I have just rediscovered Little House on the Prairie...

[Fillyjonk]

Thats it really

But it is REALLY good

ds won't let me stop reading

Had forgotten about these books

Oh FFS you MUST!!

(I am buying every bloody book on the subject and going to Missouri on pilgrimage as present to self when MSc over)

Laura went on a plane didn't she to see Rose?
Can you imagine the quantum leap from living in nailless cabin to plane???

Do you remember when a flock of blackbirds ate all their crops, so they had ate blackbirds instead?

The letters begin, 'Manly dear,' and she signs herself 'Lovingly Bessie,' each time and sends messages to Inky, their little black dog. She worries about money rather a lot, and she buys him

an ear spoon.

Sorry.

My favourite is The Long Winter. I think Laura fancied Cap Garland slightly more than she fancied Almanzo at first.

Yes,often wondered what blackbird pie would have tasted like.
Apparently in those days flour sacks were printed with patterns so that the women could make clothes out of them. I love that whole ultra frugla mentality (says she, lolling in front of fuck off computer).

I buy material to make into quilts and then cut it up. Something somewhere has gone horribly wrong eh???

lol
What the helll is an earspoon.

(Are letters loving?)

Blackbird tasted just like chicken according to Laura I think.

The Long Winter was amazing. Remember when they had to make twists of hay to keep the fire going. And they had to grind corn in a coffee grinder to make flour.

Imagine it.

No cars,no phones,no credit cards,noone to bail you out.
Just you and the family stuck inside for weeeks on end while hellish winter rages.

Do you reemeber when she lodged with awful family (behind curtain) while teaching and she woke one night and the woman of the ohuse was holding up a knife??
Poor tihng,she must have had a hell of a time (lady of the house)

Yes, they are loving. In a very practical kind of way.
About equally loving and the price of eggs tbh.

And poor Pa getting thinner and thinner.

But wot is an earspoon.

Have you seen these for younger readers? DD loves them...
www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b/026-9596659-3040430?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&fie ld-keywords=My+First+Little+House+Books

I loved the birthday party in the station waiting room.
And because of that I often serve orange slices with birthday cake.

Cap was lovely.

And pa nearly died in a blizzard - he had to hide in a hollow tree or something? He had gone to buy Christmas treats and went missing for three days and they though he was dead, but he ate the tin of oysters he had bought and it kept him alive.

Remind me why in station room again.

Was that the one with Nelly?

What else did they eat? Somecsort of puffy thing?

Oh sorry, an ear spoon is yuk. It says in the footnotes:
'To clean out the ears.'

The blizzard was in On the Banks of Plum Creek, wasn't it. I liked that one.
The party was in the station waiting room because it was Frank somebody's party and his father was the stationmaster. And they all held hands and his older brother gave them an electric shock and only Laura didn't scream.

I LOVE these books - I've spotted that mum has a boxed set of them and hope she'll lend them to me 1 by 1 so that I can re-read them. I love the long winter one best, I think.

At the waiting room party they ate cod fish balls.
At the Nellie party they had vanity cakes which sound just like deep fried batter and afterwards they went out and got Nellie covered in leeches in the creek.

Everyone said it was a v good party.

Except Nellie who was told not to fuss.

And which party did they have the oranges at? Was it the waiting room party too, I think it was. And Laura wasn't sure how to eat hers, so she watched Ida Brown to see how she did it. I think.

Gawd,I've gone right off manly now I know about his earspoon.
Still, i suppose it is good honest stuff like cornmeal and sawdust.

Vanity cakes! Yes! Because they puff up!

Still confused re party in waiting room. Why?

I always though vanity cakes were like popovers (ie yorkshire pudding) - had no idea they were deep fried

where did the oil come from, do you think?

there are a lot of mysteries re that, mrsb

I still want to know where they got milk and eggs from, 40 miles from anywhere when they'd been travelling for 2 months