tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post94868771442157638..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: The fortunes of Miss Mahony 2Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-45042120093378145742013-03-17T19:28:21.142+11:002013-03-17T19:28:21.142+11:00I'd forgotten the expression "half sloshe...I'd forgotten the expression "half sloshed"! How very in keeping with that era it is ,too. You were an observant little boy, weren't you? Not only does the past flash before my eyes with these stories, but with so few words you do draw all characters so that it seems I knew them myself.<br /><br />How I disliked those small town dances. Oh to have the spirit and elan of Miss Mahony!<br /><br />Julie MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-58500042717428860972013-03-17T11:49:30.206+11:002013-03-17T11:49:30.206+11:00...which reminds me of what quite a few unaware br......which reminds me of what quite a few unaware bridegrooms had painted [by their mates] on the soles of their shoes. When told to kneel at the church wedding and with his back to the congregation, the letters <b>HE</b> on the left sole and <b>LP</b> on the right made a combination setting off a titter down the ranks.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-2382690326113341252013-03-17T11:34:55.003+11:002013-03-17T11:34:55.003+11:00Just to correct one little thing in your comment, ...Just to correct one little thing in your comment, Anne – that wasn't slow-hand-clapping by the kids; it was simply clapping in time with the waltz music. It really wasn't jeering.<br /><br />I may have overdone the poetic [or dramatic?] licence a bit re Mr Curtis. In the whole thing I didn't detect any malice. Discomfort, yes, and sheer mischief on Miss Mahony's part – and I admit I have no idea what might have been said previously at school in exchanges between them. Yes, there was a little impishness in Mrs C., and I figure she thought it would do him no irreparable harm!<br /><br />Old Jim was a fine man. I paid tribute to him in these stories:<br /><br /><a href="http://deniswright.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/headmasters-footballs-and-awakenings.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://deniswright.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/making-choices-for-lifetime-part-2-of-2.html" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /><br />You're not the first to do the domino effect thing, and even these days, if you've seen country weddings, you're far from the last….<br /><br />Let's see what Pt 3 brings. I know what I want to say, but it may go off at one of my usual Tristram Shandyish tangents.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-50795670254217685662013-03-17T07:01:15.964+11:002013-03-17T07:01:15.964+11:00Good one, Denis. I can't wait for the next epi...Good one, Denis. I can't wait for the next episode. Sixty years ago - dancing lessons at college - one agricultural type of chap did the unforgivable. He firmly watched his feet, rather than his partner during the shouted instructions. This was because he had an 'L' and an 'R' chalked on his highly polished dancing shoes. Quick-quick and quick- quick-slow"Bob Lakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-83193359857452337842013-03-16T23:06:17.617+11:002013-03-16T23:06:17.617+11:00I am relieved that Joan and I were cyber practici...I am relieved that Joan and I were cyber practicing our dancing for a great deal of yesterday otherwise I could not have coped with the salacious picture you have conjured up in my mind. Despite some concerns for her after Part 1, it is clear that Ms Mahony does not need our sympathy. Obviously she was a very good teacher and a fine example of a great Teacher's College graduate and realized that you innocent country boys and girls needed a little introduction to the big, wide and wild world. <br /><br />However I feel very sorry for poor Mr Curtis. I do hope he recovered his equanimity, but I have few expectations that in Part 3 he will be a different liberated character. I empathize with his embarrassment and think your slow handclap was a little bit mean! (I myself remember an awful moment when my soon to be brother-in-law and I brought down, with our inadequate but enthusiastic dancing, a considerable number on the dance floor. This was at the engagement party my step father-in- law had put on. It made a lifetime of a shared, only semi amused, memory for the three us.)<br /><br />You have painted Mrs Curtis beautifully. I look forward to Part 3. Anne P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com