, an older woman is narrating the experience of her younger self. What effect does this have on the reader's understanding of the girl's sexuality? Would the girl have had the words to express what she was feeling at the time? Does the girl's desire come through more clearly in the words of an older woman? Think about Munro's perspectives, throughout the collection, on sexuality and desire as experienced by women.
13. What are the signs that the Craik family is slightly lower down on the social scale—or at least on the scale of social striving—than the narrator's own family? What does she mean in saying, "I was deceiving this family and my own, I was at this table under false pretenses" [p. 218]? How surprising is the story's ending, in which the narrator discovers that Russell is Miriam McAlpin's lover?
14. "Hired Girl"
As with "Lying Under the Apple Tree," this story explores the experience of learning about one's place in the hierarchy of social class. The hired girl, noticing the difference between the Montjoys' kitchen and her own family's, thinks, "it seemed as if I had to protect it from contempt—as if I had to protect a whole precious and intimate though hardly pleasant way of life from contempt" [p. 240]. Given this feeling, how does the girl handle herself in the presence of the family she works for? What is she ashamed of?
15. "The Ticket"
This is a story about leaving home, and about how marriage often was, for women, the ticket out. Yet Aunt Charlie suggests, intuiting the girl's true feelings, that the man she has chosen might not be "just the right ticket for you" [p. 283]. Discuss how this urgent communication between the older woman and the bride-to-be is handled in the narrative. What details make the end of the story so effective?
16. "Home"
The narrator goes back to visit the house where she grew up, which has been modernized by her father and stepmother: "So it seems that this peculiar house—the kitchen part of it built in the eighteen-sixties—can be dissolved, in a way, and lost, inside an ordinary comfortable house of the present time" [p. 289]. How does the story serve to lay bare again the life within the house, which the narrator calls "a poor man's house, a house where people have lived close to the bone for over a hundred years" [pp. 289-90]?
17. When her father says, "I know how you loved this place," the daughter thinks , "And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself that I loved here—some self that I have finished with, and none too soon" [p. 290]. How has the daughter's self-love helped her to escape from the life she might have had, had she stayed close to home?
18. "What Do You Want to Know For?"
What is the connection between the major elements in this story—the mysterious crypt, the regional landscape and its history, and the lump in the narrator's breast? What is the significance of the lamp sealed inside the vault, and Mrs. Mannerow's comment upon it: "Nobody knows why they did it. They just did" [p. 339]?
19. "Messenger"
Munro writes in her epilogue, "We can't resist this rifling around in the past, sifting the untrustworthy evidence, linking stray names and questionable dates and anecdotes together, hanging on to threads, insisting on being joined to dead people and therefore to life" [p. 347]. What is the overall effect of these stories, and how do they make you think about your own family's history and your place in it?
20. On The View from Castle Rock
Discuss Munro's decision to create a collection of stories from her own and her family's history. She writes in her foreword, "These are stories. You could say that such stories pay more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on. The part of this book that might be called family history has expanded into fiction, but always within the outline of a true narrative". How and why is this approach interesting? Do these stories, in any substantive way, differ from those in Munro's earlier collections?
Posted December 9, 2008
These twelve new short stores are broken into three sections. Part One/No Advantages contains five tales from the author¿s ancestry as her family sails from Scotland to America. Part Two/Home includes six stories mostly occurring in the Lake Huron area that will be much more familiar to fans of Alice Munro. Finally a one tale Epilogue/Messenger that ties to two segments together. Each contribution is terrific and will enhance Ms. Munro¿s reputation as one of the best modern day short story writers. This reviewer¿s personal favorite is the ¿Roots¿ like first entry 'No Advantages' though the others like the title story is well written, filled with depth so that the audience feels they are either in the Scotland or near Lake Huron, past and present. Once again Ms. Munro vividly brings to life the seemingly ennui everyday people, but makes each person seems so alive and vibrant with this superb anthology.------------- Harriet Klausner
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Spice Girls (Melanie C, Emma, Geri) & Rita Ora on Alan Carr: Chatty Man
The Spice Girls (Melanie C, Emma, Geri) & Rita Ora are being interviewed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man....
