tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post9121472944654365331..comments2023-10-15T14:35:24.698+01:00Comments on The trouser Press: Sweet solitudetrousershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12879862280895772283noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-6256613192805378052007-11-10T12:05:00.000+00:002007-11-10T12:05:00.000+00:00Sehnsucht is a difficult one. I think the concept ...Sehnsucht is a difficult one. I think the concept is best rendered into English by <I>sweet longing</I>, but when you look at the word it's nicely made up of two parts: <I>sehnen</I> and <I>Sucht</I>, longing and addiction, an <I>addictive longing</I> in other words. <BR/><BR/>Thanks, Signs, that has got me thinking as well now. In German you may say <I>Ich habe Sehnsucht nach Dir</I>. I am addictively longing for you? Doesn't sound as romantic when you translate it literally...More like you need treatment. Hmmmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-18536103715234511802007-11-10T09:14:00.000+00:002007-11-10T09:14:00.000+00:00Hi signs, I will have to have a look at the posts ...Hi <B>signs</B>, I will have to have a look at the posts you mention.<BR/><BR/>Ah, Sehnsucht - it's one of those words which loses something in translation isn't it? Something akin to "sweet longing" if I remember rightly, but which does the original word and meaning a disservice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-5223633252525773372007-11-09T00:58:00.000+00:002007-11-09T00:58:00.000+00:00Trousers, four of my posts from May this year have...Trousers, four of my posts from May this year have photos of Iona and Mull. When I went the weather was unusually sunny, but even so I picked up on that particular quality of Mull melancholy. Very different to Iona and just a stone's throw. There is something about these places. Got me thinking about the word Sehnsucht.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-72379657043306921522007-11-08T13:36:00.000+00:002007-11-08T13:36:00.000+00:00Bloody hell ario, you're on fire with your insight...Bloody hell <B>ario</B>, you're on fire with your insights at the moment! Thought-provoking stuff for sure.<BR/><BR/>Hi and thank you<B> dj</B>, hope you're feeling better?trousershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879862280895772283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-6171043873412758122007-11-08T13:22:00.000+00:002007-11-08T13:22:00.000+00:00Wow, gorgeous pics.Wow, gorgeous pics.DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-57217371917627909612007-11-08T10:36:00.000+00:002007-11-08T10:36:00.000+00:00An intriguing conclusion that has set me thinking....An intriguing conclusion that has set me thinking. Why do we always <I>have to</I>leave and why can't we just <I>be</I>? It is not as if we must leave to <I>become</I>. Just by allowing ourselves to be in such moments we are already becoming something else. Yet there is always this urge to move on. We flit around restlessly like swallows in Autumn and forget there is such a thing as stillness. <BR/><BR/>Beautiful pictures. I shall return to my cave now and ponder some more...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-85803227920538913102007-11-08T09:47:00.000+00:002007-11-08T09:47:00.000+00:00Hi pixie - maybe so but at least there's some kind...Hi <B>pixie</B> - maybe so but at least there's some kind of consistency there....<BR/><BR/><B>szwag</B>, I agree about Rhum: I went there for a day during another week's holiday, I think when we stayed at Kinlochmoidart, which was another beautiful week in itself. I can remember us walking past the school and seeing bikes outside without any locks on them. For a split second I thought, anybody could take them: then the obvious realisation that if someone did take them, they couldn't go very far.<BR/><BR/>I'll take your word for it about Gigha<B>merkin</B>. Let's face it - without wanting to lump it all together into one homogenous entity - it's a pretty good neck of the woods all round, isn't it :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-87682900811349225722007-11-08T00:27:00.000+00:002007-11-08T00:27:00.000+00:00Even better is Gigha - off the Mull of Kintyre.I w...Even better is Gigha - off the Mull of Kintyre.<BR/>I was only there one time and met a friend of my father, the famous Mr Angus McSporran.<BR/>He was the post holder of at least a dozen jobs on the island.