Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

:T:T:T thats brilliant! And yes, one does wonder when one sees tiny babies in swimming pools with nothing on to catch the poop _pale_ I'm all for free and easy, but not at the cost of swimming in baby poop :rotfl: Mind you, do you remember those British Gas adverts, the tiny baby swimming happily underwater? Beautiful ...

Turns out I have a spare little bag thats lined with neoprene, so its safe after all

Right, I'm off ... enjoy the sun everyone

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I'd like to move to Spain RIGHT NOW please

Trust me you wouldn't - it's been peeing it down all day and forecast for tomorrow as well

edinburgher wrote: »

I too have given up on sleeping, something like 3-4 weeks of broken sleep :eek:

Thirded . but my advantage was I could (and did ) go back to bed at 8.30 :T. Didn't really help though .

"Gives up the next week of her life to XIRR calculations"

edinburgher

XIRR is my new favourite, although it tells bad news stories as well as good news stories!

Also be careful where you use it - I made the daft mistake of trying to force it to calculate the return for a series of numbers where there was no return (i.e. it was just a sum of 5-6 numbers, no growth involved). Took me 2-3 minutes to figure out that I needed to go back to bed!

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

We are, Goldie, the Menin Gate: our Canadian survived the war, so he's not named there, but was gassed and shot, captured and repatriated before the end of the war. We've had a lot of military men in our family, plus some men in very dangerous reserved occupations, and only my uncle died, and only this one was a prisoner.

Even as a historian, I don't know that much about World War I - when I was at school, history lessons stopped in 1875 after the unification of Germany and Italy, I'm not kidding :rotfl: Even at college, I remember much more about the English Civil War than anything more recent... hey ho. At least I studied the War Poets, and some of them sound so modern, you'd swear they were written by the lads out in Iraq and Afghanistan a few years ago.

Sort of a sombre end to the weekend - but I have to say, my *own* weekend has been brilliant :j its lovely to sit out in the garden, and even now the bees are buzzing about.

My O level history course was from the reigns of Henry III to Elizabeth I, so I'm very good on the Plantagenets and the Tudors. I'm not too bad on the Victorian era, and the two world wars, this is mainly from reading I've done over the years.

But there's the period from about 1600 to 1800 that I'm frankly very hazy about!

Just been reading about CBC's postcard.

When I had postcards from the WW1 period, I always used to wonder about the fate of the people.

I had one card, that was a photo of 4 young men, and dated on the back 'winter 1913 - 1914'. I couldn't help wonder what happened to them when war broke out. There was no way of finding out more, but I felt it was very poignant.

I agree about the war poets, it's very immediate. My particular favourite poet is Wilfred Owen.

greent

My DD is studying the war poets - in particular Wilfred Owen - for English Lit AS level. She studied WW1 for History GCSE and is doing Germany from post WW2 - reunification for AS (she would rather have studied the Tudor age but that didn't fit in her option groups, sadly) My history lessons for O level were all about the agricultural and industrial revolutions - which I thought was great. Then again, I like DD's topics too - history is such a fascinating and constantly evolving subject

gallygirl

greent wrote: »

My history lessons for O level were all about the agricultural and industrial revolutions - which I thought was great.

Ah yes, Jethro Tull's seed drill

greent

gallygirl wrote: »

Ah yes, Jethro Tull's seed drill

lol - that's exactly who I was thinking about when I wrote that post!

Karmacat

:hello:Hello! Loving the historical conversation and good heavens, greent, studying Germany up until re-unification! My word, thats recent ... anyone else remember those Christmastime news videos of people helping each other up the remains of the wall to sing and wave their arms about?

I'm back (obvs ) and we had a splendiferous time - very fast, we'd planned the route meticulously though I forgot to mention quite enough time for teabreaks. And I can tell you now, that no matter how advanced Belgium is, they don't pay enough attention to black tea its all herbal :eek:

In reality, it was wonderful, very moving, and a lot of fun, and loading documents onto my kindle so we could refer to them at the time worked really well.

Got to say, the Canadian Memorial - its beautiful. I could write an editorial on that, so let me just say here its perfect, thoughtful, understated, quiet, lovely.

Timing of our journeys worked brilliantly there and back, we found the one restaurant in Ypres that served blatantly vegetarian food and Ypres is also known as "the cat town" - I didn't know :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: so I had an absolute whale of a time :j

Goldiegirl

It sounds like your visit was everything you wanted it to be:)

Plus cats as well :j

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...I'm back (obvs) and we had a splendiferous time- very fast, we'd planned the route meticulously...

Welcome back KC – glad to hear you had a lovely time!

Knit_Witch wrote: »

Hummous recipe not actually tried this one yet but it looks straight forward enough

Karmacat wrote: »

... Lets see if RT can compete with that

Who am I to compete with the Beeb? – but let’s just say my most used recipe from uni days has a lot more chickpeas & a lot less tahini! – after all cooking on a student budget meant expensive ingredients had to go a long way! (will post recipe below)

Karmacat wrote: »

...RT, what's the least-time-intensive hummusrecipe you know?

May have already said but hummus never takes any time - it's about bunging it in & whizzing it up!

carbootcrazy wrote: »

...But your low-fat pie/quiche crust soundsideal and if it's better in the processor than by traditional methods it mightbe worth digging it out of the cupboard. Any chance of the recipe,please?

CBC – I’ve not yet found the cookbook it comes from but will post as soon as it surfaces!