Reply to the Brits / Comment on Crock (Was other things)

[Goddlefrood]

In:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/34233

> Ann (snipped throughout):
> Well, I hadn't really been thinking of Paddy as being "recent", 
> she said, revealing herself to be even shallower than anyone 
> had hitherto guessed. 

Goddlefrood:

Or possibly younger.

Ann:

> I think it was you who mentioned the last Queen's Speech

Goddlefrood:

It was Geoff, not I.

> Ann:

> As I've seen a few Crouch!posts on main in the last few days, I 
> think I'll say that they've been done to death not only in canon 
> but also onlist.

Goddlefrood:

Agreed, but then what hasn't? Are there any fresh perspectives out 
there, now that the end has come?


In:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/34233

> Geoff:

> In general terms, I like the book and the series 'warts and all'. 
> There are some things which are missing or I would like to have 
> happened differently. But that is so with, say, LOTR and Narnia. 
> And with real life also... ?

Goddlefrood:

The expression in quotation marks has been attributed to a certain 
Oliver Cromwell. He never said what he is supposed to have saids, 
which was along the line of: "I want to be painted warts and all". 
The resulting picture by Lely did show a warty Cromwell, but the 
first use of the phrase 'warts and all' appeared over a century 
later. This can be further explored by anyone interested at:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/warts-and-all.html

In:

Diverse messages

> Various posters:

> Crockpot

Goddlefrood:

This usage would not be found in the UK, to revive a little of 
the US / UK language difference banter from some weeks ago. If 
I heard this in common speech I would, (i) know that I was in 
America or talking to an American, and (ii) associate it with 
something that is best not disclosed on a public forum.

Some of the recipes given sound delicious, and I'll add one of 
my own, although this I would describe as a pot roast:

Take a two pound piece of corned silverside and place in an 
appropriate sized cooking pot (a Bombay pot is what I use).

Add water to about 2 inches depth, some parsley, thyme, onion 
and whatever other spices you have to hand depending on taste.

Simmer over a low heat for 3 - 4 hours, basting the meat every 
hour or so.

Enjoy the succulence.

Goddlefrood, who has yet to try Carol's biscuit recipe due to 
time constraints (I will get there eventually).