<BR/>Postman <BR/>Fireman<BR/>Policeman<BR/>Coastguard etc etc<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2ndchm<BR/><BR/>Beautiful place.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-46870156427369945782007-11-07T08:35:00.000+00:002007-11-07T08:35:00.000+00:00Actually, even better is Rum, not 'Rhum', as the h...Actually, even better is <A HREF="http://www.road-to-the-isles.org.uk/rum.html" REL="nofollow">Rum</A>, not 'Rhum', as the heathens have it. One road, one shop, loads of red deer and birds of prey, and, because it's a nature reserve, basically empty.<BR/><BR/>You have to walk everywhere, but it's not a big island. Amazing place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-14378328092017135772007-11-06T21:31:00.000+00:002007-11-06T21:31:00.000+00:00dave? dave,..... you have a serious problem you kn...dave? dave,..... you have a serious problem you know.... dave???<BR/>pxxFire Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477692359400671374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-77238780245561954172007-11-06T19:42:00.000+00:002007-11-06T19:42:00.000+00:00Don't we all, but why?: want a holiday that is...G...Don't we all, <B>but why?</B>: want a holiday that is...<BR/><BR/>Glad you like the pictures. They also serve as a reminder to me not to forsake my trusty SLR now that I've got my digital camera.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-2865499241305103812007-11-06T19:25:00.000+00:002007-11-06T19:25:00.000+00:00Lovely ;ictures. I want a holiday...Lovely ;ictures. I want a holiday...But Why?https://www.blogger.com/profile/18410865104797473854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-68818434608188311532007-11-06T19:23:00.000+00:002007-11-06T19:23:00.000+00:00I haven't been to Skye (resists temptation to say ...I haven't been to Skye (resists temptation to say "but I've been to me"), <B>szwag</B>, though friends of mine have. I'd like to go.<BR/><BR/>The bunch that I went with, a core group of us went to different parts of Scotland each year in February - fantastic time to go for all sorts of reasons.<BR/><BR/>I must have made use of your handiwork then <B>merk</B>, since we did go to Iona for the day. Maybe I'll post some pictures up from there too (I've got one of John Smith's grave, I could call it The Death of Old Labour or similar), mind you this is rapidly becoming a photoblog the way things are going...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-88280795095092278262007-11-06T19:13:00.000+00:002007-11-06T19:13:00.000+00:00Fine photos which were very evocative for me.As a ...Fine photos which were very evocative for me.<BR/><BR/>As a student, I spent one Summer working as a labourer on the building of the ferry pier between Fionnport and Iona.<BR/>Saved enough to buy my first real electric - a Guild CE 100D.<BR/><BR/>Magic time living in a tent half way up a mountain as we wanted to be away from the workers camp.<BR/><BR/>Must fling up a couple of Mull stories from the Legion there is.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-10138948827645423492007-11-06T14:02:00.000+00:002007-11-06T14:02:00.000+00:00oops.)oops.<BR/><BR/>)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-8817599128595501362007-11-06T14:01:00.000+00:002007-11-06T14:01:00.000+00:00Mull's good. I prefer Skye, though (although since...Mull's good. I prefer Skye, though (although since they built the damn bridge it doesn't feel quite so much like an island.<BR/><BR/>The mountains are something else.<BR/><BR/>Blancmange, perhaps.<BR/><BR/>All of <B>these</B> fields are optional.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-68146900924482207552007-11-06T11:04:00.000+00:002007-11-06T11:04:00.000+00:00It's old Dave the hard drive that does it you know...It's old Dave the hard drive that does it you know in those wide open spaces.<BR/>ahkuphAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-18387258342218632692007-11-06T03:56:00.000+00:002007-11-06T03:56:00.000+00:00No,but now I want to !No,but now I want to !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-60270221946738382602007-11-05T23:52:00.000+00:002007-11-05T23:52:00.000+00:00No problem lav. Have you ever been there?No problem lav. Have you ever been there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137682720915766788.post-43668492449397046692007-11-05T20:07:00.000+00:002007-11-05T20:07:00.000+00:00Lovely,just lovely !Thank you for sharing this,tro...Lovely,just lovely !<BR/>Thank you for sharing this,trousers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com