tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60825520154892301142024-03-16T18:52:29.609+00:00My Purple Velvet Box Full of StuffGeorginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-1036966000732136112023-08-07T21:13:00.000+01:002023-08-07T21:13:14.387+01:00How To… make the most of your bacon<p> <i>My friend Cliffs of Moher, who you might know from her adventures in taste testing, told me that never a day goes by without me giving her some useful advice. She said I ought to write a book.</i></p><p><i>Apart from the fact that there are a million and one ‘how to’ books, and websites and Instagram accounts out there, I don’t think I have enough nearly enough life enhancing hacks to fill a book. However, I do have one or two pieces of advice that might help a random person searching the internet.</i></p><p><b>So, how do you make the most of your bacon?</b></p><p>If you eat meat, and that includes pork, you probably eat bacon. Yum yum - but obviously not if you keep kosher or halal, or are vegetarian. 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And you end up throwing some, or indeed all, of it away. My mother’s first fridge, bought about 1960, came with a large glass box specifically for keeping bacon fresh, but the box was so large and the fridge so small that it was usually left on a shelf in the larder. </p><p>Anyway, here’s a way to keep your bacon fresh. No more rashers that have gone a funny colour and end up in the bin.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQblQmOl8P_PVcGPPnCoXJzac2VouT-TnBHlfSCaZdss_-6fXZy39q8Ow0h9jA7x8-xuhzBGAy2yCHurKupvfVo5t7Hynn7OCS8_mJOcatTicahnRhtCD3FEY215RFWmTdwOPiwVMEu3A9XCiwcJQHIft2KL5p42pKNRT3UUVFt-05Prz3SKD5iIhTQ/s4032/IMG_9875.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQblQmOl8P_PVcGPPnCoXJzac2VouT-TnBHlfSCaZdss_-6fXZy39q8Ow0h9jA7x8-xuhzBGAy2yCHurKupvfVo5t7Hynn7OCS8_mJOcatTicahnRhtCD3FEY215RFWmTdwOPiwVMEu3A9XCiwcJQHIft2KL5p42pKNRT3UUVFt-05Prz3SKD5iIhTQ/s320/IMG_9875.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Line a baking sheet that will fit in your freezer with baking paper. Roll up each slice of bacon and put it on the baking sheet. Freeze until frozen… but don’t leave it in the freezer for too long because you want to avoid freezer burn.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTV3SOwlnUVVtIFhmx7C_zVKnXCucU-bFjy8gFeHtD9o0NmHMS2v0t8jcQxHE09v1GrgU_a-f16w9sAjuEY3iSoDwJ2vFhHCULMV72XcHUE3rFIvCUv1HgKhkIQcOJRs0E8gWv8ycHbEhF24i7YS8FzdNnVQbUfhi_k9SULCCc9o9JkkvNZMHNOeJZpw/s4032/IMG_9879.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTV3SOwlnUVVtIFhmx7C_zVKnXCucU-bFjy8gFeHtD9o0NmHMS2v0t8jcQxHE09v1GrgU_a-f16w9sAjuEY3iSoDwJ2vFhHCULMV72XcHUE3rFIvCUv1HgKhkIQcOJRs0E8gWv8ycHbEhF24i7YS8FzdNnVQbUfhi_k9SULCCc9o9JkkvNZMHNOeJZpw/s320/IMG_9879.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Put your frozen rolls of bacon into a plastic box and store in the freezer until you need them. Don’t forget to write a label. The rolls of bacon won’t stick to each other once they are frozen so you can take out as many, or few, as you need. The bacon is quick to defrost and feels as fresh as when you first opened the packet. But make sure it’s properly defrosted before you cook it.</p><p>It’s that easy.</p><p><br /></p>Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-20615413521559347972022-12-05T18:15:00.001+00:002022-12-05T18:20:49.713+00:00How To… cook the right amount of pasta<p><i>My friend Cliffs of Moher, who you might know from her adventures in taste testing, told me that never a day goes by without me giving her some useful advice. She said I ought to write a book.</i></p><p><i>Apart from the fact that there are a million and one ‘how to’ books out there, I don’t think I have enough nearly enough life enhancing hacks to fill a book. However, I do have one or two pieces of advice that might help a random person searching the internet.</i></p><p><b>So, how do you avoid cooking too much pasta? </b></p><p>Cliffs of Moher tells me that no matter how hard she tries, she always cooks much more pasta than she needs. And not long ago I watched in horror as someone I know quite unnecessarily cooked an entire packet of pasta without making any attempt at measurement at all. They didn’t seem to think that cooking food for 8 or more people was an issue (there were 4 of us), and made no suggestions for using any of the leftovers. Perhaps they always use a whole packet. I don’t know. Anyway, I’m guessing that too much cooked pasta is a problem that afflicts a lot of people.</p><p>I read that you need about 80-100g of dry pasta per person. Or perhaps 60-100g. Maybe 75-115g. But who drags the scales out from the back of the cupboard to weigh pasta? And maybe you don’t own any scales. In any case, not everyone will have the same appetite. Or maybe you live in the USA and might want to cook 2oz, or 3-4oz? And what about a cup of pasta per person? How much is that anyway? And who decides these amounts?</p><p>Oof! All these different suggested quantities make cooking pasta seem very complicated, so let’s use the Fabio method.</p><p>Years ago - last century anyway - my brother shared a flat with an Italian friend called (as far as I can remember) Fabio. Fabio had this method of cooking just the amount of pasta he wanted to eat. I imagine it was the way his mother and his granny cooked pasta but who knows. Fabio taught my brother and, eventually, my brother passed the method on to me. It’s really simple and seems to work quite well.</p><p>Take the plate or bowl that you are going to eat your dinner from. I like to eat my pasta from a wide flat dish that used to be called a soup plate but, as you know, any bowl will do.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpUpqMUbU9kJk_E29-8Z3G2iuAvbUMdkYPJohuzW-JQuOpJQsHCKaxbsPuFnG-NtsgDcX_CzWKt5sJAut6aTeQ21THHZbtBCGFLc66qMFdQi8eIBLLGuAEJ2ojq4UntKV4u8FveOL8b9oFFmOlo5BLg6FakSqsVnrrjPiB3KzblcF2vwuN5Oufw2fxw/s3024/A9700AB8-7D29-4678-99AC-C033BB50FDA5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="2987" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpUpqMUbU9kJk_E29-8Z3G2iuAvbUMdkYPJohuzW-JQuOpJQsHCKaxbsPuFnG-NtsgDcX_CzWKt5sJAut6aTeQ21THHZbtBCGFLc66qMFdQi8eIBLLGuAEJ2ojq4UntKV4u8FveOL8b9oFFmOlo5BLg6FakSqsVnrrjPiB3KzblcF2vwuN5Oufw2fxw/s320/A9700AB8-7D29-4678-99AC-C033BB50FDA5.jpeg" width="316" /></a></div><p></p><p>Put as much uncooked pasta as looks about right into your bowl. I have come to the conclusion that about 2 small handfuls (or handsful) of this pasta is right for me. It weighs just over 60g. I weighed it specially for you. You won’t be surprised to learn that I have never bothered to weigh pasta before and probably never will again. And you will likely want more in the bowl than I do.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqvCILqA6cl9IM-MW4oHkZwp9HoxNbpJsrxXYKKUmpgl_pG5b7D85TPExEcpEKsxKPEyczDigKOUwze0SiROHbYNoj4RqDtUYyq5bAI4lcZPu4LdSVWgDPkIg372WQQez6UFA3sm6ZPf0Ca9FwixQRqc1c1k5NZGnTOdLfgFs0HHI-xWzXOoGFpYqbA/s2048/E4DAD32D-B07D-48A3-B1D1-67EEBD569A92.