Re: Diversity of topics


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Posted by Guy C. on February 04, 2005 at 19:57:00 from 24.127.62.156 user Astronomer_Guy.

In Reply to: Re: Diversity of topics posted by Robert Dilley on February 04, 2005 at 18:39:10:

According to the Guardian On Line of a few days ago, there are plans afoot to establish a University of Cumbria in what is apparently one of the last places in Britain not to have a local University. It seems to me that a College of Ransome Studies would be appropriate. Judging from the topics covered here, one could get quite a broad (if not necessarily deep) education. And a few of us already have the credentials to teach -- John could handle mechanical engineering, I could do astronomy... any other volunteers?

By the way, I confess to being both a root beer and Dr. Pepper drinker. Ginger beer was hard to come by when I was growing up, but as soon as I found some I forced myself to learn to like it (terrible as it seemed at first), and eventually I succeeded to develop a taste for it. I wanted to be prepared if I ever met the Swallows and they offered me some.

Another version of grog that they drank was lemonade -- which in America is merely lemon juice and water (and sometimes sugar, though that is a touchy, regionally-sensitive point.) Lemonade today in the UK is fizzy and very sweetened stuff, similar to 7-Up; would that have been the case in the 1930's?

(And a total aside; I still chuckle at the package of Walker's Crisps -- potato chips, for my untraveled countrymen -- that I got on a train in England a few years ago, bearing the label: "New! Improved! Original Flavour!")

Finally, to finish the diversity of this posting, and harking back to a subject nearly a week old now: I do have a strong attraction to the lakes of my youth: Lake Huron, and the (very different) lakes of Ransome's books. The fact that I never saw the latter until I was well into my 20's makes no difference: they are still part of the landscape in which I grew up, and loved as such.


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