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Geri Halliwell has congratulated Rita Ora after her record for the most number of UK No1s by a female solo artist was matched. The former Ginger Spice has four chart-toppers to her name away from the Spice Girls, and yesterday (May 18) it...Entertainment Wise 2014-05-20
Nicole Scherzinger has been confirmed as the latest X Factor guest judge, Digital Spy can reveal. The Pussycat Doll singer and former X Factor USA judge will be the latest...Digital Spy 2012-05-29
Peter Kay will reportedly perform a warm-up gig at today's X Factor auditions in Liverpool. The stand-up comic will appear before the first round of filmed auditions take...Digital Spy 2012-05-23
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Russell Brand's 13-day relationship with Geri Halliwell has reportedly "petered out" after she took him househunting in Devon. The couple are believed to have entered a "cooling-down period" due to Brand's reluctance to commit to a relationship so soon after his failed marriage to Katy Perry, which came to an end in December. "Geri was smitten but things have petered out a...Digital Spy 2012-09-04
Rita Ora and Avril Lavigne are the latest musicians tipped to take on a judging role in this year's The X Factor UK. Following Kelly Rowland's exit from the ITV1 show and Dannii Minogue's snubbing of a return to the panel, there is still a vacant spot on the ITV1 reality series. Geri Halliwell, Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart are reportedly among the guests who will fill in...Digital Spy 2012-05-22
Geri Halliwell has congratulated Rita Ora after her record for the most number of UK No1s by a female solo artist was matched. The former Ginger Spice has four chart-toppers to her name away from the Spice Girls, and yesterday (May 18) it was confirmed that Ora has equalled the feat with her new single 'I Will Never Let You Down'. She previously hit the...Entertainment Wise 2014-05-19
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Geri Halliwell has been confirmed as a guest judge at The X Factor UK's first round of filmed auditions in Liverpool. The former Spice Girls singer will sit alongside Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh and Tulisa Contostavlos at try-outs in the city tomorrow (May 23). "I'm incredibly excited and proud to join The X Factor in Liverpool and have the opportunity to find a new star,"...Digital Spy 2012-05-23
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Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is a British pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author and actress. Halliwell came to international prominence in the late 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of girl group the Spice Girls. She reportedly amassed a $30 million fortune during her last two years in the group. Halliwell launched her solo career in 1998, releasing her album Schizophonic. She has since released two more studio albums – Scream If You Wanna Go Faster and Passion – as well as four singles that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Mi Chico Latino", "Lift Me Up", "Bag It Up" and "It's Raining Men". In 2008 Halliwell published a book series named Ugenia Lavender. As a solo artist, Halliwell has sold 12 million records worldwide, and been nominated for four Brit Awards (in 2000 and 2002). In 1999 she wrote her first autobiography If Only, in which she described her life as a Spice Girl. Her second autobiography was released in 2002. She is expected to release her fourth studio album "Putting On The Bling" in 2012.


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There are a number of places to see a great view of Tokyo City from high up. One of those is Roppongi Hills. In the evening you can see the sun setting over Mt Fuji. It was a bit cold today, but I thought it might be a good chance to catch Mt Fuji with a clear sky. There was a little bit of cloud around but otherwise the view was quite nice.
Great View !! I will go to see it by my eyes.
Great photoset!! I went here when I was in Tokyo last April, but I didn't go to the outside deck. I'm definitely adding this to my rapidly increasing list of things to do when I return though.
Absolutely stunning photos. What effect are you using to draw the colours out like that?
Again, brilliant photos that make me yearn to go back! Bring on June I say!
These are HDR. Some are done with a single photo, others with 5 photos then merged. There were no tripods allowed so it made things a bit more difficult. I use photomatix for the merging.
