tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post410028308582204825..comments2024-03-20T16:05:23.293+00:00Comments on The Cynical Tendency: A Time There WasDemetriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post-25475902417956051292013-11-10T11:21:27.226+00:002013-11-10T11:21:27.226+00:00I once had a brief holiday in a house just below t...I once had a brief holiday in a house just below the Malvern Hills. Very early every morning I made the effort - and I do mean effort! - to get up, cross the road and walk up on the hills. Simply superb! As I walked I 'put up' the larks who were kind enough to sing for me. Not jaw-droppingly gorgeous like, say, the Alps but just very gentle on the eye. The memory lingers.David Duffhttp://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post-13751928421682243472013-11-10T05:42:06.227+00:002013-11-10T05:42:06.227+00:00A fascinating mix of genealogy and observation of ...A fascinating mix of genealogy and observation of British education (mostly lack thereof) through the ages. It supports one of my basic themes that human capacity peaked in the UK perhaps as early as 1900 and has since been regressing.<br /><br />This uninspired soul is still using genealogy to track only his own forebears and having a difficult enough time.Cascadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post-25253746790827177132013-11-09T20:50:08.895+00:002013-11-09T20:50:08.895+00:00Fascinating stuff. Please consider a piece on Geo...Fascinating stuff. Please consider a piece on George Lloyd, born in Cornwall in 1913, the same year as Britten. He composed his first opera Iernin when just 19 and wrote many other pieces. In a way he was a man out of time, preferring C19 style rather than the new music of Britten and his other contemporaries.Ed Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post-87528020806995856912013-11-09T00:16:14.088+00:002013-11-09T00:16:14.088+00:00"pronunciation now assumed to be and deemed &..."pronunciation now assumed to be and deemed "posh" or "elitist" <br />You have it wrong really. As a nigh eighty year old I can tell you that nowaday most peoplre speech would be classified as 'common' or even 'dead common'. As are their manners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001867295510218749.post-30028903459753914302013-11-08T19:46:13.597+00:002013-11-08T19:46:13.597+00:00Thank you. So very, very, true, unfortunately. Thank you. So very, very, true, unfortunately. Cassandranoreply@blogger.com