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You love it really:D:D:bootyshak:bootyshak:bootyshak

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Seems your miss Bailey was a real stickler for proper English

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I'll think about that as I munch on my ghoti and chips;)

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Very, very subtle Eric!

Hope they were nicely battered and sprinkled with salt and vinegar;)

"Gee each owe tea eye smells fish." Or should that be "spells"?:D

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Have had a book about her on my bedside table for about 3 months -can't get on with it.

It's a novel by Paula Kaufmann called "The Sister" and tells her life-story through the eyes of her sister Lavinia.

There's quite a lot of her poetry in it and many references to private letters etc. - i usually enjoy this kind of book but got stuck, I think, because I can't seem to identify with any of the characters or the place (plus I'm struggling as I really need to change my glasses!:o)

Some of the poetry is quite difficult to understand -the following is a quote from the book which I like though:

For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn-
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.

Will give it another try perhaps!

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Get some Pint ones & not those mincin' wine ones ! :D

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Am seriously pondering giving up wine completely in the NY -a sort of resolution as i've cut down a lot lately.

What do you suggest as an altenative to drink by the pint -given i hate beer:D

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g i n !!!

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It's something i drink in the summer with lots of ice, squeezed fresh lemon juice and plenty of Scweppes tonic -think it's called a Gin Fizz -should fit nicely into a pint glass:p

Need an alternative for the colder months though:D

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With Dickinson, her poetry is her life. One doesn't need a second-hand opinion.

"I'm nobody. Who are you?
Are you, nobody, too?
Then, there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd advertise you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong June,
To an admiring bog!;)"

To keep on topic, there are some fascinating problems surrounding the editing of her work.:rolleyes:

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h o r l i c k s ! ! ! surrepticiously adding shots of whatever warming spirit takes your fancy, RUM perhaps?

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In the book I have it says that she wrote a lot of her poetry on the back of recipes etc as she went about her daily tasks -seems she was a keen cook.

It's good to be a nobody!;)

This one i also like:

"A word is dead when it is said,
Some say,
I say it just begins to live
That day.":)

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Have always been a Cocoa sort of girl, never tried Horlicks -could be an option. Don't really drink spirits like gin. Just the odd brandy for medicinal purposes;):D

Surprised you suggest being surrepticious - being so flamboyant your good-self.;)

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The surrepticiousness was for your benefit, I know you are a good Paddock House Girl and thus would not wish to be seen as a dreadful old lush, like us Holy Family Boys.

BTW. Did you ever encounter a creature by the name of Sister Mary Catherine? What a cow!

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Yes, well you were a bad lot, of course:rolleyes:

Abso-bloody-lutely! We are in agreement that she was a cow -though it irks me to consider certain sweet bovines as similar to her:(

She was my First Form teacher at Paddock and was a fiend -always fining us for any stupid reason to get money for St. Joseph's Penny -my dad always used to say it was the Nun's Gin money;):D

She even fined the class darling, Sarah Fowler, for drawing a spider on the board, with "Boo" in a bubble from it's mouth, on April 1st!

There was an on-going batttle with her every day over the wearing of indoor and outdoor shoes!

Hadn't thought of her in years -will probably have nightmares now...