tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post296817874757050681..comments2024-03-24T19:02:41.190+00:00Comments on Martin's Moths: Seeing a ghostMartinWainwrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383027708524885786noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-2221294861119181392013-06-16T18:31:29.677+01:002013-06-16T18:31:29.677+01:00I mean, Martin - bad proof-reading on my part!I mean, Martin - bad proof-reading on my part!sarah meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442276754468996416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-8289045347460118382013-06-16T18:30:29.746+01:002013-06-16T18:30:29.746+01:00Hi artin - I don't know about the blind pigs, ...Hi artin - I don't know about the blind pigs, though I am sure they used any excuse back then for a complimentary drink. The one we are going to - whose whereabouts my children know - is entered, I believe, through a phone booth at the back of a bar. Their specialty is, indeed, pig in the form of hotdogs with many different toppings. I will let you know - perhaps we can put it on the "must do" list when you and Penny come again to NYC. Meantime, I am, as they say, "totally down" with the idea of joining the walking women if they will have me as an honorary member! Meantime, I will ponder the painting idea. Happy Father's Day to you! xxssarah meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442276754468996416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-25224547761082469622013-06-16T08:58:22.262+01:002013-06-16T08:58:22.262+01:00Sarah Hi! And MANY thanks for giving me a theme f...Sarah Hi! And MANY thanks for giving me a theme for today's post. I love the term 'speakeasy' - I see from Wikipedia that they're "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors." So Ssshhh..!<br /><br />Have a great time! I'll check FB which I'm afraid I very seldom use.<br /><br />Wiki also says they were called 'blind pigs' cos in prohibition people who lay on exhibitions of natural curiosities with a 'complimentary drink' thrown in. Is this so? If so, maybe we could start one themed on unusual moths.<br /><br />P is keeping dry - see post - and I'm sure they'd love you to join them one year. I never enquire too closely; just tease them about their conservatism in always going to the Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel in Great Langdale and therefore always climbing the same mountains. But they know best...<br /><br />x to all M<br /><br />PS How about a (wildly imaginative) Meredith masterpiece called The Women's Walking Weekend?MartinWainwrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383027708524885786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939528489287886153.post-86476875072965495632013-06-16T01:30:22.363+01:002013-06-16T01:30:22.363+01:00Hi Martin - among the many delights of this post, ...Hi Martin - among the many delights of this post, the one that really grabbed my attention was the Women's Walking Weekend. I can't tell you how much I would love to have been born into a family where such a tradition exists. . .I am not going to blame my family, however - I just don't think it is an American kind of thing, though I wish it were! Hope Penny has a great weekend of walking and that you continue to have such plentiful and interesting moths! Check out my facebook page to see what Greg was up to this Father's Day weekend. Tomorrow - the day itself - though he doesn't know it, we are taking him to a speakeasy on the Lower East Side! Love to both, xxssarah meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442276754468996416noreply@blogger.com