Are these HDR images? Some parts of the photos look rather glowy. Like the policeman in the 2nd photo
Lovely photos. I want to go to Roppongi Hills around sunset on my next trip to Japan; being open-air makes it a bit more ideal a destination for photography than Tokyo Tower or the city hall towers.
That's for sure. It costs either 1,500 Yen or 1,800 Yen, depending on the package you choose, to go to the 52Floor (indoors) and then another 300 Yen to go outside on the higher helipad floor. It is worth going outside.


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Taking bikes on Indian trains
Hello folks
I am planning on taking my poorly bike on a train from Gorhakpur to Kolkata to lessen the kms I need to ride with the state the engine is in, (thats another story!)
Please can you offer any tips and advice on when how to do it, where to buy tickets, loading, unloading, etc?
Kindest Regards
Hi Fern,
i was in Bankura, west Bengal, 200 kms west of kolkata due to gearbox trouble. went to the local station, asking at the ticket desk what to do to put the bike on the train. they've suggested me to find the man who cares about mail wagon and its stuff. he told me to back, with the bike straight on the platform, the next day at 4.00 am, 2 hours before the train left to do all concerning. he booked me the place in advance then, once i was there at the right time, i had to disconnect the battery and get the fuel tank empty. then we put, we were 5 people, the bike on the mail wagon. it wasn't so steepy. i've "payed" the porters with the gasoline i had to left at the railway station...
ah.. i was traveling on the same train of course.
once in kolkata i had to manage the bike unloading by other porters: it wasn't so difficult, but i do not remember if i had to pay something to them, anyway it was cheap for sure. also do not exactly remember how i had to pay for the train transportation but it was something about 20 euro including my fare.
in kolkata you can get in touch with Eastern Bulls wich are a group of enthusiast enfield riders as you, i assume, will need some help on what to do or where to go in case you have to get , if possible, your bike fixed there. they were very helpful: came to pick me up at railway station and carry me to a budget hotel nearby the forwarders area to manage the bike shipping to BKK.
hope this helps you.
I wanted to save time and went to Chennai station to book myself and an Enfield on a train 2 weeks in advance of travelling, I could only book my ticket and the bike had to be booked and paid for on departure date, make sure you have your passport to hand, plenty of small banknotes as you need to tip everyone in sight and pay for the sacking to protect the bike(important, or THERE will be damage!:() And most important of all WATCH your bike being loaded onto the correct train, my bike left the holding area but was on the next train to mine!:nono: Aircon carriage make a world of difference as well. All the best
Dang Fern, what's wrong with Kitty now? We just happened to bump into the Kolkata bikers on the road in Meghalaya. They were on the way to Nagaland (not I'm a straight line I assume). I'll hook you up with one of em on FB...xxxooo
It's not a difficult process. Usually a porter will be present to walk you through every step (fora good tip). You first book your personal ticket, then go to the luggage office. There you book the ticket for your bike. Have the bike packaged by guys near the station (drain all your gas first! It has to be done, and the guys packing the bike won't give you half of what it's worth if you let them do it). Think I paid 500 rupee for that. Then you gotta find the guy who physically puts your bike on the train, and pay him to make sure it happens. I think that was 300 rupee. When you arrive at your destination, get your bike unloaded, and then go to the luggage receiving office. They'll walk you through the rest. It's important to note that everyone will at least attempt to rip you off.
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Dassault Falcon Jet is investing in a major expansion of its Sorocaba maintenance facility over the next few months "to better accommodate the demands of Brazilian and other South American customers." The expansion of the Dassault Aircraft Services-Sorocaba facility will add 10,000 sq ft (929 sq m) of hangar space, significantly boosting the existing 23,000-sq-ft (2,137-sq-m) building and "reinforcing our ability to serve the anticipated demand," said John Rosanvallon, president and CEO of Dassault Falcon Jet.