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqvCILqA6cl9IM-MW4oHkZwp9HoxNbpJsrxXYKKUmpgl_pG5b7D85TPExEcpEKsxKPEyczDigKOUwze0SiROHbYNoj4RqDtUYyq5bAI4lcZPu4LdSVWgDPkIg372WQQez6UFA3sm6ZPf0Ca9FwixQRqc1c1k5NZGnTOdLfgFs0HHI-xWzXOoGFpYqbA/s320/E4DAD32D-B07D-48A3-B1D1-67EEBD569A92.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Add the same amount of pasta for each person you are feeding. If you are a bit anxious about quantities add some more pasta, but in my experience this extra bit often turns out to be too much.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQT_TO0OAKEEfiXYvOu7ZbsAdeaCZxjO0nghUewLqXSRN791Po6mk5qG9Ji5rb9Ne_MXRzIEEDkXo38JYWah6dIy8gG6MWdAD2taz4GxoiXcIKKtlRC6arCoVT1vB8oi7ccReN-zIDXZ4zpSFew1X6bsjNqAivZyFibWTyPDCY0BhEk--rysjmE0IGQ/s2468/38863B8E-8491-4A2C-B632-DC669FC1759F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2468" data-original-width="2405" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQT_TO0OAKEEfiXYvOu7ZbsAdeaCZxjO0nghUewLqXSRN791Po6mk5qG9Ji5rb9Ne_MXRzIEEDkXo38JYWah6dIy8gG6MWdAD2taz4GxoiXcIKKtlRC6arCoVT1vB8oi7ccReN-zIDXZ4zpSFew1X6bsjNqAivZyFibWTyPDCY0BhEk--rysjmE0IGQ/s320/38863B8E-8491-4A2C-B632-DC669FC1759F.jpeg" width="312" /></a></div><p></p><p>Give it a try. </p><p>Of course the Fabio method only works for pasta shapes not the straight stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-75524950182054069862020-06-19T17:05:00.000+01:002020-06-19T17:05:10.143+01:00A Spot of Cookery: Pork Chops in Tomato SoupThis is my mother’s super easy pork chop recipe.<br />
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<b>Basic Recipe</b>: take one large London-style pork chop per person. Fry the chops until they are browned and throw them in a casserole dish. Season well with salt and pepper. Chop an onion and soften it in the same pan you cooked the pork in. When the onion is ready chuck in a can of Heinz tomato soup and bring it to the bubble. Pour your onion and soup mix into the casserole and put in the oven at Gas Mark 4 or 180 degrees for an hour. Serve with mashed potato.<br />
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I said “London-style pork chops” because I have never attempted to buy a pork chop in any other part of the UK, and you never know what cuts of pork might be on sale in, say Inverness, unless you’ve shopped there. Which I haven’t.<br />
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Our local shop here in beautiful Switzerland sells thin slices of pork. Very nice, but not the same. Plus, since Coronavirus lockdown we no longer have access to Heinz soup, so what to do? Obviously I have to make my own tomato soup... I mean sauce, for the Chef and me.<br />
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So, make a roux with about <b>an ounce of butter</b> and <b>a spoonful of plain flour</b>. Add a big squirt of <b>tomato purée</b> and then carefully mix in <b>½ pint of chicken stock</b>. Obviously if you are cooking for more than 2 people you will want to add more stock.<br />
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Most times I can make a roux without a struggle but sometimes I get loads of lumps so if you aren’t an expert add the liquid very slowly, on a low heat, stirring all the time. Add <b>¼ teaspoon of marmite</b> to the sauce and <b>100g passata</b> (or more if making a larger quantity of sauce).<br />
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Season with <b>salt and pepper </b>and a <b>teaspoon of sugar</b>. It really does depend how much you want your sauce to mimic Heinz tomato soup, so add as much or as little seasoning as you like.<br />
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Cook the <b>pork</b> and <b>onion </b>according to the basic recipe. Add the sauce to the onions.<br />
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If your pieces of pork are smaller you only need to cook them for about 40 minutes.<br />
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<b>Ingredients:</b><br />
Butter<br />
Plain flour<br />
Tomato purée: about a tablespoon<br />
Marmite: the Swiss make a version called Cenovis, and you could use Vegemite, but we import Marmite from London<br />
Chicken stock: I always use a celery-free stock cube<br />
Passata if you can get it, or finely chopped tinned tomatoes<br />
Salt, pepper, sugar<br />
1 Onion: chopped<br />
Pork chops: 1 each if they’re big and chunky, 2 each if they’re small<br />
Mashed potato, pasta, rice or maybe flatbreads to serve.<br />
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-70928918498139932782020-06-09T12:53:00.003+01:002021-08-18T20:02:10.487+01:00Books to Read Again: Ballet Shoes by Noel StreatfieldMy Granny gave me Ballet Shoes for Christmas in 1968. I was just 9 and probably read it at once. The introduction, by editor Kay Webb, says the book is “warmly recommended for girls between eight or nine and fourteen” but I think it’s a comforting read at any time.<br />
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Cover design by Victor Ambrus. Does anyone else remember him from early seasons of Time Team?</td></tr>
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This is a wonderful book for girls* who enjoy dancing or acting. Which I didn’t. At 6 I said “no thank you” to dancing lessons, and at 11 I was given the choice of the school drama club or Guides. I joined the Guides, which I hated, but at least it was better than acting. So considering all that you might suppose this was quite the wrong book for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children at the Academy. Line drawings by Ruth Gervis who was the author’s older sister </td></tr>
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But you would be wrong. It’s the characters I loved. It didn’t bother me that Pauline loved acting, or that Posy was only interested in dancing. That’s their choice. I liked Petrova who couldn’t bring herself to tell her guardian Sylvia that she didn’t enjoy acting and dancing. She was interested in cars and aeroplanes but the family was poor (yes poor, but still employing Sylvia’s old nanny Nana, and Cook and Clara the housemaid) and the only way Petrova could help out was to earn money in the theatre.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Petrova reading about cars or planes</td></tr>
