Re: Rude people on this site.

Thank you for all the responses I take heart in them. I was approached

E-Traveller...

My wife (Welsh) worked for an airline before she took early retirement. She
was part of a network of ex-pats who also worked for the airline. Whenever
one of the network went over to Britain they would bring back enough
Cadbury's chocolate to share with the rest of the network/ That started 35
years ago and when we were over last year we brought 10 pounds of chocolate
with the remaining members.

BTW most Nort American made chocolate is not sold in Europe because it
doesn't have the required percentage of cocoa butter. WE squeeze out a bit
too much of the cocoa butter to sell to the cosmetic industry and substitute
other fats.

Not to say that any chocolate tastes bad, but European is just a bit richer
tasting.

My wife and I still remain unrepentant chocoholics.

andrew...

Hershey bars can be bought at The American Hanger, Duxford Air Museum,
near Cambridge. I can understand why they are not popular over here.
Mind you, 'British' chocolate, such as Cadburys, had to battle to retain
the name 'chocolate; as their specifications did not match up to the
initial European standards. So saying, there is nothing to beat a
Belgian or Dutch chocolate. (What else, apart from Poirot, does Belgium
come top of the list of?)

Charani...

Brussels Lace

andrew...

Is that the one that in the making you have what appears to be about two
hundred and fifty bobbins dangling about? If so I could never work out
how my sister kept them all under control.

Charani...

That's it and I can't work it out either.

Malvary in Ottawa...

I'm miles behind with reading the thread, because I recently spent a week in
Montreal at a Lace Convention, and have had visitors here from England for 3
weeks, teaching lace-making to the students I normally teach and taking
classes myself.

Andrew - does your sister still make lace? There are quite a few of us
around these days.

Malvary in Ottawa

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon

Peter Goodey...

Tintin

and chocolate and women's tennis (well, nearly)

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon

offline by a Don Moody, who told me that I should find another subject to be
interested as genealogy was not for the likes of me. I have just finished a
B.A(Hons) in English Local History and now doing a M.A I assume I am wrong
in doing these and I really should know my place and get in that box.
Therefore I do apologise to being someone who is mulit-disabled with
dyslexia being just one of my problems, and interested in social history.

Charani...

First off, *ignore* Don Moody. It isn't for him to say what is or is
not for you. It's none of his business what you chose to do as a
hobby. His hobby seems to be sending emails, often nasty and abusive
ones, to people he believes he can upset. There are some people he
can be very nice to.

Congrats on achieving your BA(Hons) and good luck with your MA. You
very definitely are *not* wrong in doing them. You are doing them
because *you* have chosen to do them and what other people think is
irrelevant. It's what *you* want that matters.

There's also absolutely no need to apologise for being multi-disabled
either, nor for being dyslexic. There's also absolutely nothing wrong
with being interested in social history either.

So, no more talk of shrugging on your wooden overcoat please, and
let's have some talk instead of how we can help you further your
research.

I've just switched on the kettle for a cup of tea. Care to join me?

Jeff...

Nice post!

Charani...

TY :))

I agree entirely.

Charani...

Milk and sugar in your tea?

Jill...

I'll bring the choccy cake
and AOL to all the rest of the post

singhals...

AOL = ?

Jill...

childish computor slang for "me too" -- or "I agree"

E-Traveller...

Although I was born in northern England I have spent most of my life in
Canada. My wife is Welsh, so we have made many trips "to the old country" to
visit and show of our boys to their grandparents.

Sorry for the ramble, but there is a genealogy point coming. My grandmother
lived with us and I remember some of the dishes she used to make, my
favourite being Clarty Pudding. Have there been any studies of British
regional cooking; how regionalized was it and can you trace people's
movements through
what they ate?

C Rihan...

I'm not sure what Clarty pudding is.

Eve McLaughlin...

Nor am I, but I do know what clarty boots are, and would not be too keen
on puddings with mud sauce.

I suspect that it may be a regional pudding, or that at least the name of

Jill...

Might it be related to Cloutie puddings?
Where a heavy fruit based pudding is steamed in a "clout" - cloth?
Its a bit like Christmas pudding in make up.
A wide variety of recipes including ones that can be sliced up for a "piece"
or packed lunch

Astral Voyager...

Can't say I have heard of it either. 'Clarty' is a northern/Scottish
term meaning muddy, dirty, unclean, etc. So Clarty Pudding could be a
family (or as you suggest - regional) name for what I, and perhaps
others, know as Mud Pudding - or some other chocolate concoction.

it is.

I've sure I've seen cookery books which contain recipes from different
places.

I think there could be clues to the family history in looking at what they
ate.
On television this year, there was a competion to prepare a meal for the
Queen's birthday, and the chefs looked at the regional food in their area
and how it was prepared..For example, one chef tasted different recipes
for Lancashire Hot-Pot, and another went to see how clotted cream was
made.It was interesting to see what food was traditional in each region.

Best wishes
C.Rihan

After 35 years my wife still thinks wistfully about Welsh lamb and from time
to time I eat my grandfather's favourite snack of bread and butter with HP
sauce.

Jim

PS I can't explain it, but two of the best restaurants I have ever eaten in
were in remote corners of Wales. Who would have thought that likely?

Supposedly grew up from the AOLers in the early days who were reknowned for
adding nothing more to a thread than "me too"
:~)

Highest regards

Peter...

Hi Frank,

Sorry to hear you've been accosted by that well known half-wit Moody.

He is best ignored, he thinks he is God's gift to so many things - in
fact he once posted here that a number of women who worked for him had
begged him to father their children, so the children could be as
clever as he was.

He has a particular bee in his bonnet about adoption.

Hugh Watkins...

welcome to the club
Don seems to be in final decline

just post his emails publically and he will stop writng to you

as far as I am concerned no email to me from a stranger is private if rude

stand up to the palyground bullies

Hugh W