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A day after watching Pratt & Whitney's PW1500G engines lifting Bombardier's new CSeries airliner for its long-awaited first flight on September 16, Pratt & Whitney Canada president John Saabas told AIN that the new turbofan's PurePower technology PW800 cousin will soon be delivering the same step change in operating efficiency and low noise to the business aviation sector.
Dassault Aviation comes to this year's Paris Air Show with two newly certified business jets: the large-cabin Falcon 2000S and Falcon 2000LXS. Both received EASA and FAA approvals in March. The first Falcon 2000S was delivered in April to a Turkish customer. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the second half for the 2000LXS, when it replaces the 2000LX.
Dassault Aviation (Booth 7090) comes to EBACE this year with two newly certified business jets: the large-cabin Falcon 2000S and Falcon 2000LXS. Both received EASA and FAA approvals in March. Meanwhile, the new Falcon SMS program is still under wraps, but with the growing prospect of a launch for this long-anticipated development later this year.
Dassault has introduced yet another new version of its popular Falcon 2000 super-midsize twinjet. The 2000LXS combines the range and amenities of the Falcon 2000LX with the short field capabilities of the Falcon 2000S.
Dassault Falcon is introducing yet another new version of its popular super-midsize twin. The Falcon 2000LXS combines the range and amenities of the Falcon 2000LX with the short field capabilities of the Falcon 2000S. The new aircraft is expected to cost $500,000 more than the 2000LX (2012 $) and gain certification in 2014 when it replaces the 2000LX.
Pratt & Whitney Canada claims to have improved turnaround times for customers by 20 percent through a number of advances and innovations. For example, its online diagnostic tool enables customers using its PW300 turbofan, PW100 turboprop and PW200 turboshaft engine families to diagnose their engine issues quickly.
Here at the EBACE show, the engine maker is introducing a new product called flight acquisition storage transmission (FAST). This automatically acquires, stores and transmits engine and aircraft flight data for analysis for planned maintenance.
StandardAero Business Aviation is now offering Pratt & Whitney PW305 service at its Houston facility in support of the Learjet 60 and Hawker 1000. The MRO's Springfield, Ill. facility was the first site to begin supporting the PW300-series.
Dassault Falcon is taking advantage of the current business jet production lull to implement more efficient production procedures, unveil new modularized interiors, continue work on its SMS new jet program and perhaps forge alliances with other OEMs as a way to expand its market footprint into new aircraft categories. Like most other business jet OEMs, the delivery numbers for Dassault year-to-date have been less than robust. Measured in dollars for the first six months of 2011 they were down 44 percent from the same period in 2010, representing an aggregate value of $846.5 million this year versus $1.854 billion a year ago. The scorecard: 19 aircraft delivered through June versus 45 for the first six months of 2010. On a positive note, for the first half of the year the company booked 22 net new (minus cancellation) Falcon orders.
StandardAero is here bearing the fruits of its labors over the past year. And according to v-p of business development strategy Marc McGowan, it is in no small part a matter of fulfilling the promises made at last year's NBAA convention.
