Member: littlegreycloud

Susan, I started a note here the other night and had to leave for some unknown reason. I've been doing heavy hospital sitting with my aunt this week and haven't been home or at LT much in consequence. Just wanted you to know that I'm not snubbing you and will reply to your nice message soon!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 11:39 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2009

Hi, Friend! I'm not sure what friending does except make the person easy to get to.....
(((Angela Thirkell)))!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 3:44 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

Susan, thank you for the delightful look into your family - and I do heartily recommend multiple cats. I'm guessing that you have experience to go on too. How wonderful for you both and Isla that you saw beyond her needs! (I love "fibre-based media," both the term and the things themselves!!!!)
And thank you very much for your review of the Drabble. I will put it on a wish list but not be overly aggressive about buying it. You will have seen that I read more fiction than anything else, and I do admire MD's. I have a pile yet to read but really enjoyed The Gates of Ivory last year. I don't have anything in common really with Liz Headleand and her friends, but they are characters who live somewhere in the back of my mind.
Hope work is going well and is not too overwhelming. Early retirement has been a joy that I haven't even begun to deserve!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 10:38 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

Dear Susan,
I'm happy to hear from you again! I know how overwhelming work can be, and more happy than I can say to be retired. Hope you have given yourself plenty of down time. I'm sorry about your little Wolkchen (imagine umlaut!). She looks very like our Katy who was with us for 19 years, surviving her brother Pinky by many years. All our animals are rescues - mostly from the neighborhood. Miss May was rescued by somebody who put her and her puppies in the local shelter; she had been raising them at a dumpster. After some time in another home, the owner brought her and her daughter back because they chewed things and jumped up. May is a nearly perfect lady now (Daughter was adopted and went to Wilmington, N.C.), and after nearly 2 years is learning to be top dog. The kitties have adjusted to the porch well and come into the house on a daily basis but don't have full run of it yet. Chibby hisses and spits every time she sees them, but they haven't fought yet. One day I'll have them all in!
I see that you're reading the E. Taylor bio. She is one of my favorites, but I don't know anything much about her life. Again, I think you'd like the Virago Modern Classics group. My current VMC is The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy. It doesn't read like a first novel, which it is; it's not great but is very good. OO! You're reading Margaret Drabble too! Another favorite although I don't have this new one. Come back as you have time to let me know what you think about it.
Hope you have a useful, joyful week!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 8:42 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2009

Susan, so nice of you to come back and speak! I went a little crazy after I found this place in January, and added at least a hundred books a week for quite some time. I probably have another couple of hundred to put here, but RL and a waning of interest in getting them all catalogued have slowed me down considerably. I also find that this place has made severe cuts into my reading time. I'm trying to mend that.
Love the little gray cat! We have just invited a mother and her 2 babies into our lives and onto the traditional cat porch. (I'm waging a subtle campaign to get them into the actual house by winter.) At any rate, Elle and Hilfy are gray tabbies with a lot of white, and Tully is solid gray and white. We also have Chibby, our charming tortoiseshell, who is not happy to welcome the interlopers at this point. That's probably more than you want to know, so I'll not tell you about May the Dog of the House!
Stay in touch as you can!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 8:48 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009

I'm very pleased to know that you think my library is interesting! Thank you!
Contrary to what your profile page says, we do have 26 books in common, and they are good ones. I hope to see you around; LT has become quite an addiction of mine! (Because you have so many of us who have your books, you should check out the group at Virago Modern Classics. I think you'll find kindred spirits. I know you'll find lovely women!)
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 8:23 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2009