Eighty years on, Winnie the Pooh will be returning to Hundred Acre Wood in a sequel to be written by David Benedictus and illustrated by Mark Burgess. The book will be launched in October ... just in time to be a Christmas hit.I am a great Pooh fan but he wasn't actually part of my childhood since I only discovered him from (less deprived!) friends at secondary school, but even at that advanced age, I was delighted by the books. And especially loved this poem :
The more it snows - tiddly pomI was (and am) a simple soul!
The more it snows - tiddly pom
The more it goes - tiddly pom
The more it goes - tiddly pom
On snowing
And nobody knows - tiddly pom
And nobody knows - tiddly pom
How cold my toes - tiddly pom
How cold my toes - tiddly pom
Are growing.
I love this. My hubby used to read this to me at bedtime, along with Wind in the Willows, which was a real treat.
ReplyDeleteAhem, ms gnute. May one ask, were you very young when you married? :-) :-)
ReplyDeleteI was more of a Paddington/Adrian Mole fan. Anyway, I suppose it's the custom in some countries for husbands to read to wives.
ReplyDeleteI like the tile of her blog though, full of sound and fury. That's one of the qoutes I'll always remember. That and Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle" :)
Books are failing becuase authors are no longer interested in th human condition.
Gosh what would I do w/o editors :P
ReplyDeleteFor husbands to read to wives? The custom? I can't speak for Lydia, but lots of couples I know read to each other (wives read to husbands too, you know!), Anonymous, and it's not what we consider a "custom" -- we do it because it's nice to read to someone and be read to, because we both love the same books (children's books *and* other books -- Dickens is a great one for reading aloud), and because it's a cheap form of entertainment on winter afternoons. It's not so different from watching a movie together. And before television, I think people used to read to each other all the time; it was an activity for the whole family. I remember them doing that in The Little House on The Prarie books.
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Sorry, I meant gnute, not Lydia -- for some reason I thought the original comment was from Lydia Teh.
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I called it a "custom" for lack of a better word - maybe you could find another one.. practice perhaps I don't know. I like "custom" though.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's not usually done over here, I mean, did your mother read "Winnie the Pooh" to your father? I bet she didn't. It's just not done over here, I'll give you 10 to 1 odds that most wives here don't read to their husbands. It's just not done here. I recently heard from a Finnish friend that it's not considered strange to be sitting naked in a sauna with your parents. Bet most haven;t done that though.
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Tiddly Pom.
My parents didn't read to each other because they had too many others going on in their lives, and not all good things -- my grandfather, however, read to my grandmother. You are probably right that most wives anywhere in the world don't read to their husbands, or vice versa. That's neither here nor there; it still isn't a custom, just something that some of us like to do and others don't.....
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tiddly porn?????
ReplyDeleteOh. Sorry. My eyes are bad from writing. hehehe...