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Description: ***CLICK THE CAPTIONS BUTTON ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT FOR SUBTITLES***The scene in the German film Downfall, where Hitler realises he is defeated in Berlin, and lets of his anger at his Generals. This is the original video, parodied so many times on Youtube, it's those videos that made me watch the film if I'm honest, and the film is excellentEnglish Soft Subs/Closed Captions available, look at the bottom right.Taken from the Blu-Ray of the film in 1080p (yes, the film is that grainy)Also, the BBC did this article on the meme that is Hitler Parody. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8617454.stm
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EXPAND THIS DESCRIPTION FOR DETAILS AND INSIGHT Here's the scene that has become so virally popular on YouTube, in all its original glory. This entire movie is amazing, the acting superb, the history accurate. I consider it one of the best WWII movies ever made. Army Detachment Steiner (Armeeabteilung Steiner), was a temporary military unit, something more than a corps but less than an army, created on paper by German dictator Adolf Hitler on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and placed under the command of SS Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. Hitler hoped that the units assigned to Steiner would be able to stage an effective counter attack against the northern pincer of the Soviet assault on Berlin. In the event, Steiner realised that the forces under his command were inadequate, and refused to attack. Read more about Steiner's failure to attack: en.wikipedia.org The two ladies in the beginning are Hitler's secretaries Traudl Junge and Gerda Christian. Read more about Traudl Junge: en.wikipedia.org Read more about Gerda Christian: en.wikipedia.org The man that tells these two ladies that Hitler has nothing to lose in the beginning of the scene is Hermann Fegelein, whose name Hitler is screaming in another scene from this movie that has also gone viral. Read more about Hermann Fegelein: en.wikipedia.org The woman Hitler kisses at the end is obviously Eva Braun, his long-time girlfriend who married and committed suicide with Hitler. Read more about Eva Braun: en ...
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Hitler is informed that everyone forgot about his birthday and that they have no present to give him, this sends Hitler into rage and he rants about how this could of happened. Created by hitlerrantsparodies Clip From Downfall (Der Untergang) The Hitler Rants Parody's Group www.youtube.com Downfall Parodies Forum s1.zetaboards.com
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Another Hitler rant. He gets a bit upset when his dog Daisy is ran over. Angst-ridden Hitler has a rant.
Click "Like" if, you do like. Thanks to Stephen Fry for his lovely Tweet about this video. Downfall DVD: www.amazon.com Downfall is Copyright © 2004 Constantin Film AG; clip used here under 'Fair Use' Legislation. DOWNFALL (the movie) from Constantin Film was Oscar Nominated. It is a truly superb movie, with many awards and nominations. Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Written by: Bernd Eichinger. Bruno Ganz portrays Hitler. IMDB (8.4/10): www.imdb.com If you want to edit video yourself then, through my own personal experiences, I can recommend Final Cut Express on Mac: www.amazon.com or definitely Sony Vegas on PC: www.amazon.com
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Hitler gets wind about the Cleveland Browns Roster and is not pleased. Also Since this is semi-popular I made a new video for 2011. www.youtube.com Enjoy! Hitler is read the Cleveland Browns Roster, and is not pleased
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TRUE STORY...this is the After Action Report delivered to Hitler after the "Stille Nacht" Tactical in Yorkville, IL on December 6th, 2008. Right in the middle of the battle, at least half of the GI's decided to walk off the battlefield to rest, warm up and yes...to get McDonalds.
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IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights (except TV) to Werner Herzog's 3-D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which explores the ancient walls of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in the south of France. Herzog was able to get access to areas that have been off-limits by deploying special no-heat lights.Read More »
Whoa, Vincent Gallo, look out for that tree! The toppling mighty oak in question is being buzzed down by a grizzled worker, and Gallo, though the only other man in the woods, happens to be in striking distance of it. No matter, it's just one of many harebrained circumstances in which Gallo finds himself in Jerzy Skolimowski's latest, Essential Killing, a self-consciously stripped-down action-art survival film. For his part, Gallo, with nary a line of dialogue, is put through the ringer. A fish out of water and an escaped convict tossed from his transport after a Fugitive-like hillside crash, Gallo, in addition to being nearly flattened by that tree, accidentally steps on an open bear trap, has to stab a marauding hunting dog, and eats ants and tree bark for nourishment. Trapped in the middle of nowhere and not knowing the local language, Gallo is forced to rely on his wits and animal-like fury, not to mention adeptness with hunting knives and chainsaws. Essential Killing is a one-man Lord of the Flies. Oh, and did I mention Gallo's character is named Mohammed and he is an extradited Afghan prisoner en route to an unspecified location for imprisonment?Read More »
