Comments on: Midwinter In Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sophia Ballantyne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1362079 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:55:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1362079 As a native Londoner, your article served to underpin my opinion that life outside this city is a blessed relief by not being hemmed in by those buildings! Wasn’t it so much worse in the days of endless fog, though?

]]> By: ella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361975 Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:36:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361975 Thank you very much for these wonderful picutures, sparkling with catched light! And anyway for your heartwarming notes every day, it’s a pleasure for me, as I don’t live in the city and would like to be there! Ella

]]> By: Bob https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361968 Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:26:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361968 Dear GA..the last time I was in London was on your course in Fournier Street back in March. I feel that I have a personal relationship with the road in which my step daughter Amber(Rip) once lived in Rodney Archer’s house. Remembering vividly the last time I was there in 2015 climbing the stairs to her rooms in the upper space. I have always loved living in the Surrey Hills. But looked forward to Spitalfields virtually weekly. This blog makes me realise how much I miss it .

]]> By: Beverly Sand https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361917 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:25:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361917 Thank you so much for this winter light in the general darkness and for your wonderful blogs. Your knowledge and endless curiosity are so uplifting. Have a great Christmas, stay safe, and keep on writing and studying!

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361907 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:14:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361907 The light affects us in so many ways. I recall my first job interview on leaving school in the late 60’s and walking through the narrow, light-starved streets in Leadenhall Street to a bank that the agency had sent me to. The strange shadows cast by the buildings left me feeling nervous and apprehensive On entering the bank and seeing the dull Victorian surroundings, clerks with their heads down, silently at their work, I was immediately filled with gloom and despair, A gentleman with mutton-chop whiskers handed me a maths test paper which I failed miserably. At the interview I recall him saying to me “I never thought a boy from Parmiter’s school could be so bad at maths.” I remember the feeling of pleasure walking back by way of Bishopsgate to the bus stop, thinking that was not a job for me.

]]> By: Moyra Peralta https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361901 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:03:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361901 Can but only endorse ALL the above comments. Beautifully seen and captured. (Plus, loved the war medals / GUN story, just discovered.)
moyra

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361899 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:52:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361899 A wonderful post. I love circumstances that put us into wonderful positions to observe and savor people/places/things that would have normally been missed. For instance, a pre-dawn drive to catch an early flight. As I back out of our driveway, I am awash in those “stay-at-home” thoughts of reluctance and regret. “harumph…..WHY did I book this trip anyhow?
I could be under my warm covers right now……..”. But as I drive on, I witness the stillness of a cornfield in the moonlight, and a deer pausing at the edge of the road, and eventually the reward of a luminous sunrise. With each sighting, I am pulled forward — More into the flow of “going”, and soon I forget “staying”. (if that makes any sense) Your photos brought that forward — how it feels to venture out, on a solitary excursion , filled with the urge to capture beauty and share it. Happy Holidays, all.

]]> By: Lesley Hudswell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361895 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:11:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361895 Beautiful buildings and light, but not a single green thing.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361894 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:04:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361894 Holiday greetings from Boston,

GA, so true –“The inexorable descent into winter darkness is upon us, even if we have reached the equinox and days will start to lengthen now.” The “dark days before Christmas” will pass and we will make our inevitable journey into spring.

Special greetings to you and all of you enduring those “Tier 4” restrictions in London and beyond. Every ray of light lifts the spirit and you provide so many in your daily posts.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/20/midwinter-in-spitalfields/#comment-1361893 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:46:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184640#comment-1361893 A Merry Christmas to The Gentle Author and all Visitors of the SPITALFIELDS-LIFE-Website!

May the New Year 2021 be a much better one than this “Annus Horribiles”, which please can happily f*** off!

All the Best to You in 2021!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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