Thank you!
<<<<<TerryDoo>>>>>
*grin*
MARYCAT!!!!!!
BIG GRIN
Will welcome you back with great open arms my dear, and the best of luck with the logistics things!
I was looking at the front garden this morning, along with my wife, 'Youngerandwiser' and I said that spring has sprung. The birds are playing kiss chase. The daffodils, snowdrops and other flowers are all in bloom. So are the trees. A colorfull palette of eye candy. Well it would be, said wife, but the LAWN NEEDS MOWING and gave me that look that said, WELLLLLLLLLLLLLL......
I sloped off to get the mower, smiling grimly.
I had been expecting a trip to the supermarket. No way.
Smiled at Noddy saying that we are a cruel bunch on another thread.
Smiled at OAK reminding himself that "....she who must be obeyed.." is a simplistic feature in any relationship.(know where that expression came from Oak person?)
Not exactly a smile, but a sigh of relief that my son, when awake however briefly, communicates with his eyes and a nod of his head.
Hee hee. Just smiled at Margo confusing me with Noddy...
I gotta check back and try and remember Mary Cat, not Maggie the Cat, surely.
Upon my word. Gautam is not very cricket, is he.
Margo, I deem it a compliment that you should confuse me with Noddy. Not much chance of your confusing me with Gautam.
She who must be obeyed... I used to think it was from a BBC TV show, but I saw the same phrase in an old book by Rider Haggard.
Reminds me of that girl-toy, She-Ra.
MaryCat lived in New York & was taking cooking classes, then she moved to Texas where she was going to start working as a chef.
OK, Piffka. Need to keep track of peoples everywhere.
And it was J.Ryder Haggard. He also wrote King Solomon's Mine.
Yes and ------- She Who Must Be Obeyed was reincarnted by Maggie Thatcher.
Hey, There is a Marycat in my thread! Just like the old days. <smiles>
I'm smiling because I know I'm going to be crying happy tears tonight, listening to Anner Bylsma play his cello. Hankies are being packed.
I have a few college kids who work for me part-time. They were on Spring break last week. Rather than go to Florida or wherever, one signed up to participate in a "cold study" research program
run by UVA, a credible medical school engaged in lots of studies.
In exchange for $700, they (the 70 participants), would be sequestered in hotel rooms for last Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and would be released on Wednesday morning.
Friday am until Wednesday am with virtually no physical human contact. Meals delivered but left outside of the door.
One of my new employees, Ben, participated. I don't know much about him (I have 32 employees so it's tough getting to know them all). But I did talk to him about this. He said that he probably wouldn't do it again. He had his computer and access to television and the telephone. And he also forced himself to read (sorry, I'm going to spell this phonetically) Anna Corin.
But by Monday he was climbing the walls and by Tuesday he was thinking about tying sheets together in order to lower himself out the window.
But he was on the seventh floor.
We're having great weather here in the Southeast. The last few days have been beautiful. The apple and cherry blossom trees are blooming. Soon the azaelas wil be doing their thing. Big smile over here.
<waving at marycat!>
"She who must be obeyed" may have other origins, but I always think of the indomitable Leo McKern playing the indomitable Rumpole of the Bailey (though wife Hilda did a pretty good job of dominating...)
Hi sozobe and quinn and piffka and margo and nimh and beth and oak and letty and everybody! Being welcomed back home (both real-home Boston and virtual-home a2k) so genuinely makes me smile.
quinn, I'm not sure if I still have your number, or if it's the same as it was, but we will absolutely have brunch and/or beers soon. Does the Thursday group still hang out?
Letty, I was one of the Original Boston Abuzzers. Then I went to NYC for cooking school, like Piffka said. Then I moved to Austin for love. And now I have to leave, for myself.
If you've ever seen the Boston Gathering pictures, I'm the smallish one with shortish reddish hair and (usually) wire-rimmed glasses, and a lot of black sweaters.
Welcome home for yourself, Marycat:)
Big smile for Marycat.
I believe "she who must be obeyed" is from John Mortimer's stories of the barrister named Rumpole. In other words, what sozobe said.
