Recent content by Marianna

Mine certainly did, until I gave it to an electrician/friend who was doing some work for me. The only exercise equipment I own that I've been happy to use is my treadmill, but I'd still much rather walk outside.

When I make my daily pot of tea (Assam loose leaf) before I add the tea Arkwright asks, "Did you warm that pot?!" Crikey! I'm not Granville, and anyway he had always pre-warmed the pot.

Mousehole! And sample a piece of Stargazy pie. I've been there on a long-ago walking holiday, but didn't know then about the pies or their origin. Lizard Point. Been there and spent a few hours on the same holiday.

Blithe Spirit is a wonderful play. The funniest play I've even seen, though, was Lend Me a Tenor. I saw the adapted version, in which no blackface is used.

The depth of snow in the photo looks like what I recall from my childhood. Somehow, the teacher in our one-room country school almost always managed to drive the ten miles out from her home in town, so we had very few snow days. 1962 was the year I graduated from high school. I was very happy...

15/15 for me!

In the 3 months that I was in a nursing home for rehab after my bout of sepsis, about 6 of the dinners consisted of hamburgers. Very few of them were properly dressed with, from bottom to top, mayo, lettuce, sliced tomato, the burger, a slice of sweet onion, dill pickle slices, and ketchup...

9/10 for me!

How observant of you! Now that you've pointed them out, I can see them, too. Maybe it's an indicator that the economy is looking up!

The scene in the movie The Lost Weekend in which the main character is suffering from DTs and imagines that he sees a bat emerging from a crack in the plaster wall. I saw this movie on TV when I was far too young. Wouldn't have been permitted to watch if my mother hadn't been too busy in the...

It could do with a lick of paint, but it's an effective commentary on the state of the economy.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240325-barm-vs-cob-why-britain-has-so-many-names-for-a-bread-roll I knew that if I searched thoroughly enough, I'd find the article that I read just yesterday. This is the one that set me off on this quest.

This isn't a closed conversation, Barry. I'm interested in the terms used for bread rolls and cottage loaves in the forum's entire coverage area.

Here, the end of a loaf of bread that was baked in a bread pan is called a crust. The end of a cottage loaf or of Italian bread is called the heel. Since we lack chippies, we have no source of scratchings, which I like a whole lot better than the fish.

In my region of the US (south central upstate New York), we call them rolls, except when they're meant to hold a hot dog or a hamburger. Then we call them buns.