Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 10, 2013 at 14:43:54 user PeterC.
I think that recently I have been guilty of Excessive Spartacism on Tarboard. I mean, I really do believe that property is theft, and that lamp posts are for aristos and bankers, but this is no reason to impose my thoughts on friendly AR-reading aristos, bankers, or anybody else. But I am interested in things like 'why property?' and I do like to have fun... So if I overstepped a mark- sorry. I apologise.
Because this is one of those magical, friendly places on the Internet. There aren't too many of them, but this is certainly one. As a nostalgic romantic, for me the '30s aren't just a period of misery and brutal unemployment, suspended between the two worst wars in human history, but a time of wonderful technological and artistic development. Anybody else for swing band music? Wing walkers? Auden and his friends? And I love to imagine the texture of the everyday in that time. This is why I am fascinated by particular chapters in AR's beautiful and skillful evocation of the time- like Jim Brading's sunlit day of bewilderment in 'Lost! Two days and a boat' in WD. And the drive from Windermere station to Bowness in rattletrap, in PP; I've followed it several times on Street View. Here is where I can meet with others who might share my enjoyment.
So Tarboard is really something to celebrate. But then we all know that...