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Carol, I am fairly certain that I followed a link in one of your posts to find Lady, Your Pardon, a short story by GH that was published in The Australian Women's Weekly. The link worked, and the story was pretty sweet, but now I am unable to the thread in which it was originally posted. I thought it would have been in Online links to some of Georgette Heyer's Work but am unable to find the post!
I know I did not imagine this, because I have the website in my favorites. Perhaps it was not Carol who posted it, does anyone else remember? The link to the site is
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/art...
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks everyone!
I think those links to GH short stories were when we were reading Snowdrift/Pistols for Two, so could be in the group read thread/s for that, Critterbee.ETA: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lesley~aka Ella's Gran wrote: "I think those links to GH short stories were when we were reading Snowdrift/Pistols for Two, so could be in the group read thread/s for that, Critterbee.ETA: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Yes! There it is! Thanks, Lesley!
❇ Critterbee wrote: "Carol, I am fairly certain that I followed a link in one of your posts to find Lady, Your Pardon, a short story by GH that was published in The Australian Women's Weekly. The link worked, and the..."
I probably should put the links in the Really Useful folder.
I was up in Auckland yesterday. It was my husband's birthday & we went to Sandringham, a suburb which has a lot of South Indian/Sri Lankan restaurants & grocery stores.
I did think of this group & Behold Here's Poison when M insisted on going through every grocery store to compare prices before he bought a sack of Basmati rice. We then went through the same thing when he bought a sack of potatoes. Harriet would be his goddess!
Carol,Your trip to Auckland sounded like fun!
Where I live, we “only” have Indian restaurants. I’d love to try a place that serves cuisine from Sri Lanka.
What is the food like?
We had Biriyani & it was to die for. So much food that we brought the leftovers home for dinner. We went to a different restaurant for a drink & I had masala chai. It was heavenly.We are thinking of going to Auckland for Diwali in October. I don't think we will ever get to India because of the heat, so we should start going to festivals here.
Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "We had Biriyani & it was to die for. So much food that we brought the leftovers home for dinner. We went to a different restaurant for a drink & I had masala chai. It was heavenly.We are thinking..."
What are these dishes made of?
Biryani is mostly rice. The place we went imports their own Basmati rice so I can't recreate theirs at home (I tried!)Masala Chai is a spice mix drunk like tea. I may syphon a couple of teaspoons of it after the stuff I bought for my sister. She'll never know...
Thanks Carol!If I ever get to visit Auckland, I’m going to have to make it a priority to try Sri Lankan Cuisine (among other things to do there!)!
I'm laughing, Carol, because my grandmother gave that bargain gene to me. I was the one who took her leisurely shopping, while she compared color, quality and price on every tablecloth in the store. I think everybody else made her nervous, but we always had fun. I'm not much of a shopper, but when I do go, I don't like to be hurried into my decisions. I sure do miss her, even after all these years!
I'm the exact opposite - I used to frustrate my older relatives (one of my aunts in particular) when we'd go shopping for, say, a pair of jeans for me, and once I'd found a pair that fit and were a decent price, I'd buy them instead of continuing to do the rounds of the stores in hopes of finding something better! I think the shopping gene skipped me somehow.
I think I got the other wontgountilIhaveto gene, too, from my mother. I need socks and I'm really picky about them, but even the discovery of a hole in my favorite pair hasn't pried me out to the store. But it's supposed to turn cold and rainy tomorrow, so maybe today... if I have to... I guess.
I am a quick decider shopping-wise, it's either there or not, I like it or don't. Too much in life I enjoy more than shopping. I used to enjoy it with my mom, we only went once and a while and made a day of it. Got the necessary shopping out of the way first thing, saved the bookstore for later. ;-). That's one place we always took our time. I enjoyed shopping with my girls, but it was always more stressful as they got older and wanted more but as we were in the Navy, we were on tight budget and had to make compromises. It made them both careful shoppers, my younger daughter is particularly good at tracking down a signature piece for rock-bottom price, and treasured her finds. Her older sister can book trips to places and gets the most bang for her buck. It made them both more thoughtful about resources and consumption. My son and I love bookstores, we follow our various interests around independent bookstores as often as we can & meet at the register, sometimes we both have the same book & negotiate who buys it & who gets to read it first.
Cheryl wrote: "I'm the exact opposite - I used to frustrate my older relatives (one of my aunts in particular) when we'd go shopping for, say, a pair of jeans for me, and once I'd found a pair that fit and were a..."I tell my husband not to tell me when I bought something & he finds it cheaper elsewhere!
