Betty's Mailbag

It's a little hard to pick out individual cities in Europe and
the East Coast of North America.

When we spread out our little revolving globe (see sidebar) we can click on any of the dots and see when and where visitors stopped by TUJD. Go ahead, you can try it too! Just click the little box with four arrows pointing outward and a little circle in the middle.  That will take you to a big revolving globe...right above it and a little to the right is a 2D flat map symbol...click on that and you'll get a fairly large flat map of the world.  From there, just move your cursor over the dots to see where and how many times we've had visits from that particular place (mind you, the dots are not always accurate - so don't be upset if you don't see your hometown - the inter-web-nets are a mysterious place).

This morning I was thrilled to open up TUJD email and find a note from a new commenter:

Hi Betty’s,

I just love your blogs! They are so amusing. Never thought there were so many Betty fans in the world.
Though it has taken some time, I´ve managed to find all Betty´s books and I still read them from time to time. They are a very good read when you are a bit blue. Every time I read a book, I look for well known phrases, like mousy hair, lobster Thermidor, his weel shod feet,etc.
Have you ever tried to make a trifle? It´s delicious and very easy to eat, I can recommend it.
Greetings from Amersfoort, the Netherlands,
Cisca

We love to get mail too!

Dear Betty Cisca,

I wonder if you can understand how excited The Founding Bettys were to receive your email. A reader? From across the sea? In the Netherlands?! Where The Great Betty lived?! You just can't buy that kind of awesome.
We love Betty in just the way you do and nothing can make us feel better when we're a bit blue than dipping into our favorite reads. We hope you continue to follow the site and hope you'll leap in to our comments section when we've gotten stuck over things like Dutch name pronunciations and the possible dangers of Dam Square.
Love and lardy cakes,
The Founding Bettys
P.S. I am assuming that your first language is Dutch and that your English is particularly fabulous (dare I say, quite on par with a Rich Dutch Doctor's?). May I ask how you stumbled across The Venerable Neels?