tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post4372388687977941..comments2023-10-22T23:29:48.012+13:00Comments on O Audacious Book: Appearing in HopeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-66812802692718193462009-02-20T23:27:00.000+13:002009-02-20T23:27:00.000+13:00Maggie, Your hometown is quite a place. Lovely cro...Maggie, Your hometown is quite a place. Lovely crowd at a lovely vineyard with lovely wine and lovely food - what more could a writer ask for? <BR/><BR/>I met your friend Sarah too - although I didn't get to stay with her - one of the other organisers put me up. <BR/><BR/>I have to say you're a bit of a celeb over there!<BR/><BR/>And I love that name Hope. Funny thing about place-names - they become the place just as people's names become the people and we forget to separate them out... only when you're new do you notice.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-46816563581598084322009-02-20T18:54:00.000+13:002009-02-20T18:54:00.000+13:00Mary - I read your headline 'Appearing in Hope' an...Mary - I read your headline 'Appearing in Hope' and for the first time in over 50 years, I realised that the place Hope, was also the word hope. Do you know what I mean? How for years we say a word without acknowledging it's meaning (a place-name). I 'hope' the hometown (my hometown being Richmond) crowd were welcoming and it still intrigues me that a place like Hope which used to be market gardens and orchards, is now wall to wall vineyards... well, that they even have vineyards actually.<BR/><BR/>The Friends of Tasman Library are a very supportive literary strength and I imagine you enjoyed some fabulous hospitality from the Burn-Brown clan.<BR/><BR/>I remember when the biggest news my mother had for me when I was living in London in the early seventies was that Richmond had a Mall...<BR/><BR/>And lucky you, the Greenhough Riesling is very nice indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com