Comments on: Taking Cover

By: Anne Forster

Anne Forster — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:11:37 +0000

Oh the coming of Autumn and the placing of your quilt upon the bed. May it never change .

By: Louisa

Louisa — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:25:16 +0000

A treasured thing created out of love and devotion. The story of your quilt left me quite teary.

… And Mr Pussy is just too, too handsome for words! I did, of course, have to read all your pieces about him.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:34:59 +0000

Domestic bliss for a rainy day.

By: Mary Gilmartin

Mary Gilmartin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:38:20 +0000

What a beautiful collection of tapestries: I like all of them. The making of your quilt is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:31:38 +0000

So absolutely wonderful. I lost my own mother to dementia a year ago so everything you’ve said resonates strongly with me. Thank you.

By: Marianm

Marianm — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:14:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful warm story about your parents and this beautiful work of remembrance.

My mum also produced many of these tapestries and would post them to me from Tasmania after hours of long lonely work on her part, in the years before she died. I never knew what to do with them and guiltily keep them in drawers, taking them with me whenever I moved house, wondering how to give them the space they deserved.

You’ve given me an idea now with your article- a small quilt – thought I suspect it won’t be the same without a Mr Pussy of my own!

Thanks again for your wonderful blog which I look forward to every morning.

By: belle

belle — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:12:54 +0000

I admired your quilt when you first wrote about it, it’s colour we need in a British winter, and your quilt glows. Mr Pussy in his glossy black is the perfect foil for all the rich and bright colours. All the different pictures and stories in the quilt might transport you nightly into happy winter dreams! In a nod to the change of seasons and the rain I slept a straight ten hours through last night.

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:39:08 +0000

The beautiful quilt, the added layers of memories, the rain, Mr Pussy… How essential it is to feel safe and secure. How important it is to be cosy. Wouldn’t it be awful to live in a climate that had no changing seasons? How do human beings manage without the need to be cosy?

Being snuggled up inside with the sound of rain on the roof… made even finer with a cat, and such a quilt.

By: Sarah Lily

Sarah Lily — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:01:59 +0000

You write so beautifully Gentle Author, perhaps Mr Pussy had met Cat from the 1930’s in another life!
Thank you, now I even miss damp London and the drumming of raindrops on my Victorian window frame!

By: Elephant's Child

Elephant's Child — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:49:18 +0000

All you have given us today is beautiful. The quilt, the cat, the wonderful use of tapestries and the remembrance of people past. Thank you so much.
PS: And the cat could be my Jazz’s cousin.