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Pauline, Petrova and Posy, all adopted by Professor Matthew Brown, a famous collector of fossils, choose Fossil as their surname and vow to try and put their name in the history books. They grow up in a large house on the Cromwell Road not too far from the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London. Professor Brown (Great Uncle Matthew, always known as Gum) goes travelling “to visit some strange islands” when Posy is only a baby, leaving the children in the care of his great niece Sylvia. By Chapter II (of XIX) the family is running out of money. Gum has left instructions with his bank to provide suitable funds for 5 years, but he is gone for far longer than anyone expected and soon Sylvia has no income at all and three growing children to feed, clothe and educate. Obviously these are middle class children who must be educated privately which Sylvia cannot afford.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seaside holiday. My mother wore a swimsuit just like this in the 1930s</td></tr>
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In order to make a little money Sylvia feels she has no choice but to take in boarders. Luckily the new boarders are all very nice: Mr and Mrs Simpson run a garage (obviously ideal for Petrova), Dr Smith and Dr Jakes are expert tutors in English and Maths (useful for all the girls), and Theo Dane teaches dance at the Children’s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training (ideal for Pauline and Posy). After seeing Posy dance, Theo arranges for all three girls to be trained, free of charge, at the Academy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pauline and school friend Winifred auditioning for Alice in Wonderland </td></tr>
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From a modern viewpoint we might ask why on earth does Sylvia carry on employing Cook and Clara? I don’t think Nana counts: she’s more a member of the family and worth her weight in gold because she makes all the children’s clothes, quite often at the drop of a hat. And again, why can’t Sylvia look for a job instead of waiting for the children to reach the age of 12? (Children under 12 were not permitted to work.) Of course Sylvia was brought up a lady and therefore has no useful skills; it’s likely she couldn’t boil an egg let alone cook dinner for a family of growing girls. At any rate, Sylvia getting a job is never considered. And, poor thing, she is never allowed a relationship with a suitable man which might have solved some of her problems.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posy, Nana, Pauline and Petrova waiting for a tube train </td></tr>
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Ballet Shoes was Noel Streatfield’s first book for children, published in1936. The death of George V in January 1936 impacts the income of both Pauline and Petrova when theatrical performances are cancelled due to public mourning. This roots the story very firmly in the1930s, as does the tiny salaries they receive. Noel Streatfield was an actress before she started writing so she must have known how little children on the stage would be paid. Of course this dates the book, but somehow more recent books like the Gemma series written in the late 1960s seem much more dated. Perhaps references to television, electric guitars and comprehensive schools don’t date so well as cooks and housemaids and organdie frocks with frills?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posy tells Pauline she must go to Czechoslovakia to study with Manoff</td></tr>
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By the end of the book Pauline is 15, has had a success in a film about Charles II, and is asked to go to Hollywood, and Posy is consumed by her desire to study ballet with the famous dancer Manoff in Czechoslovakia. The big house has been sold, the boarders are moving on and poor Petrova seems to have no future. At the last minute Gum turns up and suggests he and Petrova live together in a house by an aerodrome. Yes, this is all a bit convenient but somehow it doesn’t matter. It’s a satisfying ending to an absorbing story of three very real girls who get grumpy and bored and anxious just like the rest of us. You may not know what an organdie dress looks like or have a nanny to make you one for your next audition, but you can absolutely understand their excitement at an extra special birthday cake or an unexpected treat, or better yet, a part in a play that pays well.<br />
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Noel Streatfield wrote 30 books for children. Most of them are not connected (the four Gemma books are an exception) but many of them have been renamed to create the semblance of a series with the wonderful White Boots (about skating) rebranded as Skating Shoes and Apple Bough (about a child’s need for a proper home) as Traveling Shoes. I’m not sure I approve.<br />
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The soap was made with myrrh, brandy oil, cinnamon, mandarin, bay orange, holly leaf and frankincense. </div>
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<br />Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-30745175844840196132017-09-09T11:00:00.000+01:002020-06-10T10:46:22.168+01:00Exotic Packaging: Wallace & Gromit DVD Tin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Wallace & Gromit tin came with DVDs in. The design on the lid is raised - you can see the inside of the lid in the bottom photo - the raised design shows up much better there although Wallace's teeth look very creepy from the wrong side. And the side of the tin are decorated with line drawings of cheese and crackers. Of course.</div>
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The DVDs live somewhere else now and I use this tin to store patchwork supplies.</div>
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This is some of the fabric I keep in the tin. Yes, that snow boarder is printed on fabric. These patterns all went into a pair of curtains I made for the bedroom in Switzerland. I don't ski or snow board, but the family does.</div>
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I don't drink tea. I don't even like fruit teas much and mint tea makes me feel fat. So I can only have bought this tin of teas because the tin itself is so fabulous. Perhaps you aren't very surprised?<br />
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So here, once upon a time, we had 40 sachets of fruit flavoured black tea. Cherry, Raspberry, Mango and Vanilla. Is vanilla a fruit? It looks like a french bean so I suppose it's just a seed pod.<br />
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Each of the four teas is illustrated by a botanical drawing style image showing flowers and fruit at the same time. Sadly we don't get a mango flower, perhaps because they don't look very interesting (check google and see what you think).<br />
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I think I have owned this tin since at least 1990. I'm sure I had it when I lived in that tiny basement flat not far from Harrods. Oh look. It says distributed 1988 on the base of the tin. Why didn't I check that before consulting my memory?<br />
