Thanks for the comment, Nan. It might be hard to glean from my blog but this hearkens back to a long standing joke in our family which had a strict Calvinist upbringing that included the taboo of swimming on Sundays. Yet ... Sunday always seemed to be the sunniest day of the week!
BTW, I read your blog daily and love everything about it: the book reviews, the photos, your family, the recipes and your "wildlife".
Hello Joanie I've just popped over from Harriet Devine's blog. I have an American colleague and we have had long conversations about raisins etc. In the UK we have: currants - very small very black sultanas - ambery yellow, translucenty raisins - brownish & bigger Here is a link from the Kew Gardens website http://www.kew.org/plantfacts/festivefoods/raisins.html
We would put all 3 different sorts in a Christmas Cake. Sultanas in scones. Currants in bread & butter puddings & Eccles cakes. They are all very different and I tease my US colleague and say that you can't possibly call them all the same word!!!
Joanie - I do believe that that cute little boy in the black bathing suit is brother Dan!! It sure looks like him. Have you heard from the others? Cousin Judy
Every year in grade school I received a "minus in self control".
I have lots of favourite quotes. Here are three of them:
"There is a great deal of human nature in people." (Mark Twain)
"Service is the rent we pay for living." (Marian Wright Edelman)
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." (Groucho Marx)
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Such a wonderfully evocative picture. Those kids are just precious, and captured in that time and place.
Thanks for the comment, Nan. It might be hard to glean from my blog but this hearkens back to a long standing joke in our family which had a strict Calvinist upbringing that included the taboo of swimming on Sundays. Yet ... Sunday always seemed to be the sunniest day of the week!
BTW, I read your blog daily and love everything about it: the book reviews, the photos, your family, the recipes and your "wildlife".
Hello Joanie
I've just popped over from Harriet Devine's blog.
I have an American colleague and we have had long conversations about raisins etc.
In the UK we have:
currants - very small very black
sultanas - ambery yellow, translucenty
raisins - brownish & bigger
Here is a link from the Kew Gardens website
http://www.kew.org/plantfacts/festivefoods/raisins.html
We would put all 3 different sorts in a Christmas Cake.
Sultanas in scones.
Currants in bread & butter puddings & Eccles cakes.
They are all very different and I tease my US colleague and say that you can't possibly call them all the same word!!!
Joanie - I do believe that that cute little boy in the black bathing suit is brother Dan!! It sure looks like him. Have you heard from the others?
Cousin Judy
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