tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post2179026008501758181..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: Betty the Church LadyBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-28821015350904035822016-02-21T14:36:39.351-08:002016-02-21T14:36:39.351-08:00Thank you for the welcome, Fellow Bettys. I just f...Thank you for the welcome, Fellow Bettys. I just finished reading The Convenient Wife in which there is a fairly realistic sarcastic b*tch of a Staff Nurse making our heroine's life less than pleasant on the ward. I cheered when Venetia accepted Duert's proposal, though I do wish she'd told Staff Nurse Thomas where to shove it!<br /><br />I do love the Marriage of Convenience stories. <br /><br />Betty GraceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-60517229818626899422016-02-11T22:53:11.387-08:002016-02-11T22:53:11.387-08:00Welcome, welcome, welcome! May we have many storie...Welcome, welcome, welcome! May we have many stories to share! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04084372599921079192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-29608900461269687372016-02-11T12:26:12.207-08:002016-02-11T12:26:12.207-08:00Welcome, Betty Grace!
Training as a nurse in a lar...Welcome, Betty Grace!<br />Training as a nurse in a large London teaching hospital - in the mid 1970s! Wow! I wish it had been a betty-er experience for you.<br />I ♥ The Uncrushable Jersey Dress!Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-58645636189909446102016-02-10T09:25:02.191-08:002016-02-10T09:25:02.191-08:00I'm just diving in here to introduce myself - ...I'm just diving in here to introduce myself - Hi, I'm Betty Grace. I just recently discovered this blog and LOVE it! <br /><br />I started reading the Great Betty's books back in the mid 1970s when I was - wait for it - training as a nurse in a large London teaching hospital. For me, NeelsWorld was an escape from the grim reality of that life. We student nurses were worked like dogs and treated like dirt by most of the senior nursing staff. All the nice, Neels-type nurses - the kind who would send you off for cups of tea or acknowledge a job well done - couldn't wait to get out of the hospital system, and the ones who were left were like the nastiest of Betty's malicious Juffrouws. We used to joke that to be offered a Staff Nurse post after graduation you would have to score very high marks on the "How To Be a Sarcastic B*tch" exam.<br /><br />Oh well, so here I am 40 years later, married to a Professor (really, but Math not Medicine), living in America and binge reading the job lot of Neels books I found on ebay. Loving every minute, and loving the reviews here just as much.<br /><br />Hail to the Great Betty - your magic never fades. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-3872130539236193632016-01-25T07:23:37.423-08:002016-01-25T07:23:37.423-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Betty van den Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462647734423787992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-86728133096180232092016-01-25T00:23:20.704-08:002016-01-25T00:23:20.704-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.MFM XRWGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391859226758487708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-8212291214280239762016-01-23T16:20:28.773-08:002016-01-23T16:20:28.773-08:00I love the offhandedness she uses too. I don't...I love the offhandedness she uses too. I don't need to have it made into a federal case in a book but I feel cozily at home when it's there. Keirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802633046486840052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-51470366130604147312016-01-23T06:49:57.485-08:002016-01-23T06:49:57.485-08:00Meant to add: Not quite the same, but The Great Be...Meant to add: Not quite the same, but The Great Betty believed in feeding the little beasts. ;o)Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-7716828416235126492016-01-22T08:54:01.572-08:002016-01-22T08:54:01.572-08:00yes, I'm organizing our hospital visitation vo...yes, I'm organizing our hospital visitation volunteers for next month this morning. I love that Neels considers going to church to just be "what people do" on Sunday morning--she often mentions it in an offhand way that shows she just takes it for granted. lots of people don't these days, but there are still vast numbers of people who do, and it's nice that she includes it without being preachy or priggish about it.BarbNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12088366782915923507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-42980902395978788682016-01-21T09:18:55.754-08:002016-01-21T09:18:55.754-08:00STARS THROUGH THE MIST
She had reached a dramatic ...<b>STARS THROUGH THE MIST</b><br /><i>She had reached a dramatic point in her narrative when the room shook and trembled under the tones of the great bell from the church across the road.<br />'Seven o'clock,' said Deborah, very conscious of Gerard's look. 'We'll finish next week,' and added, <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TTV4C9P8ULcC&pg=PT193&dq=sweeties+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOpPD6sLvKAhXD1BoKHcAWBvcQuwUIRjAG#v=onepage&q=sweeties%20inauthor%3Aneels%20inauthor%3Abetty&f=false" rel="nofollow"><b><b>'Sweeties!'</b></b></a><br />at the top of her voice, producing at the same time the bag of toffees which signalled the end of play hour.<br />She was marshalling her small companions into a more or less tidy line when the faint dry tinkle of the front door bell whispered its way along the passage and up the stairs. It was followed almost at once by the Mother Superior [...]</i>Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-87114816035417767782016-01-20T18:20:34.533-08:002016-01-20T18:20:34.533-08:00Bringing snacks as a Sunday school teacher puts yo...Bringing snacks as a Sunday school teacher puts you in the top tier. You will be remembered forever.Keirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802633046486840052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-90820916653660821382016-01-20T15:54:16.101-08:002016-01-20T15:54:16.101-08:00Being a Sunday School teacher for 30 years has mad...Being a Sunday School teacher for 30 years has made me grateful for my life. I've taught kids whose parents were ill, dead, in prison or otherwise absent. I realized that any kindness I showed might be the only kindness that experienced that day, which is why I always tried to bring snacks. My SS-teaching experience at an early age also showed me that I was not cut out for the teaching profession and I have great respect for teachers and other educators.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482978787962766835noreply@blogger.com