tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post780597425848377311..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: When Two Paths Meet--RepriseBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-18808258670880707132018-05-01T05:21:31.616-07:002018-05-01T05:21:31.616-07:00What are the blue boxes underneath the chairs in t...What are the blue boxes underneath the chairs in the Cathedral?Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14562636400781108572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-85574683596576564512015-07-12T06:33:34.023-07:002015-07-12T06:33:34.023-07:00She got into bed, planning what she would buy; clo...She got into bed, planning what she would buy; clothes which would make Dr Fitzroy look at her twice. She was just dropping off on her hopeful thought when Mr Grainger rang. He couldn't sleep, he complained, and would she get him a drink? Ovaltine or <a href="http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bengers_Food" rel="nofollow"><b>Bengers...</b></a><br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-43213016141556822552014-04-10T06:07:30.042-07:002014-04-10T06:07:30.042-07:00DODIE SMITH
Born Dorothy Gladys Smith
3 May 1896...DODIE SMITH<br /><br />Born Dorothy Gladys Smith<br />3 May 1896<br />Whitefield, Lancashire,<br />England<br />Died 24 November 1990 (aged 94)<br />Uttlesford, Essex, England<br />Pen name C. L. Anthony<br />Charles Henry Percy<br />Occupation Novelist, playwright<br />Nationality British<br />Genres Children's literature<br />Notable work(s) The Hundred and One Dalmatians, I Capture the Castle, The Starlight Barking<br />Spouse(s) Alec Macbeth Beesley (1939–1987)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-15309971291766074222013-06-15T09:08:47.432-07:002013-06-15T09:08:47.432-07:00Hadn't read this one in years, but remembered ...Hadn't read this one in years, but remembered most of it -- that's because I loved this one! Lashings of Whipped Cream for me.<br /><br />Loved the whole bit with Heinous brother Henry and sister-in-law Jugular Joyce -- especially when Katherine tells it like it is and he "punishes" her by not speaking to her for days. And the part where Heinous Henry goes to the Matron to get Katherine sprung from the hospital so Jugular Joyce can go out boozing or whatever. (Most of the time when someone gets a Neels heroine sprung from normal hospital duties, it's the hero who's behind it, but this time, it's the villain.) But best of all were Jason's repeated proposals ("Is <i>this</i> a good time for a proposal?") -- loved those parts!!<br /><br /><br />The only Dodie I remember was actress Dody Goodman (after I Googled, it turns out she spelled it with a "y", not an "ie"), but I had forgotten about little Dodie from My Three Sons. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-22601332568308927772012-11-26T06:13:35.858-08:002012-11-26T06:13:35.858-08:00Aw, baking a little "dodie" for you, tha...Aw, baking a little "dodie" for you, that is so cute.Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-67175473164595471152012-11-25T12:36:24.503-08:002012-11-25T12:36:24.503-08:00I don't think Dodie could ever replace Veronic...I don't think Dodie could ever replace Veronica as the "ultimate vixen name" do you? When I was little, my grandmother would make a little extra dough whenever she would make a pie, she'd let me lay my hand on it and she'd trace around it, sprinkle a little sugar on it, and bake it for me (the dough not my hand), she called it a dodie. So you see I have too many warm fuzzy memories to take the name seriously in a bad way.<br /><br />There was also that cute little girl on My Three Sons named Dodie, real name Dawn Lyn, sister to 70's dreamboat/90's shipwreck Leif Garrett.<br /><br />B v SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-21666854659482888652012-11-25T10:34:46.966-08:002012-11-25T10:34:46.966-08:00Red pen: discreet ladylike: bleah!!!Red pen: <i>discreet ladylike: bleah!!!</i>Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-76041594150394932952012-11-25T08:49:45.484-08:002012-11-25T08:49:45.484-08:00Found several nice recipes for boiled ham with par...Found several nice recipes for boiled ham with parsley sauce. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/16/nigel-slater-classic-gammon-parsley" rel="nofollow">Nigel Slater's classic boiled gammon and parsley sauce</a>, Nigel Slater, The Observer on www.guardian.co.uk.<br />Nice twist on the ham, but note the sauce screams blandness – <b>not a grain of salt in it, no pepper???</b> That cannot be right. I am sure <b>he just forgot</b> to write them down. The ham was obviously not carved by a master hand (read: surgeon).<br /><br />Watched <a href="http://video.about.com/britishfood/How-to-Make-Steak-and-Kidney-Pudding.htm" rel="nofollow">How to Make Steak and Kidney Pudding</a> on about.com. If it weren’t for the kidney <b>...</b><br /><br /><i> discreet ladylike: bleach!!!