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The base of the tin also reminds me that of course Crabtree & Evelyn of London is not a company based in London but in Woodstock Hill CT, USA. The tin came from England but the teas from China.<br />
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Wherever it all came from it's a very pretty tin don't you think?<br />
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-36275813874368369672017-09-01T11:00:00.000+01:002017-09-01T11:00:16.234+01:00Elizabeth Bradley Needlework Kits 23rd Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I do like a lot of Elizabeth Bradley's designs very much indeed but unfortunately I am really quite astonishingly impatient and can't bear the thought of cross stitch. The idea of doing each and every stitch twice over makes me feel quite fretful! This is the entire catalogue so there are 56 pages to see. And I do lust after some of the designs vey much indeed.</div>
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-87773706700221021172017-08-30T11:00:00.000+01:002017-08-30T11:00:00.170+01:00Exotic Packaging: Huntley & Palmers Chocolate Oliver's TinOnce upon a time there was a plain, rather thick biscuit called a Bath Oliver. Now known as Fortt's Original Bath Olivers, they were invented by physician William Oliver of Bath (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Oliver">says Wikipedia</a>) in 1750 as a diet biscuit. He can't have had any family because it seems he left the recipe to his coachman who set up a bakery business. Bath Olivers were eaten with cheese, with a glass of sherry or port and frequently put in a tin in the spare bedroom in case guests felt peckish in the middle of the night. And you can still buy them today.<br />
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In the 1930s someone had the brilliant idea of covering (technical term: enrobing) the Bath Oliver with chocolate. Seriously brilliant. These are top quality biscuits and you can read all about them at <a href="http://chocolateoliver.com/">chocolateoliver.com</a>. It's written by some people who are obviously huge fans of Chocolate Olivers; and also fans of snow globes! Take a look.<br />
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So Huntley & Palmers used to make these biscuits, but they went out of business and then came back again, selling smaller biscuits covered in thicker chocolate. And the biscuits come in this tin. A luxury product and one much sort after by chocolate biscuit fans. Delicious. And a very handsome tin.<br />
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Oh yes, and the big fact about these biscuits is that once upon a time John Lennon is said to have asked to be paid in Chocolate Olivers rather than pounds.<br />
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A word of warning. If you are anxious about biting into an apple, take lots of care when biting into either a Bath Oliver or a Chocolate Oliver.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-4623431288167924822017-08-28T11:00:00.000+01:002017-08-28T11:00:13.732+01:00Exotic Packaging: Just William Chocolate Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This little cardboard box came from Just William, a great sweetie shop in the Sydney Suburb of Paddington. I had forgotten the name of the shop, but not the name of the road: William Street, so I was able to track it down online. There are scraps of the Just William label on the side of the box and I matched the typeface to the one on the website, just as Miss Marple would have if she had owned a computer.<br />
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The pattern is vintage French and Italian postcards, and butterflies. Inside and out.<br />
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I will recycle it as a Christmas present box.And no pictures of the contents because of course they ever eaten years ago.<br />
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<br />Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-79290935405832921922017-08-23T11:00:00.000+01:002017-08-23T11:00:09.548+01:00Exotic Packaging: House of Bruar Biscuit Tin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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House of Bruar is a shop in darkest Perthshire. They sell a large range of clothes, lots of outdoor clothing, boots and shoes, very nice cord trousers.... They also have a food hall, a range of presents, some artwork. A whole lot of stuff. And a nice restaurant too because for many people going to the House of Bruar is a day trip.<br />
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The last time I was there I bought lemon curd biscuits. In this handsome tin. I find that a tin of biscuits makes a great present for pretty much anyone. All you have to do is match the biscuit to the recipient. I expect I bought this tin as a present for the Chef; he loves lemon. You can probably find a present to suit almost anyone at a shop that sells tasty biscuits in fancy tins: your grandmother, the Pope, the Queen, your best friend. Delete as applicable. Do you suppose the Pope likes lemon curd biscuits?<br />
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Sadly I don't know if House of Bruar still sell these biscuits. Or these tins. I haven't been to Scotland for a while. They have a great <a href="http://www.houseofbruar.com/">website</a> which does include meat and cheese, but not biscuits.<br />
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So if you are anywhere near Blair Athol perhaps you should check for yourself.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-62749538522842715202017-08-20T11:00:00.000+01:002017-08-20T11:00:06.883+01:00Exotic Packaging: Blue Bird Luxury Assortment TinBlue Bird, a brand owned by Harry Vincent Ltd of Hunnington near Birmingham (England, not Alabama), used to make toffee. The company no longer exists and no-one now makes Blue Bird toffee but I remember it from my childhood.<br />
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You used to be able to buy a small block of rock hard toffee with a little hammer. The toffee was so hard you had to hit it quite hard to get a shard small enough to pop in your mouth.<br />
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This tin is massive. I happen to have a 250g bag of small Swiss chocolates and imagine that 250g of toffee would be about the same size. So, using this highly unscientific method I deduce that you could fit at least a kilo of toffees in this tin, possibly 1.5k.<br />
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Actually, it looks far more like a biscuit tin. But aside from someone selling a similar looking tin on ebay described as a "biscuit tin" I can't find any evidence that Harry Vincent made biscuits. And in fact I can't find any images online that look exactly like.<br />
