Comments on: some places in One Night Stand: Forbury Gardens http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/ a writer in search of zen-like clam Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Julie http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26264 Julie Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:07:51 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26264 I love urban myths too, Fran. I hope to do a book about them one day. I haven't noticed red dangly bits, Janet, but maybe I'm not looking too closely. I can understand why they would be tempting. The fountain has been cleaned up and now flows with all its hideously tacky Victorian panache. I love urban myths too, Fran. I hope to do a book about them one day.

I haven’t noticed red dangly bits, Janet, but maybe I’m not looking too closely. I can understand why they would be tempting.

The fountain has been cleaned up and now flows with all its hideously tacky Victorian panache.

]]> By: Janet Mullany http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26262 Janet Mullany Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:37:04 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26262 What! No Smelly Alley??? Do the, uh, dangly bits of the lion still get painted red now and again? The fountain in Forbury Gardens used to be a huge moss-covered monster with a tiny trickle of water; it looked like something from a badly-made horror movie. Last time I was in Reading I tried to visit the Gatehouse, but I was told told it had fallen down entirely in the late 19c and then rebuilt, so bore little relation to anything Austen had experienced. What! No Smelly Alley???
Do the, uh, dangly bits of the lion still get painted red now and again?
The fountain in Forbury Gardens used to be a huge moss-covered monster with a tiny trickle of water; it looked like something from a badly-made horror movie. Last time I was in Reading I tried to visit the Gatehouse, but I was told told it had fallen down entirely in the late 19c and then rebuilt, so bore little relation to anything Austen had experienced.

]]> By: Fran http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26131 Fran Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:45:17 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26131 hellooooooo! got your book! loving it!!!!! the senior school i went to was meant to be sinking an inch or so a year...but let's say, quite a few years later, it is still there and still same height....unless we are all shrinking at the same time? i love urban myths...like the one where the woman is driving alone at night and she stops the car on seeing what appears to be a pram in the road.... hellooooooo!
got your book! loving it!!!!!
the senior school i went to was meant to be sinking an inch or so a year…but let’s say, quite a few years later, it is still there and still same height….unless we are all shrinking at the same time?
i love urban myths…like the one where the woman is driving alone at night and she stops the car on seeing what appears to be a pram in the road….

]]> By: Julie http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26128 Julie Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:05:12 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26128 I didn't do Smelly Alley! It was a silly oversight, really, but the characters' wanderings just never took them there. I will have to put that in a future book. I didn’t do Smelly Alley! It was a silly oversight, really, but the characters’ wanderings just never took them there. I will have to put that in a future book.

]]> By: Fin http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26126 Fin Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:01:05 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26126 I wonder if you'll feature Smelly Alley? I do love it but you never want to linger too long. I wonder if you’ll feature Smelly Alley?
I do love it but you never want to linger too
long.

]]> By: Julie http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26108 Julie Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:43:21 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26108 Well, he hasn't been walking apparently, because I hear that lions don't walk like that. That's an interesting story about Captain Smith. You can imagine the council meetings, can't you? There are climbable trees in the park too, Jess, so Frog would like sitting in those. Well, he hasn’t been walking apparently, because I hear that lions don’t walk like that.

That’s an interesting story about Captain Smith. You can imagine the council meetings, can’t you?

There are climbable trees in the park too, Jess, so Frog would like sitting in those.

]]> By: Phillipa http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26099 Phillipa Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:38:42 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26099 Julie - Your statue story made me smile. Lichfield has one or two distinctions (the birthplace of Dr Johnson and a lovely catherdral) but we also have a statue of Captain Smith of Titanic fame. His actual birthplace, Stoke on Trent, apparently didn't want the statue (how sad) so he now stands proudly in Beacon Park. I think they may have asked for him back and been refused... PS That's one buff lion...has he been working out? Julie – Your statue story made me smile. Lichfield has one or two distinctions (the birthplace of Dr Johnson and a lovely catherdral) but we also have a statue of Captain Smith of Titanic fame. His actual birthplace, Stoke on Trent, apparently didn’t want the statue (how sad) so he now stands proudly in Beacon Park. I think they may have asked for him back and been refused…

PS That’s one buff lion…has he been working out?

]]> By: Jessica Raymond http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-26098 Jessica Raymond Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:18:56 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2008/01/11/some-places-in-one-night-stand-forbury-gardens/#comment-26098 I always think of Reading as being a very modern town, so it's interesting to read about the old and pretty parts :) The park looks lovely! I imagine Frog would like it as he loves to stare at trees. Jess x I always think of Reading as being a very modern town, so it’s interesting to read about the old and pretty parts :) The park looks lovely! I imagine Frog would like it as he loves to stare at trees.

Jess x

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