tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post8890439901816272746..comments2024-03-09T00:25:22.754-08:00Comments on City Views, Country Dreams: City Views, Country DreamsFranceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-7643133615336107222012-03-04T02:38:33.528-08:002012-03-04T02:38:33.528-08:00Hmm, I've just spotted your hint, Frances... y...Hmm, I've just spotted your hint, Frances... you'll be inundated with offers if you're contemplating a visit, but just say the word and you'd be very welcome here.Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-91950226457758525612012-03-04T02:36:23.926-08:002012-03-04T02:36:23.926-08:00I'm so enjoying your extra days off! The sket...I'm so enjoying your extra days off! The sketches are beautiful - I especially like the middle one - another bonus for us of your extra time!<br /><br />Now, bendy buses I can do - as they have them in Cardiff so I use one when my elder daughter and I go shopping, although I have to agree that the bendy bit itself is a bit daunting when the bus moves off and you're still unseated!<br /><br />Somehow, Frances, I think you were teasing us about those proposals!Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-55706353704360985572012-03-03T20:56:30.819-08:002012-03-03T20:56:30.819-08:00Using embroidery stitches as sketch pattern is ver...Using embroidery stitches as sketch pattern is very creative. Please tell me what is the number of that bus? We will go to this exhibit in May and we use local transportation. I would not mind what type of buses is used here if only we had some near my home – we have none. <br />I did not know about asking bachelors on 29 February. When I was in school in England and went to the weekly school dances we always had one or two dances when ladies could ask the gentlemen to dance – I always took the opportunity to ask… but that was only for a dance!Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-7520501841073408622012-03-03T15:08:30.689-08:002012-03-03T15:08:30.689-08:00A lovely and profitable day. I love your interest ...A lovely and profitable day. I love your interest in the arts and your own efforts at creating art. You will never be without a pleasant occupation.<br /><br />We've had these bendy buses in Germany for many years, bendy trams too. One does need to treat them with circumspection but they are quite useful otherwise.<br /><br />Dear Frances, I don't think there's a bachelor good enough for a lady like you, I should wait with the proposal for another year.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-51910888089437084722012-03-03T04:05:17.755-08:002012-03-03T04:05:17.755-08:00Loved your art experiments.
We have had bendy buse...Loved your art experiments.<br />We have had bendy buses for ages on 23rd Street, and I agree you do not want to sit in the bendy bit of it (no view at all!)<br />The Met always delights but I have not been there for several months.<br />Need a Neue galerie fix soon --and the coffee shop.<br />Want to go soon?elizabethhttp://elizabethwix.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-14554505155871051302012-03-03T00:02:18.133-08:002012-03-03T00:02:18.133-08:00I am quite sure only you Frances, could write in s...I am quite sure only you Frances, could write in such a captivating manner about bendy buses... you have such a talent with your conversational writing. Oh I would love to see that exhibit...but I am not too downbeat as we have just booked to go to Barcelona and I will get a big culture fix there.<br /><br />I look forward to seeing further ink sketches; the gift tags are beautiful xAndreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529555477542458602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-91648954170504741002012-03-02T11:54:42.090-08:002012-03-02T11:54:42.090-08:00Interesting that New York is adopting the bendy bu...Interesting that New York is adopting the bendy buses that London abandoned a few years ago after only a few years of trial. I wonder if they'll prove popular with anyone in New York. <br />I do love your ink drawings, Frances, and I'm deeply envious of your Stein exhibition which looks wonderful. I've always been intrigued by that period when Gertrude Stein lived in Paris with so many writers and artists, which Hemingway describes so vividly in A Moveable Feast. Almost worth a trip to NY just to see this ... I wish!Karen@PasGrande-Chosehttp://www.athousandmiles-k.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-20059842107203402332012-03-02T02:53:27.572-08:002012-03-02T02:53:27.572-08:00I love your experiemnts with the sketches very muc...I love your experiemnts with the sketches very much like embroidery indeed. I do not envy you your buses but that art collection oh my!!her at homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553181592011484686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-25981555063888933042012-03-02T00:40:42.789-08:002012-03-02T00:40:42.789-08:00Your little sketches with acrylic inks are very pr...Your little sketches with acrylic inks are very pretty Frances. I never fancied trying the bendy buses when they were in London... and what is this about you possibly being able to try a London bus? Is this some exciting news you have?Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05689402000429710324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-79093912360013853862012-03-01T18:28:48.615-08:002012-03-01T18:28:48.615-08:00I did know about the reintroduction of the Routema...I did know about the reintroduction of the Routemaster buses in London, and ... hint, hint, might even have the opportunity to ride on one before long.