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As long as I can remember this tin has been used by various family members to store photographs. I think it came from my grandmother. Almost all my photographs are on the computer now of course. There are only 17 left so I had better scan them soon. And the tin is not in good condition so it has to go. I'm not going to be sentimental about it.<br />
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The image on the lid is called Halting at an Inn by J L E Meissonier and it's owned by the Wallace Collection in London. <a href="http://www.wallacecollection.org/">The Wallace Collection</a> is one of London's lesser known museums but I highly recommend it if you have the chance to visit. It's free to get in, and there's a great restaurant.<br />
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But back to the tin. I don't think the picture on the lid would encourage me to buy either biscuits or toffee. And oddly, I don't think I ever looked at it properly before today. It's always been there so I never looked. Well, it has gone to a better life in recycling land.<br />
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Aēsop is an Australian company that makes wonderful creams for face and body. As I write my face is (I hope) drinking in their fabulous Damascene Rose Facial Treatment. I have been taking a load of prescription drugs recently and my skin has really suffered. I itch all over the place. Especially my ankles (itch itch itch) and my forearms (scratch scratch scratch) and the doctor has no solution.<br />
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So when I spotted the very smart Aēsop shop in Hampstead I had to go in. I bought Geranium Leaf Body Balm which smells divine and doesn't make my skin itch (hurrah!) and I was given a handful of freebies.<br />
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And the exotic packaging? You don't get a plastic bag; of course not it's far too ethical a company. You don't get a paper bag. You get a small cotton drawstring bag with a quote from Victor Hugo printed on it. It's a very nicely made bag (<i>made with love in India</i>) with a gusset. Very smart.<br />
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Buying an Aēsop product reminds me of Sydney. I bought my first Aēsop creams from the wonderful <a href="http://shop.davidjones.com.au/djs/en/davidjones">David Jones</a>, and then some from Grace Bros., and once my lovely Australian friends sent me a very lavish care package. I'm not sure I thanked them nearly enough. It was very generous of them.<br />
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<a href="http://aesop.com/">Aesop.com</a>Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-54407434397983172622017-08-13T11:00:00.000+01:002017-08-13T11:00:03.378+01:00Exotic Packaging: Fortnum & Mason Lemon Curd Piccadilly Biscuits TinHere's another pretty tin, this time from Fortnum & Mason.<br />
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Don't know Fortnums? It's a wonderful shop on Piccadilly in London. It's near Piccadilly Circus, and the Royal Academy and The Ritz Hotel. It's the swanky part of London. Fortnum's does sell clothes and dinnerware and wrapping paper and stuff, and I would like to recommend the ladies' loos on the first floor (at the back), but it is principally known for the food.<br />
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Oh, the food! Really fabulous chocolates, a wide selection of teas and a variety of biscuits in exciting tins. That's what you get on the ground floor together with numerous tourists buying fancy souvenirs of London. And why not? That's what I do. A tin of fancy biscuits from Fortnum's always makes a great present; especially if your present is to be posted abroad.<br />
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And in fact this tin was probably a Christmas present for the Chef. As I've said before, he does like lemon. And, oh look, no biscuits left so he must have eaten them. The raised design on the front of the tin is based on the clock on Fortnum's facade.You can just see the design is raised, but it's not that obvious even in real life.<br />
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Downstairs there's a grocer, some fruit and vegetables, a butcher and wine. And there a several restaurants too.<br />
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Fortnum's has a great <a href="https://www.fortnumandmason.com/">website</a> but do beware. The service is great but if you order anything you may find they email you forever. I haven't managed to stop them yet.<br />
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-59758477225061998282017-08-11T12:04:00.000+01:002017-08-11T12:45:26.473+01:00A Little Bit of Chocolate Does You Good: Mathez Fine French Cocoa Dusted TrufflesThese truffles were <i>completely</i> delicious! Soft dark chocolate - soft but not gooey soft - covered in cocoa powder that I had to lick off my fingers. Extremely moreish.<br />
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And came in a fine tin too but it isn't a classic design so go it must.<br />
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I wish I could remember who gave me this very large tin of chocolate truffles. I mean, a whole kilo of chocolates! That's a lot. More than a lot. A very generous present. I do recall that the present giver was someone unexpected, someone I didn't know very well. And I was very surprised. But..... Who was it?<br />
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I remember where I was living, I remember thinking these were the best chocolates ever, I remember the tin contained two separate baggies of truffles. And I think I'm remembering much of it wrong because the sell by date is August 2003. How wrong can my memory be?<br />
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Why can I remember what I did in the summer of 1965 (went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for the first time and fell in love with their amazing dolls houses) but not who gave me this handsome present.<br />
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Made by Mathez in France: <i>chocolatier depuis 1934. </i>I don't have a photograph of these sensational chocolates because I scoffed the lot years ago. I wish I had more.<br />
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I have written up several different tins over the last couple of days and completely failed to take a good photograph of any of them. I have wander the house closed the curtains, opened the curtains again, tried near the wind, tried away from the window. And none of my photos is without huge reflections. I guess I'll just have to put up with that.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-62968825825004138072017-08-09T11:00:00.000+01:002020-06-10T11:04:05.483+01:00Family Heirlooms: Antique IvoryA lot of people have a problem with ivory. After all, ivory is made of elephant. Or more accurately I suppose I should say elephants make ivory. They grow amazing ivory tusks. And now that elephants are considered endangered, ethical manufacturers don't make ivory brushes or ivory backed mirrors any more. Or ivory anything else. And because ivory poachers kill elephants to steal their tusks you really don't want modern ivory; hauls of illegal ivory are often destroyed which to me seems a terrible shame as the elephants have already been killed for their tusks. But I do understand that if there is no market for new ivory the authorities hope it will put the poachers off,<br />