</i><br /><br />re: the rating: <i>Queen of Puddings...unfortunately garnished with a tin of <b>Dodie soup</b>.</i><br /><b>Hey, Betty von Susie!</b> Why didn't you tell us? <a href="http://www.dodiesaddison.com/menus.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Dodie soup</b></a> right around your corner!Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-9245094327080943982012-11-25T06:13:13.820-08:002012-11-25T06:13:13.820-08:00Wrong link for the English Pronouncing Dictionary ...Wrong link for the <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=jGSXwqTCwpkC&pg=PA481&dq=stourhead+intitle:english+intitle:pronouncing+intitle:dictionary+inauthor:jones+inauthor:daniel&hl=de&sa=X&ei=aQ-xUKPICIXvsgbtqIDYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=stourhead%20intitle%3Aenglish%20intitle%3Apronouncing%20intitle%3Adictionary%20inauthor%3Ajones%20inauthor%3Adaniel&f=false" rel="nofollow"><b>English Pronouncing Dictionary</b></a> where you can see various pronunciations for <b>Stour, Stourhead, Stourton</b>.<br />Silly me, I had checked the link three times, at least, and then I copied and pasted the wrong link?!!Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-31250980288925366312012-11-24T14:11:00.282-08:002012-11-24T14:11:00.282-08:00... Edward will be leaving in a few days; if the w...<i><b>...</b> Edward will be leaving in a few days; if the weather's good I think I might drive him over to <b>Stourhead</b>, it should be looking splendid in the snow.' <b>...</b><br /><br /><b>...</b> They went out of Shaftesbury on the Gillingham road, and found that it had been more or less cleared, but when they turned off for <b>Stourhead</b> the country lane was packed with snow and the doctor slowed down, going past the row of cottages at the start of the small village, then down the hill towards the entrance to the park, to turn into the yard of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeeh2/5215868520/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow"><b>Spread Eagle Inn</b></a>. He stopped and turned to look at Edward and Katherine. <b>...</b></i><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/corepilates/3255414148/in/photostream/lightbox/" rel="nofollow"><b>Snowie Stourhead</b></a>, Karen Weeks, flickr.com<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elainehodgson/3254353072/in/photostream/lightbox/" rel="nofollow"><b>Stourhead in the snow</b></a>, Elaine Hodgson, flickr.com<br /><br />To start the slide show click on the triangle/arrow at the top (between Newer and Older).<br /><br /><b>Stourhead – Pronunciation</b>, as transcribed from my favourite dictionary, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22spread+eagle+inn%22+intitle:when+intitle:two+intitle:paths+intitle:meet+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=10" rel="nofollow">English Pronouncing Dictionary</a><br /><br />STORE – hed or STOUR – hed<br />store rhymes more<br />stour rhymes our<br /><br /><b>Stourton – Pronunciation</b><br /><br />STUR – tuhn (rhymes Burton) or STORE – tuhn Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-37540501867330596912012-11-24T11:20:14.035-08:002012-11-24T11:20:14.035-08:00Boiled Ham in Parsley Sauce = Reason I Only Ate in...Boiled Ham in Parsley Sauce = Reason I Only Ate in a British Mess Hall Once = Reason The Lines Are Longer at the American and French Mess Halls. NATO finally shut down most (not all) of the British mess halls on joint bases, the Brits usually eat with the Americans and whinge about having to bring their own Marmite.Army Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07304515646286184989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-20279507233092390212012-11-24T08:42:52.971-08:002012-11-24T08:42:52.971-08:00Oops. Where is my red pen...Oops. Where is my red pen...Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-83951364960933488222012-11-24T08:40:54.686-08:002012-11-24T08:40:54.686-08:00I thought I had commented on Dodie-the-Manipulator...I thought I had commented on Dodie-the-Manipulator. Dodie is very perceptive. She realises that small, ordinary, unspectacular Katherine is a serious rival and does everything in her power to try and remove Katherine from Dr. Fitzroy's sphere. Ha! Doesn't work that way, Dodie. She is definitely the rudest rival in all of Neels. I mean, lines like <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=mortgage+intitle:when+intitle:two+intitle:paths+intitle:meet+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=10" rel="nofollow"><i>You'll have to mortgage your wages for weeks and buy something presentable — or not come.