Hi Geoffrey,
The sun is alive and busy and promises upwards of 40C here in Sydney.
When I rang my sister in Melbourne yesterday evening she was taking a
shower (nth one of the day) just to cool down. They figured they should
have gone to the movies - at least it's airconditioned - though would
have been crowded being Australia Day holiday weekend.
Sorry to hear about your garden, Alison. We are doing the best we can
here, watering early mornings and late evenings. but a lot have been
burnt - by the very lively sun.
Cheers,
Jill
On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Geoffrey Gatza wrote:
> In Buffalo right now it's -6C and has been painfully like the artic. I
> am
> glad to hear that the sun had not died :-)
>
> Best, Geoffrey
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Reading Williams / Whitman
>
>
>> At 10:17 PM +0000 1/25/03, Árni Ibsen wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure both poets would have found that to be appropriate
>>> and
>>> complementary. Esp. since that particular event takes place in three
>>> different albeit related languages, i.e. faroese, Icelandic and
>>> Danish. I
>>> already saw it in The Faroe Islands in the summer, and profess it's
>>> great
>>> fun.
>>
>> I've only read the text, never seen it... it put paid to my much
>> touted position that the vocabularies women had for their fannies
>> were hugely limited compared to those for men. (Actually, the
>> American usage of fanny, being "bum", is very funny to us down here;
>> we still tend to the English usage, meaning vagina, so to fall on
>> one's fanny is rather painful and physically challenging image.)
>> That disparity between male and female terms is true if you look it
>> up in dictionaries and so on, the male slang goes on for pages; but
>> clearly oral history, the "mother tongue", is the place to look for
>> these private vocabularies, and it's more a comment on the biases of
>> those word hoards than on the language itself.
>>
>>> We've just had 5 days of frost and already it's warming up again!
>>> Unbelievable. Sorry not being able to send you the temperatures you
>>> need.
>>
>> Thankfully today is much cooler than forecast, 24 rather than 38, so
>> I am feeling slightly saner today. 44 is no good for human, beast or
>> vegetable. All my poor flowers burned.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Alison Croggon
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