I'm going to probably be a bit edgy the next couple of weeks. One of my sisters flew to Bali this morning. :(
Kim wrote: "I am a quick decider shopping-wise, it's either there or not, I like it or don't. Too much in life I enjoy more than shopping. I used to enjoy it with my mom, we only went once and a while and made..."Kim, if someone would open a used bookstore next to my sock store, I'd have a drawer full of new socks...
Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "I'm the exact opposite - I used to frustrate my older relatives (one of my aunts in particular) when we'd go shopping for, say, a pair of jeans for me, and once I'd found a pair that..."What's she doing in Bali, Carol?
Karlyne wrote: "What's she doing in Bali, Carol?Holiday. She has a long distance relationship going & they meet up 2 or 3 times a year. Unfortunately this time it is a place with at least one smoking volcano. :(
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/8...
I know how you feel, K. My daughter & son-in-law were in Cuba with Irma bearing down on them, had to leave early. I told her there is a reason prices are cheaper during late summer/early fall, it's called the Hurricane Season special. It used to be the odds might be in your favor for being able to avoid one while you are vacationing, but recent history seems to indicate that no longer holds true.
Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Karlyne wrote: "What's she doing in Bali, Carol?Holiday. She has a long distance relationship going & they meet up 2 or 3 times a year. Unfortunately this time it is a place with at least one smo..."
I saw the Vanuatu evacuation this morning, but I hadn't heard about Bali - which has to be terrifying with such a big population. Aaargh.
These natural disasters sure remind us of how much we're not in control, don't they? I don't like it.
At least we have this connection to each other, spread as we are all about this world. Who else would understand about all of the grey eyed lovers, bow street runners and ratafia?
I am very thankful to be a part of this lovely group.
I'm grateful, too. I started Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens) today and I didn't need even one of the footnotes, thanks to Heyer's use of slang, and I was thinking about you all as I was chortling through the first few pages
Good one Karlyne. Must admit it's one Dickens I haven't read.
Martin Chuzzlewit & Barnaby Rudge are my last 2 books of Dickens to read to complete all his major works. I've read several more than once.
Wow, Kim, that’s quite an achievement! A whole lot of pages. I admit to having read only the majors—Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and the like. I think I liked Bleak House and A Tale of Two Citites the best.
I always forget how much I do like Dicken's style. The only problem with this edition is its size and weight; it's rough on the wrists. My favorite is David Copperfield, although I was surprised last year at how much Great Expectations had improved since I read it in high school. 😃
I've enjoyed almost all the ones I have read, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, & Our Mutual Friend most recently.
I had the weight of book thing going big time with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norville while I was in the hospital. I read something recently where one of the characters invented a glove for making it easier to read hard back books, cannot remember the story just now, but I wish it existed in real life.
Kim wrote: "I had the weight of book thing going big time with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norville while I was in the hospital. I read something recently where one of the characters invented a glove for making it..."I checked Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellout from the library and got about 40 pages into it before I gave up and got it on my kindle instead. Kindles weigh less than most books, and you can adjust the font size. They save our hands and our eyes, but lack the feel of paper books.
I started Jonathan Strange and really was enjoying it, but it was just too enormous to hold. I wish the publishers would go back to the serialization form for these: Book One, Book Two, etc.I haven't read Our Mutual Friend yet, Kim, but I've heard it's witty?
It was Dickens last completed novel, so it was a mature work--complex characters and accomplished plotting. I enjoyed it very much.
That's what I've heard, Kim, and that, although his later works were more serious, his last one did have humor in it. I doubt that I'll ever be able to read them in order, but it would be nice.
Well, I left a lot of his later works until later in my life more naturally as a lot of what I read and re-read I read for classes originally. I started reading him on my own late jr high/HS. My first 2 were The Pickwick Papers & The Old Curiosity Shop. I read classic authors over my summers, knocked off Hemingway over 2 summers, along with Steinbeck. I usually read 1 Dickens & 1 Russian novel. I remember reading War and Peace for better part of six weeks in eighth grade. Book was a red brick of a book, tissue thin pages, teeny-tiny print. I was very shy and fairly miserable that year, I hid in Tolstoy as much as possible. I did not like going to school much until sophomore year, although I was a good student and had an excellent group of friends. I preferred riding cross-country with my best friend, or sitting on her porch, talking or reading, or walking in the woods. School felt like a sentence many days, boring and repetitious. The teachers were well-meaning, but had been doing it so long any enthusiasm had long left them. In later years I got some new ones who brought some fun to the table, and veterans who retained their passion. In college, I remember having to read David Copperfield for the second time for a survey class while reading Dombey and Son for an honors seminar in which we read a goodly amount of Dickens and all of Austen. That was a lot of reading.
