tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post113434064905626607..comments2023-10-29T21:28:41.709+10:30Comments on Pavlov's Cat: Of handwriting and memoryKerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134612620595944802005-12-15T12:40:00.000+10:302005-12-15T12:40:00.000+10:30White sauce was one of the things that flummoxed m...White sauce was one of the things that flummoxed my dad. 'Make a roox? What the hell is a roox?' <BR/><BR/>It's roo, father of mine, I said, and I can either show you how to do it or direct you to the supermarket where they have good ones in packets. <BR/><BR/>He uses the packet ones now, but he taught himself how to make a real one first!Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134562679001278772005-12-14T22:47:00.000+10:302005-12-14T22:47:00.000+10:30Fabulous post. There is something about handwritin...Fabulous post. <BR/>There is something about handwriting. Solar plexus indeed.<BR/><BR/>--saint(dogfightatbankstown)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134555512960548602005-12-14T20:48:00.000+10:302005-12-14T20:48:00.000+10:30Thats such a lovely post. Growing up we were the ...Thats such a lovely post. <BR/> Growing up we were the country Aussie meat and 24 veg family (as we call it).<BR/>I don't think i ever had garlic till i was 20, now i never cook without it.<BR/>I remember cooking once corned beef (yum) a family fav, but didn't know how to do the white sauce. I rang Mum and wrote down the recipe around a stetch of a Troll on a page of a Terry Pratchett discworld desk calander.<BR/>Even though i totally stuffed up making it that time, everytime i find that grubby page it takes me back to when Mum made it perfectly. Even though she didn't write it down herself its still a part of her. She is alive and well and would roll her eyes at me i'm sure.<BR/>Umm not sure where this is going but i loved reading your post which is the main thing ;)<BR/><BR/>(ps found you via FlopearedMule, my country chick sister)Cozalcoatlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13860756021115471862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134466455681412402005-12-13T20:04:00.000+10:302005-12-13T20:04:00.000+10:30Email is of course immediate in a different, and s...Email is of course immediate in a different, and sometimes better, way. But nothing evokes, or do I mean invokes, actual <I>presence</I> like handwriting. Some cyborg-oriented cultural-studies theorist must surely have discussed this somewhere.<BR/><BR/>As for discussing with one's ma the time when she will be no longer with us: you're right. Tactless. <BR/><BR/>I realised much later than I should have, though fortunately not too late, that one really regrettable effect of 2nd wave feminism was that it gave our mothers the impression we thought their lives, because mostly spent at home, were worthless. I worked hard in the last years of my mother's life to correct this impression. <BR/><BR/>I think mothers in any generation think their values aren't, erm, valued by daughters, so maybe it wouldn't even occur to her that you might like to have such a thing.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134444089880890372005-12-13T13:51:00.000+10:302005-12-13T13:51:00.000+10:30My mother has a handwritten family recipe book giv...My mother has a handwritten family recipe book given to her by her aunt as a wedding gift.<BR/><BR/>I've been ever so gently prodding her that perhaps a similar heirloom from her generation to mine would be a treasured object.<BR/><BR/>But one does not wish to say things like "it would provide a connection between us that would exist after....well....<I>you know</I>"<BR/><BR/>Your post has inspired me to persevere!comicstripherohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05160377451440156332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1134391815425442412005-12-12T23:20:00.000+10:302005-12-12T23:20:00.000+10:30This is such a powerful post. I read the shorter v...This is such a powerful post. I read the shorter version over at long-toothed hinterland, and I'm so glad I visited your blog.<BR/><BR/>Because my parents live in the U.S., we have turned to email over the past 10 years rather than snail mail. I print out their messages, but you're right: the handwriting is so much more immediate, and the email is not the same. Fortunately I've saved old letters.Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04456736523331076619noreply@blogger.com