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So what do you do if you inherit ivory? It's hard to sell because people won't buy it; even owning antique ivory is rather frowned upon. Even if you can find a purchaser it seems from online research that they won't pay much. Again if you search online there are a few antique dealers selling a few brushes but many of the items advertised on eBay, for example, aren't ivory at all but celluloid or something.<br />
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My great grandmother Henrietta Maude Goff was quite well off. At any rate she had a lot more money than me. She had five children and when her husband died she went to live in South West France because she didn't like England. There was no-one to stop her spending her money so she bought a lot of stuff. My mother used to say that all the money went on linen sheets, and hats. Even when I was in my teens we came across some of the sheets she bought; still in the original packaging and tied with green ribbons. At some stage, possibly on her marriage, Maude acquired some very nice ivory toilette articles, quite likely in a in a lavish dressing case, long since lost.<br />
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I am lucky enough to have inherited a hairbrush, and clothes brush, with her monogram MG although the design of the monogram is slightly different. And then there's a hand mirror and a combined shoe horn and button hook with the initials GM and T. It is these latter I think might have been a wedding present as they feature her husband Trevor's initial along with her own.<br />
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I confess I don't use the hairbrush. My hair is too thick and I need a proper Mason Pearson to avoid looking like a bird's nest, but my granny (Maude's daughter-in-law) had very fine hair and used the brush every day for over 40 years.<br />
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Oddly enough I don't use the button hook on a daily basis either. I wonder if anyone has shoes with buttons these days? When I was very little I had red Mary Janes done up with a button. It does seem odd to design a shoe for a wriggling toddler that must be more difficult to fasten than a buckled shoe but I expect it was traditional. These days no doubt small children have shoes fastened with Velcro which doesn't have the same chic. Unless perhaps Princess Charlotte still has buttoned shoes.<br />
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I definitely want to keep these items. It's lovely having such pretty things with my initials on. And in any case I use the mirror and the clothes brush. But I'd like to give these other brushes away as presents. Unfortunately the Chef's daughter is a vegetarian so probably wouldn't be best pleased, and his niece was very disapproving when I gave her dad some mounted antlers (which after all fall off naturally each year) I inherited from my brother but he asked for them.<br />
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Also inherited from my brother three more ivory backed clothes brushes. It seems he made a grab for most of the clothes brushes. A bit weird considering he never took care of his clothes and probably never used them.<br />
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There's a lovely clothes brush with a beautiful squirrel on the back: my family crest. This brush has a particularly nicely shaped back. Then there's one with the initials AG for my great aunt Aileen. The ivory on this one isn't in such good condition but the initials are very nice. And a plain brush with no carving on the back.<br />
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So luckily I have some friends who I think are prepared to receive a gift of ivory. Hurrah. Because at the beginning of the year I initiated project I Must a Get Rid of Some Stuff. Sounds like a sensible plan doesn't it? Sadly because I've been ill I have failed to get rid of as much as I would like and this is my first step to getting back on track.<br />
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I'm not suggesting we should all have ivory handled brushes but it is a beautiful material. If you keep it clean - just with soap and water, and make sure to dry it properly, it feels as soft as silk. A lovely thing to hold in your hand. Oh, and the bristles are all natural of course. You need to keep them clean with a solution of washing soda but make sure that doesn't touch the ivory.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-12896318342397878412017-08-02T15:15:00.003+01:002020-06-10T11:11:54.643+01:00Gardens to Visit: Hatfield House East Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_29137282"></span><span id="goog_29137283"></span>Hatfield House has huge grounds; there's a park with tree walks, one over 5 km long, a daffodil ride, several distinct woods, and two different gardens. The West Garden is open every day but the East Garden is more private and only open on a Wednesday. It was laid out by the 5th Marchioness of Salisbury<br />
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You have to pay a little extra to get into the East Garden but it's rather nice to visit a beautiful place with hardly anyone else around. And I think perhaps not everyone realises the garden is there, or maybe they don't want to pay an extra £4 but that's their loss. I think there were 5 other people in the garden the whole time we were there.<br />
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The garden is in two distinct parts. There's a highly structured part with pleached trees, lots of brick and stonework, and flower beds defined by closely clipped hedges, and then there's a more natural area with a large lake. It was my first outing after my illness and to tell you the truth, I think I was a bit ambitious. I had to have a lot of sit downs. And had I waked around the lake, I think I would have had to call for help.<br />
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This slightly random gateway leads to steps as you can see., and the steps lead to a little landing stage. This lake is called the New Pond and dates from the seventeenth century.<br />
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There are lots of beautiful trees around the New Pond. I really must get round the other side one day.<br />
