tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post5978037454461204247..comments2023-03-03T20:00:13.575+11:00Comments on A House in Hobart: Ramblings.Romyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076787666700221629noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-64971192128407305812015-09-09T12:14:57.429+10:002015-09-09T12:14:57.429+10:00Romy
What a delight that you’ve returned to bloggi...Romy<br />What a delight that you’ve returned to blogging! This is a wonderful post – so rich and multilayered and so thought provoking. Love how you’ve commenced with the Le Creuset pot, linking it to your life, family, home and travels – and to the world of painters and writers. So interesting and informative and such wonderful pictures. <br /><br />I’m sure your readers were immediately transported to other worlds - and your associations prompted their own memories as they did mine, eg my first Le Creuset pot, orange, was bought in New Zealand, so I think of Wellington and our weatherboard house on a steep hillside with weeping views along the harbour, sail boats and clouds scudding in the wind - but also of vats of winter soups, and casseroles from many countries, in particular lamb tagines and long ago a fortnight driving around Morocco – the Atlas mountains, the Mediterranean, the desert. I’m still sitting at the keyboard drifting through these memories you’ve inspired. Particularly of France: the wonderful land and seascapes, favourite painters and writers, specially after only three months ago walking in the footsteps of Cezanne in Aix and in the vineyards around Mont St Victoire, Monet in Antibes and Picasso at Vauvenargues, Antibes etc. <br /><br />So fascinating to read that Elizabeth David persuaded Le Creuset to colour their pots the Gauloise blue and so clever of M to link this beautiful colour with Van Gogh’s starry night sky.<br /> <br />When we arrived in Cambridge all the dons’ wives were madly keen on Elizabeth David and cooking up her daubes but an American Ph D student instead introduced me to Julia Child’s “Mastering ..” which became my fools’ guide. Later I went on to collect David’s books at fetes and love just reading them. Wish I’d known when we were visiting Washington years ago about Julia’s kitchen at the Smithsonian – one of my biggest regrets is having missed this.<br /><br />Now that you’ve started again, please continue when you have time. You have a wonderful ability to inform and inspire and you write so beautifully. Pammie xxx<br />Pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08374133883261488262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-58757740701666430082015-09-09T08:28:52.864+10:002015-09-09T08:28:52.864+10:00Wow.. very impressive Romy. Such a lateral thinkin...Wow.. very impressive Romy. Such a lateral thinking post. I too love using Le Creuset on the gas cooktop framed by subway tiles, dreaming of France. Your fist photo on the post could have been taken in my kitchen. Spooky. My husband spent his high school years in Paris and loves to show me "his" Paris on our visits. Very special. Food, art and architecture dominate. I've also read such a lot about Elizabeth David (I have one of her cookbooks) and also read Julia Child's book about her life in France - so fascinating. Both such strong women following their passions. Very inspiring. Thank you for the huge effort you went to in this post. Love your art work. How you achieve writing a post like the one above, while caring for four children (and adoring husband), running a property portfolio and looking so stylish each day is in itself inspiring. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03522547804023263694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-31944083010507099272015-09-09T04:01:12.263+10:002015-09-09T04:01:12.263+10:00I enjoyed reading this really interesting post.......I enjoyed reading this really interesting post....I adore LeCreuset pots too!hostess of the humble bungalowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453827257671312902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-13607832308732262842015-09-08T21:24:09.710+10:002015-09-08T21:24:09.710+10:00I adore everything about this post. I didn't k...I adore everything about this post. I didn't know you taught art theory - that is one of my other passions!! In fact one of the other things I am toying with is working in a gallery as someone had offered me a job last year but it wasn't a part time gig but a rather full on career and I wasn't quite ready to work banker's hours yet despite my love for it.<br /><br />I quite like Tracy's bed - the testament is that people know about it, remember it and talk about it. I did a curator course - a rather fluffy one in the 90's but I didn't finish due to all the drama that one's twenties brings hehe. Funny Sotheby's is doing a short course in curating art but timing doesn't permit to attend half of it so am planning on doing it next year. That Soane house is a dream. My first set of creuset were the 3 graphite gray saucepans hanging from a rack with a small frying pan that needs to be replaced. It was part of my initiative in my late twenties when I thought I would never get married and never get a wedding list so I better start acting like an adult and eat off plates at home instead of paper plates. It marks such a point in my life that I suspect that is why I haven't thrown out the frying pan! I like E David but her recipes are a bit vague - a pinch of this and some of this and a bit of that doesn't really help without visuals but I adore her escapist writing. I have a deli near me that is run by one of her "disciples" and it is very good and must say sometimes better than Ottolenghi but he gets a bit forgotten...xCoulda shoulda wouldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12507021618497645667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-81869843934069838982015-09-08T21:07:48.821+10:002015-09-08T21:07:48.821+10:00Superb post. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Superb post. Thoroughly enjoyed it. SueMackayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10283535308462663622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597462073845645035.post-19471284300900960772015-09-08T19:35:48.377+10:002015-09-08T19:35:48.377+10:00Well I think you're likely running out of wall...Well I think you're likely running out of wall space and the fold back walls may well be an idea on how to fit more art purchases into your house!<br />Love this ode to domesticity and the art linkin. Aside from the unmade bed. That truly gives me the horrors. So squalid! So slatternly. <br />I too have a blue Le Creuset, although mine was purchased in Melbourne. Funnily enough I had thought the blue was to reflect the colour of the Cote d'Azure, not a packet of ciggies! Mine was bought in the DJ's sales when I was still childless, and renovated kitchen-less in my old house, and lugged home (literally) on the tram in double bags. <br />Domesticity can be a very thankless, unending task. I was picking camellias in the garden just yesterday and then cleaning up the dropped petals and bits of pollen from the spent ones in their vases and thinking about the whole short cycle - why am I doing this? Really, I'm sure no one else notices the little touches at times and I'm busy enough trying to keep on top of the pure drudgery… but it's the break in a way from the mundane and the touches of civility that keep you going in the end. Home is a complicated thing. xxHeidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01432089507602828735noreply@blogger.com