</i></a> - in front of the hero and Edward, no less. Priceless, Betty! Dodie is very straight-forward in her dealings with Katherine. Which does not mean that she is above <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=n6mfa_ecpxIC&pg=PT51&dq=%22for+the+last+few+days%22+intitle:when+intitle:two+intitle:paths+intitle:meet+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&hl=de&redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow">lying</a> to our hero (about seeing her grandparents every day when she did no such thing). What I don't quite understand is why Jason spends so much time with Dodie. Ok, she wants to hook him and arranges as for as many dates with him as possible. And he knows Katherine cares for him and sometimes wants to make her jealous. And he does not always make time for Dodie. Still, one wonders why so many of the Neels heroes go on so many dates with women who are beautiful but not exactly nice people. Why do they do that?Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-35329459966275371542012-11-23T08:09:05.602-08:002012-11-23T08:09:05.602-08:00Mayberry! You had me there. For a moment I thought...Mayberry! You had me there. For a moment I thought I had missed something and there was a place called Mayberry in the book. But then I remembered - Andy of Mayberry. Ha!Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-81594705104528275762012-11-22T13:27:53.819-08:002012-11-22T13:27:53.819-08:00Did you know Google streetview allows you to walk ...Did you know Google streetview allows you to walk around <a href="https://maps.google.de/maps?q=salisbury+cathedral&layer=c&z=17&sll=51.064933,-1.797677&cid=14380366614161135822&panoid=PcwWdxv3x8rszDKatavV8g&cbp=13,91.1537667849293,,0,0&hl=de&ved=0CBAQ2wU&sa=X&ei=BZiuUOimPMTS8gPj2oDAAw" rel="nofollow"><b>inside Salisbury Cathedral</b></a>? (Takes a while to load.) Beautiful!Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-83657320491762521782012-11-22T08:51:00.333-08:002012-11-22T08:51:00.333-08:00They were through Brockenhurst on the way to Beaul...<i>They were through Brockenhurst on the way to Beaulieu and <b>Bucklers Hard</b> before he remarked, 'You'll doubtless find the cottage well-stocked with food. There's central heating, and fires, and someone will have been in to keep it tidy and ...</i><br /><br /><b>The Cottage at Buckler's Hard</b><br /><br />He had turned into the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilo_lil/6108865873/in/set-72157627583726040/" rel="nofollow"><b>broad roadway</b></a> leading to the quay and Beaulieu river. There were cottages on either side of it, and a <a href="http://www.ifimages.com/public/image/123336/view.html" rel="nofollow"><b>hotel</b></a> at the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66220977@N07/7461103752/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow"><b>very</b></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66220977@N07/7461071540/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow"><b>end</b></a>. He stopped at <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=57&with_photo_id=78614245&order=date_desc&user=728186" rel="nofollow"><b>the last cottage</b></a> on the <a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gVyFDyEPUww/TXVgaaILpyI/AAAAAAAABO8/YbOi2mc6C38/s1600/Ellen%2527s+Wedding+and+New+Forest+-+March+2011+080.jpg" rel="nofollow"><b>opposite side</b></a> and said, 'Stay there a moment while I open up,' and got out out of the car to cross the narrow strip of grass and unlock the door.<br />Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-5967893156788568292012-11-19T22:03:37.181-08:002012-11-19T22:03:37.181-08:00Yes, I def remember this story. And I also have a ...Yes, I def remember this story. And I also have a love/hate relationship with it. <br /><br />I skip all the Gorilla bits so it's not as depressing the third, fourth, fifth time around. <br /><br />I love reading about the city, the cathedral, etc., and have scoured the neigborhood IRL online using maps and satellite etc. <br /><br />Never found the street that Jason lives on, :/ <br /><br />But love reading about the snow and the walks to and fro. <br /><br />The satellite view does not look as romantic as it is in my imagination when I read our venerable Neel's version of what life is like in Mayberry! ;) <br /><br />Betty FrancescaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-69508905659338050732012-11-19T11:08:55.974-08:002012-11-19T11:08:55.974-08:00Oh, I'm going to add this one to my list of co...Oh, I'm going to add this one to my list of contenders for favorite Christmas scene. There's something about the idea that that <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O56227/salisbury-cathedral-from-the-bishops-oil-painting-constable-john-ra/" rel="nofollow">iconic cathedral</a> is ever-present in the background of this story that makes Katherine and Jason's romance seem especially happy and inevitable. And so very British! Did you know the cathedral owns <a href="http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/history.magnacarta.php" rel="nofollow">"the best-preserved original Magna Carta"</a>, and visitors can view it?<br /><br />Add Stourhead and you have got bucolic Blighty at her best.Betty van den Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462647734423787992noreply@blogger.com