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Just enough wildflowers to make the manicured part of the garden look extra fabulous.<br />
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The garden is divided into separate rooms by beautifully clipped yew hedging. This little room is an orchard. Well, I say little, of course this room is bigger than my whole garden.<br />
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The formal part of the garden is beautifully maintained. It looks as though they mow the grass every day and cut the hedges every other day. Check out the sharp cut of this maze. Sadly it isn't open to the public. Such a shame. I'd love to get close to that sphinx. But hedges are more fragile than they look so even a few visitors a week would probably be too many.</div>
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I don't know if this view can be seen from the part of the house that's open to the public but here's a link to the <a href="http://www.hatfield-house.co.uk/house-park-garden/the-garden/the-east-garden/">East Garden</a> web page which gives a much better idea of the flower beds than my photographs.</div>
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It's a lovely garden and I'd really like to go back if there's ever a Wednesday when I'm not at work and it isn't freezing cold and pouring with rain. It's not very far from home so I may get lucky.</div>
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-1564140392414278022017-06-09T16:08:00.005+01:002023-11-09T10:01:18.848+00:00Books to Read Again: the Inspector Alleyn books by Ngaio Marsh<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand writer who created the quintessentially English (and rather posh) Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn and his sidekick Inspector Fox (not posh at all).<br />
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She is always described as one of the "Queens of Crime", the women writers who dominated the golden age of crime writing (says Wikipedia) along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham. She studied painting before becoming an actress and later a producer and director in the theatre. So it's no surprise that one of her recurring characters is Agatha Troy RA, a very celebrated artist, later Mrs Roderick Alleyn, and a number of the books have to a greater or lesser extent, a theatrical background.<br />
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There are 32 Alleyn novels published between 1934 to 1982. And they seem to be set in the year they were written which in the end I think is rather a mistake. Because Roderick Alleyn is 43 in <i>Death at the Bar </i>(published 1940 but obviously written before WWII) and Fox is older still; probably 50. So how old can they be in the final book <i>Light Thickens </i>(1982)? Far too old to be employed by Scotland Yard, that's for certain.<br />
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For the most part I think the earlier books are better. Dragging Alleyn and Fox into 1960s and 70s attitudes doesn't really work too well. Interestingly the leading lady in <i>False Scent </i>(1960) is described as being past her sell by date (not in so many words of course); her style of acting outmoded and the plays she stars in passé. So it's rather a shame that the same could be said of some of the later books.<br />
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If you read the books simply as whodunnits most of them are a great read with very carefully plotted murders and squadrons of suspicious characters just queueing up to be suspected. I've now read all the books several times (except one which I couldn't finish a second time), and some more than ten times so I nearly always remember who dunnit. But the plots are mostly such fun that it's worthwhile reading the books again even if you know what's going to happen.<br />
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Alleyn does not emerge fully formed. In <i>A Man Lay Dead</i> (1934) he acts completely unlike his later self and recruits the help not only of Nigel Bathgate, a young journalist (who somewhat improbably becomes his "Watson" in several books), but also Miss Angela North (later Mrs Bathgate) who burgles a friend's flat to assist Alleyn's enquiries. Basically <i>A Man Lay Dead</i> is a country house murder story, but there's a weird Russian anarchist sub-plot which doesn't really seem to work. But Russian anarchists were popular in those days. Sadly we never meet Miss Angela again. Sadly because she is strikingly intelligent and a really fun character. But of course, she is a young woman, soon married, and of course condemned to be nothing but a mother because it was the 1930s.<br />
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The Ball in <i>Death in a White Tie</i> (1938) takes place in this house: how can there be windows on the left side of the ground and first floor if the Green Boudoir is shown in the correct place? What shape is this building? Does this building sit around a large courtyard? Is the Green Boudoir a strange flying freehold perhaps? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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Ngaio Marsh gives us country house mysteries; locked room plots; plots where the protagonists are cut off from the rest of the world (deep snow drifts or trapped on an island in a lake); plots where the murderer is so obvious you don't pick him; plots where the murderer is so un-obvious you don't pick him because you never noticed he was there all along; plots where the victim seems as though he/she was mistaken for someone else; plots where all the clues were washed up/tidied up weeks or months ago. She seems to have put a lot of effort into ringing the changes so that first time readers really don't know what to expect.<br />
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I should say though, that if you don't enjoy the theatre, some of these books are not for you. After reading <em>Light Thickens</em> I felt I could take quite a tough exam on Macbeth and a couple of the others are full of stage directions and deal in quite obsessive detail with plays that, frankly, I'm glad I don't have to sit through; <i>Opening Night</i> for example features a play I would hate. But I think it is very much of its time. There's also a great deal of detail about painting in <em>Artists in Crime</em> (where Alleyn meets Troy for the first time), <em>Final Curtain</em> where Troy is the leading character, and a couple of the other books.<br />
