From catlady at catlady_de_los_angeles.yahoo.invalid  Sun Mar  1 20:11:39 2009
From: catlady at catlady_de_los_angeles.yahoo.invalid (Catlady (Rita Prince Winston))
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:11:39 -0000
Subject: happy merry
In-Reply-To: <49910977.90106@...>
Message-ID: <goeq5r+g221@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Kat Macfarlane <katmac at ...> wrote:
>
> I'm so sorry. I'd love to hear your long story when you have the 
> time. I hope they went to someone who would love and treasure them.
> Any chance you could get them back? 

I apologize for taking so long to answer. In fact, I apologize for
telling a long story short, but ... when I went away to college, my
mother came down with Multiple Schlerosis (when 20 years ago than MS
is supposed to appear). For a time she went into a 'convalescent home'
while having her house remodelled to be wheelchair friendly. When I
left (dropped out) of college, everything was different. I don't know
if my books were stolen, thrown out, accidentally destroyed -- she
claimed her grandmother's lace tablecloth and her wedding gift
silverware had been stolen by caregivers...

> I still have the /Treasure Island /my father used to read to me 

My brother was sent to the principal's office in third grade for
reading Treasure Island hidden behind his Dick and Jane assigned reading.




From katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid  Mon Mar  2 06:39:20 2009
From: katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid (Kat Macfarlane)
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:39:20 -0800
Subject: [the_old_crowd] Re: happy merry
In-Reply-To: <goeq5r+g221@...>
References: <goeq5r+g221@...>
Message-ID: <49AB7F18.3060705@...>

Oh, Rita, that is just so sad! The worst thing that can happen to 
treasured books is not knowing what has become of them. I just hope they 
ended up in the hands of a child, even the junk man's son or daughter, 
who would read then and treasure them. One of my ambitions in life, when 
I can afford a scanner, is to put these wonderful books out on my Web 
site where children all over the world can read them and just feel their 
minds expand. I know it's probably illegal, but the books are out of 
print and horribly expensive if you can find a used set, and they need 
to be out there where children can read them and expand their minds.

I hope your brother's principal had the sense to see that your brother 
was reading several grades above Dick and Jane, and didn't take any 
serious action against him.

Educational purrs,

--Kat

Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:the_old_crowd%40yahoogroups.com>, Kat Macfarlane <katmac at ...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm so sorry. I'd love to hear your long story when you have the
> > time. I hope they went to someone who would love and treasure them.
> > Any chance you could get them back?
>
> I apologize for taking so long to answer. In fact, I apologize for
> telling a long story short, but ... when I went away to college, my
> mother came down with Multiple Schlerosis (when 20 years ago than MS
> is supposed to appear). For a time she went into a 'convalescent home'
> while having her house remodelled to be wheelchair friendly. When I
> left (dropped out) of college, everything was different. I don't know
> if my books were stolen, thrown out, accidentally destroyed -- she
> claimed her grandmother's lace tablecloth and her wedding gift
> silverware had been stolen by caregivers...
>
> > I still have the /Treasure Island /my father used to read to me
>
> My brother was sent to the principal's office in third grade for
> reading Treasure Island hidden behind his Dick and Jane assigned reading.
>
> 



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From carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid  Wed Mar 18 09:11:40 2009
From: carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid (carolynwhite2)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:11:40 -0000
Subject: ..at last, a Michelin-starred recipe for Butterbeer!
Message-ID: <gpqdsc+u5d6@...>

We have a chef called Heston Blumenthal in the UK who runs a 3-Michelin starred restaurant called the Fat Duck. He's creating a series of extraordinary feasts on telly at the moment, which last night included a genuine Tudor recipe for butterbeer. It looked as though it went down really well for those who tried it!

http://blogs.channel4.com/food/2009/03/17/feasting-on-butterbeer/

Carolyn




From catlady at catlady_de_los_angeles.yahoo.invalid  Sun Mar 22 20:24:43 2009
From: catlady at catlady_de_los_angeles.yahoo.invalid (Catlady (Rita Prince Winston))
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:24:43 -0000
Subject: ..at last, a Michelin-starred recipe for Butterbeer!
In-Reply-To: <gpqdsc+u5d6@...>
Message-ID: <gq66qb+couq@...>

Thanks for the info. The recipe looks delicious. I clicked through to its parent, the website for the whole Tudor Feast, with links to Medieval Feast and Victorian Feast, and it looks like it would be fascinating if I ever had time to read it.

However, there is a co-incidence that amuses me. This morning, Yahoo!Groups persistently told me that each of my Y!groups was temporarily unavailable, so I surfed Scientific American's website for a while (that place is a addictive, even skipping the fee- required content!) and just before I left it for here, I saw a short notice that The Fat Duck was re-opening after being closed for IIRC two weeks by their Health Department as it searched in vain for the source of some food poisoning (my terminology, so much more genteel than their naming of symptoms).

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" <carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
>
> We have a chef called Heston Blumenthal in the UK who runs a 3-Michelin starred restaurant called the Fat Duck. He's creating a series of extraordinary feasts on telly at the moment, which last night included a genuine Tudor recipe for butterbeer. It looked as though it went down really well for those who tried it!
> 
> http://blogs.channel4.com/food/2009/03/17/feasting-on-butterbeer/
> 
> Carolyn
>





From carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid  Mon Mar 23 17:58:55 2009
From: carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid (carolynwhite2)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:58:55 -0000
Subject: ..at last, a Michelin-starred recipe for Butterbeer!
In-Reply-To: <gq66qb+couq@...>
Message-ID: <gq8ikv+gotb@...>

Hi Rita,
Yes, the closure of his restaurant has been quite high profile news for some reason. It turned out that three of his staff and four customers were carrying a nasty norovirus bug which causes vomiting etc. There have been two or three outbreaks of this virus across the country over winter, so bad luck for Heston that he had some carriers in his restaurant, especially whilst he has this peak time cooking feast series running. The food is really extraordinary, and a lot of fun by the look of it. Anyway, the place has now re-opened.

Carolyn


--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. The recipe looks delicious. I clicked through to its parent, the website for the whole Tudor Feast, with links to Medieval Feast and Victorian Feast, and it looks like it would be fascinating if I ever had time to read it.
> 
> However, there is a co-incidence that amuses me. This morning, Yahoo!Groups persistently told me that each of my Y!groups was temporarily unavailable, so I surfed Scientific American's website for a while (that place is a addictive, even skipping the fee- required content!) and just before I left it for here, I saw a short notice that The Fat Duck was re-opening after being closed for IIRC two weeks by their Health Department as it searched in vain for the source of some food poisoning (my terminology, so much more genteel than their naming of symptoms).
> 
> --- In the_old_crowd at ...m, "carolynwhite2" <carolynwhite2@> wrote:
> >
> > We have a chef called Heston Blumenthal in the UK who runs a 3-Michelin starred restaurant called the Fat Duck. He's creating a series of extraordinary feasts on telly at the moment, which last night included a genuine Tudor recipe for butterbeer. It looked as though it went down really well for those who tried it!
> > 
> > http://blogs.channel4.com/food/2009/03/17/feasting-on-butterbeer/
> > 
> > Carolyn
> >
>