happy merry

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Kat Macfarlane <katmac at ...> wrote:

> I was raised on /My Book House/ and /A Picturesque Tale of 
> Progress/. 

Wow! I thought I was the only person in the world who had any
recollection of those books! The copies of /My Book House/ and /A
Picturesque Tale of Progress/ that I had as a child were the SAME
copies that my father had had as a child. 

I loved /A Picturesque Tale of Progress/ so much ... long ago, when I
was a university student, my friends who were taking Introduction to
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology were laboring to memorize
photographs for an exam, and I glanced over their shoulders and said
"Oh, that's the ivory goddess from Knossos", "Oh, that's that that
Minoan vase with the octopus on it", and so on. Because I remembered
them from those excellent drawings ...

fhmaneely wrote:

<< I check the site every now and then, however totally missed
December.  So, Happy Merry to Everyone. >>

Hi, Fran! Welcome back.

<< I can't believe you guys have been talking about food. I developed
some stomach intestinal thingy in August and have been on a
gluten-free, presative-free, fast food-free, bland crappy diet. Bah!
No fun spicey stuff for me. >>

Ouch! How awful. I hope your stomach gets healthy quickly.

<< Anything else going on??? Anyone read Beedle the Bard? >>

I read it, but haven't gotten around to checking the published book
against the Amazon website because of my suspicion that there might be
some Rowling drawings on the website that didn't make it into the book.