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Ngaio Marsh characters do have certain idiosyncrasies. A lot of the women have rather odd names: Martyn Tarn, Lady Hersey Amblington, Terence Lynne or Decima Moore (an only child, not the last of ten) while the men are named Nicholas, Jonathan, Henry or Norman. We also encounter quite a lot of characters who "have a trick" of opening their eyes very wide (I've tried this in the mirror: it doesn't help me see any better and only makes me look odd), or of letting their voice die away at the end of a sentence. Again, I've tried this but it somehow doesn't work for me! And don’t get me started on the actress with that “famous three-cornered smile”.<br />
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That's all very fine, all writers write their characters in their own way, but then you get far too many "middle aged" women who act strangely, obsessively, avidly, really quite unpleasantly or even a little bit madly (anyone for black magic?) and this is all put down to the "time of life" (again, not in so many words). Because obviously all women go a bit bonkers in middle age. Hush! whisper it: could this be something to do with the menopause? Considering that Ngaio Marsh was a woman I find myself puzzled as much as offended by this attitude. She never married, and it seems had close relationships only with women so.... Perhaps, though, she went through a terrible menopause herself and genuinely thought it normal for women to behave abnormally in their forties or fifties. <br />
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Unfortunately if you read the books carefully, you'll notice that they are either written with a distinct lack of attention to detail, or were very badly edited. In <em>Surfeit of Lampreys</em>, the heroine, Robin has a bedroom curtained off from the hall; more than once someone knocks on her bedroom door (see above for the plan). In the same book we are told that Uncle Gabriel and Aunt Violet will be arriving at 6 on Friday evening. Ten pages later when they do arrive we are told the family was only expecting Uncle Gabriel and they are all quite disconcerted to see Aunt Violet. Later Aunt Kit goes to visit the Jewish pawn broker at his home on the same Friday evening (perhaps Ngaio Marsh really didn't realise how improbable that was because, obviously, the Sabbath), and the following day Lord Charles goes to discuss matters with his bank manager. On a Saturday afternoon? I'm not sure that would happen.<br />
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In <em>Death at the Bar</em> we are told the Plume of Feathers pub has four guest rooms. But at the start of the book five people are staying there, and by the end there are six. In the same book the victim is stabbed with a dart in his third finger, or two pages later, in his middle finger.<br />
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I confess I never noticed any discrepancies when I first read these books, I suppose because I was reading to find out who the murderer was. But I do feel some of them are a little sloppy. You're probably thinking "<i>Wow! she's picky",</i> but these things are important, especially if you enjoy rereading books.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">This is the site plan for <i>Black as He's Painted</i> (1974) which looks very like Ennismore Gardens and the surrounding streets (which feature a hole in the wall) in Knightsbridge. Which is to say, not far from Harrods and the Brompton Oratory. <br /><br /></td></tr>
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OK, now I've been quite critical I'd like to go back to telling you how much I enjoy these books. Most of the time. And they've become true comfort reading for me. Don't let my nitpicking put you off.<br />
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I also enjoy the UK TV versions of some of the books. They're nicely made TV shows packed with period detail. However, unfortunately for a fan like me, the producers decided to add in extra and unnecessary chunks of plot that aren't in the books. They also decided to insert Troy into stories she shouldn't be in; Troy doesn't feature in every book, and they moved the setting of <i>Dead Water</i> from Cornwall to a Scottish Island. Worst of all, in the books Alleyn affectionately calls Inspector Fox "Foxkin" and "Brer Fox". In the TV version he calls him "Brer". Why make this silly change? It's really annoying to anyone who has read and loved the books.<br />
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I haven't seen the New Zealand adaptations. There are three stories set in New Zealand and one in London featuring a New Zealand born actress. I don't think these programmes have ever been shown in the UK, or available on DVD here. What a pity.<br />
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Nearly all the books are available at very reasonable prices from second hand book dealers so there's nothing to stop you giving them a go. I recently replaced all my paperbacks with hardbacks and really didn't spend a lot of money.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-22583714215190506752017-06-01T11:00:00.000+01:002017-06-01T11:00:23.261+01:00Ehrman Tapestry Sale Catalogue October 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082552015489230114.post-64218663774036479102017-04-27T16:58:00.000+01:002017-04-27T16:58:20.757+01:00Ehrman Tapestry Sale Catalogue October 2011I haven't been doing at all well on this year's project to get rid of some stuff. Unfortunately I've been ill and not feeling like much tidying up - or sitting at my computer. If anything I seem to have accumulated more stuff than ever. However, I'm feeling a bit stronger today, and yesterday (great triumph) I washed the bathroom floor, so let's give it a go.<br />
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I tell you what, scanning this document was exhausting. But at least I have got rid of one more thing from my pile of stuff. Yes, I know it's only one sale leaflet but you've got to start somewhere.<br />
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And don't forget that <a href="http://www.ehrmantapestry.com/">Ehrman Tapestry</a> have a great website where you can find their current range.<br />
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Aren't these little bird designs fun? I think I prefer the version with the grey background. Remember you can check out the latest design from Ehrman by looking on their <a href="http://www.ehrmantapestry.com/">website</a>.</div>
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When was this chocolate bar invented?<br />
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Rolos used to be individual chocolates filled with lovely soft gooey toffee and sold in a paper covered tube. Delicious.<br />
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I just discovered this bar of chocolate which is basically a bar of not individual chocolates.... stuffed with lovely soft gooey toffee. Yum! I liked this a lot.Georginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com0