<br /><br />Our bendy buses are required for the crosstown routes that wind their way through the transverse roadways that curve their way through Central Park. I think that the folks who are selected to pilot these bus routes are the royalty of the roadways. Just imagine their squeezing past all sort of double parking slalom courses and handling the icy streets that usually are a feature around this time of the year.<br /><br />xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-42079204603381950752012-03-01T13:08:32.728-08:002012-03-01T13:08:32.728-08:00Sounds a great exhibition ... worth the risks of b...Sounds a great exhibition ... worth the risks of bendy-bus travel to get there :DAnniehttp://knitsofacto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-26928544682125033962012-03-01T12:21:09.381-08:002012-03-01T12:21:09.381-08:00I like the little sketches a lot, Frances...you ar...I like the little sketches a lot, Frances...you are so creative. <br />Wow, I can almost smell that bus from here! <br />Ah, I envy you the exhibition - has been many years since I was able to revel in art. I remember the Met very well from my one and only trip to NYC - when I was a mere 19. :)Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-68772035984388552092012-03-01T11:44:11.987-08:002012-03-01T11:44:11.987-08:00Hi Frances,
I hope you will find the right man to...Hi Frances,<br /><br />I hope you will find the right man to propose to before midnight! It sounds like an interesting tradition :-) <br /><br />Ah.....the Metropolitan. I hope I will be able to visit one day. The exhibition sounds interesting!<br /><br />Your little drawings look very sweet!<br /><br />Have a romantic evening!<br /><br />Madelief xMadeliefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906326152435858221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-49488205352794556802012-03-01T08:05:16.916-08:002012-03-01T08:05:16.916-08:00Frances, you are not alone for I have never met an...Frances, you are not alone for I have never met any man who was proposed to on 29th February. It must be rather nice. The girl going down on one knee and the going to ask permission from the parents. Especially since the man (or his parents) would then pay for the wedding. And given that between the ages of 18 and well is there an upper limit? a girl will have multiple chances, you wonder why it the facility is not put to better use.<br /><br />But of course women do propose most often but disguise their actions so that the man ends up proposing at their request without realising. <br /><br />I can't help wondering why you need bendy buses in New York when the streets are straight?Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-36981364719703478102012-03-01T01:05:01.674-08:002012-03-01T01:05:01.674-08:00Have fun with your inks, before I went digital I u...Have fun with your inks, before I went digital I used acrylic inks for illustration work - in fact I started using them when I took on a project where all the artists had to use the same range of inks so the colour intensity was the same throughout the books. I loved blending the colours together :-)<br /><br />As for bendy buses, I've travelled on them in Europe but didn't use the London ones... they've now been replaced with the swishy new red double-decker Routemasters designed by Thomas Heatherwick.<br /><br />What an interesting exhibition and good that it wasn't over crowded.<br /><br />Celia<br />xCelia Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776686088752602321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-60845040022508624022012-03-01T01:03:36.193-08:002012-03-01T01:03:36.193-08:00New - as in bendy buses - looks over-complicated t...New - as in bendy buses - looks over-complicated to me. I noticed on the news that London has seen the reintroduction of the new Routemaster bus this week. 8 new 'double deckers' have taken to the road. They too are hybrid fuelled - and they have a conductor as well as a driver.mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-37894411595891037382012-03-01T00:13:46.321-08:002012-03-01T00:13:46.321-08:00Dear Frances, I am sure there would have been some...Dear Frances, I am sure there would have been some very special bachelors out there who would have been particularly honored for such proposal. But where are they? I always find big cities so anonymous but this is perhaps just because I have never lived in such environment. I did not know that you have hybrid buses, wow! And love your sketches - really dainty.bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08803865167364775151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-30550796996171695892012-02-29T23:12:29.598-08:002012-02-29T23:12:29.598-08:00tee hee. but now for the rest of the three hundred...tee hee. but now for the rest of the three hundred and odd days of the year, you'll have to fend off proposals.<br />i particularly like your descriptions of the bendy buses. public transport always makes me a bit nervous.<br />i like your small drawings, they look so delicate.<br />xx loriLori annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02860428306713379828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-5933358504141650702012-02-29T22:47:30.271-08:002012-02-29T22:47:30.271-08:00It sounds to me as if you used your bonus day very...It sounds to me as if you used your bonus day very well, Frances. I like your little sketches very much. I took myself off work and went for a facial - something I'd never before experienced. That was my 'bonus day' experience.<br />You are so fortunate in the beautiful things - the exhibits, the parks - that you can visit in your wonderful city.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.com