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1. It is the Welsh St David's day. Have you ever eaten Welsh cakes?
From a saint to food seems a stretch. But yes, I've eaten and very much enjoyed them. A Welsh friend in Auckland used to make them - yum!
4. British Pie Week starts today, so there are lots of opportunities to make a pie! What would be your favourite?
The word 'pie' here means a meat, usually beef, pie (and the default in the US is fruit). Even though pies are so common here even service stations sell them - they're part of the culture and are many people's daily lunch - I don't like them as I hardly eat meat. I used to get a really nice leek and potato from a local bakery but they changed hands, and it's generally very difficult finding vegetarian options in the South Island anyway. My current go-to savoury pastry (not really a pie as such) is a chickpea-mix 'sausage' roll at a local cafe. I do like a fruit pie or apple turnover for dessert when out.
What is the default pie in the UK, meat or fruit?
5. Rex Harrison was born on this day in 1908; have you ever seen his version of Dr Dolittle (1967)? What about Eddie Murphy's (1998) or Robert Downey Jnr's (2020) version?
Yes, no, and no. I think of My Fair Lady more for Harrison though.
7. In the UK it's World Book Day and children often dress as their favourite characters from books and wear the costumes to school. Whom would you have dressed as?
What a wonderful idea! The trouble is, at primary school most of my favourite characters wore ordinary clothes, e.g. the kids from The Silver Sword, A Wrinkle in Time, or the Swallows and Amazons books. I know! Biggles! I loved those too, but I was a purist: they had to be WW1 or nothing. Actually, I could do a decent Biggles now, having the leather hat and goggles for my Steampunk airship pilot character.
From a saint to food seems a stretch. But yes, I've eaten and very much enjoyed them. A Welsh friend in Auckland used to make them - yum!
4. British Pie Week starts today, so there are lots of opportunities to make a pie! What would be your favourite?
The word 'pie' here means a meat, usually beef, pie (and the default in the US is fruit). Even though pies are so common here even service stations sell them - they're part of the culture and are many people's daily lunch - I don't like them as I hardly eat meat. I used to get a really nice leek and potato from a local bakery but they changed hands, and it's generally very difficult finding vegetarian options in the South Island anyway. My current go-to savoury pastry (not really a pie as such) is a chickpea-mix 'sausage' roll at a local cafe. I do like a fruit pie or apple turnover for dessert when out.
What is the default pie in the UK, meat or fruit?
5. Rex Harrison was born on this day in 1908; have you ever seen his version of Dr Dolittle (1967)? What about Eddie Murphy's (1998) or Robert Downey Jnr's (2020) version?
Yes, no, and no. I think of My Fair Lady more for Harrison though.
7. In the UK it's World Book Day and children often dress as their favourite characters from books and wear the costumes to school. Whom would you have dressed as?
What a wonderful idea! The trouble is, at primary school most of my favourite characters wore ordinary clothes, e.g. the kids from The Silver Sword, A Wrinkle in Time, or the Swallows and Amazons books. I know! Biggles! I loved those too, but I was a purist: they had to be WW1 or nothing. Actually, I could do a decent Biggles now, having the leather hat and goggles for my Steampunk airship pilot character.
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I loved the WW1 Biggles books!
My granddaughter will be going on the Norfolk Broads again this summer with her parents. They have an ongoing quest to visit every place mentioned in Arthur Ransome's books.
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Yay, another Biggles fan!
How wonderful to be able to go to all those locations. I looked for Wildcat Island when we were in the Lake District. Does your granddaughter sail?
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I mean, being just a meat eater limits people to missing out on all kinds of tasty food.
Oswin's mum has a wooden dinghy with a centreboard. It needs a lot of regular tlc, but is much loved.
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As a kid I would have tried to dress as a character from the Anne of Green Gables books.
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