There's an interesting trend I've noticed in recent films, including the rom-coms "Going the Distance" and "Heartbreaker," that culminates (so far as I know) this week with the highly derivative -- but knowingly so -- teen comedy "Easy A." The new movie stars Emma Stone as a girl with such an appreciation for 1980s high school movies that it seems to inadvertently come through in both her dialogue (though her "never had one lesson" remark may have been an intentional "Ferris Bueller" nod) and her social life choices, the latter which turns her into a kind of reverse Ronald Miller (from "Can't Buy Me Love"). The end of the film, without giving too much or anything unexpected away, involves a mashing together of allusions, all of which somewhat require the viewer to have seen the cited '80s films, or at least paid attention during an earlier montage of licensed clips. One of these nostalgic references is an audio of Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club."Read More »
Variety's losses continue to be gains for its competitors, as Deadline has snapped up another ex-Variety staffer, Michael Speier, who left the dwindling trade last year (as did I) to work in corporate PR at Disney, a job that must have been a challenge for him after co-running the daily paper as executive editor. Speier not only knows the entertainment news business but gets the online side of the trade wars in a way that few of the survivors at Variety do. How strange for him to be working for Nikki Finke.Read More »
One of the things that happens at a fest like Toronto is bad timing: I went to see Barney's Version at Roy Thomson Hall Sunday night with a ticket in my pocket for the later public screening of Clint Eastwood's Hereafter at the Elgin/Visa, a brisk fifteen-minute walk away. But producer Robert Lantos and his team made such a long intro, and the movie was significant enough to stay through to the end, so I missed the Eastwood. I'll see it later. The movie has gotten a "good not great" response here.Read More »
Under the steelwork silhouette of the Third Avenue El, bums splay out across doorjambs in mid-afternoon; anyone who has scraped together enough money already has their binge underway. It's a few stops downtown from P.J. Clarke's and Don Birnam's apartment in The Lost Weekend, but formally it's another universe—shots of winos being scooped into police vans seem cut-in direct from life, seemingly surreptitiously filmed; people, buildings, everything in sight shows marks that could only come of long, terrible attrition. There are no open-armed, redemptive Jane Wymans here, only men, specimens in advanced states of decay, in-and-out-of-Bellevue types not quite able to fill out their rusty, piss-scented trousers. Enter a new guy, Ray (Ray Salyer), whose biceps still fill out his sleeves, his chest not yet concave, looking preoccupied as he enters the Confidence Bar & Grill. He's railroaded into buying a round of drinks, learns a few names, and just like that he's part of the Bowery.Read More »
Film Comment's Scott Foundas got the ball rolling a month before David Fincher's The Social Network was set to open the NYFF ("big and brash and brilliant") on September 24. And Rolling Stone's Peter Travers swiftly offered up a juicy Tweet quote: "David Fincher's Social Network is the 1st film I've given **** in 2010. It's the movie of the year that also brilliantly defines the decade." And this week Sony screened the movie for several online folks--they invited me, but I was in Toronto and figured I'd see it Monday when I got back to L.A. Jeffrey Wells couldn't wait that long: he flew from Toronto to New York to see the film, and reported thusly:David Fincher's The Social Network (Columbia, 10.1) is Zodiac's younger, geekier, greedier brother. That means it's good, as in really good -- a movie for guys like myself and critics like Eric Kohn, Karina Longworth and Robert Koehler to savor and consider and bounce up against, and basically for smart, sophisticated audiences to savor in every cultural corner, and....can I just blurt it out? It's the strongest Best Picture contender I've seen so far this year, and in saying this I'm obviously alluding to Inception.Read More »


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A fashionable spa town in the 19th century, Royal Leamington Spa received its noble title after a visit from Queen Victoria. Today, Leamington is popular for its preserved architecture and shopping center. Nearby Warwick is home to the medieval Warwick Castle. Perched on a bluff, visitors who dare to walk the castle walls are rewarded with expansive views of the River Avon valley.