Rowling Makes a Stand

[JadeLeader]

Ok, so I know the educated classes hate us and our Dear Leader, but she's really not doing herself any favours here...

I am surprised that in Sweden you can get crisps that AREN'T dill flavoured. Like finding coffee or cakes in the Netherlands that don't have cinnamon.

As an accompaniment with cheese on crackers
And

In potato salad. Oh my, it was heavenly.

Just looked it up! Looks very similar to bara brith! (which I love)

oh yum... I'm hungry now 😀

It's entirely possible that I was so thrilled to discover there is such a thing as dill flavoured crisps that I failed to look if there was any other flavour. I can honestly not remember if there was.
When I grew up, Germany had pretty much only Paprika flavour. I don't think there was even just a salted version.

1 mug tea
2 mugs dried fruit

boil for one minute
add

1/2 mug dark brown sugar

when cool add

a beaten egg

add

2 mugs flour (self raising or add baking powder)
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice.

transfer softish batter to

Loaf tin

Bake 1 hr @ 150-160

Thanks! I'll have to try that! No oil or butter? So, more like a bread than a cake?

I saw that there were 30+ new posts and assumed Emily had been back but ... just food 😂

I also thought the Sisters of Mercy vehicle was a Gothmobile - disappointed ...

Yes, but tastes moist and juicy because of the well-soaked fruit.

Does it have to be thin slices? Asking for a fat beetle.

Don't be disappointed, Derry Girls was written an alumna of a Mercy school and is very recognisable as such. No goths have anything on those nuns.

In my version you add the butter into the boil mix.

Bara brith and chunk of cheese. Lush.

I'd rather listen to The Sisters of Mercy on repeat than eat fruit cake.

I too was disappointed to realise it was a nunmobile rather than a goth wagon.

The Co-Op had dill pickle flavoured crisps recently. Must try them as I do love a cucumber pickle! Very rarely put dill in it, it's nice just as it is. Or with some gin and a few crushed juniper berries mixed into the pickle liquid.

I still remember my first stay in the UK, back when I was a teenager, a few decades ago, when I discovered salt and vinegar crisps, and couldn't for the life of me figure out if I loved them or hated them 😅(Love won out in the end 😍)

Ahem, scuse me, I have a paperback copy of the entire Lord of the Rings, it's over 40 years old and still in one piece. Perhaps they made books better then. I also have a wartime hardback copy of Lorna Doone, a sort of utility version, and it is an absolutely beautiful thing.

I do agree that JKR could have done with an editor, it mostly hit me when reading the books aloud to DS. It was all good for I think the first 4 and then it got impossible when Harry noodled off into endless teenage noodlings that did not lend themselves to reading aloud. DS never read fiction, has Asperger's and at that time (junior school) was far more into detailed accounts of fen drainage systems but he did like to be read to, it was a shame we ground to a halt!

I took the paperback complete LotR into hospital with me for my first labour, on the grounds that if I took something Really Long I wouldn't need it. Forty-two hours later I had started to feel that I had been unduly optimistic.

A year or so after that the book fell apart, most conveniently, between The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I think I still have it somewhere, but it was at that point I bought the three hardbacks, with the proper maps folded into them. The Two Towers even still has a dust-jacket!

Some of JKR's sentences could have done with proofing by someone who knew a little about English punctuation, I felt.

How much butter?

Book 5 is flabby and needed better editing.

But 6 actually very tight for everything it covers. It's probably among the best written of the series. 7 is a bit rambling, but it's the final book and its covering a lot of plot.

I first read LOTR by getting it out of the library, and that was the 3 hardbacks with all the extra bits in which my paperback doesn't have. Which I think is a bit of a swizz. But it being a library I didn't read them in the right order and it didn't bother me at all at the time! I started with the 2nd one and it's still my favourite.
I must have been a teenager but I definitely had the paperback before I went off to do the degree so it's proper old, mid 1970s I reckon.

Please steer clear of Tolkien? He is seriously Hobbit forming.

@EmpressDomesticatednottamed please tell me more about these detailed accounts of fen drainage systems? I once spent an afternoon in the March town museum and was fascinated by the section on the drainage of the fens.

<clears throat>
<looks embarrassed>

I have NEVER read a single book written by JKR.