I think my school experience was like yours, Kim, although my reading was more or less without any planning. I just wandered through the library (we moved a lot, so there were a lot of libraries), and randomly picked out things that I'd either heard of or looked likely. In that way I found Austen, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dickens, and Faulkner (and also Mary Stewart, Agatha Christie and Heyer). School itself, in spite of a couple of good English teachers, bored me to tears. I, too, had good friends and was a "success" in school, which has always worried me - if I was that miserable, what in the world was it like for kids who had trouble?
questions about Regency male attire for a ball and more:I’m reading a Regency romance and the hero wore pantaloons and top boots to a ball!
Shouldn’t he have worn something like satin knee breeches or (britches?) and silk stockings?
Aren’t top boots worn with knee-length buckskins or something?
I’ve never heard of pantaloons worn with top boots. Pantaloons Worn with hessian boots yes, but not with top boots.
Are pantaloons and hessian boots daytime attire anyhow?
Oh, no, never boots to a ball! Imagine all the young ladies' toes in their dancing slippers? As far as breeches vs. pantaloons, it depends on what year--by later in the Regency pantaloons were replacing breeches for evening wear (except at Almack's!)
This was around 1812-15 where the hero wore boots to the ball.I thought boots a a ball were all wrong.
What about the soldiers in regimentals? What type of footwear did they wear?
Didn’t regimental include boots?
Pantaloons were worn with hessians or with shoes. There's a great explanation here: https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.co...If an officer wore his regimentals with boots to a ball, he would not dance. I believe they could wear breeches stockings and dancing slippers with their dress coats if they intended to dance.
I (and my sisters) were all noted for reading - one teacher tried to forbid students from "reading ahead" in our textbooks because then we'd be bored when we did the work in class! I ignored that - I generally had the books for my English classes read by the end of September. She was right that most classes were boring! My parents and most of my teachers encouraged my reading, and one person who was particularly encouraging was the local librarian. I grew up in a small town, but due to the contributions of the main local business, we had an unusually good library for a little place, and the librarian encouraged us to read anything we wanted (although as per library rules, books were sorted out into "children", "grade 8" and "adult"). She had immigrated from the UK, and often ordered books from there, so in addition to whatever the central library (in the provincial capital) suggested or provided, we got children's annuals and lots of books set in the UK or written by UK authors - including of course, Heyer among many others. She was still alive a couple of years ago, although long retired, when I sent condolences on the death of her husband. She sent a lovely note back.That library made up for the limited assortment of books we had at school!
I had a teacher in primary school who used to read a book to us every Friday while we were knitting. She realised fairly quickly that I wasn't getting much knitting done as I was enthralled with the story. We didn't have much money when I was growing up and I couldn't afford many books even though I was a voracious reader. She came to know this and she would loan me books over the weekend so I could read them myself. I've never forgotten her for this. We were a small class and I was the only one interested in reading extra.
Now THAT'S a great teacher!
Cheryl, I always read my textbooks as soon as I got them, so I didn't have to be bothered the rest of the year and could concentrate on the books I actually wanted to read!And, Teresa, I remember an 8th grade teacher reading The Jungle Book out loud to us during lunch, and since I'd loved Kipling forever, I just concentrated on how she read so perfectly. She didn't do the overly dramatic voices, or read so slow that everyone fell asleep (a common failing), or anything detrimental to the stories. When I get to read out loud, which is often, I always try to do it as well as she did!
I remember the first book she read to us that got me hooked was Heidi. I loved it. When I got money for my birthday that year from my Godmother (another wonderful woman), I brought it in to the teacher. The next time she was in the city she bought the book for me and I treasured it for years. I've never ever forgotten her for what she did for me. My daughter has the actual book now. I passed it on to her.
I remember the first book she read to us that got me hooked was Heidi. I loved it. When I got money for my birthday that year from my Godmother (another wonderful woman), I brought it in to the teacher. The next time she was in the city she bought the book for me and I treasured it for years. I've never ever forgotten her for what she did for me. My daughter has the actual book now. I passed it on to her.
Ah, y'all are making me all teary-eyed. I met two fantastic librarians while I was in 4th grade (age 9 and already reading far, far above my grade level). One was the school librarian at my new school (we had recently moved), who let me haunt the library at recess. The other was the public librarian who let me 'graduate' to adult level books after I had pretty much read out the children's section. I kept in touch with both women for years. Lovely ladies both. I still remember their names after all these years, while I have a hard time remembering many of my teachers.
I love teachers who encourage and understand you. We mostly had nuns teaching us but this was the only lay teacher. She was definitely the best of the whole lot.
I must have been terrifically lucky in all of my small libraries, because although the books were divided into children and adult sections, you could go wherever you wanted and check out anything. Of course, that could be because back in those days when print had just been invented, everything was G-rated...
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